Kostalena Michelaki
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Phone: 480-302-1572
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SHESC 314 900 S. Cady Mall Tempe, AZ 85287-2402
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Mail code: 2402Campus: Tempe
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Konstantina-Eleni Michelaki started her career as a professor in 2003 in the Anthropology Department of McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario), where she created and directed the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Research on Archaeological Ceramics, funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation. She joined the School of Human Evolution and Social Change in the fall of 2010.
At Arizona State University, Professor Michelaki has focused on three main areas of research. The first includes the examination of ceramic technologies in southern Italy from the Neolithic (ca. 5700 BCE) to the Classical Greek period (ca. 4th century BCE), to understand how people's relations with each other, with their landscape, and with their material world changed through time. This research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and by the School of Human Evolution and Social Change.
The second, involves the analysis of previously collected data to examine how European copper metals were exchanged among First Nations communities in the end of the 16th century of what is modern day eastern Canada.
The third involes the testing of a newly proposed method for dating archaeological ceramics (ceramic rehydroxylation dating). This work has been funded by the National Science Foundation.
Michelaki created and runs the Ceramic Technology Microscopy Laboratory (CTML-SHESC 366) and (in collaboration with Professor C. Campisano and Professor D. Abbott) the Ceramics and Sediments Preparation Laboratory (CSPL-SHESC 350A).
- Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Michigan 1999
- M.A. Anthropology, University of Michigan 1993
- B.A. Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece 1991
Kostalena Michelaki is an anthropological archaeologist whose primary research focuses on the exploration of human technological decision-making, through the interdisciplinary analysis of archaeological ceramics. Her fieldwork combines archaeological excavations, raw materials surveys, and experimental projects in Hungary, southern Italy and, in the near future Ontario, Canada, to examine ceramic technological systems through time and space. Her laboratory work integrates a wide range of analytical techniques from geology, materials science, and nuclear chemistry, such as petrographic analysis, X-Ray Diffraction, Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis, and Scanning Electron Microscopy through collaborations with archaeometrists, geologists and materials scientists. She employes these techniques to examine in detail the choices ancient potters made throughout the complete ceramic operational sequence, from the selection and preparation of raw materials, to the forming, finishing, firing, use, and discard of pots. She uses social theory to interpret technology as a complex phenomenon that is equally social and technical, dependent on historical, traditional, and ideological factors as much as on raw materials and their mechanical and functional properties. Technological data allow her to explore questions such as the relation of past communities with their landscape, economic and social relations between communities, as well as the ways in which people make themselves through their daily interactions with other people, objects and materials.
Books
1) K. Michelaki
2006 Household Economies: Production and Consumption of Household Ceramics Among the Maros Villagers of Bronze Age Hungary. BAR International Series 1503, ArchaeoPress, Oxford.
Oxford based ArchaeoPress publishes the well-regarded British Archaeological Reports (BAR), a widely known series of peer- reviewed archaeological monographs, available in libraries around the world.
Reviewed by Kolb, C.C. in 2012 for the SAS Bulletin, Newsletter of the Society for Archaeological Science, 35(3): 9-11.
Peer Reviewed Articles
15) L.A. Pavlish (deceased), K. Michelaki, J.-F. Moreau, R.M. Farquhar, W. Fox, L.M. Anselmi, C. Garrad, C. Walker, G. Warrick, D. Knight, S. Aufreiter, and R.G.V. Hancock
2017 Tracing the distribution of late 16th and early 17th century European copper artifacts in southern Québec and Ontario, Canada. Archaeometry. doi: 10.1111/arcm.12323
Impact Factor: 1.52; h-index: 48.
14) J. Paige*, K. Michelaki, C. Campisano, M. Barton and A. Heimsath
2017 Are the intensities and durations of small-scale pottery firings sufficient to completely dehydroxylate clays? Testing a key assumption underlying ceramic rehydroxylation dating. Journal of Archaeological Science 79: 44-52.
Impact Factor: 2.255; 5-Year: 2.406; h-index: 82.
