Dr. M. Dores Cruz
E-Mail: Dr. M. Dores Cruz
Education
Areas of theoretical and field research: historical anthropology, landscape studies, African anthropology, comparative colonialism, ethnoarchaeology, ethnohistory, archaeology of the recent past
| 2003 | Ph.D., Binghamton University (SUNY). Dissertation: Shaping Quotidian Worlds: Ceramic Production and Consumption in Banda, Ghana c. 1780-1994. Fields of study: Historical Anthropology, Ethnohistory, Ethnoarcharchaeology, Ceramics |
| 1994 | University of Porto (Portugal) MA. Thesis: Significado Social da Cerâmica Doméstica: fundamentos para uma classificação tipológica da cerâmica de Castelo Velho (Freixo de Numão). Fields of study: Portuguese Calcolithic, Ceramics, Specialization of Production |
| 1986 | University of Coimbra (Portugal) "Licenciatura" (B.A.) in History/ Archaeology |
Research Interests and Regional Focus
Research Interests
historical anthropology, landscape studies, memory, African anthropology, comparative colonialism and postcoloniality, identity, nationalism, time and temporality, material culture, archaeology of the recent past, museum studies and heritage
Regional Focus
Southern and West Africa, Mozambique, Portugal
Current Research Projects
2017-2018 | Memory in the cityscape: socialist and vernacular street names in Maputo. Collaborative project with Rogers Hansing, Dept. Geography, University Eduardo Mondlane/University of Bayreuth. |
2016-Present | “Terra de Heróis:” a landscape biography of Mandlakaze (Mozambique). A project on materialiy, temporal and landscape “collages.” (Book Project in progress) |
2009-Present | Colonial Landscapes in Portugal. |
2006-1018 | Museum of the Revolution (Maputo) and construction of national identity |
Previous Research Projects
2005-2006 | Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology (Macupulane, Mozambique). |
2005-2006 | Late Iron Age Enclosures in Mpumalanga (South Africa). |
2004-2006 | Mapungubwe Collections (Univ. Pretoria, South Africa). Repatriation Committee. |
2004 | Northern Pemba (Tanzania) Archaeological Project. |
2001-2003 | Thesaurus of Archaeological Ceramics. Portuguese Institute for Museums. |
1998 | The Slaughtering of the Pig (Penafiel, Portugal): gendered relations of production in Northern Portugal. With Ilidio B. Pereira. |
1994-2003 | Ceramic Production in the Banda Area, Ghana. Ethnoarchaeological project. |
1991-1993 | Analysis of domestic ceramic from Castelo Velho (Freixo de Numão, Portugal). |
1991 | Ceramic Production in Raposeiras (Molelos, Portugal). Ethnographic research. With António M. Silva and Teresa P. Carvalho. |
Professional Experience
| 2018 | Visiting Scholar, Research Center of Social and Cultural Studies, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz (April- May) |
| 2016-2017 | Fellow, Internationales Kolleg Morphomata, Universität zu Köln |
| 2016-2017 | Contributing faculty (Course developer), Master of Development Practice, Regis University |
| 2013-present | Researcher [“Professora Auxiliar Convidada”], Interdisciplinary Center for Evolution of Human Behavior, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal. Non-paid affiliation |
| 2009-2016 | Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology. Curator, Museum of Anthropology University of Denver |
| 2008-2009 | Visiting Professor of Anthropology, School of World Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University |
| 2007-2008 | Senior Researcher Associate, Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary |
| 2004-06 | Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Pretoria (South Africa) |
| 2003-04 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary |
| 2001-03 | Lecturer in the Africana Studies Department |
| 2001 | Lecturer. Cultural Resource Management. Câmara Municipal de Matosinhos (Portugal) |
| 1996-98 | Lecturer at Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Viseu, Portugal) |
| 1996 | Instructor of Record. Binghamton University |
| 1994 | Teaching Assistant. Binghamton University |
| 1989 | Instructor of Record at Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal) |
| 1987-90 | Assistant Curator. Anthropological Museum at the University of Coimbra |
