Present Position and Office Address

Senior Scholar
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
145 Ednam Drive, Charlottesville, Va 22903-4629
phone: (434) 924-3296; fax: (434) 296-4714
jh3v@virginia.edu

Home Address

120 Blithe Court, Charlottesville, Va 22901
phone: (434) 923-8938

Education

UCLA: B.A., January, 1956 (Anthropology); M.A., January, 1959 (Anthropology)
Brandeis University: Ph.D., February, 1965 (Anthropology)

Areas of Specialization

African American social and cultural history; early African Diaspora in the New World and slavery; Atlantic slave trade; Caribbean and West African societies and cultures; peasant and plantation communities in the Caribbean; historical anthropology and the use of documentary sources; historical archaeology with particular reference to the Africa Diaspora; West Indian historical bibliography

Teaching and Research Positions

Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Fellow (fall 1995, fall 1996 - spring 1997, fall 1997 - spring 2006),  Senior Scholar (fall            2006-present)
Southern Illinois University
  Anthropology and Black American Studies, Prof Emeritus (Sept 1995-present)
  Center for Archaeological Investigations, Research Associate (1987-95)
  Black American Studies, Professor (1993-95)
  Dept of Anthropology, Professor (1974-93), Assoc Prof (1968-74), Asst Prof (1964-68), Instructor (1962-64)
Harvard University, Dept of Afro-American Studies, Visiting Scholar (summer 1992)
Harvard University, DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, Associate (1989-90)
University of the West Indies (Barbados), Dept of History, Visiting Research Fellow (fall 1983)
National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, Fellow (1982-83)
University of California, Los Angeles, Center for Afro-American Studies, Visiting Scholar (summer 1980)
Research Institute for the Study of Man, NYC, Research Assoc (summers 1978, 1979)
Colgate University, Dept of Social Relations, O'Connor Visiting Prof of American Institutions (1971-72)
University of the West Indies (Jamaica), Dept of History, Visiting Research Fellow (1969-70)
University College, University of London, Dept of Anthropology, Honorary Research Assistant (1966-67)

Miscellaneous Appointments, Consultancies, and Positions

Biographical Listings:  Who's Who in America (1974/75 to present)

Fellowships and Grants (post-doctoral)

Fieldwork and Foreign Visits for Research and other Professional Purposes

Barbados, West Indies: 1960, 1961-62, 1965, 1971-72, 1973, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983-84, 1985-86, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 (approx. 4.5 years)
Jamaica, West Indies: 1969-70, 1975, 1982, 1993 (approx. 1 year)
United Kingdom: 1966-67, 1968, 1974, 1977, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 (approx. 3.5 years)
Caribbean territories: Cuba, Trinidad, Haiti, Guyana, Puerto Rico, Curaçao, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Martinique: 1965, 1966, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1987, 1991, 1992, 1999, 2006 (approx. 10 mos. total)
Mali and Senegal, West Africa: 1964 (5 weeks)
Mexico: 1955, 1957 (9 mos.)

Papers and Lectures at Meetings, Conferences, and Seminars

1970  The History of Arrowroot and the Origin of Peasantries in the British West Indies. Graduate and Faculty Seminar, Dept of History, Univ. of the West Indies, Jamaica

1971  Aspects of Slave Life in Barbados: Music and its Cultural Context. Conference of Caribbean Historians, Univ. of Guyana, Georgetown

1974  The Social Position of Freedmen in the Slave Society of Barbados. Conference of Caribbean Historians, Univ. of Puerto Rico

l977  The Mortuary Patterns of Slaves in Barbados (with F. W. Lange). Conference of Caribbean Historians, Univ. of the West Indies, Barbados

1978  An Archaeological Approach to Slave Culture in Barbados, West Indies. American Society for Ethnohistory, Austin, Texas

1979  The Archaeology of Mapp's Cave: A Contribution to the Prehistory of Barbados (with F. W. Lange). Eighth International Congress for the Study of Pre- Columbian Cultures of the Lesser Antilles, St. Kitts, West Indies

1980  Application of the South Ceramic Formula on Barbados,West Indies [and] The Newton (Barbados) Slave Cemetery: Patterns, People, When and Where the Twain do Meet (with F.W. Lange). Society for Historical Archaeology, Albuquerque, New Mexico

1980  History, Ethnohistory, and Archaeology. Conference on New World Slavery: Comparative Perspectives, Rutgers University

1981  Slave Insurrectionary Attempts in Seventeenth Century Barbados. Conference of Caribbean Historians, Guadeloupe, French West Indies

