NATHAN J. MEISSNER CURRICULUM VITAE 10/18/18

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1 NATHAN J. MEISSNER CURRICULUM VITAE 10/18/18 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION AND CONTACT INFORMATION: Nathan J. Meissner University of Southern Mississippi Liberal Arts Building College Drive, Box #5074 Hattiesburg, MS EDUCATION: Ph.D. Anthropology (distinction) Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2014 Concentrations: Archaeology, Maya, Material Culture Dissertation: Technological Systems of Small Projectile Weaponry of the Postclassic Lowland Maya (A.D ) Advisor: Prudence M. Rice M.A. Anthropology Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2006 Concentrations: Archaeology, Maya, Iconography Thesis: A Semiotic Approach to the Maya Postclassic International Symbol Set Advisor: Prudence M. Rice B.A. Anthropology St. Cloud State University, Honors Program, Minnesota, 2003 Concentrations: Archaeology, North America. Minor: Statistics. PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS: 2016-present Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, School of Social Science and Global Studies, University of Southern Mississippi Research Associate and Archaeological Materials Analyst (dual appointment), Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Illinois State Archaeological Survey, University of Illinois Instructor, University College, Southern Illinois University Carbondale 1

2 PUBLICATIONS: Refereed Journal Articles 2018 Rice, Prudence M., Arianne Boileau, Leslie G. Cecil, Susan D. defrance, Carolyn Freiwald, Nathan J. Meissner, Timothy W. Pugh, Don S. Rice, and Matthew P. Yacubic. Zacpetén Structure 719: Activities at a Contact-Period Popol Nah before Rapid Abandonment. Ancient Mesoamerica 28(3): Meissner, Nathan J. A Social Network Analysis of the Postclassic Maya Obsidian Projectile Industry. Ancient Mesoamerica 28(1): Campbell, Ryan M. and Nathan J. Meissner. Burial Detection Using Ground-Penetrating Radar in Southern Illinois: A Comparison of Historic Cemeteries. Illinois Archaeology 28: Meissner, Nathan J. and Prudence M. Rice. Postclassic Petén Maya Bow-and-Arrow Use as Revealed by Immunological Analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science 64: Meissner, Nathan J., Katherine E. South, and Andrew K. Balkansky. Figurine Embodiment and Household Ritual in an Early Mixtec Village. Journal de la Société des Américanistes 99(1): Duncan, William N., Andrew K. Balkansky, Kimberly Crawford, Heather A. Lapham, and Nathan J. Meissner. Human Cremation in Mexico 3,000 Years Ago. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (14): Book Chapters 2018 Meissner, Nathan J. Small Projectile Points of Petén: Resources, Production, and Interpolity Variability. In Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Itzas of Petén, Guatemala, edited by Prudence M. Rice and Don S. Rice, pp , University Press of Colorado, Boulder McNeil, Cameron L., Edy Barrios, Nathan J. Meissner, and Antolin Velásquez Arqueología y medio ambiente en Río Amarillo, Copan: Avances de investigaciones multidisciplinarias. In XXX Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, edited by Barbara Arroyo, Luis Mendez Salinas, Gloria Aju Alvarez, pp , Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes, Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Asociación Tikal. 2

