Dr. Kathryn Sampeck
Professor of Anthropology
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Selected Research
Biography
Kathryn Sampeck (BA, MA, University of Chicago; PhD Tulane University) investigates pre-Columbian practices and material worlds, how they both shape and are transformed by colonial dynamics, and their lasting legacies.
Teaching Interests & Areas
Dr. Kathryn Sampeck teaches classes in historical archaeology, Afro-Latin America, landscape archaeology, archaeological theory, and anthropology of food. Her field school in eastern Tennessee explores the nature of sixteenth-century Spanish and indigenous interaction and how to detect political, social, and economic organization in archaeological landscapes.
Research Interests & Areas
historical archaeology, archaeology of Spanish colonialism, race and racialization, political economy, ethnohistory, food history, with a focus on the cultural history of taste, cultural landscapes, cartography, literacy, race, money and monetization, and commerce in American commodities in the Early Modern world.
Ph D Anthropology
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA
MA Anthropology
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
BA Anthropology
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
University Outstanding Researcher Award
Illinois State University
2021
Outstanding Researcher
College of Arts and Sciences
2020
CAS Excellence Award for Outstanding Scholarly Achievement of the Year
Illinois State University
2012
Grants and Contracts
Global Professor
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
The British Academy. January 1 2023 - December 31 2026
UK Scholar - Eccles Centre at the British Library
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
IIE Fulbright Program. September 10 2021 - March 19 2022
Afro-Latin American Archaeology
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck, Alejandro de la Fuente.
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnohistory. June 2019 - December 2019
Associate
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard University. July 2019
Digital Fellowship for Former Fellows
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. May 1 2018 - July 31 2018
Non-resident Fellow
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
Harvard University. July 1 2018 - June 30 2019
Afro-Latin American Archaeology
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck, Alejandro de la Fuente.
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. September 2017 - October 2017
CAS Interdisciplinary Research Grant
Gina Hunter, Noha Shawki, Kathryn Sampeck.
College of Arts and Sciences. August 2017 - July 2018
Non-resident Fellow
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
Harvard University. July 1 2017 - June 2018
Non-resident Fellow
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
Harvard University. July 1 2016 - June 2017
Archaeological Outreach and Research
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
Tribal Historic Preservation Office Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. June 1 2015 - August 15 2015
Digital Archaeology Institute
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
Michigan State University/National Endowment for the Humanities. August 1 2015 - August 30 2016
Cherokee Towns at the Time of Spanish Contact: Discovering the Genesis of the Overhill Cherokees
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck, Jonathan Boyd Thayn, Elizabeth Scott.
Cherokee Preservation Foundation. May 1 2013 - May 20 2014
Gilder-Lehrman Residential Fellowship
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
John D. Rockefeller Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. July 10 2013 - August 9 2013
Central America Visiting Scholar
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
Harvard University. - June 30 2016
Cherokee Towns at the Time of Spanish Contact
Jonathan Boyd Thayn, Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
Cherokee Preservation Foundation. - 2013
Book Review
Guatemalan Discourses and Practices of Development and Social Categories - On Our Own Terms: Development and Indigeneity in Cold War Guatemala. By Sarah Foss. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2022. Pp. 234. $99.00 cloth; $29.95 paper; $22.90 e-book
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
(2024), 10.1017/tam.2023.114, no, The Americas
Race and Nation - Speaking of Spain: The Evolution of Race and Nation in the Hispanic World. By Antonio Feros. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. 384. $46.50 cloth.
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
(2021), 12-14, doi:10.1017/tam.2021.121, The Americas
Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500–1850. By Cameron B. Strang. (Williamsburg, VA: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, and Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
(2020), 40, Journal of the Early Republic
Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica. Edited by Joshua D. Englehardt and Michael D. Carrasco. Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2019.
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
(2020), 100, 696–697, 10.1215/00182168-8646999, Hispanic American Historical Review
Atemorizar la tierra: Pedro de Alvarado y la Conquista de Guatemala, 1520-1541
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
(2018), Journal of Latin American Geography
The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500-1900.
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
(2018), The Americas
Book, Chapter
Teaching Archaeological Mapping and Data Management with KoBoToolbox
Stacey L. Camp, Benjamin P. Carter, Autumn Painter, Sarah Rowe, Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
(2022), pp. 273-297, Digital Heritage and Archaeology in Practice, University Press of Florida
Spanish Colonialism and Spatial Violence
KATHRYN Elizabeth SAMPECK.
(2020), Archaeologies of Violence and Privilege, University of New Mexico Press
An Archaeology of Indigo: the Landscape of Obrajes in the Izalcos Region of Western El Salvador
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
(2019), 167-188, Technology and Tradition after the Spanish Invasion, University of New Mexico Press
Chocolate and Vanilla: Seeds of Taste
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
(2019), 240-256, Proceedings of the Oxford Food Symposium on Food and Cookery, Prospect Books
Chocolate, Place, and Space: Cacao Terroir and Pre-Columbian to Early Modern Political Geographies
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
(2019), Foodscapes: Food, Place and Space in a Global Society, Peter Lang
Early Modern Landscapes of Chocolate: the Case of Tacuscalco
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
(2019), 105-130, Power, Political Economy, and Historical Landscapes of the Modern World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, SUNY Press
Archaeology in Post-War El Salvador
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
(2017), Post‐Conflict Archaeology and Cultural Heritage: Rebuilding Knowledge, Memory and Community from War‐Damaged Material Culture, Routledge Press
Introduction: Consuming Desires in Mesoamerica
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck, Stacey Schwartzkopf.
