Christopher C. Fennell
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Contact
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Office:
109 Davenport Hall, 607 S. Mathews Ave., MC-148, Urbana, IL 61801 - Phone: (217) 333-3616
- Email: cfennell@illinois.edu
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Education
Phd, University of Virginia, 2003. JD, Georgetown University, 1989. MA, University of Pennsylvania, 1986.
Research Interests
Historical and African diaspora archaeology; surveying methodologies; symbolic anthropology; follow the "Visit Website" link at the right for more information on research projects.
Courses
Anthropology and Law, Landscape Archaeology, Archaeology and Racialization, Archaeological Surveying, and Historical Archaeology of the Americas, among others. Follow "Visit Website" link at right for syllabi; I am a faculty affiliate member of the Center for African Studies, the Department of African American Studies, the College of Law, and the Department of Landscape Architecture. I will also be a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School in early 2010.
Publications
Books
- African Diaspora Archaeology. Ed. Christopher Fennell. Tucson: Society for Historical Archaeology, 2008.
- Fennell, Christopher. Crossroads and Cosmologies: Diasporas and Ethnogenesis in the New World. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007.
Book Contributions
- Fennell, Christopher. "Combating Attempts of Elision: African American Accomplishments at New Philadelphia, Illinois." Intangible Heritage Embodied. New York: Springer, 2009. 147-168 .
- Fennell, Christopher. "African Diaspora Archaeology in Multiscalar and Multivariate Perspectives." African Diaspora Archaeology. Ed. Christopher Fennell. Tucson: Society for Historical Archaeology, 2008. 1-25.
- Fennell, Christopher . "BaKongo Identity and Symbolic Expression in the Americas." The Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. 210-50.
Journal Articles
- Fennell, Christopher. "Damaging Detours: Routes, Racism and New Philadelphia." Historical Archaeology 44.1 (2010): 138-154.
- Fennell, Christopher. "Early African America: Archaeological Studies of Significance and Diversity." Journal of Archaeological Research (2010): (in press).
- Fennell, Christopher. "Excavating Strata of Memory and Forgetting." SAA Archaeological Record 8.1 (2008): 17-21.
- Fennell, Christopher. "Group Identity, Individual Creativity and Symbolic Generation in a BaKongo Diaspora." International Journal of Historical Archaeology 7.1 (2003): 1-31.
- Fennell, Christopher, and Lee A. Fennell. "Fear and Greed in Tax Policy: A Qualitative Research Agenda." Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 13 (2003): 75-138 .
- Fennell, Christopher. "Molded Malevolence: Instrumental Symbolism Rendered in Clay." Ceramics in America 3 (2003): 270-273.
- Fennell, Christopher. "Assessing Criticisms of Faunal Analyses and Environmental Reconstructions in the Tehuacan Valley Project." Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal 29.3 (2001): 349-359.
- Fennell, Christopher. "Conjuring Boundaries: Inferring Past Identities from Religious Artifacts." International Journal of Historical Archaeology 4.4 (2000): 281-313.
Other
- "New Philadelphia: Racism, Community, and the Illinois Frontier," editor (with Terrance J. Martin and Paul A. Shackel) of a special thematic issue in "Historical Archaeology" journal, Vol. 44, No. 1 (2010, in press).
- "Dexterous Creation: Material Manifestations of Instrumental Symbolism in the Americas," an invited chapter in an edited volume entitled "Materials, Meanings, and Modernities of Rituals in the Black Atlantic," edited by Akin Ogundiran and Paula Suanders, University Press of Indiana, submitted and under peer review.
- "Examining Structural Racism in the Jim Crow Era of the American Midwest," an invited chapter in an edited volume entitled "Archaeology of the Recent African American Past," Jodi Barnes, editor, University of South Carolina Press, submitted and under peer review.
- "Literate Inversions and Cultural Metaphors in Edgefield Stoneware," an invited article in a forum entitled "Creolization and the Edgefield Pottery Industry," Historical Archaeology journal, submitted and under peer review.
Works in Progress
- "Ethnogenic Bricolage and Multiple Scales of Hybridity," an invited chapter in an edited volume entitled "Archaeology, Syncretism, and Creolisation," edited by Timothy Clack, Oxford University Press, in preparation.
Grants
National Science Foundation, Research Experiences for Undergraduates, New Philadelphia Archaeology Project, 2008-2011; National Center for Preservation Training and Technology, Aerial Thermal Survey of New Philadelphia, 2008; Community Informatics Initiative, Civic Engagement among Descendant and Local Communities of New Philadelphia, 2008-2009; Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Faculty Fellowship, 2006-2007; among others