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In Press	Slave Routes and Oral Tradition in Southeastern Africa. In The African Book Publishing Record.
In Press	Mapungubwe: Ancient African Civilisation on the Limpopo. In The African Book Publishing Record.
In Press	Review of Ancient Middle Niger. In American Anthropologist.
2006	Review of The Archaeology of Islam in Africa. In Historical Archaeology 40(4): 156-157.
2006	Forgotten Africa: An Introduction to Its Archaeology. In African Studies Review 49 (1):144-145.
2005	From Calabar to Carter’s Grove for African Diaspora Archaeology Network Newsletter May 2005 http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/news0505/news0505.html
2005	Lucy’s Knee In The African Book Publishing Record XXXI (1):11
2005	Just Add Dust In The African Book Publishing Record XXXI (1):27
2003	Review of Archaeology and History in Ìlàrè District (Central Yorubaland , Nigeria ) 1200-1900 AD. In Journal of African Archaeology 1(2):249-50.
2003	Review of Making History in Banda.In African Studies Review 46(2):100-101
2003	Review of Island Lives: Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean . In Historical Archaeology 37(2): 113-114.
2001	Review of Cattle for Beads:The Archaeology of Historical Contact and Trade on the Namib Coast . In The African Book Publishing Record.XXVII (4):307.
2001	Review of Montpelier , Jamaica : A Plantation Community in Slavery and Freedom, 1739-1912.In Historical Archaeology 35(2): 130-131.
2001	Review of Plundering Africa’s Past. In Discovering Archaeology.
2000	Review of Heaven’s Things. In The African Book Publishing Record. XXVI (3):195.
2000	Review of War and Peace in Nigeria . In The African Book Publishing Record. XXVI (3):197.
1999	Review of The Slave Trade in Northern Ghana . In The African Book Publishing Record. XXV (3):231.
1999	Review of Africa : The Challenge of Archaeology. In The African Book Publishing Record XXV (1):11.
1999	Review of The Monuments of Aksum . In The African Book Publishing Record. XXV (1):12.
1998	Review of Aspects of African Archaeology. In The African Book Publishing Record XXIV (4).
1998	Review of Snakes and Crocodiles: Power and Symbolism in Ancient Zimbabwe . In The African Book Publishing Record XXIV (1): 15.
1998	Review of Digging Through Darkness: The Chronicles of an Archaeologist. In The African Book Publishing Record XXIV (1): 13
1998	Review of A Brief Guide to the Archaeological Heritage of Zimbabwe . In The African Book Publishing Record XXIV (1): 14.
1998	Review of From Lucy to Language. In The African Book Publishing Record XXIV (1): 14.
1997	Review of The Archaeology of the African Diaspora in the Americas .In American Antiquity 62 (2): 384-385.
1997	Review of Growing up in the Shadows of Great Zimbabwe. In The African Book Publishing Record XXIII (4): 302.
1997	Review of Miscast: Negotiating the Presence of the Bushmen.In The African Book Publishing Record XXIII (4): 311.
1997	Review of Decorated Homes of Botswana .In The African Book Publishing Record XXIII (4): 303.
1997	Review of The Painted Hills: Rock Art of the Matopos.In The African Book Publishing Record XXIII (2): 131.
1997	Review of Ndebele Archaeology of the Pietersburg Area.In The African Book Publishing Record XXIII (1): 17.
1996	Review of Understanding Physical Anthropology ad Archaeology, 6/e.For West Educational Publishing, Agoura Hills, CA.
1996	Review of Contested Images: Diversity in Southern African Rock Art Research.In The African Book Publishing Record, XXII (3): 184.
1996	Review of Kings, Commoners and Cattle at Zimbabwe Tradition Sites.In The African Book Publishing Record, XXII (3): 184.
1996	Review of The Dove's Footprints: Basketry Patterns in Matabeleland .In The African Book Publishing Record, XXII (2): 107.
1996	Review of Ouidah: à Travers ses Fêtes et Patrimoines Familiaux.In The African Book Publishing Record, XXII (1): 7.
1995	Review of Archaeological Investigations of Itagunmodi Potsherd Pavement Site, Ijesaland, Osun State , Nigeria .In The African Book Publishing Record, XXI (4): 255.Reprinted in IFRA Ibadan , Newsletter, Volume 2:16-17.
