Dr. Eric Bowne

Associate Professor of Anthropology

ebowne@uca.edu

Irby Hall 120C

(501) 450-5821

Office Hours: By appointment

Educational Background

Ph.D. University of Georgia

B.A.  University of Georgia

 

Specialty Fields

Author of two books:

Dr. Bowne is the author of two books and co-editor of a third:

The Historical Turn in Southeastern Archaeology (University Press of Florida, 2020)

Mound Sites of the Ancient South: A guide to the Mississippian Chiefdoms (University of Georgia Press, 2013)

The Westo Indians: Slave Traders of the Early Colonial South (University of Alabama Press, 2005)

Chapters in five edited volumes:

Light on the Path: The Anthropology and History of the Southeastern Indians

Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South

Native American Adoption, Captivity, and Slavery in Changing Contexts

Creating and Contesting Carolina: Proprietary Era Histories

Linking the Histories of Slavery: North America and Its Borderlands

Research Interests

Native American History

Environmental Studies

Food and Culture

Mountaineering Culture and History

Current Focus

He is currently developing a course that focuses on mountaineers, rock climbers, and other “pilgrims of the vertical.”