Week 1

• Cipolla, Craig N. “Native American Historical Archaeology and the Trope of Authenticity.” Historical Archaeology 47, no. 3 (2013): 12–22.
• Mullins, Paul R. 2013. “Race and Prosaic Materiality: The Archaeology of Contemporary Urban Space and the Invisible Colour Line.” In The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World, edited by Paul Graves-Brown, Rodney Harrison and Angela Piccini, 508-521. Oxford University Press: Oxford. 

Week 2

• González‐Ruibal, Alfredo. “Time to Destroy: An Archaeology of Supermodernity.” Current Anthropology 49, no. 2 (2008): 247–79. https://doi.org/10.1086/526099.
• Harrison, Rodney. “Exorcising the ‘Plague of Fantasies’: Mass Media and Archaeology’s Role in the Present; or, Why We Need an Archaeology of ‘Now.’” World Archaeology 42, no. 3 (2010): 328–40.
• Smith, Monica L. “The Archaeology of Urban Landscapes.” Annual Review of Anthropology. 43 (2014): 307–23.

Week 3

• Kent, Robert B., and Augusto F. Gandia-Ojeda. “The Puerto Rican Yard-Complex of Lorain, Ohio.” Yearbook. Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers 25 (1999): 45–60.
• O’Donnell, K. A. “Good Girls Gone Bad: The Consumption of Fetish Fashion and the Sexual Empowerment of Women.” Advances in Consumer Research. 26 (1999): 184.
• Pearson, Marlys, and Paul R. Mullins. “Domesticating Barbie: An Archaeology of Barbie Material Culture and Domestic Ideology.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology 3, no. 4 (1999): 225–59.

Week 4

• Foucault, Michel. “‘Panopticism’ from ‘Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison.’” Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts 2, no. 1 (2008): 1–12.
• Leone, Mark P. “A Historical Archaeology of Capitalism.” American Anthropologist 97, no. 2 (1995): 251–68.

Week 5

• Allen, Michael. 2016. “What Historic Preservation Can Learn from Ferguson.” In Bending the Future, edited by Max Page and Marla Miller, 44-48. University of Massachusetts Press: Amherst.
• Kuranda, Kathryn M. 2011. “Studying the Built Environment.” In A Companion to Cultural Resource Management, edited by Tom King, 13-28. Wiley-Blackwell: Malden, Ma.

Week 6

• Broussard, Meredith. 2019. “Why Paper Maps Still Matter in the Digital Age.” CityLab. 
• De Nardi, Sarah. 2014. “Senses of Place, Senses of the Past: Making Experiential Maps as Part of Community Heritage Fieldwork.” Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage 1(1): 5-22.

Week 7

• Linn, Meredith B. “Elixir of Emigration: Soda Water and the Making of Irish Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City.” Histarch Historical Archaeology 44, no. 4 (2010): 69–109.
• Mullins, Paul R., and Lewis C. Jones. “Archaeologies of Race and Urban Poverty: The Politics of Slumming, Engagement, and the Color Line.” Historical Archaeology 45, no. 1 (2011): 33–50.
• Leone, Mark P. “African America (Chapter 7).” In The Archaeology of Liberty in an American Capital: Excavations in Annapolis, 192–244. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. http://site.ebrary.com/id/10114313.

Week 8

• Gehl Jan and Birgitte Svarre, 2013. How to Study Public Life. Island Press: Washington. (excerpts-Chapter 3)
• Silberman, Neil and Margaret Purser. 2012. “Collective Memory as Affirmation: People-Centered Public Heritage in a Digital Age.” In Heritage and Social Media: Understanding Heritage in a Participatory Culture, edited by Elisa Giaccardi, 13-29. Routledge: London.
• Weiss, Robert. 1994. “Interviewing.” In Learning from Strangers, 61-83. The Press Press: New York.

Listen: Brooklyn Historical Society’s Brooklyn Oral History Project 

Week 9

• Wall, Diana Di Zerega. “Sacred Dinners and Secular Teas: Constructing Domesticity in Mid-19th-Century New York.” Historical Archaeology 25, no. 4 (1991): 69–81.
• Williams, Bryn. “Chinese Masculinities and Material Culture.” Historical Archaeology 42, no. 3 (2008): 53–67.
• Yamin, Rebecca. “Wealthy, Free, and Female: Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century New York.” Historical Archaeology 39, no. 1 (2005): 4–18.

