Funding in the “Field:” An Analysis of Demographics and Methods in National Science Foundation Archaeology Grants (1955–2020)

Heath-Stout, Laura E.; Jalbert, Catherine L.

doi:10.1080/00934690.2022.2154999

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“…Of the 1,028 publications in our study, we excluded 15 because gender was not clear. Alternative methods of gender identification such as survey-based research (e.g., Heath-Stout 2020a), in which respondents self-report gender, resolve this problem, although surveys often run the risk of nonrepresentative samples due to self-selection (Heath-Stout and Jalbert 2023). Institutional affiliation allows for assessment of an author's occupational context (academic, museum, etc.)…”

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“…Alas, we do not address the impact of racism, ableism, heteronormativity, and other forms of discrimination on research productivity. Nevertheless, recent investigations of gender in the practice of archaeology, such as the question of why fewer women apply for senior-level grants (Goldstein et al 2018) and the prominence of men and women in lab versus field projects (Heath-Stout and Jalbert 2023), succeeded without access to data on sexuality, ethnicity, or class.…”

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Gender, Institutional Inequality, and Institutional Diversity in Archaeology Articles in Major Journals and Sapiens

Hutson,

Johnson,

Price

et al. 2023

Am. Antiq.

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Studies in the sociopolitics of archaeology have shown patterns of inequality in publishing. Because this inequality affects the richness of perspectives on the past, the extent of unevenness requires continual documentation. This article explores gendered and institutionally based patterns of authorship in prominent archaeology journals, archaeology papers in general science journals, and Sapiens, a public-facing web magazine, from 2016 to 2021. We find that the representation of women is similar across these two types of journals, for authors both in the United States and abroad. Men still publish significantly more than women though the gap is narrowing due to the publication activity of recent PhDs. Using a large database of PhDs as a baseline for comparison, we find that women publish less in these venues than expected, resulting in an imbalance. Some archaeology programs have a larger presence in journal publishing than others, but this imbalance is not as pervasive as what has been observed in hiring practices. Archaeology journals exhibit healthier measures of diversity, compared to Science, in terms of the institutional affiliation of authors.

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Gender, Institutional Inequality, and Institutional Diversity in Archaeology Articles in Major Journals and Sapiens

Hutson,

Johnson,

Price

et al. 2023

Am. Antiq.

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Paradigm or Practice? Situating GIS in Contemporary Archaeological Method and Theory

Ullah,

Clow,

Meling

2023

J Archaeol Method Theory

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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has been used in archaeology for four decades, and colloquially appears to have become a main tool in the geospatial aspects of archaeological practice. In this paper, we examine temporal trends in the use and/or mention of GIS in archaeological publications (books and journal articles), conference presentations, and websites. We gathered data through keyword searches and with formal sampling surveys and conducted both quantitative and qualitative analyses to characterize the changing nature and intensity of GIS use in archaeology over time. We show how archaeological GIS-use has grown from a few early adopters of the 1980's, through a slow initial integration phase in the 1990's, to a punctuated set of two major expansions in the 2000's and 2010's. While we nd that basic use of GIS has grown to the point where it can be considered ubiquitous -if not universal -in the discipline, we also discovered that the major focus in archaeological GIS advancement is methodological rather than theoretical. We provide a historical context to this temporal pattern and identify ve roadblocks that we believe have hampered the development of a theory-rich archaeological GIS: 1) de ciencies in the archaeological GIS education model, 2) over-reliance on commercial software, 3) technical/technological barriers, 4) gaps in acceptance of GIS, and 5) the perception of GIS as "just a tool." We offer initial suggestions for ways forward to mitigate the effects of these roadblocks and build a more robust, theoretically sophisticated relationship with GIS in archaeology.Recent research into publishing trends in archaeology has elucidated issues of prestige and power inequities (Beck et al., 2021), gender and diversity (Bardolph, 2014;Fulkerson & Tushingham, 2019), and the growth of methodological specialties (Gaffney, 2008). In this paper, we focused on the ubiquity and character of GIS use within archaeology. We proceeded with a three-tiered approach to understanding GIS publication trends. The rst phase was designed to provide a baseline, coarse-grained overview of the general temporal trends of GIS usage within the discipline across a broad set of publication types and venues. The second phase examines trends and types of archaeological GIS usage at a ner, more detailed scale in a targeted subset of publication venues. The nal phase seeks to contextualize the results of the rst two phases and to provide a more nuanced understanding of how archaeologists have used, are using, and will continue to use GIS within the discipline.

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Funding in Archaeology: Public, Private and In-Between

Niklasson

2024

Encyclopedia of Archaeology (Second Edition)

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Funding in the “Field:” An Analysis of Demographics and Methods in National Science Foundation Archaeology Grants (1955–2020)

Cited by 4 publications

References 36 publications

Gender, Institutional Inequality, and Institutional Diversity in Archaeology Articles in Major Journals and Sapiens

Gender, Institutional Inequality, and Institutional Diversity in Archaeology Articles in Major Journals and Sapiens

Paradigm or Practice? Situating GIS in Contemporary Archaeological Method and Theory

Funding in Archaeology: Public, Private and In-Between

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