1981  Dental Mutilation in the Caribbean: Evidence from a Slave Burial Population in Barbados (with R.S. Corruccini). American Anthropological Association, Los Angeles

1982  Plantation Slave Life in Barbados: Evidence from a Physical Anthropological and Historical-Archaeological Analysis. History Seminar, National Humanities Center

1983  Runaway Slaves in Barbados. Faculty and Graduate Seminar, Dept of History, Univ. of the West Indies, Barbados

1984  Chronology of Enamel Hypoplasias in an Early Caribbean Slave Population (with R. S. Corruccini). American Anthropological Association, Denver

1985  Distribution of Enamel Hypoplasias in an Early Caribbean Slave Population (with R.S. Corruccini). American Association of Physical Anthropology, Knoxville

1985  Lead Contact and Poisoning in Barbados Slaves: Historical, Chemical and Biological Evidence (with R.S. Corruccini and A. Aufderheide). Society for Caribbean Studies, Ninth Annual Meeting, London

1985  Lead Contact and Poisoning in Barbados Slaves: Historical, Chemical and Biological Evidence (with A. Aufderheide and R.S. Corruccini). Social Science History Association, Chicago

1985  Lead and Barbadian Bellyache (with A. Aufderheide). Canadian Association of Physical Anthropologists, Thunder Bay, Ontario

1986  Lead Contamination and Lead Poisoning in Barbados Slaves. Workshop in Caribbean Ethnohistory and Historical Archaeology, Program in Atlantic History, Culture, and Society, The Johns Hopkins University

1986  Lead Content and Poisoning in Barbados Slaves. American Society for Ethnohistory, Charleston, South Carolina

1986  Lead Poisoning in Barbados Slaves (with A. Aufderheide and R. Corruccini). American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia

1987  Slave Manumissions in Barbados, 1650-1725 (with E. Brandon). Conference of Caribbean Historians, Martinique

1992  Searching for a Plantation Slave Cemetery in Barbados. Society for Historical Archaeology, Kingston, Jamaica

1992  Textual Evidence on Early Barbadian Speech, 1676-1887 (with J. Rickford). Ninth Bienniel Meeting of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics, University of the West Indies, Barbados

1992  Slave Medicine and Obeah in Barbados. Conference on the Lesser Antilles in the Age of European Expansion, Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y.

1995  Two Distinctive African-Type Burials in a Barbados Slave Cemetery. Society for Historical Archaeology, Washington, D.C.

1996  An African-Type Healer/Diviner and His Grave Goods: A Burial from a Plantation Slave Cemetery in Barbados, West Indies. Conference on African Impact on the Material Culture of the Americas. The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts,Winston-Salem, NC

1997  Problematical Glass Artifacts from a Slave Cemetery in Barbados, West Indies. Society for Historical Archaeology, Atlanta, GA

1999  Survivors of the Middle Passage: Autobiographical Accounts by Enslaved Africans in British America. Society for Caribbean Studies, 23rd Annual Conference, London

2000  Obeah: Healing and Protection in Afro-Caribbean Slave Life (with K.M. Bilby).  Crossing Boundaries: The African Diaspora in the New Millenium, conference, New York University

2002  Another View of Obeah: "Do-Good" Work in the Caribbean (with K.M. Bilby).  Second Conference on Caribbean Culture, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica

2002  Escaping Slavery in Barbados.  Conference: Unshackled Spaces: Fugitives from Slavery and Maroon Communities in the Americas,  Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University

2003  Afro-Caribbean Pottery from Barbados: A Reassessment (with James B. Peterson).  Society for Historical Archaeology, Providence, RI

2003   Escaping Slavery in a Caribbean Plantation Society: Fugitives and Maroons in Barbados, 1640s-1834, Seminar, Dept. of History, Univ. of Toronto

2004  Obeah: Healing and Protection in Afro-Caribbean Slave Life (with Kenneth Bilby).  American Anthropological Association, Annual Meeting, San Francisco  (meeting cancelled)

2005   From Arago to Anastacia: The Transformation of a 19th Century French Engraving into the Personification of an Afro-Brazilian Cult Figure.  Conference,  Activating the Past: Latin America in the Black Atlantic.  UCLA Latin American Center and International Institute, April.

2005  Black Confederates?: The Modern Falsification of a Civil War Photograph (with E. J. Jordan and M. J. Tuite), Conference,  African Americans and the  Civil War,  Virginia State University, Petersburg, Va.  May.

2008 The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record-- Background, Problems, and Prospects.  Conference, Digital Humanities and African American/Africa Disapora Studies, Univ. of Maryland (College Park), May.