13) K. Michelaki, R.G.V. Hancock, G. Warrick, D. Knight, R.H. Whitehead, and R.M. Farquhar
2015 Using regional chemical comparisons of European copper to examine its trade to and among Indigenous groups in late 16th and early 17th century Canada: A case study from Nova Scotia and Ontario. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 4: 285-292.
JASR is a new peer-reviewed journal, first published in 2015. No Impact Factor yet.
12) K. Michelaki, G.V. Braun, and R.G.V. Hancock
2014 Local clay sources as histories of human-landscape interactions: A ceramic taskscape perspective. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 22(3): 783-827. First appeared online March 27 2014. DOI 10.1007/s10816-014-9204-0.
Impact Factor: 1.878; 5-Year: 1.989; h-index: 31.
11) K. Michelaki and R.G.V. Hancock
2013 Reassessment of elemental concentration data of sediments from the western delta of the Nile River. Open Journal of Archaeometry 1: 6-9.
OJA is a new open-access peer-reviewed journal, first published in 2013. No Impact Factor yet.
10) K. Michelaki, R.G.V. Hancock, and M. Hughes
2013 On establishing ceramic chemical groups: Exploring the influence of data analysis methods and the role of the elements chosen in analysis. Open Journal of Archaeometry, 1: 1-5.
OJA is a new open-access peer-reviewed journal, first published in 2013. No Impact Factor yet.
9) K. Michelaki, R.G.V. Hancock, G. Warrick, and D.H. Knight
2013 17th century Huron village life: Insights from the copper-based metals of the Ball site, southern Ontario, Canada. Journal of Archaeological Science 40: 1250-1259.
Impact Factor: 1.889; 5-Year: 2.245; h-index: 57.
8) K. Michelaki, R.G.V., Hancock, and G. Braun*
2012 Using provenance data to assess archaeological landscapes: An example from Calabria, Italy. Journal of Archaeological Science 39(2): 234-246.
Impact Factor: 1.889; 5-Year: 2.245; h-index: 57.
7) J. Robb and K. Michelaki
2012 In small things remembered: pottery decoration in Neolithic southern Italy. In Excavating the Mind: Cross-Sections Through Culture, Cognition and Materiality, edited by N. Johannsen, M. Jessen, and H. J. Jensen, pp. 161-181. University of Aarhus Press.
Aarhus University Press is based at Aarhus University in Denmark and is particularly strong in archaeology.
6) K. Michelaki and R.G.V. Hancock
2011 Chemistry versus data dispersion: Is there a better way to assess and interpret archaeometrical data? Archaeometry 53 (6): 1259-1279.
Impact Factor: 1.287; h-index: 36.
5) K. Michelaki
2008 Making pots and potters in the Bronze Age villages of Kiszombor-Új-Élet and Klárafalva-Hajdova, Cambridge Archaeological Journal 18 (3): 327-352.
Impact Factor: 1.412; h-index: 21.
4) K. Michelaki
2007 More than meets the eye: Reconsidering variability in Iroquoian ceramics, Canadian Journal of Archaeology 31: 143-170.
The CJA is the flagship journal of the Canadian Archaeological Association, the premier archeological association of Canadian archaeologists.
3) L. Foxhall, P. Lazrus, K. Michelaki, J. Robb, D. Van Hove, and D. Yoon
2007 The changing landscapes of Bova Marina, Calabria. In Uplands of Ancient Sicily and Calabria. The Archaeology of Landscape Revisited. Specialist Studies on Italy 13, edited by M. Fitzjohn, pp: 19-34. Accordia Publications, Institute of Archaeology UCL and the Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
‘Specialist Studies on Italy’ is a series published by the Accordia Research Institute at the University College London. The Institute and its publications are dedicated to the advancement of research on ancient Italy, are selective, and extremely well respected by the archaeological community.