Week 10

• Geller, Pamela L. “Bodyscapes, Biology, and Heteronormativity.” American Anthropologist 111, no. 4 (2009): 504–16.

• Rubin, Gayle. 2000. Sites, settlements, and urban sex: Archaeology and the study of gay leathermen in San Francisco. In Archaeologies of Sexuality, pp. 62-88. New York: Routledge.

• Voss, Barbara L. 2011. The Scale of the Intimate: Imperial Policies and Sexual Practices in San Francisco. In The Archaeology of Colonialism: Intimate Encounters and Sexual Effects, pp. 173-194. Cambridge University Press.

Week 11

• Bagwell, Margaret. “After the Storm, Destruction and Reconstruction: The Potential for an Archaeology of Hurricane Katrina.” Arch Archaeologies : Journal of the World Archaeological Congress 5, no. 2 (2009): 280–92.
• Dawdy, Shannon Lee. “The Taphonomy of Disaster and the (Re)Formation of New Orleans.” American Anthropologist 108, no. 4 (2006): 719–30.
• Garazhian, Omran, and Leila Papoli Yazdi. “Mortuary Practices in Bam after the Earthquake: An Ethnoarchaeological Study.” Journal of Social Archaeology 8, no. 1 (February 1, 2008): 94–112. https://doi.org/10.1177/1469605307086079.

Week 12

• Hester, Jessica Leigh. 2018. “Exploring a Hidden Archive of New York City’s Historic Trash.”

• Rathje, William. “Integrated Archaeology: A Garbage Paradigm.” In Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past, edited by Victor Buchli, Gavin Lucas, and Margaret Cox, 63–76. London; New York: Routledge, 2001.

• Schiffer, Michael B, Richard A Gould, and Jane Allen-Wheeler. “Waste Not, Want Not: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Reuse in Tucson, Arizona.” In Modern Material Culture: The Archaeology of Us., 67–86, 2014. (1981) http://qut.eblib.com.au/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=1875421.

Week 13

• Frederick, Ursula K. “Revolution Is the New Black: Graffiti/Art and Mark-Making Practices.” Arch Archaeologies 5, no. 2 (2009): 210–37.
• Burton, Jeffery F, and Mary M Farrell. “‘Life in Manzanar Where There Is a Spring Breeze’: Graffiti at a World War II Japanese American Internment Camp.” In Prisoners of War: Archaeology, Memory, and Heritage of 19th- and 20th-Century Mass Internment, edited by Harold Mytum and Gillian Carr, 239–71, 2013.
• Blake, C.F. 1981. Graffiti and racial insults: The archaeology of ethnic relations in Hawaii. In R. Gould and M.B. Schiffer (eds), Modern Material Culture: The Archaeology of Us, pp. 87-99. London: Academic Press. 

Week 14

• De León, Jason. “‘Better to Be Hot than Caught’: Excavating the Conflicting Roles of Migrant Material Culture.” American Anthropologist. 114, no. 3 (2012): 477–95.
• Persson, Maria. “Materialising Skatås.” In Ruin Memories: Materiality, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past, edited by Bjørnar Olsen and Þóra Pétursdóttir, 435–61. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2014.
• Zimmerman, Larry J., and Jessica Welch. “Displaced and Barely Visible: Archaeology and the Material Culture of Homelessness.” Historical Archaeology 45, no. 1 (2011): 67–85.

Week 15

• Brunwasser, Matthew. “Digging the Age of Aquarius.” Archaeology 62, no. 4 (2009): 30–33.
• Fowles, Severin, and Kaet Heupel. “Absence (Section 13).” In The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World, edited by Paul Graves-Brown and Rodney Harrison. Oxford University Press, 2013.
• Mendoza, Ruben G. “Cruising Art and Culture in Aztlan: Lowriding in the Mexican-American Southwest.” In U.S. Latino literatures and cultures: transnational perspectives, edited by Karin Ikas and Francisco A Lomelí. Heidelberg: C. Winter, 2000.