Edward "Ed" Gonzalez-Tennant

Ed Gonzalez-Tennant

Assistant Professor  
Email: ed.gonzaleztennant@txstate.edu 
Office: ELA 271D
Phone: 512.245.8272

Curriculum Vitae

Education: 
Ph.D. (2011) Anthropology, University of Florida;  
M.A. (2008) Anthropology, University of Florida;  
M.S. (2005) Industrial Archaeology, Michigan Technological University;  
B.A. (2004) Anthropology, University of Arkansas

Primary focus:   
Archaeology

Research interests:   
Historical archaeology, digital archaeology; landscape, memory, power, violence; GIS, 3D modeling, geophysics, remote sensing; Southeastern US, Texas, Caribbean.

I am a historical archaeology primarily working in the American Southeast and Caribbean. My methodological focus is on the application of digital technologies within historical archaeology, and I regularly combine geographic information systems (GIS), 3D modeling, geophysics, and remote sensing to address complex social issues. My topical interests include the intersections between power and violence in the past and presence as well as the ways landscape and memory work to celebrate certain histories while erasing or otherwise obfuscating others. This work is possible because of a firm commitment to partnering with descendant communities, their allies, and the public.

Select Publications

González-Tennant, Edward. 2018. The Rosewood Massacre: An Archaeology and History of Intersectional Violence. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. Southern Anthropological Society’s Mooney Award Honorable Mention (2021).

González-Tennant, Edward and Diana González-Tennant. 2024. Challenging Collaborative Archaeology: Remote Sensing of African American Burials in a Majority-White, Rural Town. Archaeological Prospection 30(3):1-13.

González-Tennant, Edward. 2023. The Role of Digital Technologies in Unearthing the Rosewood Massacre. In Difficult Heritage and Immersive Experiences, edited By Agiatis Benardou, Anna Maria Droumpouki, pp. 60-79. New York City: Routledge.

Harper, Krista, Samuel Collins, Matthew Durington, Joseph Dumit, Edward González-Tennant, Marc Lorenc, Nicholas Mizer, and Anastasia Salter. 2022. Games and Public Anthropology. International Encyclopedia of Anthropology.

González-Tennant, Edward. 2022. The Rosewood Heritage & VR Project: Engaging Difficult Histories with Digital Technologies. In Emerging Technologies and Museums: Mediating Difficult Heritage, edited by Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert, Alexandra Bounia, and Antigone Heraclidou, pp 23-41. Oxford: Berghahn Books.

González-Tennant, Edward. 2020. Geographic Information Systems in Historical Archaeology. In The Routledge Handbook of Global Historical Archaeology, edited by Charles E. Orser, Andres Zarankin, Pedro Funari, Susan Lawrence, and James Symonds, pp. 496-516. New York City: Routledge.

González-Tennant, Edward and Diana González-Tennant. 2020. Caribbean Heritage in 3D: New Heritage and Historical Archaeology in Nevis, West Indies. In Historical Archaeologies in the Caribbean: On and Beyond the Plantation, edited by Todd M. Ahlman and Gerald Schroedl, pp. 169-187. University of Alabama Press.

González-Tennant, Edward. 2017. Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: New Media Technologies for an Engaged Anthropological Pedagogy. In Deep Stories: Practicing, Teaching, and Learning Anthropology with Digital Storytelling, edited by Aaron Thornburg and Mariela Nunez-Janes, pp. 152-169. De Gruyter Open.

González-Tennant, Edward. 2016. Recent Directions and Future Developments in Geographic Information Systems for Historical Archaeology. Historical Archaeology 50(3):24-49.

González-Tennant, Edward and Diana González-Tennant. 2016. The Practice and Theory of New Heritage for Historical Archaeology. Historical Archaeology 50(1):186-203.

González-Tennant, Edward. 2016. Hate Sits in Places: Folk Knowledge and the Power of Place in Rosewood, Florida. In Excavating Memory: Material Culture Approaches to Sites of Remembering and Forgetting, edited by Maria T. Starzmann and John R. Roby, pp. 218-241. University Press of Florida.

González-Tennant, Edward. 2015. Resurrecting Rosewood: New Heritage as Applied Visual Anthropology. In Participatory Visual and Digital Research in Action, edited by Aline Gubrium, Krista Harper, Marty Otanez, and Phillip Vannini, pp. 163-180. AltaMira Press.

González-Tennant, Edward. 2014. The “Color” of Heritage: Decolonizing Collaborative Archaeology in the Caribbean. Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage 3(1):26-50.

González-Tennant, Edward. 2013. New Heritage and Dark Tourism: A Mixed Methods Approach to Social Justice in Rosewood, Florida. Heritage and Society 6(1):62-88.

González-Tennant, Edward. 2012. Intersectional Violence, New Media, and the 1923 Rosewood Pogrom. Fire: The Multimedia Journal of Black Studies 1(2):64-110.

González-Tennant, Edward. 2011. Generating ‘Living Documents’ with GPS & GIS for Archaeology: A Case Study from the Otago Goldfields, New Zealand. In Perspectives from Historical Archaeology: Revealing Landscapes edited by Christopher C. Fennell, pp. 116-133. Society for Historical Archaeology Press. [Reprint of 2009 Historical Archaeology article]

González-Tennant, Edward. 2011. Creating a Diasporic Archaeology of Chinese Migration: Tentative Steps across Four Continents. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 15(3):509-532.

González-Tennant, Edward. 2009. Using Geodatabases to Generate “Living Documents” for Archaeology: A Case Study from the Otago Goldfields, New Zealand. Historical Archaeology 43(3):20-37.