2) K. Michelaki, L. Minc, and J. O’Shea
2002 Integrating typological and physico-chemical approaches to examine the potter’s choices: A case from Bronze Age Hungary. In Modern Trends in Scientific Studies on Ancient Ceramics, edited by V. Kilikoglou, A. Hein, and Y. Maniatis, pp: 313-322. BAR International Series 1011, Archaeopress, Oxford.
Oxford based ArchaeoPress publishes the well-regarded British Archaeological Reports (BAR), a widely known series of peer- reviewed archaeological monographs, available in libraries around the world.
1) K. Michelaki
1999 Ceramic production among the Maros villagers of Bronze Age Hungary. In Craft Specialization: Operational Sequences and Beyond. Papers from the EAA Third Annual Meeting at Ravenna 1997, edited by S. Milliken and M. Vidale, pp: 77-87. BAR International Series 720, vol. IV, Archaeopress, Oxford.
Oxford based ArchaeoPress publishes the well-regarded British Archaeological Reports (BAR), a widely known series of peer reviewed archaeological monographs, available in libraries around the world.
Non Peer Reviewed Reports
6) K. Michelaki, R.G.V. Hancock, A. Pidruczny, B.L. MacDonald*, and P. Woodley
2009 Using instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) to establish the validity of current field methods of chert identification in archaeological projects. Report submitted to the Ontario Centres of Excellence, Inc., Centre for Materials and Manufacturing.
5) K. Michelaki
2008 Technological studies of prehistoric pottery and raw material survey. In Bova Marina Archaeological Project: Preliminary Report, 2008 Season. Report submitted to the Soprintendenza Archeologica della Calabria, edited by J. Robb, pp: 47-53. Cambridge University.
4) K. Michelaki, J. Robb, and S. Scarcella
2006 Prehistoric Archaeology: Post-excavation analysis and other activities. In Bova Marina Archaeological Project Survey and Excavations: Preliminary Report, 2006 Season. Report submitted to the Soprintendenza Archeologica della Calabria, edited by L. Foxhall, pp: 40-49. School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester.
3) K. Michelaki
2006 The ceramic technology analysis. In Bova Marina Archaeological Project Survey and Excavations: Preliminary Report, 2004 Season. Report submitted to the Soprintendenza Archeologica della Calabria, edited by L. Foxhall, pp: 40-56. School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester.
2) K. Michelaki
2002 On-going analysis of Umbro Neolithic pottery: INAA chemical analysis. In Bova Marina Archaeological Project, Survey and Excavations: Preliminary Report, 2002 Season. Report submitted to the Soprintendenza Archeologica della Calabria, edited by J. Robb, pp. 36-42. Cambridge University.
1) K. Michelaki and J. Robb
2001 Prehistoric ceramics from Umbro: Initial functional analysis. In Bova Marina Archaeological Project, Survey and Excavations: Preliminary Report, 2000 Season. Report submitted to the Soprintendenza Archeologica della Calabria, edited by J. Robb, pp: 21-24. University of Southampton.
Reviews and Newsletters
2) K. Michelaki
2009 Archaeology students make Iroquoian pots speak. In ArchNotes: the Bi-Monthly Newsletter of the Ontario Archaeological Society 14 (3): 12-13.
1) K. Michelaki
2001 Reading the past: A book review. In Archaeology Odyssey, 2001, pp. 56-58. Biblical Archaeology Society, Washington D.C.
Books in preparation
1) C. Sinopoli and K. Michelaki
In prep. Approaches to Archaeological Ceramics, 2nd Edition, Springer, New York. Expected completion date November 2017.
- Michelaki,Konstantina-Eleni*. Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: the Social Dynamics of Coalescence. NSF-SBE-BCS(8/1/2015 - 7/31/2016).
- Michelaki,Konstantina-Eleni*. Collaborative Research: Testing and Refining Ceramic Rehydroxylation Dating. NSF-SBE(8/1/2012 - 7/31/2015).
