Teaching Assistant Professor
mcpawlowicz@vcu.edu
804.827.3638
Fax - 804.828.3479
Office - Lafayette Hall Room 302
312 N. Shafer St.
Richmond, VA 23220
Matthew Pawlowicz received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Virginia in 2011. He is an archaeologist who has been involved in research in eastern and southern Africa since 2003. His most recent project combines research strategies from archaeology and historical linguistics to explore histories of migration and movement in central Zambia over the past two-thousand years. Other ongoing work includes archaeological study of the Swahili sites of Gede and Songo Mnara along the East African coast.
Pawlowicz has taught in the anthropology program at VCU since the spring of 2012. Courses he teaches include Introduction to Anthropology, Anthropological Linguistics, World Archaeology, African Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Environmental Archaeology, Language and Prehistory, and Anthropological Theory and Practice.
Ph.D. University of Virginia, 2011
M.A. University of Virginia, 2007
B.A. Yale University, 2004