1995	Review of Nigerian Heritage.In The African Book Publishing Record, XXI (2): 124.

Ministère de Culture et Communication, Direction régionale des affaires culturelles, Martinique, France. Support for fieldwork in 2007	2007
PI for Magellan Award to Mary Ann Fanning	2007
Michael J. Mungo Undergraduate Teaching Award	2005
Ministère de Culture et Communication, Direction règionale des affaires culturelles, Martinique, France. Support for fieldwork in 2005	2005
Ministère de Culture et Communication, Direction règionale des affaires culturelles, Guadeloupe, France. Support for fieldwork in 2005	2005
Archaeological Society of South Carolina Recognition for Outstanding Service 1999-2004	2005
Ministère de Culture et Communication, Direction règionale des affaires culturelles, Guadeloupe, France. Support for fieldwork in 2004	2004
College of Liberal Arts Scholarship Support Award for Archaeological Fieldwork in Guadeloupe and Marinique in 2004, University of South Carolina	2004
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc., Post-Ph.D. Research Grant. "The African Diaspora in the French Caribbean: An Historical Archaeology of the African Guadeloupean Experience	2003
Ministère de Culture et Communication, Direction règionale des affaires culturelles, Guadeloupe, France. Support for fieldwork in 2003	2003
Finalist, Ada B. Thomas Advisor Award, University of South Carolina	2002
Ministère de Culture et Communication, Direction regionale des affaires culturelles, Guadeloupe, France. Support committed for fieldwork 2002	2002
College of Liberal Arts Scholarship Support Award for Archaeological Fieldwork in Guadeloupe, University of South Carolina	2000
College of Liberal Arts Scholarship Support Award, for Archaeological Fieldwork in Benin, University of South Carolina	1998
Nominated for Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Social Behavioral Sciences, Northern Arizona University	1997
University of California Research Expedition Program (UREP) Grants for Archaeological Fieldwork in Bénin	1992-1996
Dissertation Year Award: UCLA Department of Anthropology	1994-1995
Fulbright/ Institute of International Education Award for Archaeological Research and Study in Bénin	1992-1993
Research Grants for Archaeological Research in Jamaica, Brazil, and Bénin: UCLA Department of Anthropology	1992, 1991, 1990
Research Grants for Archaeological Research in Jamaica, Brazil, and Bénin: UCLA Friends of Archaeology	1992, 1991, 1990
Travel Grant: UCLA Department of Anthropology	1991
Grant-in-Aid of Research in Bénin from Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society	1991
Ivor Noel Hume Endowment for Historic Archaeological Research in Jamaica: Institute of Archaeology, UCLA	1990

Submitted	“Colonies without Frontiers: Inter-Island Trade in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Caribbean (with Mark Hauser).” Islands in the Stream: Interisland and Continental Interaction in the Caribbean. Antonio L. Curet (ed.) University of Alabama Press.
Submitted	"Cabotage or Contraband: Compositional analysis of French colonial ceramics (with Mark Hauser)." Journal of Caribbean Archaeology.
Submitted	"Arenas of Action: Trade as Power, Trade as Identity." In The Archaeology of Cultural Circulation: Exploring the Social Dimensions of Trade and Exchange, edited by Anna Agbe-Davies and Alexander Bauer. Left Coast Press.
In Press	“Creole Cultures of the Caribbean: Historical Archaeology in the French West Indies.” Special issue “The Archaeology of French Colonial and Post-Colonial Settlements” edited by Elizabeth Scott. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 12(4) 2008.
In Press	“Where is the Caribbean? French Colonial Archaeology in the Spanish English Lake.” . Special issue edited by Mark Hauser and Kenneth G. Kelly. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 13(1) 2009.
2008	“Plantation archaeology in the French West Indies.” In Rêves d’Amériques: Regard sur l’archéologie de la Nouvelle-France / Dreams of the Americas: Overview of New France Archaeology, Archéologiques, Hors série 2, Christian Roy and Hélène Côté, editors. Quebec. Pages 55-69..
