(2011) Associate Professor and Museum Director Office: Dean Hall 334 Phone: 963-3209 Email: auslanderm@cwu.edu

Interests and Expertise: Sociocultural anthropology, museum anthropology, art and aesthetics, meaning in the material world, symbolic mediation, ritual and performance theory, historical anthropology, race and class, engaged anthropology, slavery studies, contemporary African and Diasporic art. Ethnographic areas: Sub-saharan Africa, Zambia and South Africa; African Diaspora, United States; African American communities; U.S. South

Mark is the author of The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of the American South (University of Georgia Press, 2011), winner of the Delmos Jones and Jagna Sharff Memorial Book Prize from the Society for the Anthropology of North America, and the second book prize of the 2012 Victor Turner Ethnographic Writing Award from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology.