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CURRICULUM VITAE ROBBIE FRANKLYN ETHRIDGE Address Leavell Hall, Room 107 University of Mississippi University, Mississippi 38677 cell phone: 662-816-6369 email: rethridg@ olemiss.edu Present Position Professor of Anthropology, Arch Dalrymple III Department of History, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS Areas of Specialization Historical Anthropology, Indians of the American South, Environmental Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology Education 1991-1996, Ph.D., Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. Dissertation title A Contest for Land: The Creek Indians on the Southern Frontier, 1796 - 1816; directed by Dr. Charles Hudson. GPA 4.0. 1981-1984, M.A., Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. Thesis title The Indians of Georgia: A Social History; directed by Dr. Charles Hudson. GPA 4.0 1974-1978, B.S., Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. Honor's Thesis title Toward the Sunland: Cherokee Medical Practices and Theories of Plant Selection; directed by Dr. Charles Hudson. Elected Phi Beta Kappa, 1978. GPA 4.0. Graduated Summa Cum Laude. Teaching and Research Experience Professor, 2020-present. Arch Dalrymple III Department of History, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi. Professor, 2010-2020. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi. Associate Professor, 2003-2010. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi. McMullan Associate Professor, 2003-2008. Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi. Visiting Associate Professor, Spring 2006. Program in the Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Assistant Professor, 1997-2003. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi. McMullan Assistant Professor, 1997-2003. Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi. Contract Ethnohistorian, 1994-present. Subcontractor for documentary and archival research on Historic Indian Period sites and ethnohistory in the Southeastern United States. Ethridge Page 2 Instructor, Winter and Spring Quarters 1997. Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia Athens, Georgia. Taught Introduction to Anthropology (ANT 102) Graduate Teaching Assistant, 1991-1996, Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia. Full responsibility for course design, teaching, and grading. Received departmental ranking of third out of 14 ANT 102 instructors in 1995 and first out of 14 ANT 102 instructors in 1996. Taught Introduction to Anthropology (ANT 102) and Honor’s Introduction to Anthropology (ANT 212H). Assistant Editor, 1988 -1991, Exploration Resources, Athens, GA. Evaluated data and edited yearly environmental ground-water monitoring reports for the Savannah River Site. Ran ground-water monitoring and geological data computer programs for environmental studies. Ethnohistorian, 1985-1988, Southeastern Archeological Services, Inc., Athens, Georgia. Researched historical documentation on the Southeastern Indians and authored or co-authored results in various reports. Graduate Assistant, 1982-1983. Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. Lecture course with approximately 100 students; full responsibility for course design, teaching, and grading. Taught Introduction to Anthropology (ANT 102). Adult Education Reading Instructor, 1978, Rough Rock Demonstration School, Navajo Indian Reservation, Rough Rock, Arizona. Instructor of English reading classes for adult Navajo; full responsibility for course design, teaching, and grading. Courses Taught Introduction to Anthropology (ANTH 101 and ANTH 102) Honor’s Introduction to Anthropology (ANTH 101, Section H) Cultural Anthropology (ANTH 303) History of Anthropological Theory (ANTH 409) Methods in Ethnohistory (ANTH 506) Shatter Zone: The Consequences of Contact (ANT 333/610/HIS 412) Environmental Anthropology of the South (ANTH 319/HIS 453) Indians on the Southern Frontier (ANTH 317) Indians and the Natural World (ENV 304, ANTH 331) The Rise and Fall of the Mississippian World (ANTH 316) The Leakey Family and Human Evolution (ANTH 311, Honor’s Seminar) Environmental Anthropology (ENV 256, ANTH 330) Indian Country Today (in preparation) Graduate Seminar in Anthropological Theory (ANTH 601) Graduate Seminar in Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology (ANTH 606) Graduate Seminar in Research Methods in Anthropology (ANTH 609) Introduction to Southern Studies (SST 101 and 102) Honor’s Introduction to Southern Studies (SST 101, Section H) Senior Seminar in Southern Studies, “Representations of the Southern Environment” (SST 401 and 402) Graduate Seminar in Southern Studies, “Framing the South: Comparing and Contrasting