3 2016 Marino, Marc D., Lucas R. Martindale Johnson, and Nathan J. Meissner. Postclassic Tool Production at Santa Rita Corozal: Implications for Domestic Craft Production and Regional Exchange of Flaked Stone. In Perspectives on the Ancient Maya of Chetumal Bay, edited by Debra Walker, pp , University of Florida Press, Gainesville. in press Meissner, Nathan J. and Wesley Jackson. Prehistoric Artifacts of Crawford Farm. In The Crawford Farm Site (11Ri81): The Historic Sauk Village of Saukenauk in the Rock River Valley of Illinois, edited by Mark J. Wagner, volume in process at Illinois State Archaeological Survey. in press Meissner, Nathan J. and Mark J. Wagner. Historic Features of Crawford Farm. In The Crawford Farm Site (11Ri81): The Historic Sauk Village of Saukenauk in the Rock River Valley of Illinois, edited by Mark J. Wagner, volume in process at Illinois State Archaeological Survey. in press Meissner, Nathan J. and Mark J. Wagner. Smoking Pipes of Crawford Farm. In The Crawford Farm Site (11Ri81): The Historic Sauk Village of Saukenauk in the Rock River Valley of Illinois, edited by Mark J. Wagner, volume in process at Illinois State Archaeological Survey. in press Meissner, Nathan J., Mark J. Wagner, and Elaine Bluhm Herold. Structures of Crawford Farm. In The Crawford Farm Site (11Ri81): The Historic Sauk Village of Saukenauk in the Rock River Valley of Illinois, edited by Mark J. Wagner, volume in process at Illinois State Archaeological Survey. in press Meissner, Nathan J., Hugh C. Cutler, Leonard W. Blake, and Mark J. Wagner. Botanical Remains of Crawford Farm. In The Crawford Farm Site (11Ri81): The Historic Sauk Village of Saukenauk in the Rock River Valley of Illinois, edited by Mark J. Wagner, volume in process at Illinois State Archaeological Survey. under review Meissner, Nathan J. The Dense Hailstorm Fell: Social Dimensions of Itza Weaponry at Tayasal. In Contact and Colonialism at Tayasal, Petén, Guatemala, edited by Timothy W. Pugh, edited volume under review. in prep Meissner, Nathan J. and Marc D. Marino. Producers on the Margins: Chert Crafting in the Copán Hinterland of Río Amarillo, Honduras. In Copán: The Rise, Collapse, and Aftermath of a State, edited by Cameron L. McNeill, edited volume in prep. Refereed digital articles and bibliographies in press Balkansky, Andrew K. and Nathan J. Meissner. The Pre-Conquest Mesoamerican States. Oxford Bibliographies in Latin American Studies. Oxford University Press: New York. Forthcoming

4 Book Reviews 2018 Meissner, Nathan J. Patron Gods and Patron Lords: The Semiotics of Classic Maya Community Cults by Joanne P. Baron. Journal of Anthropological Research 74(2): Other publications and professional reports 2018 Campbell, Ryan M., Ayla Amadio, Kayeleigh Sharp, Mark J. Wagner, Nathan J. Meissner, and David Birnbaum. Archaeological Evaluations of the Carnes Mill Site and Three Sites in the Lick Creek Community, Hoosier National Forest, Crawford and Orange Counties, Indiana. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Technical Report 18-1, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale Meissner, Nathan J., Yuko Shiratori, and Timothy Pugh. Análisis instrumental de obsidiana del período Clásico Terminal al Contacto Temprano en la región de los Lagos Petén. In Proyecto Arqueológico Tayasal. Informe preliminar al Instituto de Antropología e Historia de Guatemala de la Temporada de Investigación Año 2017, edited by Timothy Pugh and Evelyn Chan, pp , Flores, Petén, Guatemala Meissner, Nathan J. Analysis Chert Artifacts from the Classic Maya Site of Rastrojón, Copán Valley, Honduras. Technical Report for the Harvard Department of Anthropology, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge Meissner, Nathan J., Marc Marino, David McCormick, and Aileen Fernandez. Producción lítica en Río Amarillo, Honduras: Desechos de talla y análisis de materias primas. In Informe preliminar del cuatro temporada de investigaciones en Río Amarillo, edited by Cameron McNeil and Edy Barrios, Copan Ruinas, Honduras Meissner, Nathan J. La inversión en la producción de pequeñas puntas de proyectil de los lagos de Petén. In Proyecto Arqueológico Tayasal. Informe preliminar al Instituto de Antropología e Historia de Guatemala de la Temporada de Investigación Año 2015, edited by Timothy Pugh and Evelyn Chan, pp , Flores, Petén, Guatemala Meissner, Nathan J. Resultados del análisis cross-over inmunoelectroforesis de la región de los lagos del Petén: Implicaciones para el arco y flecha. In Proyecto Arqueológico Tayasal. Informe preliminar al Instituto de Antropología e Historia de Guatemala de la Temporada de Investigación Año 2014, edited by Timothy Pugh and Carlos Humberto Sánchez, pp , Flores, Petén, Guatemala Meissner, Nathan J. and Heather Carey. Archaeological Reconnaissance in the Little Cache Drainage, Shawnee National Forest, Illinois, Report under submission to the National Forest Service and the State of Illinois. 4

