Uzi Baram
Associate Professor, Anthropology
M.A., Ph.D. University of Massachusetts at Amherst
B.A. State University of New York at Binghamton
Uzi Baram is an anthropologist who teaches a wide range of archaeology and cultural anthropology courses. As a Historical Archaeologist, Professor Baram's principle area of research has been the eastern Mediterranean, where he has studied the material culture, cultural landscapes, Western travel accounts, and social identities of the Ottoman Empire. Current research on the Middle East examines the intersection of archaeology and heritage tourism. Baram has edited and contributed to A Historical Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire: Breaking New Ground (2000), Marketing Heritage: Archaeology and the Consumption of the Past (2004), and Between Art and Artifact: Approaches to Visual Representation in Historical Archaeology (2007) among other publications.
Recently Professor Baram has been contributing to a locally-based public anthropology program called Looking for Angola which employs the dual lens of archaeology and ethnography to reveal a `history from below' for a maroon community in the context of the anthropological critiques of racism and the histories of southwestern Florida.
Recently Professor Baram has been contributing to a locally-based public anthropology program called Looking for Angola which employs the dual lens of archaeology and ethnography to reveal a `history from below' for a maroon community in the context of the anthropological critiques of racism and the histories of southwestern Florida.
Selected Publications
2009 "Learning Service and Civic Engagement: A Historic Cemetery as a Site for Grappling with Community, Politics, and Commemoration" In Archaeology and Community Service Learning, edited by Michael Nassaney and Mary Ann Levine, pages 110-121. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
2008 "A Haven from Slavery on Florida's Gulf Coast: Looking for Evidence of Angola on the Manatee River" African Diaspora Archaeology Network Newsletter June 2008. http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/news0608/news0608.html.
2008 "Finding Lost Settlements with Multi-channel 3D GPR: Examples from North Carolina and Florida" third author with Ralf Birken and Eric Klingehlofer. FastTIMES: News for the Near-surface Geophysical Sciences 13(3):42-50.
2007 Between Art and Artifact. Edited by Diana DiPaolo Loren and Uzi Baram. Thematic issue of Historical Archaeology Volume 41, number 1.
2007 "Appropriating the Past: Heritage, Tourism, and Archaeology in Israel" In Selective Remembrances: Archaeology in the Construction, Commemoration, and Consecration of National Pasts, edited by P.L. Kohl, M Kozelsky, and N. Ben-Yehuda, pages 299-325. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
2007 "Tourism and Archaeology" In Encyclopedia of Archaeology, edited by Deborah M. Pearsall, Volume 3, pages 2131-2134. Academic Press, New York.
2007 "Filling a Gap in the Chronology: What Archaeology is Revealing about the Ottoman Past in Israel" In Reapproaching Borders: New Perspectives on the Study of Israel-Palestine, edited by Sandy Sufian and Mark LeVine, pages 15-40. Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham.
2006 "Global Markets, Local Practice: Ottoman-period Clay Pipes and Smoking Paraphernalia from the Red Sea Shipwreck at Sadana Island, Egypt" Second author with Cheryl Ward. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 10(2):135-158
2004 Marketing Heritage: Archaeology and the Consumption of the Past. Edit by Yorke Rowan and Uzi Baram. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California.
2002 "Seeing Differences: Travellers to Ottoman Palestine and Accounts of Diversity" Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing 3(2):29-49.
2002 "The Development of Historical Archaeology in Israel: An Overview and Prospects" Historical Archaeology 36(4):12-29
2000 A Historical Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire: Breaking New Ground. Edited by Uzi Baram and Lynda Carroll. Plenum/Kluwer Academic Press, New York. Translated into Turkish in 2004 as Osmanlı Arkeolojisi, by Bilgi Altinok. Kitap Yayinevi, Istanbul.
1999 "Clay Tobacco Pipes and Coffee Cup Sherds in the Archaeology of the Middle East: Artifacts of Social Tensions from the Ottoman Past" International Journal of Historical Archaeology 3(3):137-151.
2008 "A Haven from Slavery on Florida's Gulf Coast: Looking for Evidence of Angola on the Manatee River" African Diaspora Archaeology Network Newsletter June 2008. http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/news0608/news0608.html.
2008 "Finding Lost Settlements with Multi-channel 3D GPR: Examples from North Carolina and Florida" third author with Ralf Birken and Eric Klingehlofer. FastTIMES: News for the Near-surface Geophysical Sciences 13(3):42-50.
2007 Between Art and Artifact. Edited by Diana DiPaolo Loren and Uzi Baram. Thematic issue of Historical Archaeology Volume 41, number 1.
2007 "Appropriating the Past: Heritage, Tourism, and Archaeology in Israel" In Selective Remembrances: Archaeology in the Construction, Commemoration, and Consecration of National Pasts, edited by P.L. Kohl, M Kozelsky, and N. Ben-Yehuda, pages 299-325. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
2007 "Tourism and Archaeology" In Encyclopedia of Archaeology, edited by Deborah M. Pearsall, Volume 3, pages 2131-2134. Academic Press, New York.
2007 "Filling a Gap in the Chronology: What Archaeology is Revealing about the Ottoman Past in Israel" In Reapproaching Borders: New Perspectives on the Study of Israel-Palestine, edited by Sandy Sufian and Mark LeVine, pages 15-40. Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham.
2006 "Global Markets, Local Practice: Ottoman-period Clay Pipes and Smoking Paraphernalia from the Red Sea Shipwreck at Sadana Island, Egypt" Second author with Cheryl Ward. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 10(2):135-158
2004 Marketing Heritage: Archaeology and the Consumption of the Past. Edit by Yorke Rowan and Uzi Baram. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California.
2002 "Seeing Differences: Travellers to Ottoman Palestine and Accounts of Diversity" Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing 3(2):29-49.
2002 "The Development of Historical Archaeology in Israel: An Overview and Prospects" Historical Archaeology 36(4):12-29
2000 A Historical Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire: Breaking New Ground. Edited by Uzi Baram and Lynda Carroll. Plenum/Kluwer Academic Press, New York. Translated into Turkish in 2004 as Osmanlı Arkeolojisi, by Bilgi Altinok. Kitap Yayinevi, Istanbul.
1999 "Clay Tobacco Pipes and Coffee Cup Sherds in the Archaeology of the Middle East: Artifacts of Social Tensions from the Ottoman Past" International Journal of Historical Archaeology 3(3):137-151.
