Nancy Marie White 

Professor

Courses

Fieldwork

Apalachicola Valley Archaeology (under construction)

Education: Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 1982 Primary Areas of Interest: prehistory of the Americas eastern U.S. archaeology archaeological theory cultural and human ecology gender in anthropological perspective public archaeology and CRM Current Research Topics: cultural chronology, ecology, and process in the prehistory and early history of the Apalachicola Valley region of northwest Florida relationship of prehistoric human settlement pattern, fluvial geomorphology, and sea level rise along the Gulf Coast from Florida through Mexico origins of social stratification among late prehistoric southeastern cultures women in southeastern archaeology and prehistory Courses Taught: Undergraduate: Introduction to Anthropology Evolution of People and Culture Archaeology Archaeological Field School Archaeological Lab Methods Florida Archaeology North American Indians Physical Anthropology Graduate: Archaeological Method and Theory Cultural Resources Management/Public Archaeology Ecological Anthropology Graduate Archaeology Seminar Archaeological Theory Graduate ProSeminar in Anthropology (team taught) Southeastern U.S. Archaeology Graduate/Undergraduate Cross-Listed: Gender in Cross-cultural Perspective South American Archaeology European Prehistory Awards and Activities Ripley P. Bullen Award for furthering cooperation with avocational archaeologists, 2001. Outstanding undergraduate teaching awards 1994, 1993. Average about 2 grants and 3 archaeological contracts per year at USF.

Selected Publications:

2008
Archaeology for Dummies. Wiley Publishing, Hoboken, NJ.

2008
The Mexican Connection and the Far West of the Southeast (first author, with R. Weinstein). American Antiquity 73:227-277.

2007
Modeling Fort Walton Culture in Northwest Florida (coauthored with R. Marrinan).Southeastern Archaeology 26(2):292-318.

2006
The Ephemeral Cape St. George Shipwreck on the Northern Gulf Coast, Franklin County, Florida. The Florida Anthropologist 59:73-88.

2005
Gulf Coast Archaeology, the Southeastern U.S. and Mexico (editor and author of beginning and ending chapters). University Press of Florida, Gainesville.

2005
Archaeological Survey of the St. Joseph Bay State Buffer Preserve, Gulf County, Florida. Report to the Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve, Eastpoint, Florida, and the Division of Historical Resources, Tallahassee. Department of Anthropology, USF.

2004
Late Archaic Fisher-Foragers in the Apalachicola-lower Chattahoochee Valley, Northwest Florida-south Georgia/Alabama. In Signs of Power: the Rise of Cultural Complexity in the Southeast, edited by P. Carr and J. Gibson, pp. 10-25. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

2004
Course design packages for Introduction to Archaeology and South American Archaeology courses, posted on the Society for American Archaeology website for MATRIX: Making Archaeological Teaching Relevant in the XXIst Century. September 2003. Online on SAA website at saa.org OR http://www.indiana.edu/~swasey/matrix/home.html

2003
Late Archaic in the Apalachicola/lower Chattahoochee Valley of Northwest Florida, Southwest Georgia, Southeast Alabama. The Florida Anthropologist 56(2):69-90.

2003
Testing Partially Submerged Shell Middens in the Apalachicola Estuarine Wetlands, Franklin County, Florida. The Florida Anthropologist 56:15-45.

2000
A Model Graduate Training Programme in Public Archaeology (coauthored with B. Weisman). Antiquity 74:203-8.

2000
Prehistoric and Protohistoric Fort Walton at the Thick Greenbriar Site (8Ja417), Northwest Florida.  The Florida Anthropologist 53:  134-152.

2000
Archaeology, History, Fluvial Geomorphology, and the Mystery Mounds of Northwest Florida (with J. Knetsch and C. Jones). Southeastern Archaeology 18: 2-22.

2000
Teaching Public Archaeology at the University of South Florida.  In Teaching Archaeology in the Twenty-first Century, ed. by S. Bender and G. Smith, pp. 111-115.  Society for American Archaeology, Washington, D.C.

2000
Teaching Archaeologists to Teach Public Archaeology.  In The Archaeology Education Handbook:  Sharing the Past with Kids, edited by K. Smardz and S. Smith, pp. 328-339).  AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California.

1999
Apalachicola Valley Remote Areas Archaeological Survey, Northwest Florida. Volume 1: The Survey and Sites Located. Volume 2: Confederate Batteries Cobb and Gilmer in the "Cutoff Island" of the Lower Chipola-Apalachicola River Valley. Reports to the Florida Division of Historical Resources, Tallahassee.

1999
Grit-Tempered. Early Women Archaeologists in the Southeastern United States. (first editor with L. Sullivan and R. Marrinan). University Press of Florida, Gainesville.

1999
The Northwest Florida Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore (coeditor with D. Brose). University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

1994
Late Holocene Sea Level Change and Delta Migration, Apalachicola River Region, Florida (second author, with J. Donoghue). Journal of Coastal Research11(3):651-663.

1994
Sam's Cutoff Shell Mound and Late Archaic Elliott's Point in the Apalachicola Delta, Northwest Florida (first author, with R. Estabrook). The Florida Anthropologist 47(1):61-78.

1994
Archaeological Investigations at Six Sites in the Apalachicola River Valley, Northwest Florida. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Technical Memorandum NOS SRD 26. Marine and Estuarine Management Division, Washington, D. C.

1994
Public Archaeology in Florida, USA: A Review and Case Study (first author, with J. R. Williams). In The Presented Past, edited by P. Stone and B. Molyneaux. pp. 82-94. Routledge, One World Archaeology Series, London.