Associate Professor

Department of Anthropology

University of South Carolina

Columbia SC 29208

USA

Phone: 803 777 6700

Fax: 803 777 0259

Email: caseyj@gwm.sc.edu

Citizenship: Canadian, British (Dual); USA Permanent Resident

1993 Doctor of Philosophy. Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto.

1987 Master of Arts. Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University

1980 Bachelor of Arts, Archaeology Major, Simon Fraser University

2001-present Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of South Carolina

1995-2001 Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of South Carolina

1994-1999 Adjunct Professor, Anthropology, University of Toronto

1992-1994 Lecturer, Anthropology, University of Toronto

Development of Anthropological Archaeology (ANTH 720 USC)

Archaeological Laboratory Techniques (ANTH 550 USC)

Ethnoarchaeology (ANTH 591E USC)

Cultures of Africa (ANTH 307 USC)

Primates, People and Prehistory (ANTH 101 USC)

Principles of Archaeology (ANTH 320 USC)

Visual Communication (ANT 301 U of T)

Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology (ANT 204 U of T)

Introduction to Anthropology (4 fields) (ANT 100 U of T)

Traditional and Contemporary Cultures of Africa (ANT 212 U of T)

1994-1998 Principal Investigator Birimi Archaeological Project. Directing a multidisciplinary research project in northern Ghana. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Grant.

1994 Faunal Analyst. Bethune-Thompson House, Southern Ontario. Ontario Heritage Foundation, Toronto, Ontario.

1993 Faunal Analyst. McMartin House archaeological site, Ontario. Ontario Heritage Foundation, Toronto, Ontario.

1993 Laboratory Assistant. Inventorying historic artifacts from Moose Factory, Ontario. Ontario Heritage Foundation, Toronto, Ontario.

1990 Assistant Director St Mary’s River Archaeological Survey, Nova Scotia. Principal Investigator: Carol Krol, University of Calgary

1988-1989 Director Ethnoarchaeological research in Northern Ghana. International Development Research Center grant.

1988 Assistant Director. Gambaga Archaeological Research Project. Principal Investigator: Dr. F.J. Kense.

1987 Assistant Director. Gambaga Archaeological Research Project. Principal Investigator: Dr. F.J. Kense.

1985-1986 Laboratory Assistant Whalen Archaeology Project. Principal Investigator: Dr. J.D. Nance, Simon Fraser University.

1982-1985 Faunal Analyst/ Laboratory Supervisor/Senior Research Assistant Lower Cumberland Archaeology Project. Survey, excavation of Archaic and Mississippian Sites, faunal analysis and cataloguing of sites in Western Kentucky. Principal Investigator Dr. J.D.Nance, Simon Fraser University.

1983 (Sept-May) Physical Anthropologist/Faunal Analyst. Daboya, Ghana. Principal Investigator: P.L. Shinnie, University of Calgary.

1982 Laboratory Assistant. Radiocarbon Laboratory. Simon Fraser University.

1981 Research Assistant. Library Research for paper on women’s status in Hunter-gatherer societies. Principal Investigator: Dr. Brian Hayden, Simon Fraser University.

1981 Senior Field Assistant. Liard River Survey. Principal Investigator: Dr. D. Mitchell, University of Victoria.

1980 Field Assistant. ARESCO Ltd (Archaeological Contractors). Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

1980 Camp Cook. Field School, Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University.

1980-1981 Program Coordinator. Simon Fraser University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Supervisor: Dr. M.E. Stephens.

2001 Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program. The Impact of Globalization in Morocco and Tunisia.

2001 College of Liberal Arts Scholarship Support Award. University of South Carolina.
Value: $2600

2000 College of Liberal Arts Scholarship Support Award. University of South Carolina.
Value: $10,000

1998 Carol Jones Carlisle Award. Women’s Studies, University of South Carolina
Value: $500

1998 College of Liberal Arts Scholarship Support Award. University of South Carolina.
Value: $3100

1997 Sponsored Programs and Research Award. University of South Carolina
Value: $8500

1996 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Research Grant. (Principal Investigator: Dorothy Godfrey-Smith. Co-Investigators: Joanna Casey, Lynn Wadley and Ofer Bar-Yosef). Value: $8100.

1994-1998 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Research Grant.
Value: $149,746

1995 Humanities Research Centre Visiting Fellowship
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

1994-1996 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Value: $55,968

1991 Ontario Graduate Fellowship. Value: $11,800

1990 Melissa J. Knauer Award for Feminist Research in Anthropology. University of Toronto.
Value: $500

1989 International Development Research Centre Young Researchers of Canada Award.
Value: $19,884

1988-1990 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship.
Value: $24,960

1986-1988 University of Toronto Graduate Fellowship. Value: $8100.