2007	"Landscape and African Archaeology during the period of the Atlantic Trade." (with Neil L. Norman). In Envisioning Landscape: Situations and Standpoints in Archaeology and Heritage. Dan Hicks, Laura McAtackney and Graham Fairclough, editors. Left Coast Press. Pages 172-193.
2007	"Archaeology of the Creole Cultures of the French West Indies." In Proceedings of the XXI International Congress of Caribbean Archaeology, University of the West Indies, Trinidad. Vol. 2, pp 588-595.
2007	"What to do with ‘other’ ceramics: Inter-colonial trade of French coarse earthenware" (with Mark Hauser and Douglas V. Armstrong). In Proceedings of the XXI International Congress of Caribbean Archaeology, University of the West Indies, Trinidad. Vol. 2, pp 579-587.
2007	"’C'était bien là’: Local Responses to Archaeological Investigations at La Mahaudière, Guadeloupe" (with Sylvie Lomer). In Proceedings of the XXI International Congress of Caribbean Archaeology, University of the West Indies, Trinidad. Vol. 1, pp 170-176.
2006	"Medium Vessels and the Longue Durée" (with Neil L. Norman). In African Re-Genesis: Confronting Social Issues of the African Diaspora. Jay Haviser and Kevin MacDonald, editors. Routledge, 223-234.
2005	"Plantation Village Archaeology in Guadeloupe, French West Indies" (with Heather Gibson). In Congreso Internacional de Archeologica del Caribe, Vol. II, edited by Clenis Tavarez and Manuel A. Garcia-Arevalo, pp. 789-798. Santo Domingo: Museo del Hombre Dominicano and Fondacion Garcia Arvela.
2005	"Historical Archaeology." In The Handbook of Archaeological Methods, Herbert Maschner and Christopher Chippendale, editors. Altimira Press, pages 1108-1137.
2004	"Landscape Politics: The Serpent Ditch and the Rainbow in West Africa (with Neil Norman)." In American Anthropologist 106(1):98-110
2004	"Historical Archaeology in the French Caribbean: An Introduction to a Special Volume of the International Journal of Caribbean Archaeology." In International Journal of Caribbean Archaeology Special Issue No. 1: 1-10. Kenneth G. Kelly, guest editor.
2004	"The African Diaspora Starts Here: Historical Archaeology in Coastal West Africa." In African Historical Archaeologies, edited by Paul Lane and Andrew Reid. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press, New York, pages 219-241.
2002	"African Diaspora Archaeology in Guadeloupe, French West Indies." Antiquity, 76 June 2002:333-334.
2002	"Indigenous Responses to Colonial Encounters on the West African Coast: Hueda and Dahomey from the 17^th through 19^th Centuries." In The Archaeology of Colonialism, edited by Claire L. Lyons and John Papadopoulos. Issues and Debates series, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA., pages 96-120.
2001	"Change and Continuity in Coastal Bénin." In West Africa During the Atlantic Slave Trade: Archaeological Perspectives, edited by Christopher DeCorse, Leicester University Press, pages 81-100.
2001	"La Diáspora Africana desde sus Fundamentos." In Rutas de Esclavitud en Africa y América Latina," edited by Rina Caceres, Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, pages 167-183.
2000	"Settlement Pattern Shifts in a Jamaican Slave Village, Seville Estate, St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica" (with Douglas V. Armstrong). Ethnohistory 47(2): 369-397.
1997	"Using Historically Informed Archaeology: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Hueda / European Interaction on the Coast of Bénin." Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory (3/4): 353-366.
1997	"The Archaeology of African-European Interaction: Investigating the Social Roles of Trade, Traders, and the Use of Space in the 17^th and 18^th c. Hueda Kingdom, Republic of Bénin." World Archaeology 28 (3): 77-95
1996	"Trade Contacts and Social Change: the Archaeology of the Hueda Kingdom, Republic of Bénin." In Aspects of African Archaeology. R. Soper and G. Pwiti, editors, Harare; University of Zimbabwe Press, pp. 687-691.
