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 positions in the Departments of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University.
| 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.
Kotyiti Research Project Publications and Reports
Preucel, Robert W. and Joseph H. Suina
2011 Preliminary Cultural Resource Assessment of Cochiti Pueblo Traditional Cultural Properties and the Las Conchas Fire. Submitted to the Pueblo de Cochiti, Cochiti.
Preucel, Robert W., Loa P. Traxler, and Michael V. Wilcox
2002 “Now the God of the Spaniards is Dead:” Ethnogenesis and Community Formation in the Aftermath of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. In Traditions, Transitions and Technologies: Themes in Southwestern Archaeology, edited by Sarah H. Schlanger, pp. 71-93. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
Preucel, Robert W.
2000 Making Pueblo Identities: Architectural Discourse at Kotyiti, New Mexico. In An Archaeology of Communities in the Americas, edited by Jason Yaeger and Marcello Canuto, pp. 58-77. Routledge, London.
Preucel, Robert W.
2000 Living on the Mesa: Hanat Kotyiti, a Post-revolt Cochiti Community in the Northern Rio Grande. Expedition 42:8-17.
Snead, James E. and Robert W. Preucel
1999 The Ideology of Settlement: Ancestral Keres Landscapes in the Northern Rio Grande. In Archaeologies of Landscape: Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Wendy Ashmore and A. Bernard Knapp, pp. 169-197. Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
Preucel, Robert W.
1998 The Kotyiti Research Project: Report of the 1996 Fieldseason. USDA Forest Service, Southwestern District, Santa Fe.
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.
Brook Farm Archaeological Project Publications and Reports
Pendery, Steven R., and Robert W. Preucel
2022 Fourierism at Brook Farm, 1844-1846. Cahiers Charles Fourier.
Preucel, Robert W. and Steven R. Pendery
2022 The Archaeology of Social Reform: Report on the 1994 Field Season of the Brook Farm Phalanstery Archaeological Project. Massachusetts Historical Commission and the Metropolitan District Commission.
Preucel, Robert W. and Steven R. Pendery
2006 Envisioning utopia: Transcendentalist and Fourierist landscapes at Brook Farm, West Roxbury, Massachusetts. Historical Archaeology 40:25-38.
Preucel, Robert W. and Steven R. Pendery
1992 The Archaeology of Social Reform: Report on the 1990 and 1991 Field Seasons of the Brook Farm Archaeological Project at Brook Farm, West Roxbury, Massachusetts. Massachusetts Historical Commission and the Metropolitan District Commission.
"Enhancing the Giddings/Anderson Research Archive through Oral History,"Salomon Fund Grant, 2024 ()
"Transforming the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University,"Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2019-2023 (1m)
"Engaging the Americas: Re-invigorating the Native American Collections of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University," Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2018-2022 (500k)
“The Kotyiti Research Project,”American Philosophical Society Research Grant, 1995, 1996.
Archaeological Theory
Bauer, Alexander A. and Robert W. Preucel
2022 Vibrant Theory. Norwegian Archaeological Review 55(1):85-89.
Preucel, Robert W.
2021b In Defence of Representation. World Archaeology 52(3):395-411.
Preucel, Robert W.
2021a The Predicament of Ontology. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 31(3):461-467.
Preucel, Robert W.
2019 Material Symbols. SAS Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences, edited by Sandra Lopez-Varela, Wiley-Blackwell, London.
Preucel, Robert W.
2018 Postprocessual Archaeology. Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology, edited by John Jackson, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Preucel, Robert W.
2014 Structuralism and its Archaeological Legacy. Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Theory, edited by Andrew Gardner, Mark Lake and Ulrike Sommer, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Preucel Robert W. and Stephen Mrozowski (eds.)
2010 Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: The New Pragmatism. 2nd Edition, Wiley-Blackwell, New York.
Meskell, Lynn and Robert W. Preucel (eds.)
2004 A Companion to Social Archaeology. Blackwell Press, Oxford.
Joyce, Rosemary and Robert W. Preucel
2002 Writing the Field of Archaeology. In The Languages of Archaeology: Dialogue, Narrative and Writing, by Rosemary A. Joyce, pp. 18-38. Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
Preucel, Robert W.
2001 Theory in Archaeology. In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, edited by N. J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, pp. 15647-15652. Pergamon, Oxford.
Preucel Robert W. and Ian Hodder (eds.)