The Cultural Paradigm and the Political Economy Paradigm” (SST 602) The Environmental and Social History of the Mississippi River (HON 420) Undergraduate Research Seminar in History (HIS 498) Journal and Book Series Editorial Experience Founding Editor, Native South. University of Nebraska Press, 2007-present. Associate Editor, Ethnohistory, flagship peer-reviewed journal published by Duke University Press for the American Society for Ethnohistory, 2012-2013, 2020-present. Ethridge Page 3 North American Editor, Ethnohistory, flagship peer-reviewed journal published by Duke University Press for the American Society for Ethnohistory, 2013-2020. Editorial Board, Indians and Southern History Series, University of Alabama Press, 2018-present. Editorial Board, Environmental History and the American South Series, University of Georgia Press, 2007-present. Editorial Board, Mississippi Archeology, 2015-2017. Executive Editor, Native South. Peer-reviewed journal published yearly by the University of Nebraska Press, 2010- 2012. Editor-in-Chief, Native South. Peer-reviewed journal published yearly by the University of Nebraska Press, 2007- 2012. Honors College of Liberal Arts Award for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Achievement, University of Mississippi, 2017. William and Mary Quarterly and Early Modern Studies Institute Workshop, “Before 1607,” 2013. James Mooney Book Award, From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540-1715, Southern Anthropological Society, 2011. Award of Merit, Old Federal Road Project, American Association of State and Local History, 2010. Amerind Foundation Seminar Award, 2009. Society for American Archaeology Outstanding Session Award, 2009. Scholar of the Year Award, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Mississippi, 2001. Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Scholarship, University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc., 1999. University-wide Fellowship, Master's Program, University of Georgia, 1981. Summa Cum Laude, University of Georgia, Undergraduate Program, 1978. Elected Phi Beta Kappa, 1977. External Grants, Fellowships, and Contracts John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship Competition. The Rise and Fall of the Mississippian World, 900 – 1730 AD. Submitted November 2017, $45,000, not awarded. The American Council of Learned Societies Sabbatical Fellowship. The Rise and Fall of the Mississippian World, 900 – 1730 AD. Submitted November 2017, $45,000, not awarded. John Templeton Foundation, “The Moral and Secular Economies of the Mississippi Presbyterian Missions to the Chickasaws,” with Charles Cobb (University of Florida), Brad Leib (Chickasaw Nation), and Edmond Boudreaux (University of Mississippi), proposal submitted, not awarded. Ethridge Page 4 Georgia Department of Transportation, “Federal Road Project, Phase II,” Atlanta, Georgia, 2005-2006, $54,000. Mellon Sabbatical Fellowship, “From Chicaza to Chickasaw,” American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2004-2005, $32,000. National Endowment for the Humanities, “The Chickasaws,” with Jay Johnson (University of Mississippi) and John O’Hear (Mississippi State University), 2000, $75,000. American Philosophical Society Phillips Fund for Native American Studies, 1993, 1994, $3,000/year. Ethnohistory Project,1994, $2,000. Coosawattee Foundation, Inc., Grant for Research on Southeastern Indians, 1993, $500. Delta Kappa Gamma Society, Grant-in-Aid, 1993, $500. Internal Grants and Fellowships Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, University of Mississippi, 2009, $1500. Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, University of Mississippi, 2008, $1500. Faculty Research Fellow, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, University of Mississippi, 2004, $8,000. Faculty Research Fellow, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, University of Mississippi, 2003, $8,000. Liberal Arts Faculty Development Fund, University of Mississippi, 2001, 2002, $5,000/year. University of Mississippi Summer Support Program 1999, 2000, $5,000/year. Publications – Peer-Reviewed Books The Ancient South: The Rise and Fall of the Mississippian World, 1540-1730. In preparation A Promise Kept: The Muskogee (Creek) Nation and the End of the Trail of Tears. Co-authored with Robert Miller. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, under contract (draft due September 2021). The Historical Turn in Southeastern Archaeology, co-edited with Eric Bowne. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2020. From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540- 1715. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Mapping the Mississippian