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UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA-RENO

  1. Institution Name:
    University of Nevada-Reno
  2. Department Title:
    Department of Anthropology
  3. Faculty in Historical Archaeology:
    1. White, Carolyn L. (Ph.D., Boston University 2002, Prof). Historical archaeology of the American West and East; contemporary archaeology; gender and identity; material culture; museum studies; historic preservation; western U.S., eastern U.S., Hawaii, England, Italy.
    2. Sarah E. Cowie (Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2008, Assoc. Prof). Historical archaeology of the American West and Southeast, social theory, decolonizing methods, power relations, structure and agency, landscapes, archaeology of working communities, industrial archaeology, and collaborative archaeology.
    3. Hardesty, Donald L., Emeritus, (Ph.D., Oregon 1972; Emeritus Prof.) historical archaeology, ecological anthropology, industrial archaeology, historic preservation; western U.S.
    4. Hattori, Eugene (Ph.D., Washington St. 1982; Adjunct Assoc. Prof.) historical archaeology, paleoecology.
  4. Other Related Faculty/Staff:
    1. Deborah A. Boehm (PhD U New Mexico 2005; Prof) Gender and Women’s Studies, transnationalism, globalization and immigration; Latin America, US-Mexico borderlands.
    2. Louis C. Forline (PhD U of Florida-Gainesville 1997; Assoc. Prof) Sociocultural anthropology, lowland peoples of South America.
    3. Christopher Jazwa (Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University 2015; Assistant Professor) Prehistoric archaeology, human ecology, human behavioral ecology, zooarchaeology, Western North America, Australia.
    4. Christopher Morgan (Ph.D. University of California, Davis, 2006; Assoc. Professor) Prehistoric archaeology, North America, China; hunter/gatherers, evolutionary ecology, lithics, cultural geography
    5. Marin Pilloud (Ph.D. Ohio State University, 2009; Asst. Prof) Physical anthropology, forensic anthropology, bioarchaeology, California and Turkey; research focus on skeletal and dental data to research stress, social structure, violent behavior and population migration.
    6. Mikaela Rogozen-Soltar (Ph.D. Michigan, 2010; Asst. Prof) Migration, Diaspora, Citizenship; Islam; Religious Conversion; Historical Memory; Anthropology of Gender; Public Anthropology; Europe, North Africa, and the Mediterranean.
    7. G Richard Scott (PhD Arizona State U, 1973; Prof) Dental anthropology, skeletal biology, bioarchaeology.
    8. Erin Stiles (PhD Washington U, 2002; Assoc. Prof) Religion, law, Islam, Islamic law; East Africa.
    9. Kyra E. Stull (Ph.D. University of Pretoria, South Africa 2014; Assistant Professor) Biological anthropology, forensic anthropology, growth and development, craniometric and postcraniometric human variation, South Africa, and quantitative methods
  5. General Statement:
    The university offers both M.A. and Ph.D. programs with a specialization in historical archaeology. Students can also pursue a focus on historic preservation through the affiliated Historic Preservation Program. Ongoing research programs focus on industrial archaeology; western American emigration and settlement; decolonizing methods and collaborative Indigenous archaeology in Oregon; trans-Atlantic trade; gender and personal identity; collaborative archaeology; and contemporary archaeology. Current faculty projects in historical archaeology include work in Carson City, Nevada; Granite Creek, Nevada; Burns, Oregon; London, England; Black Rock City, Nevada; and Rome, Italy. Graduate students pursue topics including mining, landscapes, community, ethnicity, material culture, and gender and identity via excavation and collections based projects. Special resources include extensive library holdings on mining and the history of the American West; the Historic Preservation Program, the Anthropology Research Museum; the Basque Studies Center; and paleoenvironmental laboratory facilities at the Desert Research Institute.
  6. For More Information Contact:
    Sarah E. Cowie or Carolyn L. White, mailing address: Department of Anthropology, MS 0096, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557-0096; phone: 775-682-7688; fax: 775-327-2226; email: scowie@unr.edu, clwhite@unr.edu Web page.