Personal
Surname: Bright
First names: Alistair Jan
Place and date of birth: Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 1980
Nationality: British
Education
Gymnasium at the “Lorentz Casimir Lyceum” in Eindhoven (1992-1998)
Registration at Leiden University (LU) (1998)
Propedeuse Archaeology (LU) (2000)
Master’s Degree in Archaeology of Indian America (LU) (2003)
PhD degree in Caribbean
Archaeology (LU) (2011)
Fieldwork experience
Excavations at Oostvlietpolder, Netherlands (LU) (1999)
Excavations at Veldwezelt, Belgium (University of Leuven/University of Lethbridge/ LU) (2000)
Excavations at Kelbey’s Ridge and Plum Piece, Saba, Netherlands Antilles (LU) (2001)
Archaeological survey St. Lucia (LU) (2003)
Excavation Schipluiden, Netherlands (LU/Archol) (2004)
Archaeological survey and excavation St. Lucia (LU) (2004)
Fieldtrips to Martinique, Dominica and Guadeloupe (LU) (2004)
Archaeological survey and excavation Dominican Republic / Puerto Rico (LU) (2004)
Archaeological survey/excavation Martinique (LU/SRA) (2004)
Fieldtrip Trinidad, Tobago and Barbados (LU) (2005)
Excavation at Cedros, Trinidad (LU/UWI Trinidad) (2005)
Fieldtrip Barbados, Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines (LU) (2006)
Documentation collections Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville (LU) (2007)
Fieldtrip Dominican Republic (LU) (2007)
Excavation at Argyle, St. Vincent (2010)
Additional courses/workshops
Total Station (2001)
Spanish language course (2002)
AutoCAD, MapInfo, G.I.S., Archis (2002-2003)
ICLON Teaching course Activerende hoorcolleges geven (2004)
KNAW “Future of Dutch archaeology” seminar (2005)
NWO Talentendag (2006)
Writing grants proposals (2006)
Teaching experience
Undergraduate level
Coordination Practical Material Studies students Native America (BA3 2003/4)
Social Organisation in the Americas (BA2 2005)
Guest lecture Theory 2/Advanced Methods and Theory (BA3 2005)
Introduction to Caribbean Archaeology (BA1 2007/8)
Coordination Practical Material Studies students Native America (BA3 2007/8)
Introduction to Caribbean Archaeology (BA1 2008/9)
Coordination Practical Material Studies students Native America (BA2/3 2008/9)
Course Ethnohistory and Ethnoarchaeology in the Americas (BA3 2008/9)
World Archaeology – the Americas (BA1 2009/10)
Coordination Practical Material Studies students Native America (BA2/3 2009/10)
Course Ethnohistory and Ethnoarchaeology in the Americas (BA3 2009/10)
Graduate level
Household and Settlement archaeology (MA 2003/4)
Overview Ancient America (MA 2003/4 and 2004/5)
Guest lectures Mobility and Exchange (MA 2004)
Guest lectures Mobility and Exchange ((R)MA 2005/6)
Guest lecture Mobility and Exchange ((R)MA 2006/7)
Mobility and Exchange ([R]MA 2007/8)
Mobility and Exchange ([R]MA 2008/9)
Key Concepts for cross-cultural studies (RMA 2008/9)
Mobility and Exchange ([R]MA 2009/10)
Guest lecture Seminar prospective field archaeology (MA 2010/2011)
Presentations
Numerous lectures within Thesis Seminar (2003-present)
Guest lectures Archaeological Forum (2003/2004)
Presented paper “Across the channel: southern Martinique and northern St Lucia compared” at 21st Congress of the International Association of Caribbean Archaeology, Trinidad (2005)
Guest lecture Introduction Day first-year Archaeology students (2005)
Presented paper “Ceramic style distribution across the Lesser Antilles: An archipelagic perspective (A.J. Bright and C.L. Hofman)” and co-presented "Ties with the 'Motherland': archipelagic interaction and the enduring role of the South American mainland in the pre-Columbian Lesser Antilles” (C.L. Hofman, A. Boomert, A.J. Bright, M.L.P. Hoogland and S. Knippenberg) at 71st SAA Meeting, San Juan (2006)
Presented paper “From lush expanses to barren rocks: Windward Island and islet archaeology” at symposium Small islands in the Caribbean, and co-presented “Archipelagic mobility and resource exploitation in the northern Lesser Antilles around 3000 BP: a view from the site of Plum Piece, Saba” (C.L. Hofman, M.L.P. Hoogland and A.J. Bright) at symposium Current research in the Caribbean, Leiden (May/June 2006)
Guest lecture "Island archaeology: a fuzzy discipline" for Archaeological Forum with A. Boomert (2006)
Presented paper “Blood is thicker than water: pre-Columbian interisland relationships in the Windward Islands” at F.I.R.E. symposium ‘Island Identities’, London (November 2006)
Invited lecture “Blood is thicker than water: pre-Columbian interisland relationships in the Windward Islands” at University of Florida symposium ‘In the footsteps of Ripley and Adelaide Bullen: A survey of Caribbean Archaeology’, Gainesville (June 2007)
