Brent Richards Weisman
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BRENT RICHARDS WEISMAN Current Position: Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida. Previous Position: (2005-2008) Associate Dean, University of South Florida Graduate School, and Professor, Department of Anthropology. Position prior to USF: 1989-1995 Archaeological Director, Conservation and Recreation Lands (C.A.R.L.) Archaeological Survey. Florida Department of State, Division of Historical Resources, Bureau of Archaeological Research. University Education: Ph.D. (Anthropology) University of Florida, May 1987 Dissertation: Like Beads On A String: A Culture History of the Seminole Indians In North Peninsular Florida. M.A. (Anthropology) University of Florida, December 1984. B.A. (Anthropology) University of Florida, May 1974 (Undergraduate Honors Thesis, "Warfare: Its Adaptiveness for Intensive Maize Horticulturalists," under the direction of Dr. Charles Wagley). Academic Honors and Awards: 2003 President’s Award for Faculty Excellence. University of South Florida. 1998 USF Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award for excellence in teaching. 1974 B.A. with Departmental High Honors, elected Phi Beta Kappa. University of Florida. Research Activities Funded Research, Contracts and Grants 2010-2012 (co-PI with Thomas Pluckhahn). Competition and Cooperation? Evaluating Social Complexity at Crystal River and the Middle Woodland Societies of the Gulf Coast. (Collaborative grant with Ohio State). National Science Foundation $119,177. 2011- 2012 Tampa and Crystal River Centers of the Florida Public Archaeology Network (FPAN) 2010-2011 Tampa and Crystal River Centers of the Florida Public Archaeology Network (see below). Principal Investigator of the state-funded FPAN contract awards. 2009-2010 Tampa FPAN. $183,350. DSR # 1205102303 Crystal River FPAN. $183,350. DSR # 1205103402. 2008-2009 Tampa FPAN. $189,953. DSR # 12051023 2 2007-2008 Tampa FPAN. $213,968, DSR # 12051023 2007-2008 Florida Public Archaeology Network (FPAN) Central Florida Regional Center (Crystal River). Contract with FPAN and University of West Florida. ($485,283, DSR # 1205103400). Renewing annually. 2006-2007 Tampa Regional Center of the Florida Public Archaeology Network. Contract with the Florida Public Archaeology Network and Florida Division of Historical Resources. ($209,000. DSR # 12051023). Renewing annually. 2007 Cultural Resource Assessment of the Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve. Florida Park Service, $21,900. 2006 Mapping the Moundbuilders: GPS and Laser Scanning at Crystal River. Florida Department of State, $22,103. USF DSR # 12051029. 2004 GIS Probability Mapping and Archaeological testing of Nine ELAPP Preserves in Hillsborough County, Florida. Hillsborough Board of County Commissioners, State of Florida Division of Historical Resources, $19,943.00. USF DSR # 1205100400 Cultural Resource Inventory of Weedon Island Preserve, Pinellas County, Florida. Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners and Florida Division of Historical Resources, $20,000. USF DSR # 12051000. GPS and Laser Scanning of the Miami Circle. Panamerican Consultants, $8,620. Cultural Resource Inventory of Ten Thousand Islands. Friends of Rookery Bay, Inc. Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, $5,590.00. USF DSR # 1205076LO. 2002-03 A Model For the Evaluation of Archaeological Site Significance in Cities. Florida Department of Transportation, $49,500.USF DSR Contract # 1205075LO 2002 Historical Archaeology at Indian Key Historic State Park. Florida Park Service, $25,000. USF DSR Contract # 1205070LO 2001 Ybor City State Museum Oven Excavations. Florida Department of Environmental Protection. $3,100. USF DSR Contract # 1205068LO 2001 Historical Archaeology of Indian Key. Florida Park Service. $24,756. USF DSR Contract # 1205063LO. 2000 Indian Key Stabilization Archaeology. Friends of Islamorada Area State Parks. $22,708. (USF DSR Contract # 1205059LO) 1999 Archaeological Condition Assessment of Significant Sites in FDOT District 1. Florida Department of Transportation. ($40,000) (USF DSR # 1205056LO) 3 1997-98 Archaeological and Historical Survey of Tampa's Afro-Cuban and Buffalo Soldier Sites. Awarded by the Florida Department of State, Division of Historical Resources. ($12,500) (USF DSR Contract # 1205047LO). (Principal investigator, with Susan Greenbaum) 1997-98 Archaeological and Historical Survey of the Anclote Key Lighthouse. Awarded by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Recreation and Parks. ($25,000) (USF DSR Contract # 1205048LO). 1996-98 Archaeological Management Plan: Criteria for Evaluation of Archaeological Site Significance. Florida Department of Transportation ($100,000) (USF DSR Contract # 1205046LO). 