Jacob Holland-Lulewicz - Department of Anthropology

Archaeology and ethnohistory of eastern North America; Indigenous collaborative archaeology; institutions of governance; collective action and democracy; social networks; Indigenous-colonizer dynamics and early Spanish colonization; GIS and spatial analyses; remote sensing and geophysics; radiocarbon dating and Bayesian chronological modeling; ceramic analysis; archaeometric analyses; collections-based research

Research Activity

My research programs on institutions of governance and cross-cultural perspectives on human network dynamics represent an interdisciplinary body of work that spans both the social sciences and the humanities, cross-cutting anthropology, political science, the network sciences, and historical disciplines. Within a historical framework, my work addresses the deep social histories of Indigenous eastern North America, with special attention to Muskogean political histories from 5,000 years ago through to today. The integration of these two domains, broad interdisciplinary social science perspectives on the one hand, and critical engagement with specific historical cases and community-based research on the other, is the crux of my ongoing and future research programs. This work includes both field and lab projects across eastern North America, from the Georgia Coast and the South Carolina Low Country, up through Southern Appalachia and across to the Lower Illinois Valley. I have conducted and participated in field and collections-based projects across North America, including Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee, as well as southern Ontario and the Basin of Mexico.

Courses Taught

ANTH 2 World Archaeology
ANTH 421 Intro to Geospatial Science in Anthropology and Archaeology
ANTH 428 Archaeological Method and Theory
ANTH 444 Evolution of War
ANTH 497 Ceramic Analysis
ANTH 588 Archaeological Method and Theory

Recent Publications

Holland-Lulewicz, Jacob, Brandon Ritchison, Matthew Howland, Isabelle Holland-Lulewicz, Amanda Roberts Thompson, Victor Thompson. 2025. Modern coastal ecosystems of the American Southeast are shaped by deep-time human-environment interactions. Communications Earth & Environment 6:1-14.
Holland-Lulewicz, Jacob. 2025. Indigenous Consultative, Collaborative, and Community-Engaged Archaeology in the American Southeast. Advances in Archaeological Practice.

Holland-Lulewicz, Jacob. 2025. Network Thinking and Anti-Categorical Archaeology. In The Future of Archaeology, edited by T. Douglas Price and Gary Feinman. Eliot Werner Publications, Clinton Corners, NY.
Holland-Lulewicz, Jacob, Victor Thompson, Amanda Roberts Thompson, RaeLynn Butler, Dario Chavez, Jay Franklin, Turner Hunt, Mark Williams, and John Worth. 2024. The initial spread of peaches across eastern North America was structured by Indigenous communities and ecologies. Nature Communications 15 (8245): 1-12.
Holland-Lulewicz, Isabelle and Jacob Holland-Lulewicz. 2023. A Network Approach to Zooarchaeological Datasets and Human-Centered Ecosystems in Southwestern Florida. PLOS ONE 18(12):e0295906.

Holland-Lulewicz, Jacob. 2023. The Heterogeneity of Social Network and Institutional Covariance in the American Southeast. American Antiquity 88(4): 513-530.

Holland-Lulewicz, Jacob and Emma Verstraete. 2023. From Cahokia to Capital: Historical Palimpsests and the Euro-American Afterlives of an Indigenous Place. International Journal of Historical Archaeology.

Holland-Lulewicz, Jacob. 2023. Networks and Political Organization. In The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Network Research, edited by Tom Brughmans, Barbara Mills, Jessica Munson, and Matthew Peeples. University of Oxford Press, Oxford.

Holland-Lulewicz, Jacob. 2023. North American Indigenous Political Institutions. In The Encyclopedia of Archaeology, 2^nd Ed., edited by Efthymia Nikita and Shadreck Chirikure. Academic Press, Cambridge.