J. Daniel Rogers

Professorial Lecturer in Anthropology
Chair, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History
E-mail rogersd@si.edu
Office: National Museum of Natural History, room 313 / (202) 633-1895

Dr. Rogers is an archaeologist and ethnohistorian. His particular interests are the analysis of social change using ethnohistorical and archaeological methods; theories of meaning and the role of the individual; the rise of states and empires and the creation of colonies in Central Asia; culture contact in North America and the Caribbean; and ceramic analysis.

Research

Current projects include the study of state formation in Inner Asia.

Selected Publications

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Books

1995	Rogers, D., and B. Smith, eds. Mississippian Communities and Households. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
1993	Rogers, D., and S.M. Wilson, eds. Ethnohistory and Archaeology: Approaches to Postcontact Change in the Americas. New York: Plenum Press.

Articles and Book Chapters

2009	Rogers, D. "The Harlan site." In F. McManamon et al., eds. Archaeology in America: An Encyclopedia p. 322-323. Santa Barbara: Greenwood Publishing.
2009	Rogers, D. "The Spiro site." In F. McManamon et al., eds. Archaeology in America: An Encyclopedia p. 324-329. Santa Barbara: Greenwood Publishing.
2006	Rogers, D. "Chronology and the demise of chiefdoms: Eastern Oklahoma in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries," Southeastern Archaeology 25(1):20-28.
2005	Rogers, D., E. Ulambayar, and M. Gallon. "Urban centers and the emergence of empires in eastern Inner Asia," Antiquity 79:1-18, 2005.
2005	Rogers, D., "Archaeology and the interpretation of colonial encounters." In G. Stein, eds., The Archaeology of Colonial Encounters: Comparative Perspectives. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 2005.

Course Taught

Anth 231: Museums and the Public: Exhibiting Culture

Education

Ph.D. 1989, University of Pennsylvania
M.A. 1982, University of Oklahoma
B.A. 1976, University of Oklahoma