Robbie Franklyn Ethridge (born 1955) is an American anthropologist and author. She is a professor of anthropology at the
University of Mississippi
The University of Mississippi (byname Ole Miss) is a public research university that is located adjacent to Oxford, Mississippi, and has a medical center in Jackson. It is Mississippi's oldest public university and its largest by enrollment.
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Education
In 1996, Ethridge received a PhD from the
University of Georgia
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Career
She is a founding editor of the journal ''Native South''. She is also the North American associate editor for the journal ''
Ethnohistory
Ethnohistory is the study of cultures and indigenous peoples customs by examining historical records as well as other sources of information on their lives and history. It is also the study of the history of various ethnic groups that may or may n ...
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Awards and honors
She received the Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award for "an outstanding record or research accomplishment" from the
University of Georgia
, mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things."
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, her alma mater, in January 2000. Her 2010 book ''From Chicaza to Chickasaw'', on European impacts on
Mississippian culture
The Mississippian culture was a Native Americans in the United States, Native American civilization that flourished in what is now the Midwestern United States, Midwestern, Eastern United States, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from appr ...
, won the James Mooney Award from the Southern Anthropological Society.
Selected publications
*''The Historical Turn in Southeastern Archaeology''. Robbie Ethridge & Eric Bowne, eds., (University Press of Florida, 2020)
*''From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540-1715'' (University of North Carolina Press, 2010)
*''Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South'' (University of Nebraska Press, 2009) (editor, with Sherri M. Shuck-Hall)
*''Light on the Path: The Anthropology and History of the Southeastern Indians'' (University of Alabama Press, 2006) (editor, with Thomas J. Pluckhahn)
*''Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World'' (University of North Carolina Press, 2003)
*''The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760''. Robbie Ethridge & Charles Hudson, eds., (University Press of Mississippi, 2002)
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References
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Living people
1955 births
21st-century American anthropologists
American women anthropologists
University of Georgia alumni
University of Mississippi faculty