• Native North America
• Puerto Rico and Cuba
• Textual, Material and Visual Culture
• Tourism

•  Books:
• 2005--     (Continuing series, edited with Regna Darnell) Histories of Anthropology Annual. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Volumes 1-7 published; v.8 in press (forthcoming Fall 2013); v.9 in preparation.
• 2002     (edited with Regna Darnell) Celebrating a Century of the American Anthropological Association: Presidential Portraits. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press and the American Anthropological Association. 
• 2002      (edited with Lisa J. Lefler) Southern Indians and Anthropologists: Culture, Politics, and Identities. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
• 1997     Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
• Articles:
• [Spr 2013]       Notes on the Use and Abuse of Cultural Knowledge.  In Anthropology and the Politics of Representation, Gabriela Vargas-Cetina, ed.  Birmingham: University of Alabama Press.  In press.
• 2010       (with Carolyn Podruchny and Roger Roulette)  Putting Up Poles: Power, Navigation, and Cultural Mixing in the Fur Trade.  In Gathering Places: Essays on Aboriginal Histories, Laura Peers and Carolyn Podruchny, eds.  Pp. 25-47.  Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
• 2009       Sociology, Progressivism, and the Undergraduate Training of Anthropologists at the University of Wisconsin, 1925-30.  In Histories of Anthropology Annual, volume 5.  Regna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach, eds. Pp. 229-250.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
• 2007      Cushing at Cornell: The Early Years of a Pioneering Anthropologist.  In Histories of Anthropology Annual, volume 3.  Regna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach, eds.  Pp. 99-120.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
• 2006     Pocahontas: An Exercise in Myth-making and Marketing. In New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations. Sergei Kan and Pauline Turner Strong, eds. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. In press.
• 2003     Theory, Practice, Life: Rethinking Americanist Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century. Reviews in Anthropology 32(3): 191-205      
• 2003      Controlled Speculation and Constructed Myths: The Saga of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith. In Reading Beyond Words: Contexts for Native History, second edition. Jennifer S. H. Brown and Elizabeth Vibert, eds. Pp.39-74. Peterborough: Broadview Press
• 2003      Pocahontas at the Fair: Crafting Identities at the 1907 Jamestown Exposition. Ethnohistory 50(3): 419-445.
• 2002     Images of Empire: Popular Representations of the 1898 War. Latino(a) Research Review 5(1):51-79.
• 2002      Anthropological Professionalization and the Virginia Indians at the Turn of the Century. American Anthropologist 104(2):499-507.
• 2002      Powhatan Identity in Anthropology and Popular Culture (and Vice Versa). In Southern Indians and Anthropologists: Culture, Politics, and Identities. Lisa J. Lefler and Frederic W. Gleach, eds. Pp. 5-18. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
• 1995     Mimesis, Play, and Transformation in Powhatan Ritual. In Papers of the Twenty-sixth Algonquian Conference. David Pentland, ed. Pp. 114-23. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba.
• 1988     A Rose by Any Other Name: Questions of Mockley Chronology. Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology 4: 85-98.
• 1987     A Working Projectile Point Classification for Central Virginia. Archaeological Society of Virginia Quarterly Bulletin 42(2): 80-120.

My current teaching emphasizes the Anthropology Collections and approaches to material culture studies, and supervision of independent reading/research and honors thesis projects.

In Fall 2009 I taught ANTHR 4000/7000, Development of Anthropological Thought.

Other recent course offerings include Historical Archaeology; Identification & Interpretation of Archaeological Artifacts; and the introductory archaeology survey.

In the past I have taught a variety of courses at Cornell including Indians & the Environment; American Indians in Film; Anthropology & History; Magic, Myth, Science & Religion; Tourism, Tourist Arts & World Fairs; Cultural Diversity & Contemporary Issues; and Museums & Collecting.