Grants and Fellowships
2017 | Visiting Scholar, Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 948 Heroes - Heroizations – Heroisms, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität-Freiburg |
2016-2017 | Internationales Kolleg Morphomata, Universität zu Köln (Center for Advanced Studies) |
2012 & 2015 | Internationalization Grant |
2012 & 2014 | CCESL Grant for Community and Service Learning project |
2013 | Marsico Visiting Scholar grant for Exhibition on African Printed Cloth |
2010-2013 | Colorado State Historical Fund Research Grant |
2009-2013 | University of Denver Professional Development and Research Grants |
2010 & 2012 | Women Librarian Association |
2009 | Visiting Scholar, University of Leicester, Center for Historical Archaeology |
2007 | Gulbenkian Foundation and Luso-American Foundation |
2005-2006 | Archaeological Institute of America, Archaeology of Portugal Fellowship |
2005-2006 | University of Pretoria Reconstruction and Development Program |
2003 | Dissertation Fellowship. Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Min. Education, Portugal |
1998-2002 | Gulbenkian Foundation Fellowship |
1995 | Missouri University Research Reactor Grant and Sigma Xi Grant |
1991-1993 | Fulbright IIE Fellowship and Louise Woods Memorial Scholarship Fund |
1990-1991 | Junta Nacional de Investigação Científica e Tecnológica and Instituto Nacional de Investigação Científica. MA Scholarship. |
1984-1986 | IPPC (Portuguese Institute of Cultural Resources, archaeological research grant) |
Publications
Books and Book Projects
- In Progress. “Terra de Heróis:” a landscape biography of Mandlakaze (Mozambique)
- 2007 (with collaboration of V. Correia) Normas de Inventário de Cerâmicas Arqueológicas. Lisbon, Instituto de Museus e Conservação.
Articles and Book Chapters
- Review Fractured landscape and the politics of place: remembrance and memory in Nwadajahane (Southern Mozambique) [Museum Anthropology]
- Review Hegemonic culture in Mozambique: the case of the Museum of Revolution, Maputo [Current Anthropology]
- In prep Imagining Empire: materiality and the construction of Portuguese colonialism at Portugal dos Pequenitos, a children’s park in Coimbra. To be submitted to Journal of Public History (May 2018)
- 2014 The nature of culture: sites, ancestors and trees in the archaeology of Southern Mozambique. In The Archaeology of the Colonized and its Contributions to Global Archaeological Theory. Neil Ferris and Rodney Harrison (eds). Oxford Press: 123-149.
- 2014 Gendered Taskscapes: Food, Farming, and Craft Production in Banda, Ghana in the 18th-21st centuries (W/ Amanda Logan, Michigan Univ.). In Comparing Craft and Culinary Practice, a special issue of African Archaeological Review, 31: 203-231
- 2013 Black homesteading in the US. Oxford African American Studies Center.
- 2011 Pots are pots, not people: material culture and ethnic identity in the Banda area (Ghana), 19th and 20th centuries. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, Vol. 46 (3), Dec. 2011: 336-357
- 2009 “Portugal Gigante”: Nationalism, Motherland and Colonial Encounters in Portuguese School Textbooks. Habitus Revista [2007], Instituto Goiano de Pré-História e Antropologia, Universidade Católica de Goias, Brazil, 5 (2): 395-422.
- 2008 Ceramic Production, Consumption and Exchange in the Banda Area (Ghana). Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 27: 363-381. (With Ann Stahl et al.)
- 2006 Macupulane Revisited: ceramic production fifty years after Margot Dias. Conimbriga, 45:
377-395. - 1999 “Um Pai-Nosso e uma Avé Maria a Santo António pelos nossos bichinhos...”: o porco na economia doméstica de S.Martinho de Lagares (Penafiel). Mário Barroca (ed.), In Memoriam Carlos Alberto Ferreira de Almeida, Vol. 1, Porto, Faculdade de Letras: 265-278. (With Ilídio B. Pereira)
- 1997 Men and Women in a Market Economy: Gender and Production in West Central Ghana. In S. Kent (ed.), Gender in African Archaeology, Walnut Creek, Altamira Press: 205-226. (With Ann B. Stahl)
- 1997 O abandono das peças. Processos pós-deposicionais e distribuição cerâmica em povoados. In I. Fernandas e R.Teixeira (coord.), A Louça Preta em Portugal. Porto, CRAT: 121-123.
