Christopher M. Stojanowski
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Bioarchaeology, University of New Mexico
SHESC Themes: Culture, Heritage and Identity; Human Origins, Evolution and Diversity
Field Specializations: Bioarchaeology, Colonial Native Americans, Quantitative Microevolution
Regional Focus: North America (Southeast), North Africa
Contact: Christopher M. Stojanowski, SHESC 310
Research:
Christopher M. Stojanowski is interested in the short and long-term effects of microevolution and demography on human community formation, manifestations of identity and ethnicity and transformation in community organization. His research focuses on both colonial period processes of tribal ethnogenesis and long-term relationships between cultural and biological variation. Stojanowski's interest in modeling long-term relational processes requires use of archaeological data. Therefore, his research is morphological in scope and primarily focused on the dentition.
Select Publications:
Stojanowski, C. M. (2011). Social dimensions of evolutionary research: Discovering Native American history in colonial southeastern U.S. Evolution: Education and Outreach, 4, 223-231.
Stojanowski, C. M. (2010). Bioarchaeology of Ethnogenesis in the Colonial Southeast. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2010 recipient of the James Mooney Award of the Southern Anthropological Society [reviewed in American Anthropologist, 113(3), 533-534].
Knudson, K. J. & Stojanowski, C. M. (Eds.) (2009). Bioarchaeology and Identity in the Americas. Gainesville: University Press of Florida [reviewed in American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 142, 338-339].
Knudson, K. J. & Stojanowski, C. M. (2008). New directions in bioarchaeology. Journal of Archaeological Research, 16, 397-432.
Stojanowski, C. & Schillaci, M. A. (2006). Phenotypic approaches for understanding patterns of intracemetery biological variation. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, 131(S43), 49-88.
Stojanowski, C. M. (2005). The bioarchaeology of identity in Spanish colonial Florida: Social and evolutionary transformation before, during and after demographic collapse. American Anthropologist, 107, 417-431.
Stojanowski, C. M. (2005). Biocultural histories in La Florida: A bioarchaeological perspective. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press [reviewed in Hispanic American Historical Review, 88(1), 119-121; International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 17(1), 105-106; Southeastern Archaeology, 27(1), 152-153; Historical Archaeology, 41, 222-223].