5 2014 Meissner, Nathan J. Resultados del análisis de obsidiana de la región de los lagos del Petén. In Proyecto Arqueológico Tayasal. Informe preliminar al Instituto de Antropología e Historia de Guatemala de la Temporada de Investigación Año 2013, edited by Timothy Pugh and Carlos Humberto Sánchez, pp , Flores, Petén, Guatemala Meissner, Nathan J. Ofrenda de obsidiana de la época Colonial en San Bernabé, Petén (A.D ). In Proyecto Arqueológico Tayasal. Informe preliminar al Instituto de Antropología e Historia de Guatemala de la Temporada de Investigación Año 2013, edited by Timothy Pugh and Carlos Humberto Sánchez, pp , Flores, Petén, Guatemala Meissner, Nathan J. Puntas de proyectil de la Plaza de los Siete Templos, Tikal: informe preliminar de las excavaciones Oswaldo Gómez Barillas, ed., Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes, Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo, Tikal, Peten, Guatemala Meissner, Nathan J. Chipped-Stone Points from Acanmul, Campeche, México: A Report from the 2004 Excavations. Lorraine A. Williams-Beck, ed. Universidad Autonóma de Campeche, Campeche, México Meissner, Nathan J. Análisis de las Puntas de Proyectil de Tayasal. In Proyecto Arqueológico Tayasal. Informe preliminar al Instituto de Antropología e Historia de Guatemala de la Temporada de Investigación Año 2012, edited by Timothy Pugh and Carlos Humberto Sánchez, pp , Flores, Petén, Guatemala Meissner, Nathan J. An Analysis of Late Woodland Lithics from Cypress Citadel (11JS-76): Unit 19, Structure 2. Report on file at the Center for Archaeological Investigations, Carbondale, Illinois Rice, Prudence M., Nathan Meissner, Timothy W. Pugh, and Katherine South. First Field Season of PAIP, Proyecto Arqueológico Itzá del Petén: The Site of Nixtun-Ch ich. Report to the Instituto de Antropología e Historia de Guatemala on the 2006 and 2007 Field Seasons, edited by Prudence M. Rice, Romulo Sanchez Polo, and Don S. Rice, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale Rice, Prudence M., Bryan Carlo, Nathan Meissner, Cameron McNeil, Timothy W. Pugh, Katherine South, and Rony Toraya. Mound ZZ-1 Candelaria Peninsula. Proyecto Arqueologico Itzá del Petén: The Site of Nixtun-Ch ich. Report to the Instituto de Antropología e Historia de Guatemala on the 2006 and 2007 Field Seasons, edited by Prudence M. Rice, Romulo Sanchez Polo, and Don S. Rice, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale. 5

6 2007 Rice, Prudence M., Bryan Carlo, Nathan Meissner, and Bethany Meyers. Other Excavations at Nixtun-Ch'ich'. Proyecto Arqueologico Itzá del Petén: The Site of Nixtun-Ch ich. Report to the Instituto de Antropología e Historia de Guatemala on the 2006 and 2007 Field Seasons. edited by Prudence M. Rice, Romulo Sanchez Polo, and Don S. Rice, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale. GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS: 2011 Prudence M. Rice and Nathan J. Meissner. Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Maya Projectile Technology. National Science Foundation, Proposal # Award amount $19, MA Fellowship Award, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. HONORS AND AWARDS: 2016 Outstanding Dissertation Award Nomination, SIUC 2010 Rice Graduate Research Award, Department of Anthropology, SIUC 2005, 2007, 2008 Graduate School Tuition Award, SIUC INVITED TALKS: 2017 Meissner, Nathan J. Exploring the Role of Ethnopolities and the Postclassic Maya Lithic Economy Tulane University. Middle American Research Institute Meissner, Nathan J. Technology, Trade, and the Ancient Maya: New Approaches to Weaponry and Social Identity Maine Maritime Academy. Department of Arts and Sciences. CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION: Panels Organized 2016 Meissner, Nathan J. and Yuko Shiratori. Preclassic to Colonial: Current Investigations in the Petén Lakes Region, Guatemala. Symposium at the Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 6

