Joseph A.P. Wilson 

Education

PhD - Anthropology, University of Florida

MS - Industrial Archaeology, Michigan Technological University

MA - Oriental and African Religions, University of London SOAS

BS - Anthropology and Religious Studies, Kent State University. Phi Beta Kappa

Select Peer-Reviewed Publications

• “Some of Them Want to Get Used by You: Outsider Archaeology’s Strategic Exploitation of Predatory Open Access Publication” in Stephanie Halmhofer and Robert Spinelli Eds. We Came on a Spaceship: Pseudoarchaeology’s Place In and Out of This World, McFarland Publishers, forthcoming 2027.

• Mother Earth is an Ancient Meme in the Global North, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 18 (2), 2024, 204-216.

• Late Holocene Technology Words in Proto-Athabaskan: Implications for Dene-Yeniseian Culture History, Humans 3 (3), 2023, 177-192.

• Recasting Paul as a Chauvinist in the Western Text-Type Manuscript Tradition: Implications for the Authorship Debate on 1 Corinthians 14.34-35, Religions 13(5), 2022, 435

• The Union of Two Worlds: Reconstructing Elements of Proto-Athabaskan Folklore and Religion, Folklore (London) 127(1):26-50, 2016.

• The Cave Who Never Was: Outsider Archaeology and Failed Collaboration in the U.S.A., Public Archaeology, 11 (2), 2012, 79-101.

• The Life of the Saint and the Animal: Asian Religious Influence in the Medieval Christian West, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 3 (2), 2009, 169-194.

• A New Perspective on Later Migrations: The Possible Recent Origin of Some Native American Haplotypes,  Critique of Anthropology, 28 (3), 2008, 267-278. 

• Novel FGFR3 Mutations in Exon 7 and Implications for Expanded Screening of Achondroplasia and Hypochondroplasia: a Response to Heuertz et al.  European Journal of Human Genetics,16 (3), 2008, 277-278.