Professor Mark Hauser discusses Caribbean, slavery, colonial, and environmental history on Global Lunchbox Podcast

This episode of the Global Lunchbox podcast features a conversation with anthropologist Mark Hauser about his book Mapping Water in Dominica: Enslavement and Environment under Colonialism (2021). His book talks about re-evaluating one’s worldview through the eyes of slavery, as supported by historical archaeological evidence.

Mark Hauser is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program at Northwestern University. He is an historical archaeologist who specializes in materiality, slavery and inequality. He is also the author of An Archaeology of Black Markets: Local Ceramics and Economies in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica (2008). Hauser is interested in the Caribbean, specifically, and how it functioned as a global interface.

The Global Lunchbox, hosted by the Weinberg College Center for International & Area Studies at Northwestern University, features conversations with scholars in the social sciences and humanities about their current research on a range of critical global issues.