1994	"Recent Excavations at Savi: an 18^th Century West African trade town," Nyame Akuma 41:2-8, June.
1991	"Archaeological Investigations of a 19^th Century Free Laborer House, Seville Estate, St. Ann's, Jamaica" (with Douglas V. Armstrong). In Proceedings of the 13^th International Congress of Caribbean Archaeologists. Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles; pp. 429-435.
In Prep.	“The Development of Savi and Ouidah: Archaeological Perspectives on 17th – 19th Century Trade Centers in the Republic of Bénin.” For Historical Archaeology. Williamsburg, VA; Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary.
In Prep.	“Long Distance Trade and State Formation: the Archaeology of the Hueda State, Bénin, West Africa.”
In Prep.	“Language and Cultural Process: Archaeological and Linguistic Evidence for the Emergence of Creole Culture in Jamaica.”
In Prep.	“Imported Tobacco Pipes from Savi and Ouidah: Suggestions for Interpreting Commerce and Chronology.”

Submitted	“Habitation Crève Cœur, Martinique,” In "Chronique des fouilles", Archéologie Médiévale, t. 38 (2008).
Submitted	"Habitation Crève Cœur, Ste Anne," In Bilan Scientifique de la Direction régionale des affaires culturelles, Martinique 2007 , edited by Henri Marchesi. Fort de France, Martinique.
Submitted	“Habitation La Mahaudière, Anse Bertrand,” In Bilan Scientifique de la Direction régionale des affaires culturelles, Guadeloupe 2005, edited by Marie-Armelle Paulet-Locard. Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe.
Submitted	“Poteries de la Guadelouope et la Martinique” In Bilan Scientifique de la Direction régionale des affaires culturelles, Guadeloupe, 2005, edited by Marie-Armelle Paulet-Locard. Basse Terre, Guadeloupe.
Submitted	“Habitation Crève Cœur, Ste Anne,” In Bilan Scientifique de la Direction régionale des affaires culturelles, Martinique 2005, edited by Henri Marchesi. Fort de France, Martinique.
2006	"Preliminary Archaeological Reconnaissance of Sites Related to the Slave Trade Era Along the Upper Rio Pongo, Guinea." In Nyame Akuma. 65:24-32
2006	"Current Research, Guinea, West Africa." In SHA Newsletter, Spring 2006 39(1): 18-19.
2003	"Habitation La Mahaudiére, Asne Bertrand, " "Habition Grande Pointe, Trois Riviéres." In Bilan Scientifique de la Direction régionale des affaires culturelles, Guadeloupe, edited by Antoine Chancerel. Basse Terre, Guadeloupe. Pages 13-15 (La Mahaudiére), 51-53 (Grand Pointe).
2003	"An archaeologist of the African Diaspora." Cornerstone: the magazine of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina, Winter 2003, vol. 4(3):10, 11, 15, 21.
2003	"Archaeology in the Atlantic World: African Diaspora in Guadeloupe, French West Indies." Global Connections (The Newsletter of the Richard L. Waker Institute for International Studies, College of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolia). Vol. 8(2) March 2003: 7,8.
2003	“Habitation La Mahaudière, Anse Bertrand.” In Bilan Scientifique 2003 de la Direction régionale des affaires culturelles, Guadeloupe, edited by Antoine Chancerel. Basse Terre, Guadeloupe. Pages 12-16.
2003	“Habitation La Mahaudière, Anse Bertrand,” “Habitation Grande Pointe, Trois Rivières.” In Bilan Scientifique 2002 de la Direction régionale des affaires culturelles, Guadeloupe, edited by Antoine Chancerel. Basse Terre, Guadeloupe. Pages 13-15 (La Mahaudière), 51-53 (Grande Pointe).
2002	"Benin City, Nigeria." In The Encyclopedia of Historical Archaeology, edited by C. Orser, London, Routledge, pages 55-6.
1999	"Report on the 1999 Field Season at Savi, Republic of Bénin" (with Peggy Brunache and Neil Norman) Nyame Akuma 52: 2-10.
