J. Daniel Rogers

Chairman
Curator of Archaeology

Phone:  202-633-1895
Fax:  202-357-2208
E-mail Address:  rogersd[at]si.edu

Mailing Address:
Department of Anthropology, NHB 112
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
PO Box 37012
Washington, DC 20013-7012

Courier Delivery Address:
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History
10th and Constitution Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20560-0112

• Education:
  Ph.D.1987, University of Chicago (Anthropology)
  Dissertation: Culture Contact and Material Change: Arikara and Euro-American Interactions in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
  
  M.A.1982, University of Oklahoma (Anthropology)
  Thesis:  Social Ranking and Change in the Harlan and Spiro Phases of Eastern Oklahoma
  
  B.A.  1976, University of Oklahoma (Anthropology, minor in Zoology)
  
  Major Research Interests:
  Analysis and interpretation of patterns of social change using ethnohistorical and archaeological methodologies; theories of meaning and the role of the individual; the rise of states and empires with emphasis on Central Asia; comparative analysis of culture contact in the North America Great Plains, the Southeastern United States, the Caribbean, and Mexico; technical analysis of ceramics.
  
  Selected Publications:
  Rogers, J. Daniel
  2007 The Contingencies of State Formation in Eastern Inner Asia. Asian Perspectives 46(2): 249-274.

Rogers, J. Daniel, Erdenebat Ulambayar, and Mathew Gallon
2005  Urban Centres and the Emergence of Empires in Eastern Inner Asia. Antiquity 79:801-818.

Redman, Charles L., Paul Fish, Steven James, and J. Daniel Rogers (editors)
2004 The Archaeology of Global Change: The Impact of Humans on Their Environment.
Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.

Rogers, J. Daniel
2004  Archaeology and the Interpretation of Colonial Encounters. In The Archaeology of Colonies, edited by Gil Stein.  School of American Research Press, Santa Fe.

Rogers, J. Daniel
1999  Culture Contact and the Analysis of Change in Artifact Assemblages: The Arikara Case.  Cuadernos de Arqueología Mediterránea 3:83-95.

Rogers, J. Daniel
1995 The Archaeological Analysis of Domestic Organization. In Mississippian Communities and Households, edited by J. Daniel Rogers and Bruce D. Smith. pp.7-31. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

Rogers, J. Daniel and Samuel M. Wilson (editors)
1993 Ethnohistory and Archaeology: Approaches to Postcontact Change in the Americas.  Plenum Press, New York.

Rogers, J. Daniel
1990  Objects of Change: The Archaeology and History of Arikara Contact with Europeans. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.

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