PROF. DR. CORINNE L. HOFMAN - Universiteit Leiden

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.
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