Invited Lectures and Seminars on Research

1972 Univ. of the West Indies (Barbados), Centre for Multi-Racial Studies
1976 Univ. of Connecticut (Storrs), Dept. of Anthro.
1976 The Johns Hopkins Univ., Dept. of History
1977 Univ. of the West Indies (Barbados), Dept. of History
1979 Univ. of Chicago, Dept. of Economics, Economic History Workshop
1980 Wesleyan Univ., Dept. of History and Center for Afro-American Studies
1980 UCLA, Center for Afro-American Studies
1983 Univ. of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), Dept. of Anthro.
1983 College of William and Mary, Institute of Early American History and Culture and Dept. of Anthro.
1984 Univ. of Vermont, Dept. of Anthro.
1985 Univ. of Manitoba, Dept. of Anthro.
1989 Harvard Univ., DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research
1990 Univ. of Massachusetts (Amherst), Dept. of Anthro.
1990 Wellesley College, Dept. of Anthro.
1990 Boston Univ., Dept. of Archaeology
1990 Babson College, Dept. of American Studies
1990 Hamilton College, Dept. of History
1992 Barbados Museum and Historical Society
1992 Northwestern Univ., Program of African Studies
1993 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York)
1993 Northwestern Univ., Program of African Studies
1995 College of William and Mary, Institute of Early American History and Culture
1995 Univ. of Virginia, Dept. of Anthro.
1996 Virginia Commonwealth Univ., African-American Studies Program
1996 Virginia Tech, Depts. of Geography, History, and Sociology
1996 Univ. of Virginia, Carter Woodson Institute for Afro-American Studies
1997 Univ. of Virginia, Carter Woodson Institute for Afro-American Studies
1997 Univ. of Hull (England), Dept. of History
1998 Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
1998 UCLA, Dept. of History
1998 Univ. of Virginia (Abingdon), Division of Continuing Education
1998 Stanford Univ., African and Afro American Studies
1999 Virginia Commonwealth Univ., African American Studies
1999 Virginia Tech, Dept. of History
1999 Yale Univ., Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery
1999 Univ. of Virginia, Carter Woodson Institute for Afro-American Studies
2000 Univ. of the West Indies (Barbados), Dept. of History
2000 Virginia State Univ., Institute for the Study of Race Relations
2000 Northeastern Univ., Dept. of African-American Studies
2000 Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, NEH Summer Institute for School Teachers
2000 Brown Univ., The John Carter Brown Library
2000 Davidson College, North Carolina
2000 Barnard College, Barnard Forum on Migration
2000 Univ. of Vermont, Depts. of Anthro, English, Geography, History
2001 Univ. of the West Indies (Barbados), Dept. of History
2001 Bard College (Annandale, NY), Dept. of History
2001 Union College (Schenectady, NY), Depts. of History and Africana Studies
2001 Univ. of Maryland (College Park), Center for Historical Studies
2001 Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, NEH Summer Institute for College Teachers
2001 Univ. of Connecticut (Storrs), Dept. of History, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies,
         Dept. of Anthro
2001 Colgate Univ. (Hamilton, NY), Africana and Latin American Studies, Dept. of Anthro. and Soc.
2001 Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA), Black Studies, and Depts. of Religion, Soc./Anthro., History,
         and Religion
2001 Rider Univ. (Trenton, NJ), Dept. of History
2002 Univ. of Pennsylvania, African Studies Center
2002 Univ. of Arizona, Dept. of Anthro.
2002 Univ. of the West Indies (Barbados), Dept. of History
2002 Princeton Univ., Program in African-American Studies
2002 Temple Univ., Dept. of Anthro.
2002 Library Company of Philadelphia
2003 Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Georgia
2003 Univ. of the West Indies (Barbados), Dept. of History
2003 Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers
2003 Univ. of Toronto, Dept. of History, African Studies and Caribbean Studies
2004 Princeton Univ., Program in Latin American Studies
2005 Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers
2005 College of Charleston, Program in the Carolina Low Country and Atlantic World, The Transatlantic Slave Trade,                                   Teacher Training Workshop
2005 College of William and Mary, Dept. of Anthro.
2006 Syracuse Univ., Dept. of Anthro.
2006 University of Sussex (Eng.), Dept. of American Studies
2006 Univ. of Cambridge (Cambridge, Eng.), African Studies Centre
2007 Univ. of the West Indies (Barbados), School of Medicine
2007 The John Carter Brown Library, Brown Univ.
2007 Univ. of California, Berkeley, Depts of African American Studies and Anthro.
2008 Washington and Lee Univ. (Lexington, Va.), Center for International Education