1985 Simon Fraser University Graduate Student Stipend. Value: $2400

1984 Simon Fraser University Open Graduate Scholarship. Value: $8500.

Casey, Joanna
Forthcoming The Prehistory of West Africa from the Pleistocene to the Mid-Holocene. Under the Canopy: Rainforest Hunter-Gatherers in Prehistory. Edited by Julio Mercader. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

Hawkins, A. L., J. L. Casey, L. A. Pavlish and R. G. V. Hancock
2001 A Comparison of Siliceous Mudstone Artefacts from the Birimi Site (Ghana) Using Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis. A Collection of Papers Presented at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association. Edited by Jean-Luc Pilon, Michael Kirby and Caroline Thérialt. Ontario Archaeological Society and the Canadian Archaeological Association, pp. 278-291.

Hawkins, A., J. Casey, L. Pavlish and R. Handcock
2002 Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis of Siliceous Mudstone from the Birimi Site, Northeastern Ghana. Proceedings of the 31^st International Symposium on Archaeometry, Budapest, Hungary Vol. II. Edited by Erzebet Jerem and Datalin T. Biro. BAR International. Oxford: Archaeopress.

D’Andrea, A.C., M. Klee and J. Casey
2001 Archaeobotanical Evidence for Pearl Millet (Pennisetum glaucum) in Sub-Saharan West Africa. Antiquity 75:341-348.

Casey, Joanna

2000 The Kintampo Complex: The Late Holocene on the Gambaga Escarpment, Northern Ghana. Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology No. 51; BAR International No. 906. Oxford: Archaeopress.

Casey, Joanna
1998 The Ecology of Food Production in West Africa. Transformations in Africa. Edited by Graham Connah. Pp. 46-70. London: University of Leicester Press.

Casey, Joanna
1998 Just a Formality: The Presence of Fancy Projectiles in a Basic Tool Assemblage. Gender in African Prehistory. Edited by Susan Kent. Pp. 77-95. Walnut Creek: Altimira

Casey, Joanna and Roland Sawatzky
1997 Obituary for Boyasi Hill: A Kintampo Site in Ashanti Region, Ghana. Nyame Akuma 46:34-36.

Casey, Joanna, Roland Sawatzky, Dorothy I. Godfrey-Smith, Nicole Quickert, A. Catherine D’Andrea, Michèle Wollstonecroft and Alicia Hawkins
1997 Report of Investigations at the Birimi Site in Northern Ghana. Nyame Akuma 48:32-38.

Hawkins, A., J. Casey, D. Godfrey-Smith and A.C. D’Andrea
1996 A Middle Stone Age Component at the Birimi Site, Northern Region, Ghana. Nyame Akuma 46:34-36.

Casey, Joanna
1993 Geometric Microliths from Northern Ghana and Notes for a Tentative Morphological Typology. Nyame Akuma 40:23-29.

Casey, Joanna
1992 The Kintampo Complex in Northern Ghana. Archaeology in Ghana 3:18-23.

Casey, Joanna
1991 One Man No Chop: Gender Roles in the Domestic Economy in Northern Ghana. The Archaeology of Gender. Edited by D. Walde and N. willows. Pp. 137-143. Calgary: University of Calgary Press.

Casey, Joanna
1991 Late Holocene Human Ecology on the Gambaga Escarpment, Northern Ghana, West Africa. Antaeus II: 68-69.

Lazenby, R.A. and J.L.Casey
1989 The Human Skeletal Remains from DBZ, Daboya, Northern Region, Ghana. The Archaeology of Gonja, Ghana. Edited by P.L. Shinnie and F.J. Kense. Pp. 333-362. Calgary: University of Calgary Press.

Pavlish, L.A., R.G.V. Hancock and J.L. Casey
1989 INAA of Chert and Quartzite Materials from Archaeological and Potential Quarry Outcrops in Northern Ghana. University of Toronto SLOWPOKE Reactor Facility Annual Report. P. 44.

Casey, Joanna
1987 Aboriginal and Modern Mussel Assemblages from the Lower Cumberland River. Southeastern Archaeology 6(2): 114-125.

Hayden, B., M. Deal, A. Cannon and J. Casey
1986 Ecological Determinants of Women’s Status Among Hunter-Gatherers. Human Evolution 1(5):449-474.