Guest lecture Open Day, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University (November 2007)
Co-presented paper “Mobility and Exchange from a pan-Caribbean perspective” in session “Mobility and Exchange from a pan-Caribbean perspective” (C.L. Hofman and A.J. Bright) at 73rd SAA Meeting, Vancouver (2008)
Invited lecture “Migration and mobility in the Caribbean” in Honours Class ‘Humans on the Move’, Leiden (February 2009)
Invited lecture “Hans Staden of Hesse and the Curious Case of Captivity and Cannibalism among the Tupinamba”, TERRA (First year Archaeology Students Body) dinner activity (April 2009)
Invited lecture “L'occupation Amérindienne tardive des Îles du Vent (Antilles) et l’utilisation archéologique des sources ethnohistoriques” for seminar “Corpus de sources rares ou inédites sur les Petites Antilles (1493-1660)” by Prof. B. Grunberg, University of Rheims (May 2009)
Guest lectures Open Day, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University (November 2009)
Guest lecture for Academische Vaardigheden, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University (November 2009)
Presented paper ‘“Removed from off the face of the island”: late pre-Colonial and early Colonial Amerindian society in the Windward and Leeward Islands’ at symposium Leiden in the Caribbean IV (March 31st 2010)
Presented paper ‘Doughnuts and horse-shoes, plazas and ring-villages: pre-Colonial Amerindian settlement lay-out in the Lesser Antilles with special attention to the site of Cedros, Trinidad’ at symposium Leiden in the Caribbean V (March 21st 2011)
Guest lecture "The Windward Islands and the Average Joe: Picking up Terrell's gauntlet" for Archaeological Forum (May 10th 2011)
Additional experience
English proofreading and editing for Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies and (2000-2005)
Joint editor-in-chief and website-editor of Profiel, Leiden student archaeology magazine (2001-2005)
Organization ofSymposium voor Onderzoek van Jonge Archeologen (SOJA) (2002)
Student supervisor for first-year archaeology students measuring, drawing and fieldwork practicum (LU 2003)
Organisation of national seminar “350 Jaar Zeeland-Tobago” (November 2004)
Representative Archaeology PhD students for LEO (2004)
Maintained website for Caribbean archaeology, Leiden University (2004-2008)
Chaired two sessions at SOJA (2005)
Editor of Thesis, magazine for Leiden PhD students (2005/6)
Secretary LEO (Leids Promovendi Overleg) (2005), board member LEO (2006)
External reviewer for Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology (2007)
Organisation of symposium Leiden in the Caribbean II: Perspectives from the Greater Antilles, Leiden, and co-presented paper “Attractive ideas, desirable goods: Taíno influences in the Lesser Antilles” (C.L. Hofman, A.J. Bright and A.A.A. Mol) (April 2007)
External reviewer for Current Anthropology (2008)
Co-chaired session “Mobility and Exchange from a pan-Caribbean perspective” at 73rd SAA Meeting, Vancouver (2008)
Mentor first-year students (2009/10)
Moderated session Leiden in the Caribbean IV (March 30th 2010)
Freelance English proofreading and editing at BrightThings (2011-present)
Publications
2003
Bright, Alistair J., 2003: Spatial dynamics and social development in the Northern Lesser Antilles, based on settlement structure at Anse à la Gourde, Guadeloupe, Unpublished M.A. Thesis, Leiden University. |download|
2004
Hofman, Corinne L., and Alistair J. Bright, 2004: “From Suazoid to Folk Pottery: Pottery Manufacturing Traditions in a Changing Social and Cultural Environment on St. Lucia.” New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 78(1&2):73-104. |download|
2005
Bright, Alistair J., 2005: Martinique 2005 survey. Fieldwork report, Leiden University. |download|
Hendriks, Joep, Erik van Rossenberg, Alistair J. Bright and Dieuwertje Smal (eds), 2005: SOJAbundel 2002/2003. Leiden University: Leiden
Hofman, Corinne L., Alistair J. Bright, William F. Keegan and Menno L.P. Hoogland, 2005: Trade and treachery on St. Lucia: Giraudy and the Olive Branch. Profiel, archeologisch studententijdschrift 11(2/3):2-7. |download|
2006
Hofman, Corinne L., Alistair J. Bright and Menno L.P. Hoogland, 2006: Archipelagic resource procurement and mobility in the Northern Lesser Antilles: the view from a 3000-year-old tropical forest campsite on Saba.” Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 1(2):145-164.
