James Davidson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Office: Turlington Hall, Room B134
Phone: (352) 294-7592
Email: davidson@ufl.edu

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Education

Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, 2004
M.A. Anthropology, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, 1999
B.A. Archaeological Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1990

Research Interests

Historical archaeology (19th/20th century), African diaspora, mortuary studies, folk beliefs

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Positions and Honors

Positions and Employment

Other Experience and Professional Memberships

Honors

Selected Publications

Davidson, James M. (2015). “A Cluster of Sacred Symbols”: Interpreting an Act of Animal Sacrifice at Kingsley Plantation, Fort George Island, Florida (1814-1839). International Journal of Historical Archaeology 19(1).

Davidson, James M. 2014. Deconstructing the Myth of the “Hand Charm”: Mundane Clothing Fasteners and Their Curious Transformations into Supernatural Objects. Historical Archaeology 48(4).

Davidson, James M., and Karen E. McIlvoy. 2012. New Perspectives from Old Collections: Potential Artifacts of African Spirituality at Couper Plantation, Georgia. The Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage 1(2):107-166.

Davidson, James M. 2012. Encountering the Ex-Slave Reparations Movement from the Grave: The National Industrial Council and National Liberty Party, 1901-1907. The Journal of African American History 97(1-2):13-38.

Davidson, James M. 2012. “They laid planks ‘crost the coffins”: The African Origin of Grave Vaulting in the United States. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 16(1):86-134.

Davidson, James M. and Robert C. Mainfort, Jr. 2012. Hidden Differences Beneath a Surface Equality: Mortuary Variability in Two Late Nineteenth-Century Cemeteries in Crawford County, Arkansas. Southeastern Archaeology 30(2):203-214.

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