O'Gorman, Jodie
(Ph.D. University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, 1996)
Associate Professor
Assistant Curator of Great Lakes Archaeology, MSU Museum

354 Baker Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824 USA
Phone: 517-353-7861
Fax: 517-432-5935
ogorman@msu.edu

Archaeology, gender, mortuary analysis, ARM; North America, Great Lakes

JODIE O'GORMAN conducts archaeological research in the mid-continental U.S. with a focus on late prehistory in the Great Lakes region. Her primary research interests focus on Upper Mississippian communities, their adaptations and interactions. After authoring several published reports on a complex of Oneota sites in western Wisconsin in the 1990s, she drew on this material for her dissertation work that examined social organization from a gendered perspective on domestic economics and mortuary patterns. Dr. O’Gorman’s current research re-examines long-held notions about agriculture and interactions of Upper Mississippian and Woodland tradition communities of the western Great Lakes. She is also interested in multi-ethnic communities from the late prehistoric period through the nineteenth century. In Michigan this work has focused on field and collections research on the multi-ethnic communities associated with the Marquette Mission site, an early fur trade site in the Upper Great Lakes, and the Moccasin Bluff site, an Upper Mississippian site. Dr. O’Gorman’s interests in gender issues, community archaeology, and museum anthropology are entwined with her research.   Dr. O’Gorman teaches archaeology field and lab courses, North American and Great Lakes archaeology courses, and museum studies courses.  She is affiliated with the American Indian Studies Program, and serves on the Advisory Committee of the Museum Studies Program, and various MSU Museum committees.

In 2005, Dr. O’Gorman was part of a team of anthropology faculty that participated in the Saints’ Rest Project, a community archaeology project that was part of the MSU Sesquicentennial celebration.

A few recent publications include:

• (Co-editor and Contributer) Never Anything So Solemn: An Archeological, Biological, and Historical Investigation of the Nineteenth Century Grafton Cemetery. Kampsville Studies in Archeology and History No. 3, Kampsville, Illinois. 2000.
• Life, Death, and the Longhouse: A Gendered View of Oneota Social Organization. In, Engendering Archaeological Mortuary Analysis. Edited by Bettina Arnold and Nancy Wicker, Pp. 23-49. Gender and Archaeology Series, AltaMira. 2001.
• Assessing Oneota Diet and Health: A Community and Lifeway Perspective. By Ryan M. Tubbs and Jodie O’Gorman. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 30:119-163. 2005.
• (Editor) Middle Woodland Archaeology of the C. House Site. Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Reports No. 20, Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program. Illinois Department of Transportation and Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana. 2005.
• The Myth of Moccasin Bluff – Rethinking the Potawatomi Pattern. Ethnohistory, In Press (accepted for publication 10/05). 2006.
• Before Removal: An Archaeological Perspective on the Southern Lake Michigan Basin [Jodie A. O’Gorman and William A. Lovis]. In The Potawatomi Removal, Special Issue Guest Edited by Mark Schurr. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 31(1).  In Press  (accepted for publication 11/05). 2006.
• Rehabilitating Old Archaeology Collections and Preventing the De-contextualization of New Collections with GIS. Collections 3(1). In Press  (accepted for publication 12/05). 2006.

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