7 Panels as Discussant 2019 Meissner, Nathan J. The Pre-Columbian Cultures of Honduras after AD 900. Invited discussant at upcoming Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Papers and Posters 2019 Meissner, Nathan J. The Porous Boundary: Understanding Late Postclassic Belize-Petén Interactions through Lithic Technology. Invited paper at upcoming meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, New Mexico Marino, Marc D. and Nathan J. Meissner. The Organization of Prismatic Blade Production at Late Postclassic Tlaxcallan. Volunteered paper at upcoming meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, New Mexico Meissner, Nathan J., Marie Danforth, Kristi Carnahan, Hadley Fuller, and Carson Rouse. Bioarchaeology of a Founder: An Investigation of the Suspected Gravesite of Rev. John Ford. Volunteered paper presented at the Mississippi Archaeology Association meetings. Biloxi, Mississippi Marino, Marc D., Lane F. Fargher, Nathan J. Meissner, Richard Blanton, and Verinice Heredia-Espinoza. Commercialization, Consumption, and Political-Economic Strategies in Late Postclassic Mesoamerica: A Comparative Study of Access to Projectile Points at Tlaxcallan and Santa Rita Corozal. Volunteered paper presented at the meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington D.C Meissner, Nathan J., Oswaldo Gomez, Cameron L. McNeil, and Edy Barrios. Biface Analysis from the Plaza of the Seven Temples, Tikal: Ritual, Use, and Highland Interaction. Volunteered paper presented at the South-Central Conference on Mesoamerica, Tulane University, New Orleans Meissner, Nathan J., Marc Marino, and Emmalea Gomberg. Political Dynamics and the Organization of Chert Production in the Copán Valley. Invited paper at the meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Colombia Meissner, Nathan J., David McCormick, and Marc Marino. Socioeconomics of Craft Production in the Copán Hinterland: The Chert Industry of Río Amarillo, Honduras. Invited paper at the meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida Shiratori, Yuko, Nathan J. Meissner, and Timothy Pugh. Postclassic Obsidian from Tayasal and Nixtun-Ch ich: Inter- and Intra-Site Variation of Raw Materials. Invited paper at the meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 7

8 2016 Marino, Marc D., Nathan J. Meissner, and Lucas R. Martindale Johnson. Source Variability and Technological Variation of Domestic Lithic Production at Santa Rita Corozal, Belize during the Maya Postclassic (A.D ). Volunteered paper at the meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida McNeil, Cameron L., Edy Barrios, Nathan J. Meissner, and Antolin Velásquez Arqueología y medio ambiente en Río Amarillo, Copán: Avances de investigaciones multidisciplinarias, XXX Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala City, Guatemala Wagner, Mark J., Kayleigh Sharp, Ryan Campbell, and Nathan J. Meissner. Mortar Holes and Human Footprints: The Clendennin and Seven Footprint Cave Sites. Volunteered paper at the Eastern States Rock Art Research Association Conference, Fall Creek Falls, Tennessee Wagner, Mark J., Kayleigh Sharp, Ayla Amadio, Nathan J. Meissner, and Ryan Campbell. Vandalism Run Amok: The Hutcheson Rock Art Site in Southern Illinois. Volunteered paper at the Eastern States Rock Art Research Association Conference, Fall Creek Falls, Tennessee Meissner, Nathan J. and Prudence M. Rice. Postclassic Petén Maya Bow-and-Arrow Use as Revealed by Immunological Analysis. Invited paper presented at the meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California Meissner, Nathan J. Revisiting the Mesoamerican World-System : A Social Network Analysis of the Maya Obsidian Projectile Point Industry. Science and Archaeology Symposium hosted by the Program on Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois Meissner, Nathan J. The Economics of Point Manufacture and Factionalism in the Postclassic/Contact Period Petén Lakes Region, Guatemala. Invited paper presented at the meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas Marino, Marc D., Lucas R. Martindale Johnson, and Nathan J. Meissner. Production- Consumption Revisited: A Postclassic View of Stone Tool Production from Santa Rita Corozal, Belize. Invited paper presented at the meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas Meissner, Nathan J., Prudence M. Rice, Timothy W. Pugh. Itza, Kowoj, and Chak an Itza Obsidian Procurement Strategies: A PXRF Analysis of Small Projectile Weaponry from Petén, Guatemala. Paper presented at the Midwest Mesoamericanist Meetings, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois. 8