Papers Presented

2002 Macrolithic and Microlithic Stone Tools from the Birimi Site: A Case for the Middle Stone Age in Northern Ghana. Presented at the Society of Africanist Archaeologists Conference, Tucson, Arizona. 18-21 May. (With Alicia Hawkins)

2001 The Kintampo Complex and the Origins of Food Production in Sub-Sahelian West Africa. Panafrican Congress of Prehistory and Related Disciplines. Bamako, Mali. 7-12 February 2001. (With A.C. D’Andrea)

2000 The Value of Stone During the Kintampo Complex in Northern Ghana, West Africa. The Society of Africanist Archaeologists conference, Cambridge, England. 12-15 July.

2000 Kintampo Subsistence: Archaeobotanical Evidence from Northern Ghana. The Society of Africanist Archaeologists conference, Cambridge, England. 12-15 July. (With A.C. D’Andrea and M. Klee).

2000 A Comparison of Siliceous Mudstone Artifacts from the Birimi Site (Ghana) Using Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis. Canadian Archaeological Association conference. Ottawa, Ontario, 3-7 May. (With A. Hawkins, L.A.Pavlish and R.G.V. Hancock).

1999 Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis of Siliceous Mudstone from the Birimi Site, Northeastern Ghana, West Africa. 31^st International Symposium on Archaeometry, Budapest, Hungary. 17 April – 1 May. (With A. Hawkins, L.A.Pavlish and R.G.V. Hancock).

1998 Wild Resource s in the Domestic Economy in Northern Ghana. Society of Ethnobiology conference, Oaxaca, Mexico 12-14 March.

1998 Report of Investigations at the Birimi Site: Multidisciplinary Research at a Multi-Component Site in Northern Ghana. Society of Africanist Archaeologists Conference, Syracuse, New York 21-24 May.

1998 A Middle Stone Age Component at the Birimi Site, Northeastern Ghana, West Africa. Society of Africanist Archaeologists Conference, Syracuse, New York, 21-24 May.

1998 Visualizing Whole Technologies. Technology: Material, Thought and Action Conference in Honour of Maxine Kleindienst and Bruce Schroeder. Toronto, Canada, 16-17 May.

1998 Three Stories about Women and Power in Northern Ghana. Women’s Studies Conference, University of South Carolina, 27-28 February.

1997 First Evidence for Multiple Phases of the Kintampo Complex: Thermoluminescence Chronology of Burnt House Daub at Birimi, Ghana. Geological Sciences Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, 20-24 October. (With D.I.Godfrey-Smith and R. Sawatzky).

1997 Direct Chronologies for Early Iron Smelting on the Gambagha Escarpment, Ghana. International Symposium on Metals in Antiquity. Harvard University, 10-13 September. (With D.I. Godfrey-Smith).

1997 Wild Trees and Human Relationships in Northern Ghana. Society of Ethnobiology Conference. Athens, Georgia, 26-29 March.

1995 The Ecology of Food Production in West Africa and its Implications for the Origins of Agriculture. Africa: Precolonial Achievements. Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. 10-12 July.

1995 The Use of Wild Resources in the Agricultural Economy in Northern Ghana. Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 3 August.

1995 Kintampo and Mamprusi: The Past and Present Use of the Environment in Northern Ghana. Toronto Chapter of the Ontario Archaeological Society 15 March.

1992 It Ain’t The Meat, it’s the Motion: Subsistence and Mobility During the Late Holocene in Northeastern Ghana, West Africa. Canadian Archaeology Association Conference. London, Ontario, April.

1992 The Kintampo Complex in Northern Ghana: The Analysis of an Expedient LSA Lithic Assemblage. Society of Africanist Archaeologists. Los Angeles, California, 26-29 March.

1991 Factors Controlling the Use of Indigenous Resources in Northeastern Ghana, West Africa. Chacmool Conference, Calgary, Alberta, 7-10 November.

1989 One Man No Chop: Gender Roles in the Domestic Economy in Northeastern Ghana. Chacmool Conference, Calgary, Alberta, 9-11 November.

1989 Women, Small Business and Independence: The Changing Economic Relationship Between Men and Women in Northern Ghana. Forum for African Students in Toronto. 7 October.

1982 Aboriginal and Modern Mussel Assemblages on the Lower Tennessee, Cumberland and Ohio Rivers. Southeast Archaeology Conference, Memphis, Tennessee, 29-31 October.

1998 Ethnoarchaeology and the Domestic Economy. Society of Ethnobiology Conference, Oaxaca, Mexico. 12 March.

1992 Expedient Technologies. Canadian Archaeology Association Conference, London, Ontario, Canada. 10 April.

1988 Ecological and Social Approaches to Interpreting Material Culture: Recent Research in Africa. Canadian Archaeology Association Conference, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. 13 May.

The Late Stone Age Global Village in West Africa. African Studies Seminar, Yale University 29 January 2002

The Late Stone Age in West Africa. Appalacian State University, Boone, North Carolina. 12 October 1999.