Courses
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 592 | Research |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ASB 222 | Buried Cities and Lost Tribes |
| ASB 525 | Intro to Material Culture |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ASB 222 | Buried Cities and Lost Tribes |
| ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ASB 592 | Research |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
2024 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 592 | Research |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 592 | Research |
2023 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 592 | Research |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ASB 222 | Buried Cities and Lost Tribes |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 525 | Intro to Material Culture |
| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ASB 592 | Research |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 501 | Professionalism |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ASB 580 | Practicum |
2022 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 592 | Research |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ASB 592 | Research |
| ASB 501 | Professionalism |
2021 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 584 | Internship |
2020 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ASB 222 | Buried Cities and Lost Tribes |
| ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ASB 592 | Research |
2020 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
2020 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 592 | Research |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ASB 222 | Buried Cities and Lost Tribes |
| ASB 795 | Continuing Registration |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 591 | Seminar |
| ASB 584 | Internship |
- K. Michelaki and S. Lopez Varela. Ceramic Ecology XXVIII: Current Advances in Ceramic Research. American Anthropological Association (Dec 2014).
- K. Michelaki. Integrated approaches to ceramic analysis and methodology: The way forward. New Perspectives on Ancient Pottery Conference (Dec 2014).
- K. Michelaki and S. Lopez Varela. Ceramic Ecology XXVII: Honoring Charles C. Kolb. American Anthropological Association (Nov 2014).
- R.G.V. Hancock, J.F. Moreau, K. Michelaki, and W. Fox. On the distribution of European copper artifacts in Northeastern North America. International Symposium on Archaeometry (May 2014).
- A. Dupont Delaleuf*, K. Michelaki, and C. Maurin*. Exploring the infrastructure and logic of wheel-fashioning in comparison to coiling and wheel-throwing: An experimental approach. As the Wheel Turns: Potters’ Communities in Ancient Greece and the Mediterranean (May 2014).
- S. Kelly and K. Michelaki. PreClassic to Classic period shifts in the economic participation of women in Hohokam society. Society for American Archaeology (Apr 2014).
- K. Michelaki and R. Toon. ‘Until they grow legs and start running around’: Exploring resistance to material agency in Archaeology and Museum Studies. Faculty Seminar Series, Institute for Humanities Research, ASU (Jan 2014).
- S. Kelly and K. Michelaki. Home is as we make it: Bronze Age pottery production and taskscapes in southwestern Calabria, Italy. American Anthropological Association (Nov 2013).
- K. Michelaki. Long-term ceramic taskscapes: Examining materials, tasks and skill in prehistoric Calabria, Italy. American Anthropological Association (Nov 2013).
- K. Michelaki and S. Lopez Varela. Ceramic Ecology XXVI: Current Ceramic Research 2012. Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association (Nov 2012).
- K. Michelaki and T. Scarlett. Ceramic Dating: The Promise and Challenges of Ceramic Rehydroxylation Dating. Ceramic Ecology Session, American Anthropological Association (Nov 2012).
- K. Michelaki. Tracing Prehistoric Clay Taskscapes: a Case from Calabria. Invited colloquium at Material Culture Laboratory, Cambridge University, England (Oct 2012).
- K. Michelaki. Introduction to the Panel Discussion: The Future of Ceramic Studies. Ceramic Ecology Session, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (Nov 2011).
- K. Michelaki. Prehistoric Calabrian Potters in their Landscape: Current Results from the Analysis of Geological Clays and Archaeological Ceramics from SW Calabria, Italy. Ceramic Ecology Session, Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association (Nov 2010).
- K. Michelaki. Prehistoric Calabrian Taskscapes Through Time. Insight from Innovation - Conference organized in honour of professor D.P.S. Peacock's contributions (Oct 2010).
- K. Michelaki, J. Robb and H. Farr. Technology and Distance in Neolithic Calabria. Mobile Technologies Workshop, Fitch Laboratory, British School of Archaeology at Athens (Jun 2010).
- R.G.V. Hancock, K. Michelaki and M.J. Hughes. On Finding Diagnostic Elements to Sort Ceramic Chemical Groups. International Symposium on Archaeometry (May 2010).
