PROF. DR. CORINNE L. HOFMAN - Universiteit Leiden

PROF. DR. CORINNE L. HOFMAN - Universiteit Leiden PROF. DR. CORINNE L. HOFMAN - Universiteit Leiden

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ACADEMIC CAREER 2007‐present 2007‐present Vice‐dean and Chair of Education, Board Faculty of Archaeology (Leiden University) Professor of Caribbean Archaeology (1.0 fte, tenured), at Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, chair holder and coordinator for the Caribbean in the Research Track Religion and Society. Supervision of 20 members of the Caribbean Research Group. 2006‐2007 Director Graduate School, Faculty of Archaeology (Leiden University). 2002‐2006 Associate Professor (1.0 fte, tenured) Archaeology and Culture History of Native America, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, and coordinator for the Caribbean in the Research Track Religion and Society. 1994 'Chargé d'étude' (1.0 fte, fixed term) appointed by the AFAN (now the Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Preventive INRAP) and employed by the Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles (DRAC) de Guadeloupe (March‐June 1994). 1992‐2002 Assistant Professor (0.5 fte, tenured), Archaeology and Culture History of Native America, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University. Aug. 1990‐Feb. 1991 Lecturer (0.5 fte, fixed term) Archaeology and Culture History of Native America, University of Leiden. FIVE KEY PUBLICATIONS Hofman, C.L., A. Bright, A. Boomert, and S. Knippenberg 2007 Island Rhythms. The web of social relationships and interaction networks in the pre‐ Columbian Lesser Antilles. Latin American Antiquity 18(3):243‐268. Hofman, C.L., A.J. Bright, M.L.P.Hoogland, and W.F. Keegan 2008 Attractive ideas, desirable goods: examining the late Ceramic age relationships between the Greater and Lesser Antillean societies. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 3:17‐34. Hofman, C.L., M.L.P. Hoogland, and A.L. Van Gijn (eds) 2008 Crossing the borders. New methods and techniques in the study of archaeological materials from the Caribbean. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. Hofman, C.L., and A.J. Bright (eds) 2010 Mobility and exchange from a pan­Caribbean perspective. Special Publication number 3. Journal of Caribbean archaeology (online journal). Hofman, C.L., and A. van Duijvenbode (eds) 2011 Communities in Contact: Essays in archaeology, ethnohistory & ethnography of the Amerindian circum­Caribbean. Sidestone Press, Leiden. 2

BRIEF SUMMARY OF RESEARCH AND FIELDWORK OVER PAST 10 YEARS 2001 ‐ 2006 Research Director of the excavations of Kelbey's Ridge and Plum Piece, Saba. 2002 ‐ 2004 Co‐director of the St. Lucia archaeological project. This is a multi‐annual project in cooperation with the Museum of Natural History (Prof. dr. W.F. Keegan), Gainesville, Florida and the St. Lucia Government. 2002 ASPASIA grant (NWO‐015.001.101) ‘Socio­political complexity in the pre­ Columbian Caribbean: an integral approach to inter­insular and inter­regional relationships’. 1998‐2003 Project 'Pre­Columbian inter­insular relationships and social organization on the Lesser Antilles. A multi­dimensional approach.’ (NWO‐360.62.000). Hofman completed the post‐doc position in 2003, PhD researchers Knippenberg and de Waal, obtained their doctorate in 2006. The project has been synthesized in a monograph published by the British Archaeological Series (BAR International) in Oxford in 2004. 2003 VIDI grant (NWO‐276.62.001) ‘Mobility and exchange. The dynamics of social, material and ideological relations in the pre­Columbian insular Caribbean’. Several publications, articles and a monograph have resulted from this project. 2005 Co‐director in the pluri‐annual international project entitled ‘Living and dying in a Taino community’. This project is being conducted in cooperation with the Institute of Archaeology, University College London and the Museo del Hombre Dominicano, Dominican Republic. Part of this project entitled ‘Houses for the living and the dead’ has been financed by NWO (programmatic research, M.L.P. Hoogland). 2006 Organizer the symposium “New methods and techniques in the study of archaeological materials from the Caribbean” at the 71st Society of American Archaeology (SAA) Meeting in Puerto Rico. The monograph dedicated to this symposium has been published by the University of Alabama Press in 2008. 2006 Organizer of the symposium “Leiden in the Caribbean” at Leiden University. The monograph combining the papers of this symposium has been published in the Journal of Caribbean Archaeology in 2010. 2006 Project for the Leiden University fund ‘Campaign for Leiden’ on the cultural heritage of the Dutch Caribbean islands. In this context, Hofman was the codirector of the excavations at Santa Barbara, Curaçao in 2008 and 2009 and developed heritage projects for the Netherlands Antilles. 2007 VICI grant (NOW‐ 277‐62‐001) ‘Communicating Communities: Unraveling networks of human mobility and exchange of goods and ideas from a pre­colonial, pan­Caribbean perspective’. A large number of articles and two edited volumes have already been published. 2009 ‐ 2010 Co‐director of the rescue excavations at the Lavoutte site on St. Lucia. 2010 Co‐director of the excavation at the Argyle site on St. Vincent. 3

