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LouAnn Wurst

Associate Professor Archaeology 1005 Moore Hall (269) 387-2753

Research interests: North American Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Method and Theory in Archaeology, Marxist Theory, Feminist Theory, Gender and Anthropology, Critical Pedagogy, Material Culture Studies, Cultural Resource Management, American Industrial Development, Class and Ideology, Rural American Society

Regional focus: Eastern North America

Selected publications: 2007 Fixing Farms: Pondering Farm Scenes from the Vanity Press. Historical Archaeology 41(2):70-82.

2007 Marxist Archaeology and Historical Materialist Approaches. Encyclopedia of Archaeology. Elsevier, New York.

2006 A Class All Its Own: Explorations of Class Formation and Conflict. In Historical Archaeology, edited by Martin Hall and Stephen Silliman, Blackwell, 190-206.

2005 with Randall H. McGuire and Maria O'Donovan Probing Praxis: The Last Eighty Years. Rethinking Marxism 17(3):355-372.

2003 The Legacy of Separate Spheres: A Commentary. In Shared Spaces and Divided Places: Exploring the Material and Spatial Dimensions of Gender Relations on the American Historical Landscape , edited by Deborah L. Rotman and Ellen-Rose Savulis. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.

2002 Mobilizing Social Labor in 19th Century Rural America: A Power Play in Three Acts. In The Dynamics of Power , edited by Maria O'Donovan. Center For Archaeological Investigations Occassional Paper No. 30. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, pp. 88-104.

A Closer Look

LouAnn Wurst is an archaeologist whose research focuses on issues of class,ideology, and gender in the 19th century. Her current research has entailed excavations at ten farms in the Finger Lakes National Forest in order to study the discrepancies between common agrarian myths and the material realities of 19th and early 20th century families who lived on these upland farms. Since these farms were all purchased by the Federal Government as part of the Resettlement Administration's Submarginal Farms Program, this project provides an ideal context to elucidate the capitalist transformation of American agriculture from the early 19th century until the Depression.