Department of Anthropology

Education:

Ph.D. 1998 Texas A&M University
M.A. 1991 Texas A&M University
B.A. 1976 University of California, Santa Barbara

Areas of Research and Interest:

Dr. Georgia Fox specializes in four major areas: historical archaeology as it relates to British colonialism in the Caribbean region, made possible by two major commodities: tobacco and sugar. Dr. Fox directed the archaeological field school at Betty’s Hope plantation from 2007-2017. Her other interests include maritime and underwater archaeology, which have included projects in Jamaica, Greece, Israel, the Netherlands, and maritime California. Her other specialties are archaeological conservation and museum studies.

Video

Dr. Fox has made three documentary films through the Advanced Laboratory for Visual Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at California State University, Chico. In 2014, the film “Impact! The Voyage of the Frolic,” won an Emmy and can be viewed on PBS.

Some Representative Publications

2023 “Personal Narrative.” Chapter contribution to Wreck Divers and Archaeologists: A History of Maritime Archaeology in California by Thomas N. Layton and James P. Delgado, Special Publication: Society for Historical Archaeology. In Press.

2022 Abordagens teóricas no estudo do tabaco e do fumo, na arqueologia histórica. In Investígios: Revista Latino-Americana de Arqueologia Histórica, 16(2): 139-147.

2020 An Archaeology and History of a Caribbean Sugar Plantation on Antigua, Gainesville: University Press of Florida. Published: February 2020 (book).

2017 Wells, E. Christian, Georgia L. Fox, Peter E. Siegel, Nicholas P. Dunning, and Reginald Murphy. “The Landscape Legacies of Plantation Agriculture in the Caribbean: An Historical-Ecological Perspective from Betty’s Hope, Antigua.” In The Environmental Legacies of Colonialism in the Northern Neotropics. Special Issue of Environmental Archaeology: The Journal of Human Paleoecology, edited by Diane Wallman, E. Christian Wells, and Isabel Rivera-Collazo.

2015 Fox, Georgia. 2015. The Archaeology of Tobacco and Smoking. Book published January 2015; Paperback edition released, Summer 2016. University Press of Florida.