Steven Wernke
Associate Professor
Department Chair
(Archaeology, Andes, Spatial Analysis)
Specializations
Archaeology and ethnohistory of theAndean region; colonialism and culture change, missionary encounters, community and land-use organizatin, GIS and spatial analysis
Steven Wernke is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University, director of the Spatial Analysis Research Laboratory [http://wernkelab.org], and director of the Vanderbilt Initiative for Interdisciplinary Geospatial Research [https://www.vanderbilt.edu/viigr/]. Prof. Wernke is an archaeologist and historical anthropologist of the Andean region of South America. His research takes place at the intersections of several disciplines: archaeology and history, prehispanic and colonial studies, anthropology and cultural geography. Prof. Wernke's interests center on the lived experiences of indigenous communities across the Spanish invasion of the Andes–especially how new kinds of communities, landscapes, and religious practice emerged out of successive attempts by the Inkas and the Spanish to subordinate and remake Andean societies in the image of their colonial ideals. Methodologically, his work brings together analyses of archaeological and documentary datasets in geospatial frameworks.
Scroll below to see Dr. Wernke's publications, to read about his latest projects visit his website https://stevenwernke.com or for information about his lab click here https://wernkelab.org
Representative publications
Books
Wernke, Steven A. 2013. Negotiated Settlements Andean Communities and Landscapes under Inka and Spanish Colonialism. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. (Awarded the SAA Book Award in 2015).
Journal Articles
Wernke, Steven A., Parker VanValkenburgh, and Akira Saito. 2020. Interregional Archaeology in the Age of Big Data: Building Online Collaborative Platforms for Virtual Survey in the Andes. Journal of Field Archaeology 45. View Article.
Wernke, Steven A. 2019. Pathways through the Archaeology of Neighborhoods. Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 30(1):180-184. View Article.
Wernke, Steven A., Lauren E. Kohut, and Abel Traslaviña. 2017. A GIS of affordances: Movement and visibility at a planned colonial town in highland Peru. Journal of Archaeological Science 84:22-39. View Article.
DeFrance, Susan D., Steven A. Wernke, and Ashley E. Sharpe. 2016. Conversion and Persistence: Analysis of Faunal Remains from an Early Spanish Colonial Doctrinal Settlement in Highland Peru. Latin American Antiquity 27(3), 300-317. View Article.
Wernke, Steven A, et al. 2016. Beyond the Basemap: Multiscalar Survey through Aerial Photogrammetry in the Andes. Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future. The Potential of Digital Archaeology:251-278. View Article.
Wernke, Steven A. 2016. La producción de poder en el entorno construido a través de la invasión española, valle del Colca (Perú). Boletín de Arqueología PUCP (20):149-166. View Article.
Wernke, Steven A., Julie Adams, and Eli Hooten. 2014. Capturing Complexity: Toward an Integrated Low-Altitude Photogrammetry and Mobile Geographic Information System Archaeological Registry System Advances in Archaeological Practice 2(3):147-163. View Article.
Wernke, Steven A. 2012. Spatial Network analysis of a Terminal Prehispanic and Early Colonial Settlement in Highland Peru. Journal of Archaeological Science 39(4):1111-1122. View Article.
Wenke, Steven A. 2011. Convergences: producing early colonial hybridity at a Doctrina in Highland Peru. Enduring conquests: Rethinking the archaeology of resistance to Spanish colonialism in the Americas:77-71.
Wenke, Steven A. 2011. Asentamiento, agricultura y pastoralismo durante el periodo formativo en el valle del Colca, Perú. Chungara, Revista de Antropología Chilena 43. View Article.
Tripcevich, Nicholas, and Steven A. Wernke. 2010. On-site recording of excavation data using mobile GIS. Journal of Field Archaeology 35. View Article.
Wernke, Steven A. 2010. A Reduced Landscape: Toward a Multi-Causal Understanding of Historic Period Agricultural Deintensification in Highland Peru. Journal of Latin American Geography 9:51-83. View Article.
Wernke, Steven A., and Thomas M. Whitmore. 2009. Agriculture and Inequality in the Colonial Andes: A Simulation of Production and Consumption Using Administrative Documents. Human Ecology 37(4):421-440. View Article.
Wernke, Steven A. 2007. Negotiating Community and Landscape in the Peruvian Andes: A transconquest view. American Anthropologist 109(1):130-152.
Wernke, Steven A. 2007. Analogy or Erasure? Dialectics of Religious Transformation in the Early "Doctrinas" of the Colca Valley, Peru. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 11:152-182.
Wernke, Steven A. 2006. The politics of community and Inka statecraft in the Colca Valley, Peru. Latin American Antiquity 17(2):177-208.
Book chapters
Dillehay, Tom D., and Steven A. Wernke. 2019. Fragility of Vulnerable Social Institutions in Andean States. In The Evolution of Fragility: Setting the Terms. Pp. 183-196. View Book Chapter.
Wernke, Steven A. 2018. Transformations, evangelization, resettlement, and community organization in the early viceroyalty of Peru. In The Oxford Handbook of the Incas. S. Alconini and A. Covey, eds. Pp. 701-717. Oxford: Oxford University Press. View Book Chapter.
Wernke, Steven A. 2017. La producción y desestabilización del dominio colonial en el proceso reduccional en el valle del Colca, Perú. In Reducciones La concentración forzada de las poblaciones indígenas en el Virreinato del Perú. A. Saito and C. Rosas Lauro, eds. Pp. 387-438. Estudios Andinos: National Museum of Ethnology, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Fondo Editorial.
Wernke, Steven A., and Lauren E. Kohut. 2017. Spatial hegemony and evangelization: A network-based view of an early franciscan doctrinal settlement in highland Peru. In Religion, Space, and the Atlantic World. J. Corrigan, ed: University of South Carolina Press.
Wernke, Steven A., et al. 2017. Ejes de articulación: análisis de la red espacial del Qhapac Ñan en el sur del Perú. In Nuevas tendencias en el estudio de caminos. S. Chacaltana, E. Arkush, and G. Marcone, eds. Pp. 124-143. Lima: Proyecto Qhapaq Ñan.
Wernke, Steven A. 2015. Building tension. Dilemmas of the built environment through Inca and Spanish rule. In Tribus : Jahrbuch des Linden-Museums. Pp. 165-189. Stuttgart: Museum für Länder- und Völkerkunde : Württembergischer Verein für Handelsgeographie. View Book Chapter.
Wernke, Steven A. 2012. Andean households in transition: The politics of domestic space at an early colonial doctrina in the peruvian highlands. In Decolonizing Indigenous Histories: Exploring Prehistoric/Colonial Transitions in Archaeology. M. Oland, S.M. Hart, and L. Frink, eds. Pp. 201-229: University of Arizona Press.
Conference Proceedings
Wernke, Steven A., Abel Traslaviña, and Gabriela Oré. 2016. Ordenando Construcciones, Construyendo Orden, Una perspectiva desde el estudio de Mawchu Llacta, antigua reducción de Santa Cruz de Tute, en el valle del Colca. I Congreso Nacional de Arqueología 2014, Lima, Perú, 2016d. Vol. 2, pp. 179-189. Ministerio de Cultura. View Article.
