Books/Collections

"Archaeologies of Poverty" Speical Issue of Historical Archaeology 45(3), edited by Christopher N.Matthews and Suzanne Spencer-Wood. 2011. Click for Editors' Introduction

The Archaeology of American Capitalism. University Press of Florida, 2010.
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An Archaeology of History and Tradition: Moments of Danger in the Annapolis Landscape. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press, New York., 2002.

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Ethnographic Archaeologies: Reflections on Stakeholders and Archaeological Practices. Quetzil E. Castañeda and Christopher N. Matthews, Editors. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, CA. 2008.

Lonely Islands: Culture, Comnmunity, and Poverty in Archaeoplogical Perspective. Historical Archaoelogy 45(3):41-54.

Emancipation Landscapes: Archaeologies of Racial Modernity and the Public Sphere in Early New York. In Historical Archaeology and The Importance of Material Things, II, Mark P.Leone and Julie Schablitsky, eds., pp. 69-92. Society for Historial Archaoelogy, 2011.

Black History as Property: A Critique of the Making of a Post-Civil Rights L:andscape, with Eric L. Larsen. In The Materiality of Freedom: Archaeologies of Postemancipation Life, Jodi A. Barnes, ed., pp. 26-46. University of South Carolina Press, 2011.

Secularism as Ideology: Exploring Assumptions of Cultural Equivalence in Museum Repatriation, with Kurt A. Jordan. In Ideologies in Archaeology, Reinhard Bernbeck and Randall H. McGuire, eds. pp. 212-32. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 2011.

Freedom as a Negotiated History, or an Alternative Sort of Event: The Transformation of Home, Work, and Self in Early New York. In Eventful Archaeologies. Douglas Bolender, editor, SUNY Press. 2010.

Colonial and Antebellum New Orleans, with Shannon Lee Dawdy. In The Archaeology of Louisiana, Mark Rees, ed. Louisiana University Press. 2010.

Is Archaeology Political? Transformative Praxis within and against the Boundaries of Archaeology. The Public Historian 31(2): 79-89, 2009.

About Face: Heritage and Social Power in Public, with Matthew Palus. In Ethnographies and Archaeologies: Iterations of the Past, Lena Mortensen and Julie Hollowell (eds.). University Press of Florida, 2009.

Archaeology, Obama, and the Long Civil Rights Movement. African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter, December 2008.

The Location of Archaeology. A contribution to Ethnographic Archaeologies: Reflections on Stakeholders and Archaeological Practices. Quetzil E. Castañeda and Christopher N. Matthews (eds.) AltaMira Press. 2008.

History to Prehistory: An Archaeology of Being Indian in New Orleans. Archaeologies: The Journal of the World Archaeological Congress 3(3):271-295. 2007.

Building Historic Landscapes in Annapolis, Maryland, with Matthew Palus.  A contribution to Envisioning Landscapes: Global Perspectives. Dan Hicks, Graham Fairclough and Laura McAtackney (eds.) UCL, London (One World Archaeology). 2007.

Significance, Value, and Property in the Public Face of Archaeologywith Matthew Palus. In Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory: Encounters between Past and Present, Dan Hicks and Angela Piccini (eds). Routledge, London, 2007.

Public Dialectics: Marxist Reflection in Archaeology. Historical Archaeology, 39(4):18-36. 2005.

The Political Economy of Archaeological Cultures: Marxism and American Historical Archaeology, with Mark P. Leone and Kurt A. Jordan.  Journal of Social Archaeology 2(1): 109-134, 2002.