1996 Survey of Pioneer Settlements in Rookery Bay (Friends of Rookery Bay, $5,000) 1985 Survey of Spanish Contact and Seminole Sites in the Withlacoochee Cove. Florida Department of State, Division of Historical Resources, Historic Preservation Grant-in-Aid, Tallahassee. 1985 Seminole Archaeology in the Withlacoochee Cove. The Wentworth Foundation, Gainesville. 1984 Cove of the Withlacoochee Site Survey. Florida Department of State, Division of Archives, Division of Historical Resources, Historic Preservation Grant-in-Aid, Tallahassee. 1984 Archaeology and Oral History of the Florida Seminoles. Florida State Museum Associates, Gainesville. Teaching, Creative Scholarship, Miscellaneous Grants and Awards 2003 The Seminole Way of War: Presentation at the Theoretical Archaeological Group TAG) Annual Conference, University of Wales, December. Funded by USF International Travel Grant. $1,384.00 2000-2001 National Endowment for the Humanities “Scholar-in-Residence” for Pinellas County Schools. 2000 Virtual Culture: Proposal to Introduce Interactive Media to the Teaching of Anthropology (co P.I. with Elizabeth Bird). $15,000. Instructional Development Grant, University of South Florida Center for Teaching Enhancement. 1996 USF Faculty Creative Scholarship Award ($500). Developing Archaeology Education Kits for Public School Presentations. 4 Publications Books: 2005 Frank Hamilton Cushing’s Florida Gulf Coast Journal. Coedited with Phyllis Kolianos. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. (winner of 2006 Rembert Patrick Best Academic Book Award from Florida Historical Society) 2005 The Lost Florida Manuscript of Frank Hamilton Cushing. Coedited with Phyllis Kolianos. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. (winner of 2006 Rembert Patrick Best Academic Book Award from Florida Historical Society). 2002 Pioneer in Space and Time: John Mann Goggin and the Development of Florida Archaeology. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. 1999 Unconquered People: Florida's Seminole and Miccosukee Indians. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. 1995 Crystal River: A Ceremonial Mound Complex on the Florida Gulf Coast. Florida Archaeology 8, Florida Department of State, Division of Historical Resources. Tallahassee. 1992 Excavations on the Franciscan Frontier: Archaeology of the Fig Springs Mission. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. (the 1992 press nominee for the Rembert W. Patrick Memorial Book Prize of the Florida Historical Society) 1989 Like Beads on a String: A Culture History of the Seminole Indians in North Peninsular Florida. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. (the 1990 press nominee for the Erminie Wheeler-Voeglin Prize of the Society of American Ethnohistory) Book Chapters: In Press (2012) A Band Of Outsiders: Yuchi Identity Among the 19th Century Florida Seminoles. In Yuchi Indian Histories Since the Removal Era, edited by Jason Baird Jackson, University of Nebraska Press. 2008 Tree Tops Park, Pine Island Ridge FL, in American Indian Places, edited by Frances H. Kennedy, Houghton Mifflin. 2008 Labor and Survival Among the Black Seminoles of Florida, in Florida’s Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New 5 Immigration, edited by Robert Cassanello and Melanie Shell-Weiss, University Press of Florida, Gainesville. 2002 Using an Evaluation Matrix to Manage Archaeological Sites: An Alternative to Significance? In Thinking About Significance, edited by Robert Austin, George Ballo, and Kate Hoffman. Florida Archaeological Council Publications. 2000 Archaeological Perspectives on Florida Seminole Ethnogenesis, in Indians of the Greater Southeast: Historical Archaeology and Ethnohistory, edited by Bonnie G. McEwan, pp. 299-317. University Press of Florida. 2000 The Origins of the Seminole Plantation System and its Role in Florida's Colonial Economy. in Colonial Plantations and Economy of Florida, edited by Jane Landers. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. 1997 The Southeast Culture Area (senior author with Susan Greenbaum). In Native North Americans: An Ethnohistorical Approach, edited by Molly Mignon and Daniel Boxberger, pp. 159- 198. Kendall/Hunt Publishing, Inc., Dubuque. 1996 The Seminole and Miccosukee Peoples of Florida (junior author with John K. Mahon). In The New History of Florida, edited by Michael V. Gannon, pgs. 183-206. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. 1993 The Archaeology of Fig Springs Mission. In The Spanish Missions of La Florida, edited by Bonnie G. McEwan, pp. 165-192. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. 1992 Meeting the Challenge of Conserving Florida's Buried Past. In Proceedings of the 90th Annual Meeting of the Florida Historical Society, pp. 87-96. Florida Historical Society, Tampa. 1989 The Southeast Culture Area. In Native North Americans: An Ethnohistorical Approach, edited by Daniel