Buck Woodard
Assistant Professor
Office:
Washington Hall 109
Phone:
757-221-4915
Email:
[[bwwood]]
Areas of Specialization:
Cultural and historical anthropology; Indigenous/Native Studies; kinship; material culture; cosmology & ritual life; political economy
Background
I am a cultural anthropologist specializing in historical and applied research, with interests in ethnographic and ethnohistorical writing and the ethnological study of Native North America. My research topics include cosmology and ritual life, heritage tourism, kinship, material culture, and political economy. I have ongoing fieldwork among Algonquian and Iroquoian communities indigenous to Virginia-Carolina and diaspora populations in New York, Oklahoma, and Philadelphia.
Selected Publications
William & Mary’s Nottoway Quarter: The Political Economy of Institutional Slavery and Settler Colonialism (w/ Danielle Moretti-Langholtz), Commonplace: The Journal of Early American Life, November 2022.
“The Return of Indian Nations to the Colonial Capital: Heritage Relationships and the Production of Native Public History” in Replanting Cultures: Community Engaged Scholarship in Indian Country. Chief Ben Barnes and Stephen Warren, eds. Albany: SUNY Press, 2022.
An Alternative to Red Power: Political Alliance as Tribal Activism in Virginia, Comparative American Studies, Special Issue: “Red Power at 50,” Vol. 17, Issue 2, 2020.
Building the Brafferton: The Founding, Funding and Legacy of America’s Indian School (w/ Danielle Moretti-Langholtz, eds.). Williamsburg, VA: Muscarelle Museum of Art, 2019.
Indian Land Sales and Allotment in Antebellum Virginia: Trustees, Tribal Agency, and the Nottoway Reservation, American Nineteenth Century History, Vol. 17, Issue 2, 2016.
