James Newhard
Director, Center for Historical Landscapes
Dr. Newhard is a landscape archaeologist with an emphasis upon integrating human and environmental histories to develop an overall understanding of the long-term interactions between humans and the physical world. He is also Director of the College's Center for Historical Landscapes.
Education
Ph.D, Classical Studies. University of Cincinnati, 2003
American School of Classical Studies in Athens, 1999
M.A., Classics. University of Cincinnati, 1996
B.A., Classical Art & Archaeology. University of Missouri – Columbia, 1994
B.A., Classical Languages. University of Missouri – Columbia, 1994
College Year in Athens, 1991
Research Interests
- Environmental and Social History
- Archaeological Field Methods
- Informatics
- Geoarchaeology
- Classical Reception and Disciplinary History
Courses Taught
Introductory to advanced undergraduate courses in Mediterranean archaeology
Independent studies in archaeoloigcal methodology and geospatial applications in archaeology
Introductory to advanced Latin
Publications
Book
Haldon, John, Elton, Hugh, Newhard, James M., eds. 2018. Archaeology and Urban Settlement in Late Roman and Byzantine Anatolia: Investigating the History of Euchaïta-Avkat-Beyözü and its Environment. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108557757
––. 2019 “Avkat Archaeological Project.” Linked Dataset Repository. Open Context. DOI: 10.6078/M73J3B1J.
––. 2021 Paperback edition. ISBN 978-1108457224
Articles & Book Chapters (last 5 years)
(student names preceded by an asterisk)
2022. "Panarchy and the Adaptive Cycle: A Case Study from Mycenaean Greece." In A. Izdebski, J. Haldon, and P. Filipkowski (eds.) Perspectives on Public Policy in Societal-Environmental Crises: What the Future Needs from History. (Risks, Systems and Decisions). Springer. Pp. 225-235. (with Eric Cline) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94137-6_15
2021. “Assessing Continuity and Change in the Sixth to Ninth Century Landscape of North-Central Anatolia.” In C. Roosevelt and J. Haldon (eds.) Winds of Change: Environment and Society in Anatolia. 15th International ANAMED Annual Symposium. Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilization. Pp. 141-157. (with J. Haldon, and H. Elton)
2020. “Reflections on the Avkat Archaeological Project: collaborations, education, and dissemination.” Journal of Greek Archaeology5: 528-534. (with H. Elton and J. Haldon)
2019. “Beyond apologetics: restructuring the humanities for an ‘Age of Austerity’” North Dakota Quarterly 58: 181-199.
2018. “Appendix 3. Assigning function to survey data using heuristic geospatial modeling.” In J. Haldon, H. Elton, and J. Newhard (eds.) Archaeology and Urban Settlement in Late Roman and Byzantine Anatolia: Investigating the History of Euchaita-Avkat-Beyözü and its Environment. Cambridge University Press. (with *O. Adams, and N.S. Levine)
2018. “Chapter 3. The Survey. Methods of survey, data collection and management, and artefactual patterning” In J. Haldon, H. Elton, and J. Newhard (eds.) Archaeology and Urban Settlement in Late Roman and Byzantine Anatolia: Investigating the History of Euchaita-Avkat-Beyözü and its Environment. Cambridge University Press.
2018. “Evaluating archaeological evidence for demographics, abandonment, and recovery in Late Antique and Byzantine Anatolia.” Human Ecology 46: 381-398 (with M. Cassis, O. Doonan, H. Elton). DOI: 10.1007/s10745-018-0003-1
2018. “Not the End of the World? Post-Classical Decline and Recovery in Rural Anatolia.” Human Ecology 46: 305-322. (with M. Cassis, O. Doonan, W. Eastwood, H. Elton, J. Haldon, A. Izdebski, N. Roberts) DOI: 10.1007/s10745-018-9973-2
Professional Papers, Posters, & Workshops (last 5 years)
(student names preceded by an asterisk)
2023. “Consilience and resilience: Mediterranean archaeology at an American undergraduate university” State of the Field Workshop. Brown University, Providence, RI (with Allison Sterrett-Krause).
2023. “Negotiated peripheries and the longue durèe,” Workshop “Long-term Resiliency of Human-Environmental Systems in the Epidauria Region, Greece,” College of Charleston.
2023. “Exploring the human and environmental history of the Epidauria,” Classical Charleston Lecture Series, Climate Change and the History of Human Resiliency: A Case Study from Greece, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC.
2023. “Informatics postmortem: lessons learned from the Avkat Archaeological Project,” Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, New Orleans (with H. Elton and J. Haldon)
2022. “From kitchen to dwelling: an evolving urban African American landscape at the College of Charleston,” Society for Historical Archaeology, Philadelphia. (with R. Grant Gilmore and M. Scott Harris).
2021. “Feeding Constantinople: from farm to capital,” Shifting Frontiers XIV. (with H. Elton and J. Haldon).
2021. “Assessing Continuity and Change in the Sixth to Ninth Century Landscape of North-Central Anatolia.” 15th Annual International ANAMED Symposium. Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilization (with J. Haldon, and H. Elton)
2019. “Sustaining Classics into the 21st Century,” 7th Annual Classical Charleston Lecture Series, ‘Diversifying Classics,’ College of Charleston, Charleston, SC.
2019. “What Happens when Historians and Archaeologists Talk to Each Other: the Avkat Archaeological Project,” Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Boston. (with Hugh Elton and John Haldon).
2018. “Closing the Loop on the Geospatial Turn” Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Barcelona.