Robbie Ethridge (Ph.D. Georgia 1996)

Dr. Robbie Ethridge is McMullan Associate Professor of Southern Studies and Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Mississippi. She received her Ph. D. in 1996 at the University of Georgia in anthropology. Her specialities are ethnohistory, cultural anthropology and environmental anthropology, with a focus on the history of the Southeastern Indians during the Historic Period. She is the 1999 recipient of the Robert C. Anderson Award from the University of Georgia, awarded to recent graduates for innovative research. Dr. Ethridge is the author of several papers on the Southeastern Indians, and she is the co-editor, along with Charles Hudson, of the volume The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760 (University Press of Mississippi, 2002). She is the author of Creek Country: The Creek Country and Their World, 1796-1816, (University of North Carolina Press, 2003). She is currently researching the involvement of the seventeenth-century Chickasaws in the Indian slave trade and the modern world economy.

Associate Professor of Anthroplogy and McMillan Associate Professor of Southern Studies
Historic Southeastern Indians, Environmental Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology
Phone: 662-915-7317
Office: Leavell 207
E-mail: rethridg@olemiss.edu