1996 Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: A Reader. Blackwell Press, Oxford.
Preucel, Robert W.
1995 The Postprocessual Condition. Journal of Archaeological Research 3:147-175.
Preucel, Robert W.
1991 Comment on "What the New Archaeology has Accomplished" by Richard Watson. Current Anthropology 32:287-288.
Preucel, Robert W. (ed.)
1991 Processual and Postprocessual Archaeologies: Multiple Ways of Knowing the Past. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, Occasional Paper 10. Carbondale.
Preucel, Robert W.
1991a The Philosophy of Archaeology. In Processual and Postprocessual Archaeologies: Multiple Ways of Knowing the Past. edited by Robert W. Preucel, Center for Archaeological Investigations, pp. 17-29. Southern Illinois University, Occasional Paper No. 10. Carbondale.
Earle, Timothy K. and Robert W. Preucel
1987 Processual Archaeology and the Radical Critique. Current Anthropology 28:501-538.
Indigenous and Collaborative Archaeologies
Duwe, Samuel and Robert W. Preucel (eds.)
2019 The Continuous Path: Pueblo Movement and the Archaeology of Being. Amerind Foundation, University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Preucel, Robert W. and Samuel Duwe
2019 Introduction: Engaging with Pueblo Movement. In The Continuous Path: Pueblo Movement and the Archaeology of Being, edited by Samuel Duwe and Robert Preucel, pp. 15-47. Amerind Foundation, University of Arizona Press, Tuscon.
Aguilar, Joseph and Robert W. Preucel
2019 Seeking Strength and Protection: Tewa Mobility during the Pueblo Revolt Period. In The Continuous Path: Pueblo Movement and the Archaeology of Being, edited by Samuel Duwe and Robert Preucel, pp. 164-179. Amerind Foundation, University of Arizona Press, Tuscon.
Preucel, Robert W. and Sam Duwe
2018 The Continuous Path: Pueblo Movement and Archaeology along the Northern Rio Grande. El Palacio123(1):32-37.
Preucel, Robert W. and Regis Pecos
2015 Place: Cochiti Pueblo, Core Values and Authorized Heritage Discourse. In Heritage Keywords: Rhetoric and Redescription in Cultural Heritage, edited by Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels and Trinidad Rico, pp. 221-241. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
Preucel, Robert W.
2012 Indigenous Archaeology and the Science Question. Archaeological Review from Cambridge 27(1):121-141.
Preucel, Robert W. and Craig Cipolla
2008 Indigenous and Postcolonial Archaeologies. In Archaeology and the Postcolonial Critique, edited by Matthew Liebmann and Uzma Rizvi. Pp. 129-142. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek.
Preucel, Robert W.
2008 Traditional Indian Histories and Perspectives on History. In Archaeology in America: An Encyclopedia, Vol 3. edited by Francis P. McManamon, Linda S. Cordell, Kent G. Lightfoot, and George R. Milner, pp. 35-38. Greenwood Publishing, Westport.
Semiotics
Tamm, Marek and Robert W. Preucel
2023 Semiotics in History and Archaeology. In Bloomsbury Semiotics, Volume 3: Semiotics in the Arts and Social Sciences, edited by Jamin Pelkey, Susan Petrilli and Sophia Melanson Ricciardone, pp. 49-67. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, London.
Preucel, Robert W.
2022 Comment on "A Palimpsest Theory of Objects" by Chip Colwell. Current Anthropology 63(2):152-153.
Preucel, Robert W.
2019 Arkeolojik Göstergebilim. In Arkeoloji ve Göstergebilim, edited by Yasar Ersoy, Elif Koparal, Günes Duru and Zeynep Aktüre, pp. 3-20. Tematik Arkeoloji Serisi 3, Yavinlari, Istanbul.
Preucel, Robert W.
2016 Pragmatic Archaeology and Semiotic Mediation. Semiotic Review 4:1-8.
Preucel, Robert W.
2006 Archaeological Semiotics. Blackwell Press, Oxford.
Ferguson, T. J. and Robert W. Preucel
2005 Signs of the Ancestors: An Archaeology of the Mesa Villages of the Pueblo Revolt. In Structure and Meaning in Human Settlement, edited by Joseph Rykwert and Tony Atkin, pp. 185-207. University Museum Press, Philadelphia.
