Reed Goodman

Reed Goodman is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Social Science at Clemson University and director of GeoArches. Trained as an anthropologist, he studies the cultural and historical ecology of wetlands, coastlines, rivers, and deltas.

His research brings archaeology and sedimentary geoscience together with ethnohistory, remote sensing, and environmental social science. He examines how communities transform landscapes and how those changes alter the ecological and political possibilities available to later generations.

At Clemson, Goodman leads research on historic tidal rice impoundments and South Carolina coastal wetlands. In southern Iraq, he directs geoarchaeological investigations for the Lagash Archaeological Project, reconstructing the relationships among delta evolution, hydrology, agriculture, and early urbanism.