Julia Haines

• 2024 Fall
  • ANT 300 Selected Topics - Arch of Disease and Healing

Julia Haines joins the Anthropology Department as a tenure-track assistant professor. She will teach classes on historical archaeology and archaeological case studies.

Prior to joining Syracuse University, Haines was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow with the Society for Humanities and Department of Anthropology at Cornell University. During her time as a fellow, she worked on publishing her research on the archaeology of indentured South Asian laborers who lived and worked on the Bras d’Eau Sugar estate in Mauritania during the 19th century.

Haines’s research focuses on the intersection of inequality, community identities, and landscapes. She examines the historical changes to the identities and political ecologies of enslaved and indentured plantation laborers and communities on Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean, from the 18th through the mid-20th centuries. Her most recent publication, “Archaeology in the Fourth Dimension: Studying Landscapes with Multitemporal PlanetScope Satellite Data,” was published in the Journal of Archaeological Method Theory.

Haines earned a Ph.D. in 2019 and an M.A. in 2014, both from the University of Virginia, and a B.A. in 2009 from the University of Chicago.

Sponsored by Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship.

Sponsored by Fulbright Institute of International Education Student Fellowship.

Sponsored by National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement.

Sponsored by Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

• Book
  • Haines, J. J., The Archaeology of Modern Worlds in the Indian Ocean. Hauser, M. (ed.) University Press of Florida, 2023.
• Journal Articles
  • Haines, J. J., "Shaping Landscapes: Environmental History, Plantation Management, and Colonial Legacies in Mauritius." International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 2021.
  • Haines, J. J., "Mauritian indentured labour and plantation household archaeology." Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 2020.
  • Haines, J. J., "Landscape Transformation under Slavery, Indenture and Imperial Projects in Bras d’Eau National Park, Mauritius." Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage, 2019.
• Book Chapters
  • Haines, J. J., Hauser, M., "Diaspora in the Domestic: A Comparative Approach to Tamil Nadu and Mauritius." In The Archaeology of Modern Worlds in the Indian Ocean. Hauser, M., Haines, J. J. (eds.) University Press of Florida, 2023.
  • Hauser, M., Haines, J. J., "The Archaeology of Modern Worlds in the Indian Ocean: An Introduction." In The Archaeology of Modern Worlds in the Indian Ocean. Hauser, M., Haines, J. J. (eds.) University Press of Florida, 2023.
  • Seetah, K., Fregel, R., Haines, J. J., Calaon, D. and Čaval, S., "Archéologie de l’Engagisme: Histoire, Société et Culture des Travailleurs sous Contrat et de Leurs Descendants sur l’île Maurice." In Archéologie des Migrations. Garcia, D., Le Bras, H. (eds.) La Découverte, 2017.
• Digital Publications
  • Haines, J. J., "Landscapes of Health and Disease in 19th-Century Mauritius." In ArcGIS Online. , 2020.
  • Haines, J. J., "Photogrammetry Workflow using a DSLR Camera." In [Web log post]. , 2019.
  • Haines, J. J., Kistnamasy, K. M. (Translator), "Journey of an Indentured Laborer." In [Online Video Game]. , 2018.
• Newsletters
  • Haines, J. J., "Uncovering Plantation Life in Bras d’Eau." In Aapravasi Ghat Newsletter. , 2016.
  • Haines, J. J., Bahadoor, B., "The Bras d’Eau Sugar Estate." In Aapravasi Ghat Newsletter. , 2015.
• Reports
  • Haines, J. J., The Archaeological and Historical Significance of Bras d’Eau National Park: A Preliminary Report on the Archaeological Research Project (2015-2016). Aapravasi Ghat Trust Fund, Mauritius National Heritage Fund, Mauritius National Parks and Conservation Services, 2016.
  • Haines, J. J., Bahadoor, B., Bras d’Eau Sugar Estate Project: History of Land and Ownership. Aapravasi Ghat Trust Fund, 2014.

65th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, session: "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Diaspora and Identity Formation in Indian Ocean Africa", "Negotiating Purity and the Plantation Political Ecology in Colonial Mauritius" (2022)

University of Primorska, Department of Anthropology and Heritage, "Community and Public Archaeology in Mauritius" (2021)

86th Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, session: "An Ocean of Connections: Tangible and Intangible Exchanges in the IOW", "Global, Regional, and Local Ceramic in Mauritius" (2021)

Cornell University, Department of Anthropology, "Plantation Archaeology and the South Asian Labor Diaspora in Mauritius" (2021)

53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, session: "Historical Archaeology in the Indian Ocean", "Between Slavery and Indenture: Spatial Practices, Materiality, and the Memory of Coercion on a Sugar Plantations in Mauritius" (2020)

48th Annual Conference on South Asia, session: "Creative Practices of Coolie and Former Coolie Populations in the Indian Ocean", "Curation in Everyday Life: Households of South Asian Indentured Laborers" (2019)

84th Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, session: "Archaeological Approaches to Slavery and Unfree Labor in Africa", "Indentured Labor in the Indian Ocean" (2019)

Brandeis University, Anthropology Department, "Material Legacies of Indentured Laborers: Excavating Archaeological, Archival, and Ecological Heritage in Mauritius" (2019)

25th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, session: "Reaches of Empire: Historical Archaeology and New-Global-Insights into European Expansion", "The Archaeology of Indentured Labor: Domestic Landscapes and Everyday Life on a Mauritian Plantation" (2019)

Honorable Mention, Graduate Research Fellowship Program, National Science Foundation (2013)