Symposia and Panels

1971  Invited discussant, symposium: The Role of the Free Black and Free Mulatto in the Slave Societies of the New World. The Johns Hopkins University

1972  Chair and organizer, panel: Anthropologists with Interests in the Caribbean. American Anthropological Association, Annual Meeting, Toronto

1973  Invited discussant, symposium: Creole Societies in the Americas and Africa. The Johns Hopkins University

1974  Invited discussant, panel: Material Culture and History. Conference on the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake.  Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.) and the Dept of History, Univ. of Maryland

1975  Chair and organizer, panel: Culture Change in the Caribbean. Caribbean Studies Association, Annual Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico

1975  Invited Chair, session: Political, Social and Economic Adjustments to the Ending of Slavery in the Caribbean. Association of Caribbean Historians, Annual Conference, University of the West Indies, Jamaica

1975  Chair and organizer, panel: Anthropological Research in the Caribbean: Current Status and Future Prospects. American Anthropological Association, Annual Meeting, San Francisco

1976  Invited moderator, symposium: Influence of the Cuban Revolution on Caribbean Society. Latin American Studies Center, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana

1976  Invited chair, session: Association of Caribbean Historians, Annual Conference, Martinique

1978  Invited chair, panel: Slavery. Association of Caribbean Historians, Annual Conference, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands

1979  Invited discussant, symposium: Language and Culture in South Carolina, sessions on historical approaches to the study of language and culture in South Carolina and historical archaeology. University of South Carolina, Columbia

1979  Invited chair, panel: Sources of Caribbean History and Directions for New Research. Association of Caribbean Historians, Annual Conference, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles

1980  Invited chair, panel: The Role of Ideas in Caribbean History. Association of Caribbean Historians, Annual Conference, Univ. of the West Indies, Trinidad

1980  Invited chair and organizer, panel: The Role and Function of Plantations in Caribbean Societies. Caribbean Studies Association, Annual Meeting, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles

1982  Invited chair, panel: The Development of Barbadian Society: Slavery and After. Association of Caribbean Historians, Annual Conference, Univ. of Puerto Rico

1982  Invited discussant, panel: Volunteered Papers in Anthropology. Caribbean Studies Association, Annual Meeting, Kingston, Jamaica

1998  Invited chair, session: Transatlantic Slaving and the African Diaspora: Using the DuBois Institute Dataset of Slaving Voyages, Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VA

1999  Invited discussant, conference: Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture, International Center of Jefferson Studies, Monticello, Charlottesville, VA

1999  Invited chair, panel: Association of Caribbean Historians, Annual Conference, Havana, Cuba

2000  Invited chair, panel: Crossing Boundaries: The African Diaspora in the New Millenium, conference, New York University

2000 Invited discussant, conference: The Arming of Slaves from the Classical Era to the American Civil War, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University

2004  Invited panelist, Hughes and Campbell: Stalwarts of Local History, Assocation of Caribbean Historians, Annual Conference, Barbados

Publications -- Books and Monographs

1971  A Guide to Source Materials for the Study of Barbados History, 1627-1834. The Southern Illinois University Press, 205 pp.

1974  The Unappropriated People: Freedmen in the Slave Society of Barbados. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 225 pp.

1978 (J. S. Handler and F. W. Lange), Plantation Slavery in Barbados: An Archaeological and Historical Investigation. Harvard University Press, 368 pp.  Reprinted, 1999.

1989 (J. S. Handler, with M. Conner and K. Jacobi), Searching for a Slave Cemetery in Barbados, West Indies. A Bioarchaeological and Ethnohistorical Investigation. Southern Illinois University: Center for Archaeological Investigations, Research Paper No. 59, 125 pp.

1991 Supplement to A Guide to Source Materials for the Study of Barbados History, 1627-1834. Brown University: The John Carter Brown Library, 89 pp.

In prep. Africans and Creoles: Studies in Barbados Slave Life, 1627-1834

Publications -- Articles and Chapters

1963    Pottery Making in Rural Barbados. Southwestern Jl. of Anthrop 19: 314-34

1963    A Historical Sketch of Pottery Manufacture in Barbados. Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc. 30:129-53

1964    Notes on Pottery Making in Antigua. Man: A Record of Anthropological Science 64: 150-51

1965    Some Aspects of Work Organization on Sugar Plantations in Barbados. Ethnology 4:16-38. Reprinted in L. Comitas and D. Lowenthal, eds.,Work and Family Life: West Indian Perspectives (Garden City: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1973), pp. 95-126

