Atkinson, James R. 1942-

PERSONAL:

Born October 29, 1942, in Houston, MS; divorced; children: three sons. Ethnicity: "Caucasian." Education: Mississippi State University, B.S., 1965, M.S., 1968, M.S.S., 1977.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Starkville, MS. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Mississippi Highway Department, Jackson, field auditor, 1965-66; U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Washington, DC, park ranger and historian at Albright Training Center, Grand Canyon, AZ, 1968, historian at Morristown National Historical Park, Morristown, NJ, 1969, ranger and historian at Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, MD, 1969-71; Roosevelt State Park, Morton, MS, ranger and park superintendent, 1971-72; Herschede Hall Clock Co., Starkville, MS, quality control supervisor, 1974-75; Mississippi State University, field director of surveys, excavations, and other archaeological projects in Mississippi and adjacent areas, between 1975 and 1981; Prewitt and Associates, Inc., field director of lakes survey in Missouri, 1982; University of Mississippi, Oxford, field director for Center for Archaeological Research, 1982-83; self-employed archaeological consultant, Jackson, 1983-84; National Park Service, Southeast Archaeological Center, Tallahassee, FL, prehistoric and historic archaeologist based at Natchez Trace Parkway, Tupelo, MS, 1984-97; retired, 1997.

WRITINGS:

(Editor, and author of introduction) Dear Homefolks: The World War II Letters of William Bryce Atkinson, Medic, 155th Infantry, 31st Division (Dixie Division), privately printed (Houston, MS), 1999.

Splendid Land, Splendid People: The Chickasaw Indians to Removal, University of Alabama Press (Tuscaloosa, AL), 2004.

Contributor to conference proceedings and other collections. Contributor to periodicals, including Civil War Times Illustrated, Southeastern Archaeology, North American Archaeologist, Journal of Alabama Archaeology, Journal of Mississippi History, Mississippi Archaeology, and Northeast Mississippi Historical Journal.