Archaeological Investigations at the Birimi Site, Northern Ghana, West Africa. Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina. 14 October 1997.

Doing Archaeology in West Africa. Alleluia Middle School. Augusta, Georgia. November 1997.

The Use Of Wild Resources In The Agricultural Economy In Northern Ghana. Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Australia. 3 August 1995

What is an Archaeologist? Montroyal Elementry School, North Vancouver, BC Canada. 26 April 1995.

Kintampo and Mamprusi: The Past And Present Use Of The Environment In Northern Ghana. Ontario Archaeological Society, Toronto Chapter. 15 March 1995. Canberra Archaeological Society 21 June 1995.

The Status Of Women In Northern Ghana. York University, Toronto, Ontario. 11 February 1990.

Archaeology and Ethnography in West Africa. Ontario Archaeological Society, Ottawa Chapter. 11 October 1989.

1996 Report Of Investigations At The Birimi Site, Northern Region, Ghana. On file with the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board.

1994 Faunal Remains From The Bethune-Thompson House, Southern Ontario. Report on file with the Ontario Heritage Foundation.

1993 Faunal Remains From The Mcmartin House, Southern Ontario. Report on file with the Ontario Heritage Foundation.

1989 The Use Of Indigenous Resources In Northern Ghana. Report on file with Dr. Orracca-Tetteh, Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Ghana, Legon-Accra, Ghana.

1989 Report On Fieldwork On The Use Of Indigenous Resources Undertaken In Gambaga, Northern Ghana. Report on file with the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa.

1988 Report On The Molluscan Remains From The Wickliffe Mounds Archaeological Site, Kentucky. Report on File at the Wickliffe Mounds Site, Wickliffe, Kentucky.

1987 Faunal Remains From The Winking Bull Site (AiHa 20), Southern Ontario, Canada. Report on File,Howard Savage Faunal Lab, University of Toronto.

Master of Arts, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina

Thesis Director:

1998 Roland Sawatzky, Kintampo Architecture

1999 Rachele Burruss, Searching for Children: The Ethnoarchaeology of Children and their Material Culture in Northern Ghana.

Thesis Reader:

2001 Susan Langley, Marginalization and Response: The Lingering Effects of the Kariba Dam Project.

2000 Sarah Morby, Capitalism and Labor Exhibited in the Spatial Layout of South Carolina’s Early Shipyards: A Spatial Analysis of Pritchard’s Shipyard.

2000 Neil Norman, Through the Medium of the Vessel: an Ethnoarchaeological Investigation of Ritual Earthenwares in Southern Benin.

1999 Kerrie Barile, Causes and Creations: Nineteenth Century Landscape and Architectural Changes at Middleburg Plantation, Berkeley County, South Carolina.

1999 Ingrid Christiensen, "It’s So Much More Than Just a Slogan or a Mark on my Hand:" The Straight Edge Music Subculture.

1998 Suzanne Coyle, Cranial Non-Metric Traits at Heirakonpolis, Egypt.

1998 Susan Evans Eargle, Mortuary Data as Indicators of Social Organization at the Incinerator Site (33My57).

1997 Rachel Campo, What’s in a Kitchen?: The Early Formative "Kitchen", Food, Production and Women at Yutopian, Peru.

Senior Thesis

2000 Claudia Carriere: Terra Cotta Cigars – A Commitment to Agriculture?

2001- present Graduate Director, Department of Anthropology, USC

2001 Organizer, Comprehensive Exams, Anthropology, USC

2000-2002 Selection Committee South Carolina State Review Board for the National Register of Historic Places.

2000 – present Treasurer, Society of Africanist Archaeologists

2000 Faculty selection committee for USC Film Library’s NEH grant

2000 Department Liason, Women’s History Month, USC

1999 Organizer, Comprehensive Exams, Anthropology, USC

1999 Search Committee, Department Chair, Anthropology, USC

1999 Search Committee, Bioanthropology faculty position, Anthropology, USC

1998-2000 Advisor, Beaver Creek Pee Dee Tribal Council

1998 Judge, Student Paper Competition. Southern Studies Conference

1997 Search Committee, Archaeology faculty position, Anthropology, USC

1996-2000 Faculty Advisor, Anthropology Student Association, USC

1996 Evaluator, Fulbright Fellowship Program

1995 Committee to revise Tenure and Promotion Guidelines, Anthropology, USC.

American Anthropological Association:
Archaeology Division
Visual Anthropology Division
Culture and Agriculture
Feminist Anthropology
Africanist Anthropologists

Society of Africanist Archaeologists

Ghana Studies Council

Society of Ethnobiology

Sigma Xi