Robert Preucel is James Manning Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University. He joined the Brown faculty in 2013 after holding faculty positions in the Departments of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University.
| Preucel, Robert W. "Semioidentity: Archaeological Perspectives on the Meaning of Things." Cambridge Archaeological Journal, vol. 36, no. 1, 2025, pp. 10-17. |
| Bauer, Alexander, Preucel, Robert. "Vibrant Theory." Norwegian Archaeological Review, vol. 55, no. 1, 2022, pp. 85-89. |
| Preucel, Robert W. "In defence of representation." World Archaeology, 2021, pp. 1-17. |
| Preucel, Robert W. "The Predicament of Ontology." Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2021, pp. 1-7. |
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The Continuous Path: Pueblo Movement and the Archaeology of Becoming. University of Arizona Press, 2020.
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| Preucel, Robert W. "Foraging, farming and village formation in the American Southwest." Antiquity, vol. 93, no. 370, 2019, pp. 1092-1095. |
| Preucel, Robert W. "Stephen H. Lekson. A study of Southwestern archaeology. 2018. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press; 978-1-6078164-16 $34.95." Antiquity, vol. 93, no. 371, 2019, pp. 1402-1404. |
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"Pragmatic Archaeology and Semiotic Mediation." Semiotic Review, vol. 4, 2016, pp. 1-8.
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"Cosmographies in Stone: Polly Schaafsma's Contributions to Southwestern Archeology." New Mexico Historical Review , 2015.
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"Indigenous Archaeology and the Science Question." Archaeological Review from Cambridge, vol. 27, no. 1, 2012, pp. 121-141.
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| Preucel, R. W. "An archaeology of NAGPRA: Conversations with Suzan Shown Harjo." Journal of Social Archaeology, vol. 11, no. 2, 2011, pp. 130-143. |
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Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: The New Pragmatism. edited by Preucel, Robert, Mrozowski, Stephen, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
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| PREUCEL, ROBERT W. "The Social Life of Pots: Glaze Wares and Cultural Dynamics in the Southwest, AD 1250-1680 by Judith A. Habicht-Mauche, Suzanne L. Eckert, and Deborah L. Huntley, eds." Museum Anthropology, vol. 32, no. 2, 2009, pp. 175-177. |
| LIEBMANN, MATTHEW, PREUCEL, ROBERT W. "THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE PUEBLO REVOLT AND THE FORMATION OF THE MODERN PUEBLO WORLD." KIVA, vol. 73, no. 2, 2007, pp. 195-217. |
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Preucel, Robert.
Archaeological Semiotics. Blackwell, 2006.
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| Preucel, Robert, Pendery, Steven. "Envisioning utopia: Transcendentalist and Fourierist landscapes at Brook Farm, West Roxbury, Massachusetts." Historical Archaeology, vol. 40, 2006, pp. 25-38. |
| Liebmann, Matthew, Ferguson, T. J., Preucel, Robert W. "Pueblo Settlement, Architecture, and Social Change in the Pueblo Revolt Era, A.D. 1680 to 1696." Journal of Field Archaeology, vol. 30, no. 1, 2005, pp. 45-60. |
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A Companion to Social Archaeology. edited by Meskell, Lynn, Preucel, Robert, Blackwell, 2004.
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Archaeologies of the Pueblo Revolt: Identity, Meaning and Renewal in the Pueblo World. edited by Preucel, Robert, University of New Mexico, 2002.
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| Preucel, Robert, Bauer, Alexander. "Archaeological Pragmatics." Norwegian Archaeological Revs., vol. 34, no. 2, 2001, pp. 85-96. |
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Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: A Reader. edited by Preucel, Robert, Hodder, Ian, Blackwell, 1996.
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"The Postprocessual Condition." Journal of Archaeological Research, 1995.
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Processual and Postprocessual Archaeologies: Multiple Ways of Knowing the Past. edited by Preucel, Robert, Center for Archaeological Investigations, 1991.
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Preucel, Robert.
Seasonal Circulation and Dual Residence in the Pueblo Southwest: A Prehistoric Example from the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico. Garland Press, 1990.