9 2013 Yacubic, Matt. and Nathan J. Meissner. Regional Trends in Obsidian Artifacts: A Look at the Central Petén during the Postclassic and Early Colonial Periods. Paper presented at the meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Honolulu, Hawaii Meissner, Nathan J., Katherine E. South, and Andrew K. Balkansky. Early Evidence for Figurine Embodiment in the Formative Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca, Mexico. Paper presented at the meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, Missouri Meissner, Nathan J. Social Identity and Itzá Obsidian Projectile Points at Nixtun-Ch'ich', Petén, Guatemala. Paper presented at the 32 nd Annual Midwest Conference on Mesoamerican Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Chicago, Illinois South, Katherine E. and Nathan J. Meissner. Formative Figurines from Tayata, Mixteca Alta, México. Paper presented at the meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico Meissner, Nathan J. Hand Gesture of the Maya Maize God in Semiotic Perspective. Paper presented at the 29 th Annual Midwest Conference on Mesoamerican Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Beloit, Wisconsin 2003 Meissner, Nathan J. The Cooper Mapping Project: A GIS Compilation of Archaeological Excavations from Paper presented at Minnesota Archaeology Week, Mille Lacs Kathio State Park, Mille Lacs, Minnesota Meissner, Nathan J. The Wilford Homestead Site: An Inventory and Analysis of Collected Artifacts. Paper presented at Minnesota Archaeology Week, Mille Lacs Kathio State Park, Mille Lacs, Minnesota. DEPARTMENTAL TALKS: 2013 Meissner, Nathan J. Revisiting the Mesoamerican World-System: A Social Network Analysis of Postclassic Maya Weaponry. Finding Bridges Series, Southern Illinois University Carbondale Meissner, Nathan J. Technological Systems of Small Chipped-Stone Projectile Points of the Postclassic Lowland Maya. Department Brownbag Series, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. 9

10 TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND INTERESTS: Teaching Areas Material culture, complex societies, Mesoamerica, North America, economic anthropology, contact and colonialism, social network analysis, long-distance exchange, lithic analysis, quantitative methods, emerging social complexity, semiotics Courses Taught University of Southern Mississippi ANT 101: The Human Experience ANT 101: The Human Experience (online) ANT 221: Introduction to Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology ANT 231: Introduction to Archaeology and Physical Anthropology ANT 301: History of Anthropology ANT 423/523: Economic Anthropology ANT 439/539: Archaeology of the Maya and Mesoamerica ANT 439/539: Archaeology of Colonial Encounters and Indigenous Resistance in the New World Southern Illinois University Carbondale ANTH 104: The Human Experience UCOL 101U: Foundations of Inquiry ANTH 202: America s Diverse Cultures AGRI/LAC 300I: Social Perspectives on Environmental Issues Courses Co-Instructed (interdisciplinary) AGRI/LAC 300I: Social Perspectives on Environmental Issues (Fall 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010) Graduate Theses Advised 2018 Committee Member, Emmalea Gomberg, Investigating Possible Scurvy among the Tipu Maya, M.A. degree. Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg present Committee Member, Brian Flynt, Using Refuse Disposal Patterning to Discern Site Structure at a Backwoods Antebellum Plantation Site, M.A. degree. Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg. 10

11 2018-present Committee Member, Raquel Otto, Licenciatura. Title: Análisis tecnológico en correspondencia a la procedencia de la obsidiana en el sitio Guadalupe, Colón, Honduras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Tegucigalpa present Committee Member, Silvia Elias, Licenciatura. Title: Cambio y Continuidad: El intercambio económico y tecnología lítica en el sitio de Naco en el periodo de contacto, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Tegucigalpa. Teaching Assistantships (SIUC) ANTH 104: The Human Experience (Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2006, 2007, 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2010, Spring 2013) ANTH 202: America s Diverse Cultures (Fall 2004, Spring 2013) Field Instruction/Training of Students 2018 Laboratory Methods Instructor, Río Amarillo Copán Archaeological Project, Honduras Laboratory Methods Instructor, Rastrojón Archaeological Project, Río Amarillo Copán Archaeological Project, Honduras Laboratory Methods Instructor, Río Amarillo Copán Archaeological Project, Honduras Excavation Methods Instructor, Proyecto Arqueológico Itzá del Petén, Guatemala. SIUC- Centro Universitario de Petén partnership 2006 Excavation Methods Instructor, Proyecto Arqueológico Itzá del Petén, Guatemala. SIUC- Centro Universitario de Petén partnership RESEARCH EXPERIENCE: Research Skills Excavation methods, laboratory methods (lithic analysis, PXRF instrumental analysis, ceramic analysis), statistical software programming and use (SAS, JMP, SPSS, R, UCINET), GPS, ArcGIS (proficiency), 3D scanning (NextEngine), 3D printing (Makerbot). 11

