ABBREVIATED CURRICULUM VITA

Education

Ph.D. in Anthropology (University of Oklahoma, 2001). Dissertation: "Mississippian Political Culture: Contrasting Historical Trajectories in Southeastern North America."

M.A. in Historical Archaeology (University of Massachusetts at Boston, 1991). Thesis: "Ponkapoag Revisited: An Interdisciplinary Study of a Christian Indian Town."

B.A. in History (Louisiana State University, 1985).

Employment (Past Ten Years)

Assistant Professor (2001-present), Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Research Archaeologist (1999-2001), Center for Archaeological Research, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield.

Graduate Teaching Assistant and Instructor (1999), Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma, Norman.

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Instructor, and Research Assistant (1993-1998), Department of Anthropology and the Oklahoma Archeological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman.

Selected Publications

Rees, Mark A.
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, Tusclaoosa. Download book order form as a pdf.

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.

2003a Bayou Portage Guidry and the Plaquemine Mounds Archaeological Project. Louisiana Archaeological Society Newsletter 30(1):16-21.

2003b 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.

2003c 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 C. B. Wesson and M. A. Rees, pp. 170-197. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

2001a 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 T. R. Pauketat, pp. 121-140. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.

2001b 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.

2000 Mapping and Testing of the Greenhouse Complex at Ha Ha Tonka State Park. Missouri Archaeological Society Quarterly 17(3):4-19.

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 Tad Britt
1998 Baldwin’s Ordinary: Excavations at the Maplewood Site (44AM57), Amelia County, Virginia. Quarterly Bulletin of the Archeological Society of Virginia 53(3):74-96.

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, Tusclaoosa. Download book order form as a pdf.

Rees, Mark A. and Patrick C. Livingood (editors)
2007 Plaquemine Archaeology. University of Alabama Press, Tusclaoosa. Download book order form as a pdf.

Rees, Mark A., Gina S. Powell, and Neal H. Lopinot
2003 The Search for Delaware Town: Results of the 1999 and 2000 CAR-SMSU Field Schools. Missouri Archaeological Society Quarterly 20(1):4-10.

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 C. B. Wesson and M. 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.

Grants, Scholarships, and Awards

• 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 (2003-2006).

• Anthropology Technological Enhancement, Student Technology Enhancement Program (STEP). Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (2005).

• Archaeological Technology Enhancement. Student Technology Enhancement Program (STEP). Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (2004).

• Documentation and Database Development for St. Peter Roman Catholic Church Cemetery, Carencro, Louisiana. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. St. Peter Roman Catholic Church. Carencro, Louisiana (2003).

• Archaeological Investigations of the Old Barn Near the Current Factory at Avery Island. Support for the Winter Intersession Archaeology Field School. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. MclIhenny Company and Avery Island, Inc. (2003).

• Summer Research Award. Office of Faculty Development and Academic Planning, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (2002).

• Emergency Site Preservation Grant for Mound Stabilization and Site Preservation at Bayou Portage Guidry. National Association of State Archaeologists, through the Louisiana Division of Archaeology. Matching funds donated by the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana (2001-2002).

• Archaeological Testing of Sites 23JE787 and 23JE788 for Route 21 Improvements, Jefferson County, Missouri. HNTB Corporation, Kansas City, Missouri and the Missouri Department of Transportation, Jefferson City, Missouri. Center for Archaeological Research Project 1161, Southwest Missouri State University. Springfield, Missouri (2001).

• Archaeological Testing of the Regan Nursery Site (23BO851) in Boone County, Missouri. Seneca Environmental Services. Des Moines, Iowa. Center for Archaeological Research Project 1192, Southwest Missouri State University. Springfield, Missouri (2001).

• Archaeological Survey and Limited Testing of the De Lassus House Site, New Bourbon, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri. Department of Natural Resources, Jefferson City, Missouri. Center for Archaeological Research Project 1141, Southwest Missouri State University. Springfield, Missouri (2000).

• Testing of the Greenhouse Complex at Ha Ha Tonka State Park. Department of Natural Resources, Jefferson City, Missouri. Center for Archaeological Research Project 1113, Southwest Missouri State University. Springfield, Missouri (2000).

• The Political Dynamics of Decentralization and Decline in the Black Warrior River Valley of West-Central Alabama (1997-1999). National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, SBR-9711795.

• Lew Wentz Graduate Student Scholarship, University of Oklahoma (1997).

• NAGPRA Cultural Affiliation Overview for Fort Polk, Louisiana. U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, Champaign, Illinois (1997).

• Graduate Research in Social Sciences Poster Presentation Award, First Place. Graduate College, University of Oklahoma (1997).

• Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant. Graduate College, University of Oklahoma (1997).

• Robert Bell Fund Award for Graduate Research, Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma (1996).

• Research and Creative Activity Grant, Graduate Student Senate, University of Oklahoma (1996).

• American Society for Ethnohistory Graduate Student Travel Grant, Committee on Graduate Student Travel (1995).

Courses Taught

• Archaeological Method and Theory (Anthropology 497G)
• Archaeological Records (Anthropology 499G)
• Archaeology (Anthropology 303)
• Archaeology Field School (Anthropology 490G)
• Archaeology of the Southeastern U.S. (Anthropology 493G)
• Cultural Anthropology (Anthropology 201)
• Cultural Resource Management (Anthropology 395)
• Fantastic Archaeology (Anthropology 493G)
• General Anthropology (at University of Oklahoma)
• Introduction to Archaeology (at University of Oklahoma)
• North American Prehistory (Anthropology 385)
• War and Peace (Anthropology 493G)
• World Archaeology (Anthropology 203)
• Zooarchaeology and Bioarchaeology (Anthropology 497G)

Research Interests

• Archaeology of eastern North America
• Mississippian and Plaquemine societies of the Southeast
• Euro-American and Native American historical archaeology
• French Acadian deportation and settlement
• Political culture and identity
• Historical anthropology and ethnohistory
• Archaeological method and theory
• Historic and prehistoric ceramics
• Zooarchaeology and faunal analysis

Professional Memberships

• American Anthropological Association
• Register of Professional Archaeologists
• Society for American Archaeology
• Southeastern Archaeological Conference
• Society for Historical Archaeology
• Louisiana Archaeological Society

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