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Amy C. Kowal, Ph.D., RPA

Visiting Assistant in Anthropology
Phone: (850)645-7844
Fax: (850) 645-0032
Email: akowal@fsu.edu
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Research Interests and Activities

  • Historical archaeology
  • Ethnicity and communities in archaeology
  • Human osteology and bioarchaeology
  • Public archaeology
  • Museum studies in anthropology
  • Anthropological theory

Teaching Specializations

  • Anthropological Theory
  • Anthropology of Religion
  • Fundamentals of Archaeology
  • Historical Archaeology
  • History of Anthropology
  • Human Osteology
  • Introduction to Archaeology
  • Introduction to Physical Anthropology
  • Museum Research in Anthropology
  • Museum Exhibition in Anthropology
  • Peoples and Cultures of Mexico and Central America
  • Peoples of the World

Select Publications and Writing Projects

2007a The Affinities and Disparities Within: Community and Status of the African American Slave Population at Charles Pinckney National Historic Site, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. Unpublished Doctoral dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Florida State University, Tallahassee. (Kowal)
2007b Autonomous, but Shackled: A Community Model of Slave Life and Its Archaeological Testing. African Diaspora Archaeology Network Newsletter March 2007. http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html (Kowal)
Nutrition and Ethnicity of the Historic Eastern United States: An Investigation of Archaeologically Excavated Cemeteries. Unpublished Master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, Florida State University, Tallahassee. (Sobierajski)
Phase I Archeological Testing of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse Complex Prior to Relocation. Southeast Archaeological Center, National Park Service, Tallahassee, Florida. (Cornelison, John E., Regina M. Meyer, J. Christian Russell, Amy C. Sobierajski, and Dennis Finch)

Research in Progress

  • Community, Status, and Resistance in Ceramic Analysis: The African Presence at Charles Pinckney’s Snee Farm, Charleston, South Carolina. Article submitted to the Journal of Historical Archaeology. (Kowal)
  • The Archeological Investigations at Charles Pinckney National Historic Site. Southeast Archeological Center, National Park Service. Tallahassee, Florida. (Keel, Bennie C. and Kowal)