Buck Woodard
Assistant Professor
Office:
Washington Hall 109
Phone:
757-221-4915
Email:
[[bwwood]]
Areas of Specialization:
Cultural and historical anthropology; Indigenous/Native Studies; kinship; material culture; cosmology & ritual life; political economy
Background
I am a cultural anthropologist specializing in historical and applied research, with interests in ethnographic and ethnohistorical writing, and ethnological study of Native North America. My fieldwork is among Algonquian and Iroquoian communities indigenous to Virginia-Carolina, and diaspora populations in New York and Oklahoma. My research topics include matrilineality, tribal opposition to state structures, revitalization of language use and foodways, and the ways in which the preservation of heritage resources plays out in issues of sovereignty and public representation.
Selected Publications
Building the Brafferton: The Founding, Funding and Legacy of America’s Indian School (w/ Danielle Moretti-Langholtz, eds.). Williamsburg, VA: Muscarelle Museum of Art, 2019.
William & Mary’s Nottoway Quarter: The Political Economy of Institutional Slavery and Settler
Colonialism (w/ Danielle Moretti-Langholtz), Commonplace: The Journal of Early American Life,
November 2022.
“The Return of Indian Nations to the Colonial Capital: Heritage Relationships and the Production of
Native Public History” in Replanting Cultures: Community Engaged Scholarship in Indian Country.
Chief Ben Barnes and Stephen Warren, eds. Albany: SUNY Press, 2022.
An Alternative to Red Power: Political Alliance as Tribal Activism in Virginia, Comparative American
Studies, Special Issue: “Red Power at 50,” Vol. 17, Issue 2, 2020.
Indian Land Sales and Allotment in Antebellum Virginia: Trustees, Tribal Agency, and the Nottoway
Reservation, American Nineteenth Century History, Vol. 17, Issue 2, 2016.
