Matthew Rooney
- Research Station Archeologist
- Arkansas Archeological Survey
- mr096@uark.edu
- ORCID: 0000-0003-2792-8522
- United States
- CST - Central Standard Time - GMT-6:00
Research areas and topics
Research Focus:
plantation, Arkansas Delta, African American
- Employment Sector: Academic
- Continents: North America
- Regions: Southeast US
- Materials: ceramics, ethnohistory, Indigenous Archaeology, metal
- Analytical Skills: Archival research, community outreach, Ethnography, excavation, GIS, Public archaeology, survey
- Research Topics: colonialism, economic history, foodways, inequality, migration
- Nations: United States
Collaboration Interests
I’m interested in collating household data to compare the lifeways of both enslaved people and later African American sharecroppers with contemporaneous people around the world, ranging from the 1820s to the 1950s.