Gazin-Schwartz, Amy

Amy Gazin-Schwartz, Associate Professor of Anthropology

AMY GAZIN-SCHWARTZ
Associate Professor of Anthropology (1998)
Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Phone: 508-767-7224
Email: agazin@assumption.edu

A.B., Vassar College; Independent Program in Medieval Studies, 1974
M.A., University of Durham, England; English Language and Medieval Literature, 1976
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Anthropology, 1999
Ph.D. Thesis Title: “Constructing Ancestors: Archaeology and Folklore in Scotland”

Sample of Courses Taught

Introduction to Archaeology, Environmental Anthropology, North American Indian, Human Evolution and Variation

Sample of Publications

• Gazin-Schwartz, Amy and Olivia Lelong, Borralie, Durness. Data Structure Report. GUARD, Glasgow, Scotland (2004).
• Gazin-Schwartz, Amy. “Mementos of the Past.” In Marketing Heritage, edited by Uzi Baram and Yorke Rowan. pp 93-103. Alta-Mira Press. (2004).
• Gazin-Schwartz, Amy, “Archaeology and folklore of ritual, material culture, and everyday life” International Journal of Historical Archaeology 5(4) (2001).
• Gazin-Schwartz, Amy and Cornelilus Holtorf, (editors), Archaeology and Folklore. Routledge, London, (1999).
• 2011 Myth and Folklore for Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion edited by Tim Insoll. Oxford University Press.
• 2008 Landscapes of Clearance. co-edited with Angele P. Smith. Left Coast Press.
• 2007 Imaging the Highlands. Historical Archaeology 41(2) edited by Uzi Baram and Diana Loren.
• 1999 Archaeology and Folklore. Edited by Amy Gazin-Schwartz and Cornelius Holtorf. Routledge, London.

Faculty Development Grant Recipient, 2007

Environmental Anthropology

Sample of Presentations

• Heroic Landscapes. Paper Presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, in the session “Propaganda and Resistance Underfoot: Landscapes of Power and Conflict”, Chicago, 2003.
• Abandoned, Avoided, Evicted. Paper presented in the session “Landscapes of Clearance.” at the World Archaeological Congress, Washington, DC 2003
• 2009 Anthropology, Sociology and Social Justice. Paper co-authored with Susan Perschbacher Melia (Assumption College), presented in the Invited Session Heterogeneous Academic Relations: Issues of Departmental Combinations, Social Class, and the Appropriation of Anthropology by Other Disciplines at the 108 Annual Meeting, American Anthropology Association, Philadelphia, PA.
• 2008 Public Archaeology and History in Strathnaver, Scotland. Paper presented at the 41st annual conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Society for Historical Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM

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