- 1995 Colecção Etnográfica. In Diamang: Estudo do Património Cultural da Ex-Companhia de Diamantes de Angola. Coimbra, Departamento de Antropologia: 29-97. (With M. R. Martins)
- 1992 Ritos e Ofícios. Algumas Notas para a Metalurgia do Ferro em Angola. Homenagem ao Professor Santos Junior, vol.2, Lisboa, IICT: 131-143.
- 1989 O Adorno Africano como Entidade Cultural. Coimbra, MLA. (With M.R. Martins)
- 1988 As Colecções do Museu e Laboratório Antropológico. Coimbra, MLA. (With M. R. Martins)
- 1988 Cestaria Tradicional em Africa. Coimbra, MLA. (With M.R. Martins)
- 1986 A Propósito de uma Inscrição Honorífica do Museu de Santarém. Arqueologia, 14: 115-121.
Degree supervision
Ph. D. Dissertations
- Sarah Neeley, Iliff School of Theology (2013- 2018)
- John Kwame River, Morgridge College of Education, University of Denver, 2013
- S. Krusemark, Morgridge College of Education, University of Denver, 2009-2010
Honors Theses
- Anna Arvidon (2015-16)
- Joie Ha (2014-2015)
- Tsion Goytom (2014-2015)
- Margaret Miller (2011-2012)
- C. Rossouw, Cindy Nelson, Adele Le Roux, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Pretoria, 2004-2005
- Delia DeLang and Hannly Coetze. Geography Department. University of Pretoria, 2005.
Master Theses
- Megan McCoy (2011-2015; Museum Studies)
- Rebekah Marsh (2014-2016; Socio-cultural anthropology)
- Kevin Ritt (2014-2016; Socio-cultural anthropology)
- Taylor Morrison (2013-2016; Socio-cultural Anthropology)
- Toyin Quichocho (2012-2016; Socio-cultural Anthropology)
- Angela Rueda (2012-2014; Museum Studies)
- Carly Santoro (2011-Winter 2014; Socio-cultural Anthropology)
- Jennifer Moon (2010-2016; Historical Archaeology)
- Dionisia Mathios (2012-2015; Museum Studies)
- Barbabara Guglieminotti (2011-Winter 2014; Socio-cultural Anthropology)
- Cornelia Frewn (2009-2012; Museum Studies)
- Mary Connell (2010-2013; Historical Archaeology)
- Mahshid Zandi (2009-2014; Socio-Cultural Anthropology)
- Robin Locke and Alison Rexroth, University of Denver, (2010)
- C. Kotzeen, N. Kruger and X. Anthonites (2006; Archaeology)
- Cindy Nelson (2006; Archaeology). Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Pretoria, 2004-2006
Independent Study and Research in Other Departments
- Sarah Neeley and Becky Chabot (Ph.D., Iliff School of Theology)
- Jesse Morgan (MA, Media, Film and Journalism Studies)
- Jessica Unger (John Nicholas Brown MA program in Public Humanities, Brown University)
- Eric deCampos (Joseph Korbel School of International Studies)
Teaching
Taught courses in areas of Socio-Cultural Anthropology, Archaeology, Museum and Heritage Studies, African Studies, Material Culture, Memory and Memorialization, Landscape Anthropology, and Ethnoarchaeology.
- Places, Monuments, Landscapes: postcolonialism and the politics of space in nation building
- Context of Material Culture (The Social Life of Things)
- Critical Perspectives in Museum Studies and Heritage
- Landscape Anthropology
- Anthropology of Colonialism
- Anthropological Theory and Practice
- Introduction to Anthropology (four-fields)
- Pioneers of Anthropology (Women in Anthropology)
- Ethnographic methods
- Gender in Cross-Cultural perspectives
- Dynamics of Culture Change (Colonialism)
- Peoples and Cultures of Africa
- Gender and Power in Africa
- Introduction to Africana Studies
- Africa: peoples and cultures
- Memory and Memorialization
- Ethnoarchaeology and Ethnohistory