1997	"Trade in West Africa and the Western Sahara" and "Slavery in Africa." In The Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa: Archaeology, History, Languages, Culture, and Environments, Edited by J. Vogel, Walnut Creek, CA; Altamira Press, pp. 529-535
1997	"Benin", "Slave Entrepots", "Slave Coast", and "Trade Goods" entries in The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery, two vols, J. P. Rodriguez, ed. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Press.
1996	"Report on the 1996 Field Season: Savi, Republic of Bénin." Nyame Akuma 46: 2-5.
1994	"Recent Excavations at Savi: an 18^th Century West African trade town," Nyame Akuma 41:2-8, June.
1988	A Bibliography of Caribbean Archaeology. Williamsburg, VA; Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary.

2008	“Atlantic perspectives on the African Diaspora: Archaeological research in French West Africa and the French West Indies.” Paper presented at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Vancouver, Canada, March 2008.
2008	“Identity and Opportunity in Post Slavery Jamaica (with Mark W. Hauser and Douglas V. Armstrong).” Paper presented at the 41th annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM, January 2008.
2007	"Identity and Opportunity in Post-Slavery Jamaica" in the session "200 Years: The impact of the epochs in Jamaican historical archaeology." World Archaeological Congress (WAC) Intercongress, Kingston, Jamaica, May 25, 2007.
2007	“Working Space: Archaeological Perspectives on Plantation Villages in the French West Indies.” Built Environments of Atlantic Slavery, Fernand Braudel Center, Binghampton University, April 27, 2007.
2007	“From French West Africa to the French West Indies: Arcaheological Approaches to a Neglected Region.” Archaeological Society of South Carolina, Hilton Head Chapter, April 17, 2007.
2007	“Historical Archaeology in the French Caribbean: Archaeology, Slavery, and Trade.” Explorers Club, Greater Piedmont Chapter, Columbia, April 13, 2007.
2007	“From French West Africa to the French Caribbean: Archaeology, Slavery, and an Africanist Perspective.” Abolition 2007: Archaeology and Heritiage of Africans in the New World conference, University College London, March 31, 2007.
2007	“Archaeological Perspectives on the Atlantic Slave Trade: Contrasts in Space and Time in Bénin and Guinea.” The Archaeological and Historical Dimensions of Slavery conference, University College London, March 24, 2007.
200	“Caribbean Connections: Implications of French colonial archaeology for understanding trade.” Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Conference on South Carolina Archaeology, February 17, 2007.
2007	“Off the beaten path: Archaeology and the African Diaspora in the French Caribbean and Francophone West Africa.” Paper presented at the 40th annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Williamsburg, VA, January 2007.
2007	“Cabotage in the Eastern Caribbean: Analysis of regional trade through INAA of island-made ceramics (with Mark Hauser).” Paper presented at the 40th annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Williamsburg, VA, January 2007.
2006	“The Challenges of Introducing African Diaspora Archaeology in the French West Indies.” Paper presented at the conference “La herencía afrícana en el récord arqueológíco” sponsored by the Oficina Estatal de Conservación Histórica, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 2006.
2006	“Colonies without frontiers: inter-island trade in the eighteenth and nineteenth century Caribbean (with Mark Hauser).” Paper presented in the opening plenary session “Islands in the Stream: Interisland and Continental Interaction in the Caribbean” at the 71st annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 2006.
2006	“Cabotage or Contraband: Compositional Analysis of French Colonial Ceramics (with Mark Hauser).” Paper presented at the 71st annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 2006.
2006	“L’importance de l’archeologie historique pour la diaspora africaine en Afrique et Amerique.” Paper presented at a conference presenting results of initial work along the Rio Pongo, Guinea. Universite de General Lansana Conte de Sonfonia de Conakry, Guinea, January 2006.
