Kathryn Sampeck

Kathryn E Sampeck

http://www.soa.illinoisstate.edu

Associate Professor,Illinois State University| Illinois State University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Primary Field

Archaeology

http://www.soa.illinoisstate.edu

Associate Professor,Illinois State University, Illinois State University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

E-mail	ksampec@ilstu.edu
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Interest/Specialty Areas

Historical archaeology, ethnohistory, political economy, foodways, racialization, African diaspora, critical indigenous studies

Kathryn Sampeck (BA, MA, University of Chicago; PhD Tulane University) is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Illinois State University and an Associate of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Her numerous articles and book chapters focus on the archaeology and ethnohistory of colonialism in Mesoamerica and the U.S. Southeast and examine the cultural history of taste, cultural landscapes, cartography, literacy, race, money and monetization, and commerce in American commodities in the Early Modern world. She co-edited, with Stacey Schwartzkopf, the 2017 volume Substance and Seduction: Ingested Commodities in Early Modern Mesoamerica. She now serves as a member (Archaeology Seat) of the Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association. Sampeck is the Editor for the journal Historical Archaeology and is on the Editorial Board for the International Journal for Historical Archaeology. She was the 2015-2016 Central America Fellow at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, which was followed by a non-residential fellowship from 2016 to 2019 with the DuBois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center. Previous fellowships include three Fulbrights, a long-term fellowship with the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, and a residential fellowship at Colonial Williamsburg as well as grants from the National Science Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and the Social Science Research Council.

Phone	(309) 438-8668
Email	SociologyAnthropology@IllinoisState.edu