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= Susan Keech McIntosh = Susan Keech McIntosh, (-) is an American archaeologist, known for her work on prehistoric state formation in West Africa and for co-leading the excavations at Djenné-Djenno.

Education
McIntosh studied at Wellesley College, Massachusetts from 1969-71. From here, she studied BA Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1973 with the highest honours. In 1975, McIntosh graduated from the University of Cambridge with MA Archaeology and in 1979 was awarded her PhD from the University of California at Santa Barbara. The PhD dissertation title was 'Archaeological Exploration in Terra Incognita: Excavations at Jenne-Jeno (Mali, West Africa).

Career
Since 1984, she has taught at Rice University, where she has occupied the prestigious position of Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Anthropology since 2012.

1988-2012 Professor of Anthropology, Rice University. 1984-1988 Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rice University

position as a faculty affiliate for the Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality.

McIntosh is currently the interim dean for the School of Social Sciences.

McIntosh, who was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University from 1989-90

From 1980, for twelve seasons, McIntosh co-directed field research in the Middle Niger and Middle Senegal Valleys, with funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society. These years in the field culminated in major monographs of the sites of Jenne-Jeno (1980; 1995), Sincu Bara (2002) and Cubalel (2016).

‘Beyond Chiefdoms’ (1999) which explores multiple alternatives to social evolution and hierarchical approaches.

Professor McIntosh has herself been a major proponent of the notion of heterarchy and ways that it might be recognised in the archaeological record. McIntosh’s instruction to correct our intellectual biases is clear, from the inclusion of horizontal social stratification as a form of power to the need for African theories and models to be considered outside of Africanist circles in our increasingly globalized world.

archaeology of climate change (The Way the Wind Blows, 2000)

As the looting of terracotta statuettes from the Middle Niger became an increasing problem, McIntosh published and lectured on the subject to raise awareness.

The fight for fair practice continued as McIntosh served as a member of the US Cultural Property Advisory Committee from 1996 to 2003, an important example of the political influence archaeologists can wield

served two terms on the Cultural Property Advisory Committee (now part of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs) from 1995-2003 following her appointment by President Bill Clinton.

Faculty Senate from 2009-10 and 2013-18, including as speaker from 2010-12. She chaired the Committee on the Undergraduate Curriculum from 2007-10 and 2013-18. During this period, she also served on the Social Sciences Advisory Committee (2008-10) and the Dean of Social Science’s Personnel, Planning and Priorities Committee (2016-18) and was the Director of Scientia (2006-15). Earlier, she chaired an ad hoc committee on infant and child care (2003-07) that successfully proposed the construction of the Rice child-care facility. She was co-magister of Baker College from 1984-89. In 2018, she was a recipient of the inaugural Award for University Service and Leadership.

Academic Societies: West African Archaeological Association, Society of Africanist Archaeologists, MANSA (Mande Studies Association)

Editorial Positions: Current Anthropology, Associate Editor for Archaeology, 1985-1987 Journal of African History, Editorial Board, 1989-1994 Journal of World Prehistory, Editorial Board, 1987-2009 Antiquity, Correspondent for Africa, 2004-2012 Editorial Board, 1993-1998; 2013-2019; African Archaeological Review, Editorial Board, 1995-present Guest editor (with J. Fleisher and K. DeLuna), Volume 29 (2–3), 2012 "Thinking Across the African Past: Interdisciplinarity and Early History" Annual Editions: Physical Anthropology, Editorial Advisory Board 1997–2013 Public Archaeology, 1998–2012 Journal of African Archaeology, 2003–present Archéologie: Afrique et Art, 2004–present Journal des Africanistes, Comité Scientifique, 2018–present

Excavations
From 1980, for twelve seasons, McIntosh co-directed field research in the Middle Niger and Middle Senegal Valleys, with funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society. These years in the field culminated in major monographs of the sites of Jenne-Jeno (1980; 1995), Sincu Bara (2002) and Cubalel (2016).

Co-director, excavation at Djenné, Mali 12/96–2/97 Co-director, excavation at Jenné-jeno, Mali 12/93–2/94 Co-director, survey and coring at Jenné-jeno, Mali 12/91–2/92 11/90–6/91 Co-director, excavation and survey in the Middle Senegal Valley 12/88–2/89 Co-director, Senegalese tumuli survey 12/86–2/87 Co-director of excavation and survey at Dia (Macina), Mali 6 12/83–2/84 Co-director of survey in Timbuktu, Mali 12/80–8/81 Co-director of excavations at Jenne-jeno, Mali and regional survey 1/77–8/77 Co-director of excavations at Jenne-jeno and regional survey