1965    The History of Arrowroot Production in Barbados and the Chalky Mount Arrowroot Growers' Association, a Peasant Marketing Experiment that Failed. Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc. 31:131-52

1966    Small-Scale Sugar Cane Farming in Barbados. Ethnology 5: 264-83

1967    Father Antoine Biet's Visit to Barbados in 1654. Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc.32: 56-76. Reprinted in P. Campbell, ed., Chapters in Barbados History (Bridgetown: Barbados Museum and Historical Society, 1986), pp. 90-95

1969    The Amerindian Slave Population of Barbados in the 17th and  early 18th Centuries. Caribbean Studies 8: 38-64

1969    (A. Gunkel and J. S. Handler ), A Swiss Medical Doctor's Description of Barbados in 1661: The Account of Felix Christian Spoeri. Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc. 33: 3-13

1970    Aspects of Amerindian Ethnography in Seventeenth Century Barbados. Caribbean Studies 9: 50-72

1970    (A. Gunkel and J. S. Handler), A German Indentured Servant in Barbados in 1652: The Account of Heinrich von Uchteritz. Jl.of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc. 33: 91-100

1970    African Immigrants and Their Descendants in Barbados: The Social and Cultural Life of a West Indies Slave Population, 1640-1834. American Philosophical Society, Yearbook 1969.Philadelphia, pp. 384-86

1971    The History of Arrowroot and the Origin of Peasantries in the British West Indies. Jl. of Caribbean History 2: 46-93

1972    (J. S. Handler and C. Frisbie), Aspects of Slave Life in Barbados: Music and Its Cultural Context. Caribbean Studies 9: 5-46

1972    (J. S. Handler and A. A. Sio) Barbados. In D.W. Cohen and J.P. Greene, eds., Neither Slave Nor Free: The Freedman of African Descent in the Slave Societies of the New World (The Johns Hopkins University Press), pp. 214-57

1972    An Archaeological Investigation of the Domestic Life of Plantation Slaves in Barbados. Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc.34: 64-72

1973    (J. S. Handler and L. Shelby), A Seventeenth Century Commentary on Labor and Military Problems in Barbados. Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc. 34: 117-21

1975    Memoirs of an Old Army Officer: Richard A. Wyvill's Visits to Barbados in 1796 and 1806-7. Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc.35: 21-30

1976    Sources for the Study of Preemancipation Sugar Plantations in Barbados: Manuscripts Relating to Newton and Seawell Plantations. Caribbean Archives 5: 11-21

1977    Amerindians and Their Contributions to Barbadian Life in the Seventeenth Century. Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc. 35:189-210

1977    The Jamaican Arawak "Bird Man": Notes on the Emblem of the Association of Caribbean Historians. Bulletin of the Association of Caribbean Historians 8:1-12

1978    The "Bird Man": A Jamaican Arawak Wooden "Idol." Jamaica Journal 11: 25-29

1978    (D. Gobert and J. S. Handler), Barbados in the Post-Apprenticeship Period: The Observations of a French Naval Officer, Part I.  Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc. 35: 243-66

1978    (J. S. Handler and F. W. Lange), Mortuary Patterns of Plantation Slaves in Barbados. Proceedings of the Conference of Caribbean Historians, 1977 Conference Papers. Cave Hill, Barbados, pp. 487-529

1979    (D. Gobert and J. S. Handler), Barbados in the Post- Apprenticeship Period: The Observations of a French Naval Officer, Part II. Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc. 36:4-15

1979    (J. S. Handler, F. W. Lange,  and C. E. Orser), Carnelian Beads in Necklaces from a Slave Cemetery in Barbados.  Ornament: A Quarterly of Jewelry & Personal Adornment 4: l5-l8

1979    (J. S. Handler and F. W. Lange), Plantation Slavery on Barbados, West Indies.  Archaeology 32: 45-52

1980    (D. Gobert and J. S. Handler), Barbados in the Apprenticeship Period: The Report of a French Colonial Official. Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc. 36: 108-28

1980    (J. S. Handler and S. J.  Hough), Addenda to A Guide to Source Materials for the Study of Barbados History, 1627-1834: Part I.  Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc. 36: 172-77

1980    (R. S. Corruccini and J. S. Handler), Temporomandibular Joint Size Decrease in American Blacks: Evidence from Barbados.  Jl. of Dental Research 59:1528

1980    (F. W. Lange and J. S. Handler), The Archaeology of Mapp's Cave: A Contribution to the Prehistory of Barbados. Jl. of theVirgin Islands Archaeological Society 9: 3-l7

1981    Biographical Notes on Auguste Bernard: A French Colonial Official Who Visited Barbados in 1835. Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc.36: 296-97

