Vita

1/2020 

                                                         CURRICULUM VITAE

 Leland Greer Ferguson, Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Department of Anthropology

University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC  29270

DEGREES: Ph.D., 1971, Anthropology, University of North Carolina. Subject of Dissertation:  “South Appalachian Mississippian”; M.S., 1966, Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University; B.S., 1964, Mechanical Engineering, North Carolina State University                     

APPOINTMENTS/POSITIONS:

2002-Present  Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina 

2012-13 Professor, South Carolina Honors College, University of South Carolina 

2003-2016  Research Associate, Old Salem, Inc., Winston-Salem, NC 

1992-2002 Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina.(Chair, 1994-2000; Interim Departmental Chair, Fall 1992; Graduate Director, Spring 1993).

1979‑1992 Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina.(Graduate Director: 1979‑1983; Co‑director: 1991‑1992).     

1977‑1979  Part‑Time and Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina.

1972-1977 Archeologist and Part‑Time Assistant Professor, Institute of Archeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina. (Acting Assistant Director: 1976‑1977).

1970‑1971  Interim Instructor and Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Florida Atlantic University.

1970  Teaching Assistant, Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 

1966‑69 (Summers)  Archaeological Field Work, University of North Carolina (Town Creek and Garden Creek Sites). 

1965‑1966  Teaching Assistant, Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh. 

1964 (Summer)  Associate Engineer, Douglas Aircraft Company, Charlotte, North Carolina.     

1962‑1963 (Summers)  Engineering Assistant, Piedmont Airlines, Winston‑Salem, North Carolina. 

1961 (Summer)  Construction Worker, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco  Co., Inc., Winston‑Salem, North Carolina. 

RECENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: 

2018-2020 Board Member, Blythewood Historical Society and Museum, Blythewood, SC

2012-2016 Consultant and interviewee, South Carolina Educational Television, “Between the Waters Project” (NEH).  http://betweenthewaters.gomadmonkey.com

September 2013 Participant, Studying Carolina, Africa, Rice, and Slavery (SCARS) Walker Institute Small Workshop

Spring 2012  Distinguished Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.  

February 2012 Seminar participant, “tell me your names .  . . “: Images and artifacts of the African American Story. Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts/St. Philips Church.  

2012 Discussant for two sessions, annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Baltimore, Maryland.

2011 Tenure and promotion evaluations—Hofstra University and University of Tennessee.  

 2011 Discussant for two sessions, annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Austin, Texas.    

2010 Discussant for two sessions, annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Amelia Island, Florida.   

2010  “African-American Graves in Salem and Wachovia,” presented to the annual Old Salem Lunch and Learn Lecture Series, Winston-Salem, NC.   

2009 Keynote Speaker, Archaeological Society of South Carolina, April 3-4. 

2009 Participant: USC Post-doctoral Fellows Conference: Archaeology of the Recent African American Past. 

2006 Summer school instructor, Wright State University [at Old Salem, Inc.] 

2006  Keynote Speaker, Annual Meeting of the Society for Georgia Archaeology, May 20.  

2005-2007 Institutional Review Board for Research, Sisters of Charity, Providence Hospital.  

2003-present  Editorial Board, The Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Old Salem, Inc. 

2004 Instructor: Effective Interpretation of Archaeological Resources.  Southern Region, National Park Service, Charleston, SC, February 2-6.  

2003  Professor:  Historical Archaeology (Anth. 545), Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina. 

2003  St. Philips Complex, Old Salem, Inc.:  Wrote exhibit panel text and installed exhibits of graves.  

2003  National Science Review Panel: Ph.D. dissertation improvement grants.  

1998  “Racism and the ‘Kiss of Love’: Social and Religious Alienation in the Moravian Town of Salem, North Carolina.  Paper presented to the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Atlanta, Georgia, Jan. 8, 1998.  

1991-1993  President, Society for Historical Archaeology.   

1990 (ca.)-present  Advisory Editor, University of Nebraska Press, Native American History Series. 

PUBLISHED BOOKS: 

2012 Republication with new foreword and afterword Historical Archaeology and the Importance of Material Things, Special Publication Series, No., 2, The Society of Historical Archaeology.

2011 God’s Fields: Landscape, Religion, and Race in Moravian Wachovia.  University Press of Florida.  (James Deetz Award Winner, Society for Historical Archaeology)  

1992 Uncommon Ground:  Archaeology and Colonial African America, 1650-1800.  Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.  (James Mooney Award Winner, Southern Anthropological Society) 

1977 (Editor and Contributor)  Historical Archeology and the Importance of Material Things.  Special Publication Series, No. 2, The Society for Historical Archaeology.

ARTICLES AND REVIEWS:

2019 (with Kelly Goldberg) “From the Earth: Spirituality, Medicine Vessels, and Consecrated Bowls as Responses to Slavery in the South Carolina Lowcountry,” Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage, 8: published online 08 Dec 2019.

2016  “Middleburg Plantation, Berkeley County, South Carolina.”  In Archaeology in South Carolina: Exploring the Hidden Heritage of the Palmetto State, edited by Adam King.  University of South Carolina Press, Columbia. 102-114.

2011  “What Means ‘Gottes Acker’?: Leading and Misleading Translations of Salem Records.”  In The Materiality of Freedom: Archaeologies of Postemancipation Life, edited by Jodi A. Barnes.  University of South Carolina Press, Columbia.  190-208.

2009  “What Means ‘Gottes Acker’?: Leading and Misleading Translations of Salem Records.” Journal of Moravian History, 5: 69-87.  

2007  Early African-American Pottery in South Carolina: A Complicated Plainware. The African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter, June 2007  http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/news0607/news0607.html#1

2007 Comments on Espenshade’s A River of Doubt: marked Colonoware, Underwater Sampling, and Questions of Inference.  African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter, March 2007. http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/news0307/news0307.html#3

2005 African Americans on Southern Plantations (from Uncommon Ground).  Adapted by Lu Ann De Cunzo, in Unlocking the Past: Celebrating Historical Archaeology in North America, edited by Lu Ann De Cunzo and John H. Jameson, Jr.  University Press of Florida, pp. 30-35.  

2000 “Introduction.”  In “Creolization in Historical Archaeology,” Special issue Historical Archaeology, Shannon Dawdy (ed.).   34(3):5-9. 

2000  Review of African Sites Archaeology in the Caribbean, Jay B. Haviser (ed.).  In New West Indian Guide, 74(3&4): 346-348.  

2000 Review of Race and Affluence: An Archaeology of African America and Consumer Choice, by Paul Mullins.  Journal of Anthropological Research, 56, 576-577.  

1999  “The Cross is a Magic Sign”: Marks on Eighteenth Century Bowls from South Carolina.  In “I Too Am American”:  Archaelogical Studies of African-American Life, edited by Theresa A. Singleton.  The University of Virginia Press Pp. 116-131.

1998 “Prologue to Uncommon Ground.” In Lessons from the Past: An Introductory Reader in Archaeology, edited by Kenneth L. Feder, 36-39..  Mayfield Publishing Company, Inc. 

1996  “Struggling with Pots in Colonial South Carolina.”  In Images of the Recent Past:  Readings in Historical Archaeology, edited by Charles E. Orser, Jr., pp. 260-271.  (Reprinted from The Archaeology of Inequality, Randall H. McGuire and Robert Paynter, eds., pp 28-39, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. 1991)

1995 Foreword to Joffre Coe’s Town Creek Indian Mound: A Native American Legacy.  The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill. 

1991 Struggling with Pots in Colonial South Carolina.  In The Archaeology of Inequality, edited by R. McGuire and R. Paynter, 28‑39. Basil Blackwell, Cambridge, Mass. 

