Daniel F Harrison
Voluntary Adjunct Assistant Professor
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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
2020 Ph.D., Wayne State University (Anthropology). Dissertation title: “Transformation of the St. Clair Maritime Cultural Landscape from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries”Education
1972 B.A., University of Michigan (English)
1975 M.L.S., University of Michigan (Library Science)
1987 M.A., Oakland University (History)
2012 M.A., Wayne State University (Anthropology)
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.