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"Processual Archaeology and the Radical Critique." Current Anthropology, 1987.
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"Settlement Succession on the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico." KIVA, 1987.
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Kotyiti Research Project
The Kotyiti Research Project is a multiyear collaborative research project established with the Pueblo of Cochiti in 1995. It seeks to understand community ethnogenesis using a social theory approach which places the experiences of Pueblo people at center stage. More specifically, the project examines the material expressions of sociopolitical relationships at Koytiti, an ancestral post-Revolt Cochiti community. For the people of Cochiti, Kotyiti is still very much a living site, a sacred place where their ancestors still live. We are particularly interested in tracing out some of the ways in which the people of Kotyiti may have conceptualized themselves in the 17th century as we identify the multiple significances of the community to Cochiti today. Our methodology involves integrating archaeological data, architectural analysis, ethnohistorical documents and traditional narratives, weighing each in different interpretive contexts. We regard our project as an evolving collaboration and hope that it may serve as a model for other such research projects in the Southwest and elsewhere.
The Brook Farm Archaeological Project
The Brook Farm Archaeological Project is a collaborative research project with Steven Pendery, the Boston City Archaeologist established in 1990 . The project encompasses research, management, and educational goals. Its primary research goals are to identify the major archaeological resources of the site, and to interpret their meaning in the context of different social reform movements. In addition to these research goals, the project seeks to assist the Metropolitan District Commission by providing recommendations for managing these diverse resources. Finally, the project instructs students and volunteers in the basics of archaeological field methods and laboratory procedures and seeks to raise the visibility of archaeology in the local community.
Salomon Fund Grant, "Enhancing the Giddings/Anderson Research Archive through Oral History," 2024.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, "Transforming the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University," 2019-2023.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, "Engaging the Americas: Re-invigorating the Native American Collections of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University," 2018-2022.
Institute of Museum and Library Services, Museums for America Grant, “The Shotridge Digital Archive Project,” 2007-2010.
American Philosophical Society Research Grants, “The Kotyiti Research Project,” 1995, 1996.
| Year | Degree | Institution |
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| 1988 | PhD | University of California, Los Angeles |
| 1982 | MA | University of California, Los Angeles |
| 1979 | MA | University of Chicago |
| 1978 | BA | University of Pennsylvania |
| Visiting Scholar | Southern Illinois University, Center for Archaeological Investigations | 1988-1989 | Carbondale, Illinois |
Gaspar Perez de Villagra Award, Historical Society of New Mexico for The Continuous Path: Pueblo Movement and the Archaeology of Being (coedited with Sam Duwe, University of Arizona Press, 2019) 2020.
Outstanding Seminar Award, Amerind Foundation- Society for American Archaeology, for the session “Pueblo Movement and the Archaeology of Becoming" coorganized by Robert Preucel and Sam Duwe for the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC, 2017.
Faculty Fellow, Smithsonian Institution, Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology, Washington D.C, 2015.
Summer Fellow, School of Advanced Research, Santa Fe, 2005.
Visiting Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge University, 1993.
Visiting Fellow, McDonald Institute, Cambridge University, 1993.
Steering Committee, Native American and Indigenous Studies
Affiliate, Joukowsky Institute of Archaeology and the Ancient World
Affiliate, Center for Global Archaeology
| Director. Brown University, 2017-Present |
| James Manning Professor of Anthropology. Brown University, 2017-Present |
| Professor. University of Pennsylvania, 2007-2013 |
| Associate Professor. University of Pennsylvania, 1995-2006 |
| Associate Professor. Harvard University, 1993-1995 |
| Assistant Professor. Harvard Univesity, 1989-1993 |
| ANTH 1125 - Indigenous Archaeologies |
| ANTH 1901 - Anthropology in/of the Museum |
| ANTH 1910I - Material Matters |
| ANTH 1930 - Anthropology Thesis Workshop |
| ANTH 2501 - Principles of Archaeology |
| ANTH 2515 - Material Matters |
