Daniel F Harrison

Daniel F Harrison

I am a historical archaeologist focused on the maritime heritage of the Great Lakes region, particularly its submerged cultural resources. My background as a librarian and historian has proven useful in the identification and interpretation of sites. I am also interested in the uses of the past to explicate Native American-Euro-American relations.

Research interest(s)/area of expertise

• Maritime landscape anthropology
• Great Lakes maritime archaeology

Education

• Ph.D. in Anthropology, Wayne State University, 2020. Dissertation: “Transformation of the St. Clair Maritime Cultural Landscape from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries”
• M.A. in Anthropology, Wayne State University, 2012
• M.A. in History, Oakland University, 1987
• M.L.S. in Library Science, University of Michigan, 1975
• B.A. in English, University of Michigan, 1972

Selected publications

• 2014: “Frontier Arms Race: Historical and Archaeological Analysis of an Assemblage of 18th-century Cannon recovered from the Detroit River and Lake Erie” Historical Archaeology 48(4): 27-45
• 2017: “Maritime Archaeology as Evidence-Based Storytelling.” In Interpreting Maritime History, 85-98, ed. Joel Stone. Rowman
• 2017: “Change amid Continuity, Innovation within Tradition: Wampum Diplomacy at the Treaty of Greenville, 1795.” Ethnohistory 64(2): 191- 215
• 2023: “A Cascade of Contingencies: Disruption and Innovation in the St. Clair Flats, 1679 – 1860” Michigan Historical Review 49(2) (Fall 2023)
• 2024: Michigan’s Venice: The Transformation of the St. Clair Maritime Landscape, 1640 – 2000. Wayne State University Press