1981    (J. S. Handler and S. J. Hough), Addenda to A Guide to Source Materials for the Study of Barbados History, 1627-1834: Part II. Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc. 36: 279-85

1981    Freedmen in Barbados. In R. Delson, ed., Readings in Caribbean History and Economics: An Introduction to the Region (New York and London: Gordon and Breach), pp. 84-90

1981    A Ghanaian Pipe from a Slave Cemetery in Barbados, West Indies. West African Jl. of Archaeology 11: 93-99

1981    Joseph Rachell and Rachael Pringle Polgreen: Petty Entrepreneurs. In G.Nash and D. Sweet, eds., Struggle and Survival in Colonial America (University of California Press), pp. 376-91.  Reprinted, Lucha por la Supervivencia en la América Colonial (Mexico,1987), pp. 486-96

1982    Addenda to A Guide to Source Materials for the Study of Barbados History, l627-1834: Part III.  Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc.36: 385-97

1982    The Barbados Slave Conspiracies of 1675 and 1692.  Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc. 36: 312-33

1982    (J. S. Handler and R. S. Corruccini), Report on a Physical Anthropological Analysis of a Barbados Slave Population. Newsletter of the Caribbean Studies Association 9: 7-8

1982    (J. S. Handler, R. S. Corruccini,  R. Mutaw), Tooth Mutilation in the Caribbean: Evidence from a Slave Burial Population in Barbados.  Jl. of Human Evolution 11: 297-313

1982    Slave Revolts and Conspiracies in Seventeenth Century Barbados. Nieuwe West-Indische Gids--New West Indian Guide 56: 5-43

1982    (R. S. Corruccini, J. S. Handler,  R. Mutaw, and F. W. Lange), The Osteology of a Slave Burial Population from Barbados, West Indies. Amer. Jl. of Phy. Anthrop. 59: 443-59

1983    Addenda to A Guide to Source Materials for the Study of Barbados History, 1627-1834: Part IV.  Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc. 37: 82-92

1983    (J. S. Handler and R. S. Corruccini), Plantation Slave Life in Barbados: A Physical Anthropological Analysis.  Jl. of Interdisciplinary History 14: 65-90

1983    An African Pipe from a Slave Cemetery in Barbados, West Indies. In P.Davey, ed., The Archaeology of the Clay Tobacco Pipe: America. British Archaeological Reports, International Series 175: 245-54

1984    (J. S. Handler and J. Pohlmann), Slave Manumissions and Freedmen in Seventeenth-Century Barbados. William and Mary Quarterly 41: 390-408

1984    Freedmen and Slaves in the Barbados Militia.  Jl. of Caribbean History 19: 1-25.

1985    (F. W. Lange and J. S. Handler) The Ethnohistorical Approach to Slavery. In T. Singleton, ed., The Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life (New York: Academic Press), pp. 15-32

1985    Addenda to A Guide to Source Materials for the Study of Barbados History, 1627-1834: Part V. Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc. 37: 296-307

1985    (R. S. Corruccini, J. S. Handler, K. Jacobi), Chronological Distribution of Enamel Hypoplasias and Weaning in a Caribbean Slave Population.  Human Biology 57: 699-711

1986    (J. S. Handler and R. S. Corruccini), Weaning among West Indian Slaves: Historical and Bioanthropological Evidence from Barbados. William and Mary Quarterly 43: 111-17

1986    (J. S. Handler, A. C. Aufderheide, R.S.  Corruccini), Lead Contact and Poisoning in Barbados Slaves: Historical, Chemical, and Bioanthropological Evidence. Social Science History 10: 399-425. Reprinted in K. Kiple, ed. The African Exchange: Toward a Biological History of Black People (Durham: Duke University Press, 1988), pp.140-66

1987    Addenda to A Guide to Source Materials for the Study of Barbados History, 1627-1834: Part VI. Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc. 38: 107-16

1987    (R. S. Corruccini, K. Jacobi,  J. S. Handler, A. C. Aufderheide), Implications of Tooth Root Hypercementosis in a Barbado Slave Skeletal Collection. Amer. Jl . of  Phy. Anthrop. 74: 179-84

1987    (R. S. Corruccini, A.C. Aufderheide, J. S.  Handler, L. Wittmers), Patterning of Skeletal Lead Content in Barbados Slaves.  Archaeometery 29: 233-39

1989    (R. S. Corruccini, E. Brandon, J. S. Handler), Inferring Fertility from Relative Mortality in Historically Controlled Cemetery Remains from Barbados. American Antiquity 54: 609-14

