Adria Jean LaViolette is an American archaeologist at the University of Virginia.
[1] She is a specialist in Swahili archaeology and is the joint editor of The Swahili World (Routledge, 2018).
Her PhD was also from Washington University in St. Louis in 1987 for a dissertation on the subject of "An Archaeological Ethnography of Blacksmiths, Potters and Masons in Jenné, Mali".
[4] LaViolette is an archaeologist at the University of Virginia where she specialises in Swahili archaeology.
She is the joint editor with Stephanie Wynne-Jones of The Swahili World (Routledge, 2018).