ACADEMIC CAREER<br />

2007‐present<br />

2007‐present<br />

Vice‐dean and Chair of Education, Board Faculty of Archaeology (<strong>Leiden</strong><br />

University)<br />

Professor of Caribbean Archaeology (1.0 fte, tenured), at Faculty of<br />

Archaeology, <strong>Leiden</strong> University, chair holder and coordinator for the<br />

Caribbean in the Research Track Religion and Society. Supervision of 20<br />

members of the Caribbean Research Group.<br />

2006‐2007 Director Graduate School, Faculty of Archaeology (<strong>Leiden</strong> University).<br />

2002‐2006 Associate Professor (1.0 fte, tenured) Archaeology and Culture History of<br />

Native America, Faculty of Archaeology, <strong>Leiden</strong> University, and<br />

coordinator for the Caribbean in the Research Track Religion and Society.<br />

1994 'Chargé d'étude' (1.0 fte, fixed term) appointed by the AFAN (now the<br />

Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Preventive INRAP) and<br />

employed by the Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles (<strong>DR</strong>AC) de<br />

Guadeloupe (March‐June 1994).<br />

1992‐2002 Assistant Professor (0.5 fte, tenured), Archaeology and Culture History of<br />

Native America, Faculty of Archaeology, <strong>Leiden</strong> University.<br />

Aug. 1990‐Feb. 1991<br />

Lecturer (0.5 fte, fixed term) Archaeology and Culture History of Native<br />

America, University of <strong>Leiden</strong>.<br />

FIVE KEY PUBLICATIONS<br />

Hofman, C.L., A. Bright, A. Boomert, and S. Knippenberg<br />

2007 Island Rhythms. The web of social relationships and interaction networks in the pre‐<br />

Columbian Lesser Antilles. Latin American Antiquity 18(3):243‐268.<br />

Hofman, C.L., A.J. Bright, M.L.P.Hoogland, and W.F. Keegan<br />

2008 Attractive ideas, desirable goods: examining the late Ceramic age relationships between<br />

the Greater and Lesser Antillean societies. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology<br />

3:17‐34.<br />

Hofman, C.L., M.L.P. Hoogland, and A.L. Van Gijn (eds)<br />

2008 Crossing the borders. New methods and techniques in the study of archaeological materials<br />

from the Caribbean. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.<br />

Hofman, C.L., and A.J. Bright (eds)<br />

2010 Mobility and exchange from a pan­Caribbean perspective. Special Publication number 3.<br />

Journal of Caribbean archaeology (online journal).<br />

Hofman, C.L., and A. van Duijvenbode (eds)<br />

2011 Communities in Contact: Essays in archaeology, ethnohistory & ethnography of the<br />

Amerindian circum­Caribbean. Sidestone Press, <strong>Leiden</strong>.<br />

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