12 Archaeological Fieldwork and Excavation Experience 2015-present Copán Valley Lithics Project affiliated with the Río Amarillo-Copán Archaeological Project (Cameron McNeil, CUNY) and Rastrojón Archaeological Project (William and Barbara Fash, Harvard University) (summers) present Itza Archaeological Project. Funded by NSF grant to Timothy Pugh, Queen s College, CUNY (summers) Bioarchaeological Investigations at the Rev. John Ford Site. Co-PI Marie Danforth, University of Southern Mississippi, Sandy Hook, MS. (fall-spring) Tecnología en la Manufactura de Puntas de Proyectil del Área Maya, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México. Funded by NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant to Nathan Meissner (summers) Proyecto Arqueológico Tayasal, Petén, Guatemala. Funded by NSF grant to Timothy Pugh, Queen s College, CUNY. (spring-fall) 2008 Proyecto Arqueológico Itzá del Petén, Guatemala. Funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation to Prudence M. Rice, SIUC. (spring-fall) 2007 Proyecto Arqueológico Itzá del Petén, Guatemala. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities grant to Prudence M. Rice, SIUC. (spring-fall) 2006 Proyecto Arqueológico Itzá del Petén, Guatemala. Funded by Heinz Foundation grant to Prudence M. Rice, SIUC. (summer) 2005 Proyecto Tayata, Oaxaca, Mexico. Funded by the National Science Foundation grant to Andrew Balkansky, SIUC. (summer) 2004 Proyecto Tayata, Oaxaca, México. Funded by the National Science Foundation grant to Andrew Balkansky, SIUC. (summer) 2002 Excavations at Petaga Point, Mille Lacs Kathio State Park, Minnesota. Debra Gold, Saint Cloud State University, MN. (summer) Cultural Resource Management Projects 2016 Senior Field Supervisor, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Hoosier National Forest, IN (April-June). 12

13 2015 Senior Field Supervisor, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Uniontown, Hoosier National Forest, IN (April-June) Senior Field Supervisor, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Pope County Trail Survey, Shawnee National Forest, Golconda, IL (April) Senior Field Supervisor, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Little Cache Drainage, Shawnee National Forest, Vienna, IL (January - March) Archaeological Technician, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Eden Fields, Ava, IL (January May). Research Assistantships: 2006 Research Assistant, map digitization, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Andrew Balkansky Research Assistant, pedagogical methods, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Andrew Balkansky. LANGUAGES: English (native) Spanish - proficiency in reading, speaking, and writing MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS: Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society Society for American Archaeology Lambda Alpha Collegiate Honors Society for Anthropology MEMBERSHIP IN ORGANIZATIONS: : Officer in the Anthropology Graduate Student Association (AGSA), Southern Illinois University Carbondale 13

14 SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE: 2016-present Graduate Student Mentor, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Southern Mississippi Reviewer, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, Elsevier Journals Speaker Coordinator, Daniel Bauer (University of Southern Indiana), Identity, Archaeology, and the Politics of Development: Insights from the Ecuadorian Coast, University of Southern Mississippi Speaker Coordinator, Marcello Canuto (Tulane University), The Dynamics of an Ancient Classic Maya Hegemony: La Corona and the Kaanul Kingdom, University of Southern Mississippi Panel Discussant, New Faculty Orientation, "Making the Most of Your Year as a Visiting Faculty Member, Center for Faculty Development, University of Southern Mississippi Community Outreach, Public Archaeology. Investigator of Rev. John Ford Burial, Sandy Hook, Mississippi Panel Judge, Ninety Second Wonders Competition, Center for Undergraduate Research, University of Southern Mississippi Department Representative, Undergraduate Recruitment, Black and Gold Days, University of Southern Mississippi Volunteer, Hybrid Material Culture: The Archaeology of Syncretism and Ethnogenesis, 26th Annual Visiting Scholar Conference organized by Jeb Card. Southern Illinois University Carbondale Volunteer, Religion in the Material World: A Conference on the Archaeology of Religion, 23 rd Annual Visiting Scholar Conference organized by Lars Fogelin. Southern Illinois University Carbondale Volunteer, The Durable House: Architecture, Ancestors, and Origins, 22 nd Annual Visiting Scholar Conference organized by Robin Beck. Southern Illinois University Carbondale Volunteer, We Are What We Eat: Archaeology, Food and Identity, 21 nd Annual Visiting Scholar Conference organized by Katheryn Twiss. Southern Illinois University Carbondale Volunteer, Excavation Supervisor, Becker Historical Society Archaeology Week, MN 14