Dr. Robert Cook
Member of the Faculty Oversight Committee
2062 Founders Hall
1179 University Drive
Newark, Ohio 43055
Research Interests
- Family and political structures in early farming communities
- Inter-regional interaction and the evolution of social complexity
- Settlement and landscape archaeology
- Mortuary analysis
- Experimental archaeology
- Public interpretation
- Fort Ancient, Mississippians
- Ohio Valley prehistory
Current Graduate Students
Ongoing Newark Earthwork's Center's Research
- Indigenous Ohio: OSU and Native Arts and Humanities Past and Present Grant
Research
- "Beyond Squier and Davis: Rediscovering Ohio's Earthworks Using Geophysical Remote Sensing"
- Jarrod Burks and Robert A. Cook, American Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, Vol 76, Issue 4, October 2011, Page 667-689.
- Continuity and Change in the Native American Village | Multicultural Origins and Descendants of the Fort Ancient Culture
- Cambridge University Press. 2017.
- Harvard Peabody Museum Collections
- Dr. Robert Cook, "Ohio archaeological collections, which are currently being cataloged to support the work of visiting researcher and professor Dr. Robert Cook of The Ohio State University."
- Sunwatch: Fort Ancient Development in the Mississippian World
- The University of Alabama Press. 2007.
Awards
- 2014 The Ohio State University at Newark Scholarly Accomplishment Award (tenured category)
- 2013 The Ohio State University at Newark Mentoring of Undergraduate Research Award
- 2013 C. B. Moore Award for Excellence in Southeastern Archaeology (nominated)
- 2011 The Ohio State University at Newark Teaching Excellence Award (nominated)
- 2008 The Ohio State University Mentor Award (nominated)
- 2008 The Ohio State University at Newark Scholarly Accomplishment Award (pre-tenured category)
- 2001 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
- 1992 Pi Gamma Mu International Honor Society in Social Science
- 1991 Golden Key National Honor Society