2005	“Controlling Traders: Slave Coast Strategies at Savi and Ouidah.” Paper presented at the Colston Research Society Symposium: Pioneers, Adventurers and the Creation of the Atlantic World. University of Bristol, September 2005
2005	“Archaeology of the Creole Cultures of the French West Indies.” Paper presented at the 21st Congress of the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies. July 2005
2005	“What to do with “other” ceramics: Inter-colonial trade of French Coarse Earthenwares (with Mark Hauser and Douglas V. Armstrong).” Paper presented at the 21st Congress of the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies. July 2005
2005	“’C’était bien là’: Local Responses to Archaeological Investigations at La Mahaudière, Guadeloupe (with Sylvie Lomer).” Paper presented at the 21st Congress of the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies. July 2005
2005	“Plantation Archaeology in the French West Indies: Two Examples from Guadeloupe.” Paper presented at the 2005 Society for Post Medieval Archaeology Conference, Nevis, West Indies. June 2005
2005	“Memory, Archaeology, and a Diasporic Past (with Mark Hauser).” Paper presented at the 2005 Society for Post Medieval Archaeology Conference, Nevis, West Indies. June 2005
2005	“French Colonial Archaeology in the Caribbean: Investigating an under-researched region.” Paper presented in the symposium entitled Defining the Local for the 2005 Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, York, United Kingdom. January 2005
2004	“Arenas of Action: Trade as Power, Trade as Identity.” Paper presented in the session “Rethinking Trade as Social Activity” at the 69th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Montreal, Canada, April 2004.
2004	“La Vie Quotidienne” Historical Archaeological Approaches to Plantation Slavery in Guadeloupe , FWI.” Paper presented in the session “French colonial archaeology of the southeastern United States , Gulf Coast , and the Caribbean region,” Society for Historical Archaeology, St. Louis , Missouri , January 2004.
2003	“Historical Archaeology of Slavery in Guadeloupe, French West Indies (with Heather Gibson).” Paper presented at the Ste. Genevieve Conference on French Settlements and Cultures in North America and the Caribbean , Ste. Genevieve, MO, November 2003.
2003	“ Plantation Village Archaeology in Guadeloupe, French West Indies (with Heather Gibson).” Paper presented at the 20^th biannual meeting of the International Congress of Caribbean Archaeology, Santo Domingo , Domincan Republic , June 2003.
2003	“Windows on Atlantic Identities: West Africa / East Caribbean . ”Paper presented at the 68^th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Milwaukee , Wisconsin , April 2003.
2002	"Medium Vessels and the Longue Durée: Ritual Pottery in the African Diaspora" (with Neil L. Norman). Paper presented at the 16^th Biennial Conference of the Society for Africanist Archaeologists, Tucson, AZ, May 13-21, 2002.
2002	"The Other Caribbean: Historical Archaeology in Guadeloupe, French West Indies" (with Peggy Brunache). Paper presented at the Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Mobile, Alabama.
2001	"And How Did the Other Half Live? The Potential for Historical Archaeology of the African Diaspora in the Francophone Caribbean." Paper at the Archaeology of the African Diaspora Conference, Univeristy of Michigan. November 30-December2, 2001.
2001	"Medium Vessels and the Longue Durée" (with Neil L. Norman). Paper presented in the Symposium "Global Processes and Local Identities in the African Diaspora" at the World Archaeological Congress Inter-Congress on the African Diaspora, Willemstad, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles. April 23-29, 2001.
2000	"Historical Archaeology in Coastal Bénin: Savi and Its Place in the Atlantic Trade." Paper presented at the 15^th Biennial Conference of the Society for Africanist Archaeologists, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
2000	"African Archaeology : Diaspora Archaeology: The Importance of African Historical Archaeology in a Diasporic Perspective." Paper presented at the Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Quebec City, Canada.
1999	"The African Diaspora from the Ground Up: The Importance of Historical Archaeology for Diaspora Studies." Paper presented at the conference "La Ruta del Esclavo en Hispanoamérica," University of Costa Rica, San José.
1999	"Indigenous Responses to Colonial Encounters on the West African Coast: Hueda and Dahomey from the 17^th through 19^th Centuries." Paper presented at the World Archaeological Congress, Cape Town, South Africa
1998	"Long Distance Trade and State Formation: the Archaeology of the Hueda State, Bénin, West Africa." Paper presented at the 14^th Biennial Conference of the Society for Africanist Archaeologists, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.
1998	"Masters of Opportunity: Political and Economic Responses to European Contact on the West African Coast." Paper presented at the 62^nd Society for American Archaeology Meeting, Seattle, WA.