- R.G.V. Hancock and K. Michelaki. Reassessment of Elemental Concentration Data of Sediments from the W Delta of the Nile River, Egypt. International Symposium on Archaeometry (May 2010).
- K. Michelaki. There is Nothing Permanent Except Change: Exploring Ceramic Choice and Change in Prehistoric SW Calabria, Italy. Fitch Laboratory, British School of Archaeology at Athens, Senior Visiting Fellow Speaker Series (Mar 2010).
9) 2015 Excellence in Teaching Award, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, ASU.
8) 2012-13 Nomination for Student Association Centennial Professor Award, ASU.
7) 2010 Fitch Laboratory Senior Visiting Fellowship at the British School of Archaeology in Athens, Greece.
6) 2009 Nomination for McMaster Student Union Teaching Award.
5) 2005 Brockhouse Young Investigator Award.
4) 1999 Rackham Dissertation Fellowship, University of Michigan.
3) 1998 The Gerondelis Foundation Scholarship.
2) 1997 Rackham Pre-doctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan.
1) 1991-96 Fulbright Scholarship.
- American Anthropological Association
- Society for American Archaeology
- Canadian Archaeological Association
- European Association of Archaeologists
COMPLETED STUDENT THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
Ph.D. - ASU
2016 Crist, Walter “Board games and social complexity in Bronze Age Cyprus.” Committee member.
Current position: Library technical assistant II at The New York Public Library.
2016 Watkins, Christopher “Social Boundaries and the Organization of Plain Ware Production and Exchange in 14th Century Central Arizona.” Committee member.
Current position: Senior archaeologist at Logan Simpson Design, Phoenix, AZ.
Ph.D. - McMaster
2012 Reimer, Rudy /Yumks “The mountains and rocks are forever: lithics and landscapes of Skwxwú7mesh Uxwumixw” Co- chair.
Current position: Associate Professor, Archaeology Department, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
2013 Meghan Burchell “Shellfish harvest on the coast of British Columbia: The archaeology of settlement and subsistence through High-resolution stable isotope analysis and sclerochronology” Committee member.
Current position: Assistant Professor, Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada.
2010 Armstrong, Justin “Lives once lived: ethnography and sense of place in the abandoned and isolated spaces of North America” Committee member.
Current position: Visiting lecturer, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA.
M.A. - McMaster
2007 Holterman, Carrie “The Fonger site: a case study of Neutral ceramic technology.” Chair.
2011 Cook, Katherine “Deathscapes: memory, heritage, and place in cemetery history.” Comittee member.
2010 Densmore, Nadia “An archaeological assessment of fisheries in Vava’u, Tonga.” Committee member.
2009 Chenier, Ani “Negotiations of individual and community Identity: a study in Chinese-Canadian mortuary material culture in Vancouver and Victoria, 1920-1960.” Committee member.
2008 MacDonald, Brandi “Ochre Procurement and Distribution on the Central Coast of British Columbia.” Committee member.
2007 De Schiffart, Nicole “Representing remarriage on 19th and early 20th century burial monuments in southwestern Ontario.” Committee member.
2007 Kluge, Hagen “In search of clarity: a comparison of current and novel measurement techniques involved in the description of age-related changes in root transparency.” Committee member.
ONGOING STUDENT COMMITTEE WORK
Ph.D. - ASU
Co-chair: Sarah Striker
Member: Andrea Torvinen
Ph.D. – McMaster
Member: Natalie Brewster
M.A. - ASU
Member: Nicolas Gauthier (completed)
Member: Sarah Klassen (completed)
UNDERGRADUATE HONORS THESES – ASU
Advisor: Jessica Roberson
Second Reader: Nicholas Schultz
Full Time University
2015- Associate Professor of Anthropology (Archaeology), with tenure, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA.
2010-15 Associate Professor of Anthropology (Archaeology), tenure track, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA.
