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Personal
Surname: Bright
First names: Alistair Jan
Place and date of birth: Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 1980
Nationality: British
Work address: Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Reuvensplaats 4, Postbus 9515, 2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands
Education
Gymnasium at the “Lorentz Casimir Lyceum” in Eindhoven
Year of first registration at Leiden University (LU)
Propedeuse Archaeology (LU)
Master’s Degree in Archaeology of Indian America (LU)
Fieldwork experience
Excavations at Oostvlietpolder, Netherlands (LU)
Excavations at Veldwezelt, Belgium (University of Leuven/University of Lethbridge/ LU)
Excavations at Kelbey’s Ridge and Plum Piece, Saba, Netherlands Antilles (LU)
Archaeological survey St. Lucia (LU)
Excavation Schipluiden, Netherlands (LU/Archol)
Archaeological survey and excavation St. Lucia (LU)
Fieldtrips to Martinique, Dominica and Guadeloupe (LU)
Archaeological survey and excavation Dominican Republic / Puerto Rico (LU)
Archaeological survey/excavation Martinique (LU/SRA)
Fieldtrip Trinidad, Tobago and Barbados (LU)
Excavation at Cedros, Trinidad (LU/UWI Trinidad)
Fieldtrip Barbados, Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines (LU)
Documentation collections Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville (LU)
Fieldtrip Dominican Republic (LU)
Additional courses/workshops
Total Station
Spanish language course
AutoCAD, MapInfo, G.I.S., Archis
ICLON Teaching course Activerende hoorcolleges geven
KNAW “Future of Dutch archaeology” seminar
NWO Talentendag
Writing grants proposals
Teaching experience
Guest lecture Archaeological Forum
Coordination Practical Material Studies students Native America (BA)
Thesis seminar
Course Overview Ancient America (MA)
Course Household and Settlement archaeology (MA)
Guest lectures Mobility and Exchange (MA)
Guest lecture Archaeological Forum
Course Overview Ancient America (MA)
Course Social Organisation in the Americas (BA2)
Guest lecture Theory 2/Advanced Methods and Theory (BA3)
Guest lecture Introduction Day first-year archaeology students
Guest lectures Mobility and Exchange ([R]MA)
Guest lecture Archaeological Forum with A. Boomert
Coordination Practical Material Studies students Native America (BA3)
Course Introduction to Caribbean Archaeology (BA1)
Coordination Practical Material Studies students Native America (BA3 2007/8)
Course Mobility and Exchange ([R]MA 2007/8)
Course Introduction to Caribbean Archaeology (BA1 2008/9)
Coordination Practical Material Studies students Native America (BA3 2008/9)
Course Mobility and Exchange ([R]MA 2008/9)
Course Ethnohistory and Ethnoarchaeology in the Americas (BA3 2008/9)
Course Key Concepts for cross-cultural studies (RMA 2008/9)
Additional experience
First-year archaeology students mentor (LU)
Student member of Education board, department of Archaeology (LU)
Attended 19th Congress of the International Association of Caribbean Archaeology, Aruba
Joint editor-in-chief and website-editor of Profiel, Leiden student archaeology magazine
Attended conference on the Late Ceramic Age in the Caribbean, Leiden
Organisation of SOJA (Symposium voor Onderzoek van Jonge Archeologen)
Student-supervisor for first-year archaeology students measuring, drawing and fieldwork practicum (LU)
Presentation at the Archaeological Forum (LU)
Free-lance translating into English or correctional work of publications
Drivers license
Organisation of national seminar “350 Jaar Zeeland-Tobago”
Voice-overs for various documentary projects
Representative Archaeology PhD students for LEO (Leids Promovendi Overleg)
Attended TAG (Theoretical Archaeology Group) in Glasgow
Maintained website for Caribbean archaeology, Leiden University
Secretary LEO (Leids Promovendi Overleg)
Chaired two sessions at SOJA 2005
Presented paper “Across the channel: southern Martinique and Northern St Lucia compared” at 21st Congress of the International Association of Caribbean Archaeology, Trinidad
Editor of Thesis, magazine for Leiden PhD students
Board member LEO
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
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
Presented paper “Blood is thicker than water: pre-Columbian interisland relationships in the Windward Islands” at F.I.R.E. symposium ‘Exploring concepts of identity in island research’, UCL London, November 2006
Co-organised symposium Leiden in the Caribbean II, April 2007, Leiden University
Presented paper “Attractive Ideas, Desirable Goods. Taino Influences in the Lesser Antilles (C.L. Hofman, A.J. Bright and A.A.A. Mol)” at Symposium Leiden in the Caribbean II, April 2007
Co-presented paper “Insular Caribbean society: a dynamic relationship between people, goods and ideas during late pre-colonial times” (C.L. Hofman, W.F. Keegan, M.L.P. Hoogland and A.J. Bright) at 72nd SAA Meeting, Austin 2007
Presented paper “Blood is thicker than water: pre-Columbian interisland relationships in the Windward Islands” at symposium ‘In the footsteps of Ripley and Adelaide Bullen: A survey of Caribbean Archaeology’, UFL Gainesville
External reviewer for Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 2007-
Lecturer, Leiden University, Faculty of Archaeology, Section Caribbean Archaeology, July 2007 - July 2008
Lecture “Pirates of the Caribbean – de archeologische prequel”, Open Day, Leiden University, November 2007
Co-chaired session “Mobility and Exchange from a pan-Caribbean perspective” at 73rd SAA Meeting, Vancouver 2008
Co-presented paper “Mobility and Exchange from a pan-Caribbean perspective” in session “Mobility and Exchange from a pan-Caribbean perspective” at 73rd SAA Meeting, Vancouver 2008 (C.L. Hofman and A.J. Bright).
External reviewer for Current Anthropology, 2008-
Publications
Bright, A.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|
C.L. Hofman and A.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|
Bright, A.J., 2005: Martinique 2005 survey. Fieldwork report, Leiden University. |download|
J. Hendriks, E. van Rossenberg, A.J. Bright and D. Smal (eds), 2005: SOJAbundel 2002/2003, Leiden University: Leiden
Hofman, C. L., A.J. Bright, W.F. Keegan and M.L.P. Hoogland, 2005: Trade and treachery on St. Lucia: Giraudy and the Olive Branch. Profiel, archeologisch studententijdschrift |download|
Hofman, C.L., A.J. Bright and M.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.
Boomert, Arie and Alistair J. Bright, 2007: Island archaeology: in search of a new horizon. Island Studies Journal 2(1):3-26. |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 Antiquity18(3):243-268.
Bright, A.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. University of the West Indies, School of Continuing Studies, St. Augustine. |download|
Corinne L. Hofman, 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.
Corinne L. Hofman and Alistair J. Bright, 2008. Ideas atractivas, bienes deseables: influencias Taínas en las Antillas Menores. El Caribe Arqueológico 10:31-42.
Hofman, Corinne L., Arie Boomert, Alistair J. Bright, Menno L.P. Hoogland and Sebastiaan Knippenberg, in prep: Ties with the 'Motherland': archipelagic interaction and the enduring role of the South American mainland in the pre-Columbian Lesser Antilles, in L. Antonio Curet (ed). University of Alabama Press.
Bright, A.J., in prep: Blood is thicker than water: Amerindian occupation and and the intra- and inter-insular relationships in the Windward Islands. PhD dissertation, Leiden University, Leiden
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.