Faculty Member, Anthropology
Associate Professor
About
Trained as a processual archaeologist, I have devoted most of my professional career to hunter-gatherer archaeology throughout the interior US with a focus on understanding past human behavior through lithic technology. I have particular interests in ecological perspectives on human beings, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, archaeological site formation processes, and methodological contributions to lithic analysis through controlled experimentation. In addition to these scientific pursuits, I have recently developed service-learning peadogogy and community engagement programs in the areas of refugee resettlement and contemporary waste disposal. I enjoy teaching and continuously seek to find ways to develop meaningful experiential learning programs for undergraduate students and to share those lessons with other engaged scholars. Likewise, I enjoy designing cost-benefit experiments on sustainable living practices in connection with my participation in the environmental sciences program at Loyola.
Education
Ph.D. 1994 University of New Mexico
M.A. 1984 University of Tennessee
B.A. 1979 University of Tennessee
2011 Certificate in Forced Migration Studies, Northwestern University
Awards of Distinction
2000 Loyola Faculty Scholar
2003 Sujack Award for Excellence in Teaching
2009 Loyola Engaged Scholar
2012 Loyola Engaged Learning Faculty
Fellow
Contact Information
| Address: | Department of Anthropology
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