Capone, Patricia and Robert W. Preucel
2002 Ceramic Semiotics: Women, Pottery, and Social Meanings at Kotyiti Pueblo. In Archaeologies of the Pueblo Revolt: Identity, Meaning and Renewal in the Pueblo World, edited by Robert W. Preucel, pp. 99-113. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
Archaeology of the Pueblo Revolt
Preucel, Robert W. and Joseph Aguilar
2018 Mesa Villages of the Pueblo Revolt Period: Reconstructing Pueblo Alliances and Social Networks. In Puebloan Societies: Cultural Homologies in Time, edited by Peter Whiteley, pp. 207-236. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
Liebmann, Matthew, Robert W. Preucel, and Joseph Aguilar
2017 The Pueblo World Transformed: Alliances, Factionalism, and Animosities in the Northern Rio Grande, 1680-1700. In New Mexico and the Primería Alta, edited by John G. Douglass and William M. Graves, pp. 173-197. University of Press of Colorado, Boulder.
Aguilar, Joseph R. and Robert W. Preucel
2013 Sacred: Mesas: Pueblo Time, Space, and History in the Aftermath of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. In The Death of Prehistory, edited by Peter Schmidt and Stephen A. Mrozowski. pp. 267-289. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Liebmann, Matthew and Robert W. Preucel
2007 The archaeology of the Pueblo Revolt and the formation of the modern Pueblo World. KIVA: The Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History 73:197-219.
Preucel, Robert W. (ed.)
2002 Archaeologies of the Pueblo Revolt: Identity, Meaning and Renewal in the Pueblo World. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
Preucel, Robert W.
2002a Writing the Pueblo Revolt. In Archaeologies of the Pueblo Revolt: Identity, Meaning and Renewal in the Pueblo World, edited by Robert W. Preucel, pp. 3-29. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
Tlingit Ethnography and Material Culture
Atalay, Sonya; Jusgang, Nika Collison; Te Herekiekie Herewiini; Eric Hollingerl Michelle Horwood; Robert W. Preucel, Anthony Shelton; and Paul Tapsell
2017 Ritual Processes of Repatriation: A Discussion. Museum Worlds: Advances in Research 5:90-96.
Preucel, Robert W. and Alexandra M. Peck
2017 Shakee.át Entanglements. Manual: A Journal about Art and its Making, Issue 8: 50-60.
Preucel, Robert W.
2015 Shotridge in Philadelphia: Representing Native Alaskan Peoples to East Coast Audiences. In Sharing Our Knowledge: The Tlingit and their Coastal Neighbors, edited by Sergei Kan with Steve Hendrickson, pp. 41-62. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
Preucel, Robert W. and Lucy F. Williams
2005 The Centennial Potlatch. Expedition 47(2):9-19.
Repatriation and NAGPRA
Preucel, Robert W.
2011 An Archaeology of NAGPRA: Conversations with Suzan Shown Harjo. Journal of Social Archaeology11(2):1-13.
Preucel, Robert W., Lucy F. Williams, Stacey O. Espenlaub, and Janet Monge
2006 Out of Heaviness, Enlightenment: NAGPRA and the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Reprinted in Archaeological Ethics, Second Edition, edited by Karen D. Vitelli and Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh, pp. 178-187, Altamira Press, Lanham.
Preucel, Robert W., Lucy F. Williams, Stacey O. Espenlaub, and Janet Monge
2003 Out of Heaviness, Enlightenment: NAGPRA and the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Expedition45(3): 21-27.
Leone, Mark P. and Robert W. Preucel
1992 Archaeology in a Democratic Society: A Critical Theory Approach. In Quests and Quandaries: Visions of Archaeology’s Future. edited by LuAnn Wandsnider, pp. 115-135. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, Occasional Paper No. 20. Carbondale.
| 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.
James Manning Professor, Department of Anthropology.
Director, Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology.
Steering Committee, Native American and Indigenous Studies
| Faculty Fellow. Smithsonian Institution, 2015-2015 |
| Professor. University of Pennsylvania, 2007-2013 |
| Summer Fellow. School of Advanced Research, 2005-2005 |
| Associate Professor. University of Pennsylvania, 1995-2006 |
| Associate Professor. Harvard University, 1993-1995 |
| Visiting Fellow. Cambridge University, 1993-1994 |
| Visiting Scholar. Cambridge University, 1993-1994 |
| 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 |
