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Julia Haines

Julia Haines

Contact Information:

jjhaines@syr.edu

315.443.4995

310C Maxwell Hall

Julia Haines

Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department


Courses

  • 2025 Spring
    • ANT/HST 145 Archaeology of and in the Modern World
  • 2024 Fall
    • ANT 300 Selected Topics - Arch of Disease and Healing

Highest degree earned

Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2019

Bio

Julia Haines joins the Anthropology Department as a tenure-track assistant professor. She will teach classes on historical archaeology and archaeological case studies.

Prior to joining Syracuse University, Haines was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow with the Society for Humanities and Department of Anthropology at Cornell University. During her time as a fellow, she worked on publishing her research on the archaeology of indentured South Asian laborers who lived and worked on the Bras d’Eau Sugar estate in Mauritius during the 19th century.

Haines’s research focuses on the intersection of inequality, community identities and landscapes. She examines the historical changes to the identities and political ecologies of enslaved and indentured plantation laborers and communities on Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean, from the 18th through the mid-20th centuries. Her most recent publication, “Archaeology in the Fourth Dimension: Studying Landscapes with Multitemporal PlanetScope Satellite Data,” was published in the Journal of Archaeological Method Theory.

Haines earned a Ph.D. in 2019 and an M.A. in 2014, both from the University of Virginia, and a B.A. in 2009 from the University of Chicago.

Research Grant Awards and Projects

Sponsored by Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship.

Sponsored by Fulbright Institute of International Education Student Fellowship.

Sponsored by National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement.

Sponsored by Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Selected Publications

Presentations and Events

89th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in session “Islands Around Africa : State-of-the-Art and Future Directions.” , "Co-constitutive Peripheries: Settlement Landscapes of Power and Memory on Mauritius" (2024)

Joint meeting of the American Anthropological Association/Canadian Anthropology Society, in session “Archiving Bodies, Bodying Archives.” , "Indentured Movements through the Accumulated Archive and Embodied Archaeology" (2023)

26th Biennial Meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, in session “Global Processes through Local Lenses: Perspectives from the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Coasts”, "Rethinking Capitalist Consumption with Global Artifacts: Ceramic at a Mauritian Sugar Plantation" (2023)

88th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, in session “Adventures in Spatial Archaeology: A Survey of High-Resolution Measurement & Analysis Techniques.” , Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies, University of Arkansas , "“Landscapes of Stone in Mauritius and Zanzibar”" (2023)

ches to Diaspora and Identity Formation in Indian Ocean Africa"65th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, session: "Interdisciplinary Approa, "Negotiating Purity and the Plantation Political Ecology in Colonial Mauritius" (2022)

University of Primorska, Department of Anthropology and Heritage, "Community and Public Archaeology in Mauritius" (2021)

86th Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, session: "An Ocean of Connections: Tangible and Intangible Exchanges in the IOW", "Global, Regional, and Local Ceramic in Mauritius" (2021)

Cornell University, Department of Anthropology, "Plantation Archaeology and the South Asian Labor Diaspora in Mauritius" (2021)

53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, session: "Historical Archaeology in the Indian Ocean", "Between Slavery and Indenture: Spatial Practices, Materiality, and the Memory of Coercion on a Sugar Plantations in Mauritius" (2020)