Geoffrey W. Conrad

Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies

Indiana University Bloomington

Personal Website

https://anthropology.indiana.edu/about/emeriti/conrad-geoffrey.html

Expertise

I am studying the development of the Taíno chiefdoms encountered by Christopher Columbus and the early Spanish explorers of the Caribbean.

Recently I have become very interested in trying to trace the post-1492 development of Taíno culture archaeologically.

Affiliations

Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Past Affiliations

Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Professor, Program in Ancient Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Mathers Museum WM Hammond

Professor Emeritus, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Program in Ancient Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington
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Communities

Classics

Degrees

PhD, Harvard University, Anthropology, 1974
BA, Harvard University, Anthropology, 1969

Keywords

west indies cultural history comparative religion social sciences archaeology economics