Present Positions

Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Lawrence University
Appleton, WI 54911
(920) 832-6718
Email: kusimbas@lawrence.edu

Adjunct Curator, Anthropology Department
The Field Museum
1400 South Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60605
(312) 665-7830

Interests

Archaeology and Ethnography; Ethnicity; Environmental and Ecological Anthropology; Archaeological Method and Theory; Africa; Central Europe

Education

1997 Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1992 M.A. in Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1988 A.B. in Anthropology (Cum Laude and Departmental Honors), Bryn Mawr College

Publications-Books

Kusimba, S. B. 2002. African Foragers: Environment, Technology, Interactions. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, CA. (November)

Kusimba, C. M., and S. B. Kusimba (Editors). 2002. Current Research Themes in Later East African Archaeology. MASCA, the University of Pennsylvania Press

Publications - Articles

Kusimba, S. B. 2003. "African Foragers." Journal of Archaeological Research. Scheduled.

Kusimba, C. M., S. B. Kusimba, and B. Abgaje-Williams. 2003. "Precolonial African Cities: Size and Density." In Population and Preindustrial Cities: A Cross-Cultural Perspective, edited by G. Storey. University of Alabama Press.

Kusimba, C. M., and S. Kusimba. 2003. "East Africa." In African Archaeology: A Critical Introduction, edited by Ann Stahl. Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology, Blackwell Press, London.

Kusimba, S. B., and C. M. Kusimba. 2002. "History." In Darwin in Archaeology: A Handbook of Concepts, edited by John Terrell and John Hart. Bergin and Garvey, Westport, Ct., pp. 143-160.

Kusimba, S. B., and C. M. Kusimba. 2002. Comparing Prehistoric and Historic Hunter-gatherer Mobility in Southern Kenya. In Current Research Themes in Later East African Archaeology, edited by C. Kusimba and S. Kusimba. MASCA, The University of Pennsylvania Press.

Kusimba, S. B. 2002. "The Early Later Stone Age in East Africa: Excavations and Lithic Assemblages from Lukenya Hill, Kenya." African Archaeological Review 18:77-123.

Kusimba, S. B., and Fred H. Smith. 1999. "Acheulean." In The Encyclopedia of Prehistory, edited by P. Peregrine and M. Ember, pp. 1-22. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

Kusimba, S. B. 1999. "Hunter-gatherer Land Use Patterns in Later Stone Age East Africa." Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 18:165-200.

Barut, S. 1997. "Later Stone Age Site Use Patterns at Lukenya Hill, Kenya." Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology 13:9-25.

Barut, S. 1995. "Obsidian Source Use at Lukenya Hill, Kenya." In Aspects of African Archaeology , edited by G. Pwiti and R. Soper. University of Harare Press, Harare, Zimbabwe, pp. 303-313.

Barut, S. 1994. "Middle and Later Stone Age Lithic Technology and Land Use Patterns in East African Savannas." African Archaeological Review 12:44-70.

Grants

2002 Faculty Research Grant, Lawrence University ($3000)
2002 Curriculum Development Grant, Lawrence University ($1800)
2000 National Science Foundation Archaeology Division Grant for Research in Tsavo, Kenya ($148,000)
1994 National Science Foundation Dissertation Research Grant BNS SBR 93-20534 DISS ($11,712)
1993 Fulbright Junior Scholar to Kenya ($24,910)
1993 Center for African Studies Dissertation Research Grant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ($400)
1993 Graduate College Dissertation Research Grant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ($700)
1987 Travel and Tuition Grant to attend the Harvard University/National Museums of Kenya Koobi Fora Field School, Koobi Fora, Kenya, Department of Anthropology, Bryn Mawr College

Fellowships and Honors

1995 Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Graduate College, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ($15,000)
1994 Graduate Fellowship, Graduate College, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ($5,000)
1992 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for the study of Advanced Swahili ($5,000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1989 Departmental Honors in Anthropology, Bryn Mawr College
1987 Frederica de Laguna Award for Meritorious Academic Work, Department of Anthropology, Bryn Mawr College

Professional Service

1999 Program Developer, Education Department, The Field Museum. Developed websites and electronic field trips about African ethnology and archaeology.
1999 Curator and Content Specialist for the Human Evolution Exhibit Origins, The Field Museum, Chicago.

Invited Lectures

2002 The Tsavo Research Program, Last Chance/First Chance Lecture Series, Lawrence University, May 25.
2002 New Research on Trade in Africa, Society of Wisconsin Archaeologists, The Oshkosh Public Museum, May 12.
1999 Host and Content Specialist for Origins Electronic Field Trip, an interactive telebroadcast to 350,000 high school students nationwide. The Field Museum, April 8.
1999 Fossils and DNA: Modern Human Origins. Talk for the Women's Board, The Field Museum, April 11.
1999 Origins: Five Million Years of Human Evolution. Public Lecture at the Field Museum, Chicago, February 10.
1997 Hunter-Gatherer Land Use Patterns in Later Stone Age East Africa. Noon Balloon, Field Museum, October 28.
1997 Human Adaptations in Africa: Ideas from the Hunter-Gatherer Ethnographic Record. Colloquium Presented to the Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, April 8.

Papers Read at Professional Meetings

2000 (with Chapurukha M. Kusimba). Archaeology of Urban Hinterlands in the Tsavo National Park, Kenya. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Africanist Archaeology, Cambridge, July.
1999 (with Chapurukha M. Kusimba). Later Stone Age Archaeology in Tsavo, Kenya. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Chicago, March.
1998 The Howieson's Poort Industry from Nelson Bay Cave, South Africa. Paper read at the biennial meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, Syracuse, New York, April.
1997 (With Chapurukha M. Kusimba). Who Were the Iron Age East Africans? Paper read at the annual meeting of the African Studies Association, Columbus, Ohio, December.
1997 (With Chapurukha M. Kusimba). Who Were the Iron Age East Africans? Paper read at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November.
1995 Technological Organization Approaches to Africanist Lithic Analysis. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November.
1995 Obsidian Raw Material Transport and Use at Lukenya Hill, Kenya. Paper presented at the Panafrican Congress of Prehistory and Related Studies, Harare, Zimbabwe, July.
1995 Later Stone Age Lithic Raw Material Use at Lukenya Hill, Kenya. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Minneapolis, April.
1994 Middle and Later Stone Age Lithic Transport at Lukenya Hill, Kenya, and Nasera Rockshelter, Tanzania. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, Indianapolis, March.