(2017), Substance and Seduction: Ingested Commodities in Early Modern Mesoamerica, University of Texas Press
Translating Tastes: A Cartography of Chocolate Colonialism
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck, Jonathan Boyd Thayn.
(2017), Substance and Seduction: Ingested Commodities in Early Modern Mesoamerica, University of Texas Press
Aproximaciones arqueológicas al estudio del cambio cultural indígena: Un tributo a Thomas H. Charlton desde la perspectiva de El Salvador
William R Fowler, Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
(2015), 35, Enfoques en torno a la arqueología histórica de Mesoamérica: Homenaje á Thomas Charlton, UNAM
Ancient Quelepa, Colonial San Miguel: How a Heritage of Shifting Cultural Frontiers and Boundaries Encouraged Rogue Colonialism in Eastern El Salvador
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
(2014), The Maya and Their Central American Neighbors: Settlement Patterns, Architecture, and Ceramics, Routledge Press
Monuments of Movement: Purposeful Remembering and Forgetting of the 1932 La Matanza (Massacre) in Western El Salvador
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck, Heriberto Erquicia Cruz.
Combating Oppression with New Commemorations, Routledge
Salty, Savory: Comparing Chocolate to the Triad of Sugar, Salt, and Cod
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
Salt, Cod and Sugar. Trade, Mobility, Circular Navigation and Foodways in the Atlantic World., Springer
Book, Edited
Substance & Seduction: Ingested Commodities in Early Modern Mesoamerica
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
(2017), University of Texas Press
Map/Diagram/Artwork
Hernando de Soto's Route Across the Appalachian Mountains
Jonathan Boyd Thayn, Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
Pearson Press, (2017)
Other
http://tzib.org/
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
(2018)
http://afro-latin.org/
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
Afro-Latin American Archaeological Consortium, (2017)
ᎦᏙᎯᏄᏍᏗᏓᏅ/GADOHI-NUSDIDANV/CHEROKEE LANDSCAPES
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
MATRIX/Michigan State University, (2017)
El paisaje cultural de chocolate
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
25, (2014)
Introduction: Literacy in Colonial Mesoamerica
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
Ethnohistory, 62 (3)
Presentations
In Search of Identities
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck, Heriberto Erquicia Cruz.
Monuments and Counter Monuments, online, September, 2021
Nahua Diaspora and Cacao
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
Annual Meeting, online, May, 2021
Chocolate, social justice, and labor
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
All Things Chocolate, online, November, 2020
Cultural Histories of Mexican Chocolate
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
FCCI Conversation Series Mexico, online, October, 2020
Labor and Pandemics in Cacao History
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
FCCI Cacao Academy, online, August, 2020
Maya Culinary Realms and Mesoamerican Use and Exchange of Cacao
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
Tulane Maya Symposium, New Orleans, LA, March, 2020
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Afro-Latin American Archaeology
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, USA, January, 2020
Roundtable on Afro-Latin American Archaeology
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
First Continental Conference on Afro-Latin American Studies, Cambridge, MA, December 13, 2019
Social and Environmental Responsibility
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
Chocolate Conservatory, Paris, October 26, 2019
How Chocolate Came to Be
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
Department of Anthropology and the Latin American Studies Program Lecture Series, Nashville, TN, September 16, 2019
Sex in a Cup: Chocolate and Gender through the Ages
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
Lunch and Learn, Bloomington, IL, May 9, 2019
Insights of Afro-Latin American Archaeology
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
Springfield Society Annual Lecture, Springfield, OH, March 26, 2019
Chuck’s Stomping Grounds and Historical Archaeology’s Haunts: Or, How Charles Orser’s Work Haunts Me
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
Annual Meeting, St. Charles, MO, January, 2019
Chocolate and Slavery
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
Annual Meeting, Oaxaca City, Mexico, November, 2018
A Day in the Life of a Sixteenth-Century Ani-Yunwiya (Cherokee) Village
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
AIA lecture series, Carlisle, PA, October, 2018
Sex in a Cup: Chocolate and Gender through the Ages
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
AIA lecture series, Phoenix, AZ, October, 2018
A Day in the Life of a Sixteenth-Century Ani-Yunwiya (Cherokee) Village
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
Annual Archaeology Symposium, Carlisle, PA, October, 2018
A Day in the Life of a Sixteenth-Century Ani-Yunwiya (Cherokee) Village
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
AIA lecture series, Providence, RI, September, 2018
Insights of Afro-Latin American Archaeology
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
AIA lecture series, Valparaiso, IN, September, 2018
Chocolate and Vanilla: Seeds of Taste
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
Oxford Food Symposium, Oxford, UK, June, 2018
Vocabularies of Social Justice: The JCB as an Agent in Maya Literacy and Language Revitalization
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
JCB Fellow's talk, Providence, RI, May, 2018
Barrios de mulatos in the Izalcos Region
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., April, 2018
Discussant: Money, Debt, and Finance
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., April, 2018
Issues in Interpretation and Presentation of Cherokee Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck, Johi D Griffin.
Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January, 2018
Materialities of Nationhood, Land, and Race in Early Republican El Salvador
Kathryn Elizabeth Sampeck.
Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January, 2018