教育

• B.A., University of Wisconsin-密尔沃基, May 1994
• M.A., 威奇托 State University, May 1998
• Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-密尔沃基, May 2011

Background

作为一名人类学家, I have spent the majority of my academic and professional career reSearching and working in the field. 在90年代早期, as a graduate of UW-密尔沃基’s 人类学 program, I became an employee of the Great Lakes Archaeological ReSearch Center (G.L.A.R.C., 密尔沃基, Wisconsin); I joi内德 a field crew studying the 密尔沃基 County Pauper Cemetery - situated along the southern border of the county grounds. This experience exposed me to the work of bioarchaeologists and the role that forensics plays in the identification and preservation of biological remains.  

在90年代末, while pursuing a Master’s Degree at 威奇托 State University (WSU, 威奇托, Kansas) I worked with the Office of the City Archaeologist. My work with office personnel helped to reconstruct the history of land use along Kansas Highway 54 - a transportation corridor that was slated for expansion and commercial development. 我调查了项目区域, I became fascinated by the history of mid-nineteenth century agricultural life. The artifacts that our field crew recovered animated this history and provided local historians with an economic understanding of Euro-American settlement for this period.

It was at 威奇托 State University that I began to study the biological nature of nineteenth century settler communities, looking at what additional knowledge could be gathered from the vital statistics of historic cemetery groups.

After completing my degree, I moved to Connecticut where I worked as a contract archaeologist. The municipal projects that I was involved in, introduced me to a different kind of frontier struggle - in this case relating to the history of early maritime communities along the northeastern American seaboard. My work also helped me to understand the role that state and federal law plays in the preservation of historic cultural resources.

In the fall of 2000, I retur内德 to UW-密尔沃基 to complete my doctoral degree in 人类学. My hope was to use both my professional field experiences and my knowledge of the disciple to introduce a new generation of students to anthropology. The reSearch that was part of my degree completion allowed me the chance to study both the archaeological and biological qualities of life in the Wisconsin frontier. 

I joi内德 the instructional team at WLC in the 2006-2007 academic year.  作为一个附属物, 后来成为一名兼职员工, I grew in my knowledge of the university’s academic philosophies and ministerial goals.  These academic and Biblical aims have come to embody much of what I do at 威斯康辛州路德 College.

In 2008, 我正式加入了教员队伍, where I have been pleased to continue my reSearch interest in historic and modern demography and health.  

教学

• ANT 101 -生物人类学
• ANT 103 -考古
• ant210 -法医人类学
• ANT 311 -灵长类学

研究兴趣

My current reSearch at 威斯康辛州路德 College is desig内德 to expose students to the field methods and practices of archaeologists, 生物学家和人类学家. Lecture and laboratory topics are organized in such a way as to prepare students for a variety of professional opportunities in cultural resource management, 博物馆研究, 灵长类动物保护, 和取证.  

学术作品

选择出版物

2020 Anatomical and Biochemical Evidence for Treponema pallidum in a 19th to Early Twentieth Century Skeletal Cadaver. Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology (16)3:557-561.

2015  环境, 饮食, and Craniofacial Development: A Study of Mixed Subsistence Strategies in the Great Lakes Watershed, AD 900-1600. International Journal of Humanities and Social Science (5)9: 29-45.

2015  密尔沃基’s Early Irish and the Role of the Church in Diasporic Urban American Settlement and Assimilation, 1890-1922. E-Keltoi 1:125-146.

1999  Fort Trumbull: Ramparts, Sonar and Subs. New London, Connecticut:  The New London Development Commission.

1997  Identity, Self in Context: 67214, 威奇托, Kansas. Lambda Alpha期刊. 27:45-58.

专业的会员

• 2011-Present: Wisconsin Archaeological Survey
• 2011-Present: 威斯康辛州路德 College’s Institutional Animal Care and USE Committee (IACUC)
• 2011-Present: Member, Register of Professional Archaeologists, Baltimore, Maryland. 
• 2010-Present: American Anthropological Association
• 2013-2015: The General 人类学 Division of the American Anthropological Association 
• 2010-2014: The Archaeological Division of the American Anthropological Association
• 2010-2014: Biological 人类学 Section of the American Anthropological Association