Christopher R. DeCorse is Professor and Chair of Anthropology in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. He is an anthropologically trained archaeologist with an area focus on West Africa. His research interests include African archaeology and history, culture contact, general anthropology, and popular culture in archaeology. He is currently directing ongoing research projects in coastal Ghana (particularly the African settlement at Elmina, the site of the first and largest European trade post established in sub-Saharan Africa) and at Bunce Island, Sierra Leone, a major English trade entrepot on the West African coast. DeCorse’s books on African archaeology include: An Archaeology of Elmina: Africans and Europeans on the Gold Coast, 1400-1900 (Smithsonian Press, 2001, now available from Eliot Werner Publications http://www.eliotwerner.com) and West Africa during the Atlantic Slave Trade (an edited volume published by Leicester University Press, 2001). DeCorse’s 2008 book, co-edited with John Walton and James Brooks, brings together the work of twelve scholars from diverse disciplines to explore theoretical vantage and method in the interpretation of the past through the lense of microhistory. DeCorse’s textbooks include the four-field book Anthropology: A Global Perspective (Pearson, 2012, coauthored with Raymond Scupin); In the Beginning: An Introduction to Archaeology, 12th Edition (Prentice Hall, 2005, with Brian Fagan) and; The Record of the Past: An Introduction to Archaeology and Physical Anthropology (Prentice Hall, 2000). DeCorse has also authored or co-authored more than 40 book chapters, journals articles, and reviews.