Robbie Ethridge

Robbie Franklyn Ethridge (born 1955) is an American anthropologist and author. She is a professor of anthropology at the University of Mississippi.^[1]

Education

In 1996, Ethridge received a PhD from the University of Georgia.^[1]

Career

She is a founding editor of the journal Native South. She is also the North American associate editor for the journal Ethnohistory.^[1]

Awards and honors

She received the Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award for "an outstanding record or research accomplishment" from the University of Georgia, her alma mater, in January 2000.^[2] Her 2010 book From Chicaza to Chickasaw, on European impacts on Mississippian culture, won the James Mooney Award from the Southern Anthropological Society.^[3]

Selected publications

• The Historical Turn in Southeastern Archaeology. Robbie Ethridge & Eric Bowne, eds., (University Press of Florida, 2020)^[4]
• From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540–1715 (University of North Carolina Press, 2010)^[5]
• 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)^[6]
• Light on the Path: The Anthropology and History of the Southeastern Indians (University of Alabama Press, 2006) (editor, with Thomas J. Pluckhahn)^[7]
• Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World (University of North Carolina Press, 2003)^[8]
• The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540–1760. Robbie Ethridge & Charles Hudson, eds., (University Press of Mississippi, 2002)^[9]