1991  Low Country Plantations, the Catawba Nation and River Burnished Pottery.  In Studies in South  Carolina Archaeology: Essays in Honor of R.S. Stephenson, Anthropological Studies 8, 185‑191. South Carolina 

Institute of Archaeology and Anthropolo­gy, Columbia. 

1988  Review of The Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life, edited by Theresa Singleton.  American Antiquity, 53(1):195‑196. 

1988 Review of Stanley South’s Career for the J.C. Harrington Medal in Historical Archaeology. Historical Archaeology, 21(2):1‑5. 

1987 Indians of the Southern Appalachians Before DeSoto and An Overview of the Cherokee Prehistory Conference.  In The Confer­ence on Cherokee Prehistory, edited by David G. Moore (1‑6 and 158‑160).  

North Carolina Department of Archives and History and Warren Wilson College. Raleigh. 

1985 Contemporary Native Americans in South Carolina. Text for a catalog of photographs by Gene J. Crediford. Published by a grant from the South Carolina Committee for the Humanities, Columbia.  

1984 (with Stanton W. Green)   South Appalachian Mississippian: Politics and Environment in the Old, Old South.  Southeastern Archaeology, 3(2):139‑143.  Gainesville, Florida.

1984 History from the Hands of Black Americans: A Methodologi­cal Proposal.  In Black Americans in North Carolina and the South, edited by Jeffrey J. Crow and Flora J. Hatley, 57‑70.  University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill.  

1983 (with Stanton W. Green)   Recognizing the American Indian, African and European in the Archaeological Record of Colonial South Carolina.  In Forgotten Places and Things: Archeological Perspectives on American History,compiled and edited by Albert E. Ward.  Contributions to Anthropological Studies, 3:275‑282. Center for Anthropological Studies, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

1982 Afro‑American Slavery and the “Invisible” Archeological Record of South Carolina.  Papers of the Conference on Historical Sites Archeology. 14:13‑19. Columbia, South Carolina. 

1980 Looking for the “Afro‑” in Colono‑Indian Pottery.  Confer­ence on Historic Sites Archeology, Papers, 12:68‑86, Columbia, South Carolina;  and  Archaeological Perspectives on Ethnicity in American edited by Robert L. Schuyler, 14‑28.  Baywood Publishing Co., Inc.  Farmingdale, New York.  

1979 Introductory chapter for Frontiers in the Soil:  The Arche­ology of Georgia’s Past.  Frontier’s Publishing Company, Atlan­ta.

1979 Review of Plantation Slavery in Barbados, by Jerome S. Handler and Frederick W. Lange. American Antiquity, 44(2):385. 

1978 Archaeological Materials as a Cultural Resource. Cultural Resources: Planning and Management, edited by Roy S. Dickens, Jr., and Carole E. Hill, 7‑17. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado.

1978 Traces of Stone.  South Carolina Wildlife. May‑June, 41‑47. Columbia.

1977 An Archeological‑Historical Analysis of Fort Watson.  In Research Strategies in Historical Archeology edited by Stanley South, 41‑72. Academic Press, New York.

1977 Review of the Cache River Archeological Project.  American Antiquity.  42(2): 189‑266.

1976 (Editor and Contributor)  Archeological Investigations at the Mulberry Site.  The Notebook, 6(3 & 4), Institute of Archeol­ogy and Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia.

1975 South Appalachian Mississippian: A Definition and Intro­duction. Southeastern Archeological Conference Bulletin, No. 18. Memphis, Tennessee.

1974 Prehistoric Mica Mines in the Southern Appalachians. South Carolina Antiquities, 6(2):1‑9.  

1974 The First Carolinians. South Carolina Wildlife, September‑October, 14‑24.  Columbia.

1973 A Reviewer’s Note.  The Notebook, 5(2):53‑57. Institute of Archeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Colum­bia.

1973 Analysis of Ceramic Materials from Fort Watson, South Carolina December 1780‑April 1781. Conference on Historic Site Archaeology Papers, 2‑28.  Columbia, South Carolina. 

MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION EXPERIENCE: Chair, Department of Anthropology, 1994-2000; Interim Chair, Fall 1992; Acting Chair, Fall 2002; Co-Graduate Director, Department of Anthropology, Spring 1993; 

Interim Chair, Department of Anthropology, Summer and Fall 1992; Co-Graduate Director, Department of Anthropology, 1991-1992; President, Society for Historical Archaeology, 1991-1993; (President-elect 1991; President 1992, Immediate Past-President 1993); Principal Investigator, U.S. Department of Transportation Grant, 1979-1982, start-up grant for Anthropology graduate program; Graduate Director, Department of Anthropology, 1979-1983;Acting Assistant Director, S.C. Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1976-1977. 

EXHIBITS, CONSULTING, AND POST-UNIVERSITY TEACHING 

2003  Professor:  Historical Archaeology (Anth. 545), Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina. 

2003  St. Philips Complex, Old Salem, Inc.:  Wrote exhibit panel text and installed exhibits of graves.  

2004  Instructor:  Effective Interpretation of Archaeological Resources.  Southern Region, National Park Service, Charleston, SC, February 2-6.  

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS, ETC.:

Harrington Award Medal for Lifetime Contributions and Dedication to Historical Archaeology, Society for Historical Archaeology, 2017.

James Deetz Award, God’s Fields: Landscape, Religion and Race in Moravian Wachovia, Society for Historical Archaeology, 2014.  

Distinguished Professor, College of Liberal Arts, University of South Carolina, 2002.  

James A. Mooney Award, Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Early African America, 1650-1800. Southern Anthropological Society, 1994.

NDEA Fellowship, 1966‑1969, University of North Carolina.

Ford Foundation Fellowship, 1964‑66, North Carolina State Univer­sity.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Immediate-past President, Society for Historical Archaeology, 1993.

President, Society for Historical Archaeology, 1992.

President‑elect, Society for Historical Archaeology, 1991. 

Local Arrangements Chairman, Southern Anthropological Society meeting, 1991.  Columbia, South Carolina. 

Review Committee, National Register of Historic Places, South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1982‑1988.

Co‑organized symposium with Martha Zierden: New Approaches to the Archaeology of Afro‑American Culture.  Southeastern Archaeologi­cal Conference, 1987. 

Co‑organized symposium with Theresa Singleton: Learning from the Material World of Slaves.  10th Annual Conference on Language and Culture in South Carolina.  1986.  

Vice President 1988, Secretary‑Treasurer 1986‑1987, The Research Society of Sigma Xi, University of S.C. Chapter.

Editorial Advisor for the series “Studies in Historical Archaeol­ogy,” Academic Press, 1980‑1983.

Chairman, Membership Committee, Council of South Carolina Profes­sional Archeologists, April 1979 ‑ April 1981.

Editor, American Society for Conservation Archaeology. 1978‑1979. 

Student Paper Competition Chairman, Southern Anthropological Society. 1976.

Southeastern Current Research Editor, American Antiquity.  1977‑ 1978.

Member of Board of Directors, Conference on Historic Site Archae­ology.  1975‑1982. 

Organizer of the Thematic Symposium, “Historical Archeology and the Importance of Material Things.”  Annual Meeting Society for the Historical Archaeology, Charleston, South Carolina.  1975.

Local Arrangements Chairman, Annual Meeting, Society for Histori­cal Archaeology, Charleston, South Carolina. 1975.

Co‑organizer of a Symposium on South Appalachian Mississippian Archaeology, Charleston, South Carolina.  1975.

Local Arrangements Chairman, Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Miami, Florida.  1972.

HONORARY AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

Phi Eta Sigma Freshman Honorary Society

Pi Tau Sigma ‑ Honorary Mechanical Engineering Fraternity

Phi Kappa Phi Honorary Society

Theta Tau, Professional Engineering Fraternity 

Society for Historical Archaeology