Mathew Lobiondo

Graduate Student
mvlobiondo@umail.ucsb.edu

Specialization: 

  • Culture Contact                                                                       
  • Identity                                                                                                      
  • Ethnogenesis                                        
  • Coalescence

Education: 

B.A. University of Vermont (2013)

M.A. Monmouth University (2017)

Bio: 

I am a North American archaeologist, interested in culture contact, specifically identity construction and maintenance, as well as ethnogenesis and coalescence.

Research: 

My research interests include Native American Studies, Culture Contact, Household Archaeology, Social Organization, Political Economy, Historical Archaeology, Colonialism, Northeastern United States, Southeastern and Eastern United States, and Mission Archaeology.

 

Projects: 

 My M.A. research focused primarily on the agency and identity of inhabitants of a late 17th c. Mohawk village and the effects of coalescence and ethnogenesis.

Publications: 

2018  A Problematic Mississippian Pipe from the William Vaux Collection. MidContinental Journal of Archaeology. (coauthored with Richard Veit)