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Barbara L. Voss

Professor of Anthropology
Research Area(s)
Anthropology & the Arts
Gender and Sexuality
Race, Ethnicity, and Collective Identity
Dr. Barbara L. Voss is a Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University, where she is also affiliated with the Stanford Archaeology Center, the Center for Comparative Studies of Race and Ethnicity, the Program on Asian American Studies, the Program on Urban Studies, and the Program on Gender and Sexuality Studies.

Latest Publications

The Transnational Lives of Chinese Railroad Workers: Material Culture Research from a Guangdong Province Qiaoxiang and Railroad Worker Camp Sites in North America

The Transnational Lives of Chinese Railroad Workers: Material Culture Research from a Guangdong Province Qiaoxiang and Railroad Worker Camp Sites in North America

2019
The Archaeology of Colonialism: Intimate Encounters and Sexual Effects

The Archaeology of Colonialism: Intimate Encounters and Sexual Effects

2011
The Archaeology of Chinese Immigrant and Chinese American Communities

The Archaeology of Chinese Immigrant and Chinese American Communities

2008

Featured Publications

Race and Racism in Archaeologies of Chinese American Communities

2022

Disrupting Cultures of Harassment in Archaeology: Social-Environmental and Trauma-Informed Approaches to Disciplinary Transformation

2021

The Archaeology of Precarious Lives Chinese Railroad Workers in Nineteenth-Century North America

2018

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF HOME: QIAOXIANG AND NONSTATE ACTORS IN THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE CHINESE DIASPORA

2018
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