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Mark is a historical archaeologist specializing in materiality, slavery, and inequality. His research focuses on key themes that intersect the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, forming the foundation for his work on the African Diaspora in Colonial Contexts. Mark utilizes the archaeological record of slavery to map alternative geographies of the 18th and 19th-century world. His book, 'Archaeology of Black Markets' (Florida 2008), maps the informal economies of enslaved people in Jamaica through utilitarian pottery, providing insights into their everyday lives. In his recent publication, 'Mapping Water: Archaeologies of Water, Enslavement, and Colonialism' (Washington 2021), he examines the archaeological record of water management and everyday uses during Dominica's brief sugar revolution, mapping the ecological legacies of colonialism and slavery in the Caribbean. Currently, he is researching labor histories and the social lives of communities in the Caribbean and South India, exploring the 'prehistory' of the global south by mapping the movement of people, objects, and ideas across oceans. Mark teaches a range of topics including Mapping People, Place, and Space, Global Life, and Caribbean Pasts from Archaeological and Historical perspectives.
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