Tufts University
School of Arts and Sciences
Braker Hall Medford, MA 02155
Craig.cipolla@tufts.edu
Profile
Craig N. Cipolla is Mellon Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University. Before moving to Massachusetts, he was Curator and Vettoretto Chair of North American Archaeology at the Royal Ontario Museum and Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Author of Becoming Brothertown, Archaeological Theory in the New Millennium (Harris, Routledge), Archaeological Theory in Dialogue (with Crellin, Montgomery, Harris, and Moore, Routledge), and Archaeology for Today and Tomorrow (Crellin and Harris) his research interests include collaborative Indigenous archaeology, historical archaeology, and archaeological theory. He currently co-directs the Mohegan Archaeological Field School in Collaboration with the Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut.
Selected Publications
Cipolla, Craig N., James Quinn, and Jay Levy (2024) “An Acre of Land to Plant or a Stick. of Wood to Make a Fence or Fire”: An Archaeology of Mohegan Allotment. American Antiquity, DOI:10.1017/aaq.2024.37.
Cipolla, Craig N. (2019) “Taming the Ontological Wolves: Learning from Iroquoian Effigy Objects“. American Anthologist 121(3):613-627.
Cipolla, Craig N. (2018) “Earth Flows and Lively Stone: What Difference Does ‘Vibrant Matter Make’?” Archaeological Dialogues 25(1):49-70.
Harris, Olivier, and Craig N. Cipolla (2017) “Archaeological Theory in the New Millennium: Introducing Current Perspectives“. Routledge. [Korean translation released, summer 2019].
Cipolla, Craig N, (2013) “Becoming Brothertown: Native American Ethnogenesis and Endurance in the Modern World”. Archaeology of Colonialism in Native North America Series, University of Arizona Press.