Research Laboratories of Archaeology

Profiles of RLA Staff and Research Associates

Director:

Vincas P. Steponaitis (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1980; Professor of Anthropology) Archaeology, complex societies, ceramic analysis, quantitative methods, locational analysis; North America.


Staff:

R. P. Stephen Davis, Jr. (Ph.D., University of Tennessee, 1986; Research Archaeologist, Associate Director) Archaeology, quantitative methods, computer applications, ceramic analysis, settlement systems, contact period; southeastern United States.

Brenda A. Moore (B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1971; Department Manager).

Brett H. Riggs (Ph.D., University of Tennessee, 1999; Research Archaeologist) Archaeology, ethnohistory, Cherokee culture history; southeastern United States.


Research Associates:

Brian Billman (Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara, 1996; Assistant Professor of Anthropology) Archaeology, origins and development of complex societies, warfare, settlement pattern analysis, cultural resource management; Central Andes, southwestern North America.

M. Jean Black (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1973; Research Associate) Ethnohistory; North America.

Donald L. Brockington (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1965; Professor Emeritus of Anthropology) Archaeology; Latin America.

Drew S. Coleman (Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1991; Assistant Professor of Geological Sciences) Isotope geochemistry, petrology, crustal growth and deformation, archaeological geology.

Carole L. Crumley (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1972; Professor of Anthropology) European (especially Iron Age/Celtic) archaeology; archaeological theories of complex societies; ethnohistory; historical ecology; regional archaeology.

Martin Doyle (Ph.D., Purdue University, 2002; Assistant Professor of Geography) Geomorphology, stream ecology, hydrology, biogeochemistry, river restoration, geo-archaeology; North America, Anatolia.

Michael D. Green (Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1973; Professor of American Studies and History) Native American history, Muskogee (Creek) history; southeastern United States.

Donald C. Haggis (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1992; Professor of Classics) Bronze Age and Early Iron Age archaeology, ceramic studies, regional survey, early states; eastern Mediterranean, Aegean.

Dale L. Hutchinson (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1991; Professor of Anthropology). Physical anthropology, skeletal anthropology, forensic anthropology, disease and nutrition, transition to agriculture, coastal adaptations; southeastern United States, Bolivia.

Valerie L. Lambert (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1973; Associate Professor of Anthropology) Cultural anthropology, American Indians; United States.

Anselmo Lastra (Ph.D., Duke University, 1988; Associate Professor of Computer Science) Computer graphics, image-based rendering, 3-D architectural modeling.

Wayne Lee (Ph.D., Duke University, 1999; Associate Professor of History) Early modern military history, with a particular focus on North America and the Atlantic World. History of violence as well as the early English exploration of the Atlantic, archaeology projects. Currently participating in a regional project in the mountains of northern Albania.

Scott Madry (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1986; Research Associate Professor of Anthropology) Regional archaeological research, settlement pattern analysis, predictive modeling; applications of GIS, GPS, remote sensing; visualization and simulation in archaeology; western Europe, southeastern United States.

Jodi Magness (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1989; Professor of Religious Studies). Classical and Syro-Palestinian archaeology, ancient pottery, ancient synagogues, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Roman army in the East, early Islamic settlement; Palestine.

Patricia McAnany (Ph.D., ) Archaeology, Ritual Practice, Ancestor Veneration, Cultural Heritage, Economic Organization, Lithic Technology, Quantitative Methods, Mesoamerica

David Mora-Marin (Ph.D., SUNY-Albany, 2001; Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Latin American Studies). Linguistic anthropology; historical linguistics, discourse structure, language and power; linguistic formalism vs. relativism; Weber, Wallerstein, interaction and civilization studies; Mesoamerican (specially Mayan) linguistics and epigraphy; prehispanic Costa Rican and Chibchan traditions, jade and gold exchange networks.

Theda Perdue (Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1976; Professor of History) Ethnohistory, Cherokees, Native American women; southeastern United States.

Margo Price (M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1976 [Anthropology] and 1980 [Journalism]; Research Associate) Public education in archaeology; North Carolina.

John J. W. Rogers (Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1955; Kenan Professor of Geological Sciences, Emeritus) Igneous petrology, geochemistry; effects of geology on human history.

G. Kenneth Sams (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1971; Professor of Classics) Classical archaeology, architecture, pottery, architectural conservation; Greece, Anatolia.

John F. Scarry (Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 1984; Research Professor of Anthropology) Archaeological theory, cultural ecology, development and operation of hierarchical societies, prehistory, quantitative methods, Spanish colonial period archaeology; eastern United States.

C. Margaret Scarry (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1986; Associate Professor of Anthropology) Paleoethnobotany, archaeological theory and method, development and operation of chiefdoms, archaeology of contact period in southeastern United States; eastern United States.

Laurie Cameron Steponaitis (Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton, 1987; Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology) Archaeology, hunter-gatherers, settlement systems, coastal adaptations; eastern North America.

Mary C. Sturgeon (Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College, 1971; Professor of Art History) Classical archaeology, Greek and Roman sculpture, Greek Painting; Greece, Italy.

Donna Surge (PhD, U of Michigan, 2001; Assistant Professor of Geological Sciences). Paleoclimatology, paleoecology of shellfish and finfish, low-temperature geochemistry; archaeological geology of coastal marine, estuarine, and freshwater habitats.

Silvia Tomaskova (Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 1995; Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies) Paleolithic archaeology, human evolution, gender and science, women in science, lithic technology, microscopic use wear; Eurasia, central and eastern Europe.

Monika Truemper (Ph.D., University of Munich; Assistant Professor of Classics) Hellenistic and Roman art and architecture.

H. Trawick Ward (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1980; Research Associate) Archaeology, spatial analysis, culture change; southeastern United States.

Richard A. Yarnell (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1963; Professor Emeritus of Anthropology) Ethnobotany; North America.