2007
Boomert, Arie, and Alistair J. Bright, 2007: Island archaeology: in search of a new horizon. Island Studies Journal 2(1):3-26. |download|
Bright, Alistair J., 2007: Across the channel: southern Martinique and northern St Lucia compared. In B. Reid, H. Petitjean Roget and L.A. Curet (eds), Proceedings 21st IACA(2):796-805. St. Augustine: University of the West Indies, School of Continuing Studies. |download|
Hofman, Corinne L., Alistair J. Bright, Arie Boomert and Sebastiaan Knippenberg, 2007: Island rhythms: the web of social relationships and interaction networks in the Lesser Antillean archipelago between 400 BC and AD 1492. Latin American Antiquity 18(3):243-268.
2008
Hofman, Corinne L., and Alistair J. Bright, 2008. Ideas atractivas, bienes deseables: influencias Taínas en las Antillas Menores. El Caribe Arqueológico 10:31-42.
Hofman, Corinne L., Alistair J. Bright, William F. Keegan and Menno L.P. Hoogland, 2008: Attractive ideas, desirable goods: examining the Late Ceramic Age relationships between Greater and Lesser Antillean societies. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 3(1):17-34.
2010
Hofman, Corinne L., and Alistair J. Bright, 2010: Towards a pan-Caribbean perspective of pre-Colonial mobility and exchange: preface to a special volume of the Journal of Caribbean Archaeology. Journal of Caribbean Archaeology Special Issue #3: Mobility and Exchange from a pan-Caribbean perspective:i-iii. |download|
Hofman, Corinne L., Alistair J. Bright, and Reniel Rodríguez Ramos, 2010: Crossing the Caribbean Sea. Towards a holistic view of precolonial mobility and exchange. Journal of Caribbean Archaeology Special Issue #3: Mobility and Exchange from a pan-Caribbean perspective:4-21. |download|
2011
Bright, Alistair J., 2011: Blood is thicker than water: Amerindian occupation and and the intra- and inter-insular relationships in the Windward Islands. PhD dissertation, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden. Leiden: Sidestone Press..|read online|
Bright, Alistair J., 2011: “Removed from off the face of the island”: late pre-Colonial and early Colonial Amerindian society in the Windward and Leeward Islands. Communities in contact. Essays in archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnography of the Amerindian circum-Caribbean. Corinne L. Hofman and Anne v. Duijvenbode (eds):335-354. Leiden: Sidestone Press.
Bright, Alistair J., and Corinne L. Hofman, 2011: L'occupation Amérindienne Tardive Des Îles du Vent (Antilles) et l’utilisation archéologique des sources ethnohistoriques. In Les Indiens des Petites Antilles : des premiers peuplements aux débuts de la colonisation européenne. Bernard Grunberg (ed.):37-48. Cahier d'Histoire de l'Amérique Coloniale n°5. Condé-sur-Noireau: L’Harmattan.
Hofman, Corinne L., Arie Boomert, Alistair J. Bright, Menno L.P. Hoogland, Sebastiaan Knippenberg, and Alice V.M. Samson, 2011: Ties with the 'Homelands': archipelagic interaction and the enduring role of the South American mainland in the pre-Columbian Lesser Antilles. In Islands at the Crossroads: migration, seafaring and interaction in the Caribbean, L. Antonio Curet and Mark W. Hauser (eds). Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
Language proficiency
English (fluent), Dutch (fluent), French (good), Spanish (fair).
Additional interests/skills
BlackBoard, webpage design (QCMS/HTML), lay-out (MS Publisher/Adobe InDesign), graphic design (Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator), digital photography.