2009-10 Associate Professor of Anthropology (Archaeology), with tenure, Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
2003-09 Assistant Professor of Anthropology (Archaeology), Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
2001-02 Post-Doctoral Research Associate, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
1999-01 Visiting Assistant Professor of Greek, Department of Classical Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
Part Time and Adjunct University Positions
2010- Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology (Archaeology), Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
2007-10 Associate Professor (status only) of Anthropology (Archaeology), Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. 2001-02 Instructor, Ceramic Analysis Practicals, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
National and Regional Organizations
2009- Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory - Invited Advisory Board member.
2013-17 Regional Coordinator (Mediterranean) for Current Research Online, a web-based clearing house of archaeological research hosted by the Society for American Archaeology.
2012-14 American Anthropological Association – Elected Archaeology Division Secretary.
2004-07 Society for American Archaeology – Member of Ethics Committee.
2005-08 Archaeological Institute of America – Vice president of the Hamilton Chapter.
Department – ASU
2017-2020 Graduate Program Director
2016 Approach convener for Archaeology
2015-16 - Faculty teaching peer review – Developed process and evaluation material
Peer review evaluation of four faculty members
- Hiring committee member – hiring of new Evolutionary Anthropology faculty
- Faculty Honors Advisor – Anthropology.
2015 Improved graduate student evaluation forms to collect data relevant to annual student ranking more efficiently
2014 Hiring committee member – hiring of ISSR director
2013-14 Consortium on Interdisciplinary Sustainability Research - focused on collaboration across the arts, humanities, and sustainability sciences
2012-14 Undergraduate committee member
2012-13 Archaeology Strategic Plan sub-committee member
2011 Archaeology Strategic Plan committee member
Invited Community Outreach Presentations
2012 Graduate and Professional Student Association, professional development forum on the experiences of women in academia. Invited panelist. November 6 2012.
2011 Alle origini del territorio Bovese: Vita sociale e culturale dal 6000 A.C. al 1900 D.C. Presentation to the local community of Bova Marina at the Centro Documentazione “Archeoderi”, commune di Bova Marina (RC) in collaborazione con la Soprintendenza per i beni archeologici della Calabria, Località San Pasquale, Calabria, Italy, July 16 2011.
2011 ‘Clay: It’s rain, dead leaves, dust, all my ancestors’: An anthropological look on clays, practices and their meanings. One hour invited lecture, “Friday Conversations,” Ceramic Research Center, ASU Art Museum as part of Patricia Sunnit’s “Citadel: An Installation” exhibition, March 25 2011.
2011 Invention then and now: Ancient and modern materials. Speaker, with science and engineering professor Sandwip Dey, at the “Science Café,” Arizona Science Center, February 18 2011.
2009 Understanding the logic of ceramic technological decision making in SW Calabria Italy from the Neolithic to the Classical times using instrumental neutron activation analysis. Talk presented as part of the McMaster Nuclear Reactor 50th Anniversary celebrations, H. Thode Library, McMaster University, May 1 2009.
2006 ‘A drop of soul amidst the clay’: Studying Ceramics from Ancient SW Calabria, Italy. Invited one-hour lecture, Archaeological Institute of America-Hamilton Chapter, February 18, 2006.
Media Interviews
2013 Interview with Katie Worth of Scientific American on my collaborative NSF project on ceramic rehydroxylation dating (RHX) as part of her story on what economic stimulus money did for science in the US. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-did-the-us-economic-stimulus-do-for-science/
2012 Interview with Conie Cone Sexton of The Arizona Republic about material culture and the allure of vintage toys. http://www.azcentral.com/home/articles/20121203toy-box-treasures-baby-boomers-vintage.html
Review of Manuscripts and Grant Proposals
- American Anthropologist
- Archaeometry
- Cambridge Archaeological Journal
- Current Anthropology
- European Science Foundation
- Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
- Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
- Journal of Archaeological Science
- Journal of Field Archaeology
- Journal of European Archaeology
- National Science Foundation
- Ontario Archaeology
- Quaternary Geochronology
External PhD Reviewer
2007 Invited external reviewer for the Ph.D. viva of Sheila Kohring, Department of Archaeology, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom, June 23, 2007.