1996	"African History / African Archaeology: Towards an Understanding of the Social Consequences of European/African Trade in West Africa." Paper presented at the 60^th Society for American Archaeology Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
1995	"The Archaeology of Interregional Interaction: Towards an Understanding of the Social Roles of Trade in the 17^th and 18^th c. Hueda Kingdom, Republic of Bénin." Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Meeting, Washington, D.C.
1995	"Archaeology and African-European Interaction: the Role of Trade in the 17^th and 18^th C. Hueda Kingdom, Republic of Bénin." Paper presented at the Archaeology in Africa Day Meeting, British Museum, London.
1995	"Trade Contacts and Social Change: the Archaeology of the Hueda Kingdom, Republic of Bénin." Paper presented at the 10^th Congress of the Pan African Association for Prehistory and Related Studies, Harare, Zimbabwe.
1995	"Understanding the Social Effects of Trade: an Example from West Africa." Paper presented at the 28^th Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Washington, D.C.
1994	"Archaeological Research at Savi, a West African Trade Town: Transformation and Continuity in Early 18^th Century African Town Life." Paper presented at the 12^th Biennial Conference of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, Indiana University.
1994	"Recent Excavations at Savi, an 18^th Century West African Trade Town in Bénin." Paper presented at the 58^th Society for American Archaeology Conference, Anaheim, CA.
1994	"Recent Excavations at Savi, an 18^th Century West African Trade Town." Paper presented at the UCLA Friends of Archaeology Symposium, UCLA.
1994	"Savi, an 18^th Century West African Trade Town." Paper presented at the 27^th Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia.
1993	"The Portuguese Impact on West Africa: Archaeological and Historical Information from the West African Coast." Paper presented at the 26^th Society for Historical Archaeology Conference.
1992	"Preliminary Historic Archaeological Research at Ouidah, Bénin." Paper presented at the 11th Biennial Conference of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, UCLA, Los Angeles, California.
1992	"Spatial Transformations in African Jamaican Housing at Seville Plantation" (with Douglas V. Armstrong). Paper presented at the 25^th Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Kingston, Jamaica.
1991	"Processes of Change and Patterns of Meaning in a Jamaican Slave Village" (with Douglas V. Armstrong). Paper presented at the 55^th Society for American Archaeology Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.
1990	"Settlement Pattern Shifts in a Jamaican Slave Village, Seville Estate, St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica" (with Douglas V. Armstrong). Paper presented at the 23^rd Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Tucson, Arizona.
1989	"Between Slave and Free: the Historic Archaeology of Jamaican Tenant-Manager Relations." Paper presented at the First Joint Archaeological Congress, Baltimore, Maryland.
1989	"Archaeological Investigations of a 19^th Century Free Laborer House, Seville Estate, St. Ann's, Jamaica" (with Douglas V. Armstrong). Paper presented at the 13^th International Congress of Caribbean Archaeologists, Willemstad, Curaçao.

2006	“The Missing Continent: Seeking the African in African Diaspora Archaeology.” Invited lecture for the Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Part of the Visiting Lecture Series on Race and Ethnicity. October 4, 2006.
2006	“The Other Caribbean: Archaeology of the Creole Cultures of the French West Indies.” Invited lecture for the Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Part of the Visiting Lecture Series on Race and Ethnicity. October 3, 2006.
2004	“Recent Research in the French West Indies .” Invited lecture for the Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University , New York . September 22, 2004
2002	“Historical Archaeology and the African Diaspora: Perspectives from West Africa and the Caribbean .” Invited lecture, Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg , VA , March 21, 2002
2000	“Historical Archaeology at Seville Estate: Revealing African Jamaican Culture.” Invited lecture, Department of History, University of the West Indies, Mona , Jamaica , June 7, 2000 .
2000

1995	Senior Museum Preparator, Fowler Museum of Culture History, UCLA. Aided in preparation of the UCLA inventory of Native American and Native Hawaiian remains and funerary objects pursuant to Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) requirements
1995	Museum Researcher, Institute of Archaeology, UCLA. Catalog verification and documentation of prehistoric Southern California archaeological collections.