Christopher fennell biography

Christopher C. Fennell (born c.

Christopher fennell biography

) is an American anthropologist and lawyer, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.^[1] His first book Crossroads and Cosmologies: Diasporas and Ethnogenesis in the New World () received the John L.

Cotter Award from the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fennell is editor of the African Diaspora Archaeology Network and Newsletter, and an associate of the editorial board of the International Journal of Historical Archaeology.

Education

Fennell earned his M.A. in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania in He received his J.D. in from Georgetown University Law Center.

Returning to graduate study and a second career, in he received an M.A.

in anthropology from the University of Virginia. In , Fennell completed his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Virginia, where he specialized in historical archaeology and Africandiaspora archa