1990    Searching for a Slave Cemetery in Barbados.  National Geographic Research 6: 5-6

1992    (K. Jacobi, D. Cook, R. Corruccini,  J.  Handler), Congenital Syphilis in the Past: Slaves at Newton Plantation, Barbados West Indies.  Amer. Jl. of Phy. Anthrop. 89:145-58

1993    (J. Howson and J. S. Handler), Update: New York's African Burial Ground.  African American Archaeology 7: 4-5

1993    Update # 3: New York's African Burial Ground. African American Archaeology 9:1-2

1993    (J. S. Handler  and J. Jacoby), Slave Medicine and Plant Use  in Barbados.  Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc.  41: 74-98

1994    Determining African Birth from Skeletal Remains: A Note on Tooth Mutilation. Historical Archaeology 28: 113-19

1994    (J. R. Rickford and J. S. Handler), Textual Evidence on the Nature of Early Barbadian Speech, 1676-1835. Jl. of Pidgin and Creole Languages 9: 221-55

1994    Update # 4: New York's African Burial Ground. African American Archaeology 12: 1-2

1995    An African-Type Slave Burial [from] Newton Plantation, Barbados.  African American Archaeology 15: 1, 5

1996    (J. S. Handler and J.  Jacoby), Slave Names and Naming in Barbados, 1650-1830. William and Mary Quarterly 53: 685-728

1996    A Prone Burial from a Plantation Cemetery in Barbados, West Indies: Possible Evidence for an African-type Witch or Other Negatively Viewed Person. Historical Archaeology 30:76-86

1997    An African-Type Healer/Diviner and His Grave Goods: A Burial from a Plantation Slave Cemetery in Barbados, West Indies. International Jl. of Historical Archaeology 1: 91-130

1997    Escaping Slavery in a Caribbean Plantation Society: Marronage in Barbados, 1650s-1830s. Nieuwe West-Indische Gids--New West Indian Guide 71:183-225

1998    Problematical Glass Artifacts from Newton Plantation Slave Cemetery, Barbados. African American Archaeology 20:1, 5-6

1998    Life Histories of Enslaved Africans in Barbados. Slavery & Abolition 19:129-41

1999    Freedmen and Slaves in the Barbados Militia. In A. J. R. Russell-Wood, ed., Local Government in European Overseas Empires, 1450-1800, An Expanding World, vol. 21, pt. 2, pp. 389-413, London: Aldershot (originally published in Jl. of Caribbean History 19 [1984]: 1-25)

2000    Slave Medicine and Obeah in Barbados, ca. 1650-1834. Nieuwe West-Indische Gids--New West Indian Guide 74: 57-60

2000    Archaeological Evidence for a Possible Witch in Barbados, West Indies.  In E. Breslaw, ed., Witches of the Atlantic World: A Historical Reader and Primary Sourcebook (New York University Press), pp.176-180

2000    The Jamaican Taino "Bird Man": Notes on the Emblem of the ACH. Bulletin of the Association of Caribbean Historians.  No. 53 (December 2000), pp. 8-12.

2001    (J. S. Handler and K. Bilby), On the Early Use and Origin of the Term Obeah in Barbados and the Anglophone Caribbean.  Slavery & Abolition  22:87-100.

2001    (J. S. Handler and R. Hughes), The 1816 Slave Revolt in Barbados and the Petition of Samuel Hall Lord.  Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc.  47: 267-86.

2002    Survivors of the Middle Passage: Life Histories of Enslaved Africans in British America. Slavery & Abolition  23:25-56.

2002    Plantation Slave Settlements in Barbados, 1650s-1834.  In A. Thompson, ed., In the Shadow of the Plantation: Caribbean History and Legacy (Ian Randle publisher, Kingston, Jamaica),  pp. 121-158

2004    (K. Bilby and J. S. Handler), Obeah: Healing and Protection in West Indian Slave Life.  Jl of Caribbean History 38: 153-183.

2005  A Rare Eighteenth-Century Tract in Defence of Slavery in Barbados:  The Thoughts of the Rev. John Duke, Curate of St. Michael’s.  Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc. 51:58-65.

2006     (J. S. Handler and A. Steiner), Identifying Pictorial Images of Atlantic Slavery:  Three Case Studies.   Slavery & Abolition 27: 49-69.

2006   (J.S. Handler and F.W. Lange), On Interpreting Slave Status from Archaeological Remains.  African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter.  June.  http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/news0606/news0606.html#1

2006   Diseases and Medical Disabilities of Enslaved Barbadians, From the Seventeenth Century to around 1838, Part I.  Jl. of Caribbean History 40: 1-38.

