Kathryn Sampeck (BA, MA, University of Chicago; PhD Tulane University) investigates pre-Columbian practices and material worlds, how they both shape and are transformed by colonial dynamics, and their lasting legacies. **PLEASE UPDATE THIS INFO WITH YOUR GLOBAL PROFESSORSHIP AWARD ETC**
Dr. Kathryn Sampeck teaches classes in historical archaeology, Afro-Latin America, landscape archaeology, archaeological theory, and anthropology of food. Her field school in eastern Tennessee explores the nature of 16th-century Spanish and indigenous interaction and how to detect political, social, and economic organiSation in archaeological landscapes.
Her research interests include istorical archaeology, archaeology of Spanish colonialism, race and racialisation, political economy, ethnohistory, food history, with a focus on the cultural history of taste, cultural landscapes, cartography, literacy, race, money and monetisation, and commerce in American commodities in the Early Modern world.
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