Short List of Research Interests:
- Archaeology of Eastern North America
(ca. AD 1000-1900)
- Political Culture and Complexity
- Historical Anthropology
- Ethnohistory
- Archaeological Method and Theory
- Ceramics and Faunal Analysis
Recent Grants:
- 2008-09 Mississippian Archaeologies: Native American Political Culture and Community in Southeastern North America, A.D. 1000 – 1700. Louisiana Board of Regents Support Fund, Awards to Louisiana Artists and Scholars (ATLAS) Grant ($55,261) . On leave, 2008-2009.
- 2007 Archaeological Investigation of the Hayes Sugar House at Avery Island, Louisiana. University of Louisiana at Lafayette Summer 2008 Archaeology Field School. McIlhenny Company, Avery Island ($3,996).
- 2007 Phase I Archaeological Survey for Mikeebo Landfill, Caddo Parish, Louisiana. Center for Archaeological Studies, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Funded by Mikeebo, Inc., Bossier City, Louisiana ($13,056).
- 2007 The Early Acadian Archaeological Project: A Survey of Eighteenth-Century Settlement in South-Central Louisiana. Proposal submitted to the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend Program ($5,000 requested; nominated by Research and Sponsored Programs, University of Louisiana at Lafayette but not funded by NEH).
- 2003-07 Archaeological Survey and Testing of Plaquemine Mounds in South Central Louisiana. Louisiana Board of Regents Support Fund Research Competitiveness Subprogram. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette ($90,628).
- 2006 University of Louisiana at Lafayette Student Government Association Lyceum Committee grant for War and Peace, an interdisciplinary seminar with guest lecturers, cross-listed in Anthropology, Honors, Humanities, Political Science, and Sociology. Matching funds from the College of Liberal Arts ($700).
- 2005 with C. Ray Brassieur, F. Daniel Cring, and Jacques Henry. Anthropology Technological Enhancement, Student Technology Enhancement Program (STEP). Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette ($47,285).
- 2004 Archaeological Technology Enhancement. Student Technology Enhancement Program (STEP). Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette ($18,068).
Selected Publications and Research Reports:
- 2008 Complex Nonagricultural Societies in the Lower Mississippi Valley and Peninsular Florida. In Archaeology in America: An Encyclopedia. Volume 1: Northeast and Southeast, edited by Francis P. McManamon, Linda S. Cordell, Kent G. Lightfoot, and George R. Milner. Greenwood Publishing, New York.
- 2008 From Grand Dérangement to Acadiana: History and Identity in the Landscape of South Louisiana. In The Archaeology of French Colonial and Post-Colonial Settlements, edited by Elizabeth M. Scott. Special Issue of the International Journal of Historical Archaeology 12(4):338-359.
- 2008 ULL Field School at the Hayes Sugar House (16IB76), Avery Island, Iberia Parish, Louisiana. Louisiana Archaeological Society Newsletter 36(2):6-10.
- 2007 Plaquemine Mounds of the Western Atchafalaya Basin. In Plaquemine Archaeology, edited by Mark A. Rees and Patrick C. Livingood, pp. 66-93. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
- 2006 Plaquemine Mounds Project Completes Third Year. Louisiana Archaeological Society Newsletter 34(2):14-18.
- 2005 Review of The Louisiana and Arkansas Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore, edited by Richard A. Weinstein, David B. Kelley, and Joe W. Saunders. Classics in Southeastern Archaeology Series, University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. Southeastern Archaeology 24(1):98-99.
- 2003 Bayou Portage Guidry and the Plaquemine Mounds Archaeological Project. Louisiana Archaeological Society Newsletter 30(1):16-21.
- 2003 Review of The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760, edited by Robbie Ethridge and Charles Hudson. University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, 2002. Southeastern Archaeology 22(2):228-230.
- 2003 UL Lafayette Archaeology Field School at the Amand Broussard Site and the Early Acadian Archaeological Project. Louisiana Archaeological Society Newsletter 30(2):8-13.
- 2002 Subsistence Economy and Political Culture in the Protohistoric Central Mississippi Valley. In Between Contacts and Colonies: Archaeological Perspectives on the Protohistoric Southeast, edited by Cameron B. Wesson and Mark A. Rees, pp. 170-198. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
- 2001 Historical Science or Silence? Toward a Historical Anthropology of Mississippian Political Culture. In The Archaeology of Traditions: The Southeast Before and After Columbus, edited by Timothy R. Pauketat, pp. 121-140. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
- 2001 Mississippian Culture History: the Contributions of Phillips, Ford and Griffin. In Historical Perspectives on Midsouth Archeology, edited by Martha Rolingson, pp. 85-92. Research Series No. 58. Arkansas Archeological Survey, Fayetteville.
- 1997 Coercion, Tribute and Chiefly Authority: the Regional Development of Mississippian Political Culture. Southeastern Archaeology 16(2):113-133.
- Rees, Mark A., Lance Blanchard, and Rene Lorio.
2004 Archaeology Field School at Three Sites in St. Martin and St. Landry Parishes. Louisiana Archaeological Society Newsletter 31(1):9-13.
- Rees, Mark A. and Patrick C. Livingood.
2007 Introduction and Historical Overview. In Plaquemine Archaeology, edited by Mark A. Rees and Patrick C. Livingood, pp. 1-19. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
- Rees, Mark A. and Patrick C. Livingood, editors
2007 Plaquemine Archaeology. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
- Wesson, Cameron B., and Mark A. Rees
2002 Protohistory and Archaeology: an Overview. In Between Contacts and Colonies: Archaeological Perspectives on the Protohistoric Southeast, edited by Cameron B. Wesson and Mark A. Rees, pp. 1-11. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
- Wesson, Cameron B., and Mark A. Rees, editors
2002 Between Contacts and Colonies: Archaeological Perspectives on the Protohistoric Southeast. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
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