The 2023-2024 AnthroGuide is the last print version. Edits for graduate programs are due July 31, 2023.

Erin Nelson

http://www.southalabama.edu/syansw

Assistant Professor| University of South Alabama, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work

Primary Field

Archaeology

http://www.southalabama.edu/syansw

Assistant Professor, University of South Alabama, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work

E-mail	erinnelson@southalabama.edu
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Knowledge / Expertise

Interest/Specialty Areas

Native American moundbuilding cultures, landscape archaeology, ancient foodways, ceramics, archaeobotany

Biography

Erin S. Nelson is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of South Alabama, Mobile. Her research examines the material remains of foodways, monumental and domestic architecture, and the organization of space to understand how past people negotiated issues of kinship, group identity, leadership, and worldview in the context of their communities. She is the author of Authority, Autonomy, and the Archaeology of a Mississippian Community.