Office: EPS 2.130
Phone: 512 471 8513
mfranklin@mail.utexas.edu

Additional affiliations: Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS)

Education: Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley

Research interests:
Historical archaeology, archaeological theory, African Diaspora studies, race and gender, feminist theory, colonialism and slavery.

Courses taught:

Undergraduate Courses

Introduction to Historical Archaeology
Theories of Archaeology (senior seminar)
Archaeology and History of Slavery in North America
African American Culture
World Prehistory

Graduate Seminars

African Diaspora Anthropology (Core Course; co-taught)
Feminist Anthropology (Core Course; co-taught)
Method and Theory in Historical Archaeology
Household Archaeology

Field(s) of Study: Archaeology; African Diaspora; Folklore/Public Culture

Recent Publications:
2005 Historical Archaeology that Matters Beyond Academics. In Unlocking the Past: Historical Archaeology in North America, Lu Ann De Cunzo and John Jameson (eds). University Press of Florida.

2004 An Archaeological Study of the Rich Neck Slave Quarter and Enslaved Domestic Life (324 pp.). Colonial Williamsburg Research Publications. Dietz Press, Richmond, VA.

2004 M. Franklin and L. McKee (editors). Transcending Boundaries, Transforming the Discipline: African Diaspora Archaeologies in the New Millenium. Special edition of Historical Archaeology 38(1).

2001 A Black Feminist¢€“Inspired Archaeology? Journal of Social Archaeology 1(1): 108-125.

2001 The Archaeological and Symbolic Dimensions of Soul Food: Race, Culture and Afro- Virginian Identity. In Race and the Archaeology of Identity, Charles Orser (ed.), pp. 88-107. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.