Brian C Wilson

Brian C. Wilson is a historical anthropologist and archaeologist with a PhD from the University of Chicago. He has held several academic and administrative positions at the University of Chicago and has been visiting faculty at Northeastern Illinois University. He has participated in survey and excavation projects in India, Oman, and the American Midwest, South and South-west. His work demonstrates how South Asian colonial urbanisms are inextricable from their constitutive human-environment...See more

Brian C. Wilson is a historical anthropologist and archaeologist with a PhD from the University of Chicago. He has held several academic and administrative positions at the University of Chicago and has been visiting faculty at Northeastern Illinois University. He has participated in survey and excavation projects in India, Oman, and the American Midwest, South and South-west. His work demonstrates how South Asian colonial urbanisms are inextricable from their constitutive human-environment interactions. Some of his recent publications have appeared in Cross-Cultural Networking in the Indian Ocean Realm, c. 100-1800 (2019) and Historical Archaeology (with Mark Hauser, 2016). See less