Fall 2004/Fall 2005: Research Assistant, Indiana University Department of Anthropology.
- Field project at Hovey Lake Village, Hovey Lake Fish and Wildlife Management Area, Posey County, IN
- Immediate supervisor: Cheryl Ann Munson (IU)
- Responsibilities: site interpretation, excavation, documentation, etc.
- The Hovey Lake Village site is a large, late prehistoric Mississippian village of the Caborn-Welborn phase. This season’s excavations focused on a large, deep wall trench discovered at the end of the 2003 season, and suspected to be part of a village palisade wall. The project is also deeply involved in public archaeology, with frequent tours for school groups and the public.
Summer 2003: Research Assistant, Arizona State University Department of Anthropology.
- Field project at Hopeton Earthworks, Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, Chillicothe, OH
- Immediate supervisor: Kate Spielmann (ASU)
- Responsibilities: supervision of field school students, site interpretation, excavation, documentation, etc.
- This season continued the work at Hopeton that was begun in 2002, again with the University of Nebraska Lincoln fieldschool. The primary focus for the season was Structure 1, a large post structure just outside the quadrangle embankment. This is one of only a few structures at an Ohio Hopewell earthwork not to have been covered with a mound.
Summer 2002: Archaeological Technician, Midwest Archaeological Center, National Park Service.
- Field project at Hopeton Earthworks, Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, Chillicothe, OH
- Immediate supervisor: Mark Lynott (MWAC)
- Responsibilities: supervision of field school students, site interpretation, excavation, documentation, etc.
- This season was the first one I spent at Hopeton Earthworks in Ohio, working with the University of Nebraska Lincoln fieldschool. The primary focus was a series of backhoe trenches across the earthern embankments.
Summer 2001: Chaperone/Field Assistant, Center for American Archeology Education Program fieldschool.
- Immediate supervisor: Mary Pirkl (CAA)
- Responsibilities: supervision of field school students, site interpretation, excavation, documentation, etc.
- A project with the CAA’s high school fieldschool at the famous Koster Site, examining the recently identified Middle Woodland component south of the road.
Spring 2000: Field Technician, Jordan Valley Village Project, Tell Abu en-Ni’aj, Jordan
- Immediate supervisors: Dr. Steven Falconer (ASU), Dr. Jennifer Jones (ASU)
- Responsibilities: supervision of hired workers, excavation, documentation, etc.
- Excavation of a Early Bronze Age village site in the Jordan River Valley, with ASU fieldschool students and paid local laborers. The site is interesting because it dates to EBIV, a period when sedentary villages were once thought to have disappeared from the Southern Levant.
Summer 1999: Archaeological Technician/Mentor, Martin University Next Step Archaeology Program, Indianapolis, Indiana
- Immediate supervisor: Harry Murphy (MU)
- Responsibilities: supervision of field school students, mentoring of student research, site interpretation
- Intensive surface collection of an early historic pioneer site in Fort Harrison State Park, in suburban Indianapolis. Fieldschool students were disadvantaged urban youths.
Summer 1998: Field Intern, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado
- Immediate supervisor: Dr. Andrew Duff (CCAC)
- Responsibilities: supervision of field school students, site interpretation, excavation, documentation, etc.
- Excavation of Shields Pueblo with the CCAC volunteer fieldschools.
Before 1998: I began archaeological fieldwork in high school, as a student at the Center for American Archeology‘s high school field schools. I excavated at several prehistoric and historic sites in West-Central Illinois. During my undergraduate work at Indiana University, I excavated in Central Indiana and at the classic Maya site of Chau Hiix in Belize, Central America.4