2006  Diseases and Medical Disabilities of Enslaved Barbadians, From the Seventeenth Century to around 1838, Part II.  Jl. of Caribbean History 40: 177-214.

2006  On the Transportation of Material Goods by Enslaved Africans during the Middle Passage: Preliminary Findings From Documentary Sources.  African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter.  December.  http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/news1206/news1206-1.html

2006   (F. Brady and J. Handler), Jonathan Corncob Visits Barbados: Excerpts from a Little-Known 18th Century Novel.  Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc. 52:17-34.

2006   Bibliographic Addenda to Guides for the Study of Barbados History, 1971 & 1991. Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc. 52: 35-53.

2007  From Cambay in India to Barbados in the Caribbean: Two Unique Beads from Newton Plantation Slave Cemetery.  African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter. March.  http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/news0307/news0307.html#1

2007  (J. Handler and N. Norman), From West Africa to Barbados: A Rare Pipe from a Plantation Slave Cemetery.  African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter. September.  http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/news0907/news0907.html#2

2007  Bibliographic Addenda to Guides for the Study of Barbados History, 1971 & 1991: Installment Two. Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc. 53: 199-211.

2008  Aspects of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Smoking Pipes, Tobacco, and the Middle Passage.  African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter. June.  http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/news0608/news0608.html#5

2008   (J. S. Handler and K. E. Hayes), From Arago to Anastacia: The Transformation of a 19th Century French Engraving into a 20th Century Afro-Brazilian Cult Figure.   In A. Apter and L. Derby, eds., Activating the Past: Historical Memory in the Black Atlantic.  Newcastle-on-Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.  In Press

2009  The Middle Passage and the Material Culture of Captive Africans.  Slavery and Abolition.  In Press.

In prep.  (J.S. Handler and K. E. Hayes), Escrava Anastacia: The Iconographic History of a Brazilian Popular Saint

In prep.  Coffles and Canoes: The Transportation of Captive Africans from the Interior to Coastal Embarkation Points, Documentary Images and Textual Accounts (provisional title)

In prep. The Population of Barbados, 1627-1834: Statistics and Sources (provisional title)

In prep.  Scarification/"Country Marks" among Enslaved Populations in Anglo-America (provisional title)

Websites

    J. S. Handler and M. L. Tuite, The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record. Presented by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the Digital Media Lab at the University of Virginia Library   http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/  or http://www.slaveryimages.org

    J.S. Handler and M. L. Tuite, Retouching History: The Modern Falsification of a Civil War Photograph (2007).  http://www.retouchinghistory.org

Publications -- Miscellaneous

1980   (J. S. Handler and T. Harding), Obituary of Richard Frucht. American Anthropologist 82: 552-54

1986   (B. Cohen,  J. Chandler, J. S. Handler), Subject Index to the Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc., by Michael J. Chandler.  Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc. and the Barbados Dept. of Archives,  56 pp.

1999   (J. S. Handler, R. Hughes, E. M. Wiltshire), Freedmen of Barbados: Names and Notes for Geneological and Family History Research.  Charlottesville: Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 60 pp.

1999    (J. S. Handler and M. W. Wolfskill), The Papers of Margaret Mead at the Library of Congress [published as "Library of Congress Holds Mead Papers"] Anthropology News 40:23

2000   The Barbados Slave Insurrection of 1816: Can it be properly called "Bussa's Rebellion"? Barbados Sunday Advocate, March 26

2000   Evidence and Dogma: More on the 1816 Revolt. Barbados SundayAdvocate, April 15

2000   Bussa Not the Leader. Barbados Sunday Advocate, April 3

2001   (P. Francis and J. S. Handler), Margaret Mead Exhibition at the Library of Congress,
Anthropology News 42:8

2001   (P. Francis and J. S. Handler), Library Opens Exhibition on Margaret Mead, The Gazette (Library of Congress),
12: 1, 6

2001    Slave Houses in Barbados, Our Heritage: Newsletter of the Barbados National Trust, vol. 18, pp. 8-9

2002    Who Established the Location of the George Washington House? Our Heritage: Newsletter of the Barbados National Trust, vol. 19, p. 2 

2007  (J. S. Handler, R. Hughes, M. Newton, P. W. Welch, E. Wiltshire), Freedmen of Barbados: Names and Notes for Geneological and Family History Research.  2nd ed. revised and enlarged. Charlottesville: Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 100 pp.

Book Reviews and Notes: American Anthropologist, The Sociological Quarterly, American Scientist, American Antiquity, Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, Nautical Research Journal (22)