Buck Woodard
Email:: [[bwwood]]Year entered:: 2005
Degree sought:: PhD
Research interests:: Cosmology, ethnohistory, historical linguistics, kinship and marriage, political economy
Background
Buck Woodard holds a MA in Anthropology (2008) from the College of William & Mary and a BFA in Ceramics and Metals (1997) from Virginia Commonwealth University. Since 2008, he has directed the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's American Indian Initiative. Previously, he served as advisor to the Governor of Virginia on the Virginia Council on Indians (2003-2006) and as a commissioner on the Governor's Commission on Community and National Service (2004). Past projects include contributions to the Muscarelle Museum of Fine Art, the National Park Service, New Line Cinema, NOVA / PBS, the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Mr. Woodard is a Lecturer for the College of William & Mary's Learning Odysseys and an Adjunct Instructor of Anthropology for Virginia Commonwealth University's School of World Studies.
Recent Presentations
2010 Backstory with the American History Guys, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Williamsburg, Invited Panelist, Indian Country Virginia: Real & Imagined
2010 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Ottawa, Canada, Invited Session Participant, Native Colonialism: the Powhatan Expansion
2010 Public History Conference on Narratives of Native American and African American Histories, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, Invited Key Note Speaker, "African-American and American Indian Voices" Colonial Williamsburg and the Production of Public History
2009 1613 Symposium, Ulster Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Invited Participant, Commemorative Cycles of Heritage and History at Jamestown
2009 Middle Atlantic Archaeology Conference, Ocean City, Maryland, Invited Session Participant, The Chickahominy in Context: A Reassessment of Political Configurations
2009 Annual Conference, Native American and Indigenous Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Session Participant, Our Bond of Peace - Colonial Williamsburg's American Indian Initiative, Contemporary Diplomacy, and the Production of Public History
2009 Annual Conference, Southeastern Indian Conference, University of North Carolina, Pembroke, North Carolina, Session Participant, The Special Census of 1808: The Nottoway Indians of Virginia
Recent Publications
(In Press) Civic Engagement and Strategic Essentialism at Werowococomo (with Martin D. Gallivan and Danielle Moretti-Langholtz), in Civic Engagement in Public History and Archaeology, refereed journal / edited volume of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Paul A. Schackel, ed.
(Forthcoming) The Change, Struggle, and Dormancy of the Nottoway Language, in Researching Times Past in the Chesapeake, University of Nebraska Press, Martin D. Gallivan and Margaret Holmes-Williamson, eds.
2010 An Ethnographic View of the Nottoway, 1700-1750, in Dotratung - New Moon, Lynette Allston, ed. Circle and Square Tract Foundation: Capron.
2009 "They will not admitt of any Werowance from him to governe over them" The Chickahominy in Context: A Reassessment of Political Configurations, (with Danielle Moretti-Langholtz), Journal of Mid Atlantic Archaeology, vol. 25
2008 Journal of American History, Vol. 95, No. 4, Book Review (with Danielle Moretti-Langholtz), Lakota Winter Count, Smithsonian Institution, Museum of Natural History and Museum of the American Indian.
2008 The New West Indian Guide, Vol. 81, Book Review, The American Discovery of Europe, Jack D. Forbes. Urbanna: University of Illinois Press, 2007.