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Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Staff

The CAI has seven permanent staff members and the Visiting Scholar position which is occupied by a new person each year. In addition, there are 12 Research Associates and Emereti who participate in CAI-sponsored projects or CAI-assisted research and teaching. There are also several Graduate Student Assistants who work on CAI projects.

Current Staff / Research Associates and Emeriti / Anthropology Faculty


Current Staff

BENJAMIN M. AUERBACH
(PhD Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine 2007; Visiting Scholar 2007-2008) Modern human morphological variation; New World human variation and bioarchaeology; climatic & subsistence effects on morphology. Telephone: (618) 453-5032. Email: auerbach@siu.edu.

BRIAN M. BUTLER
(PhD SIUC 1977; Director) Archaeology, cultural resource management, prehistoric subsistence and settlement systems; Southeastern and midwestern North America, Micronesia. Tel: (618) 453-5031; E-mail: bbutler@siu.edu.

DONNA BUTLER
Managing Editor. Tel: (618) 453-4280; E-mail: dbutler@siu.edu.

HEATHER A. LAPHAM
(PhD University of Virginia 2002, Curator) Archaeology, zooarchaeology, prehistoric and historic periods, culture contact, regional systems, exchange; Eastern North Amercia. Tel: (618) 453-5033; E-mail: hlapham@siu.edu.

KATHY LUNDEEN
Business Manager. Tel: (618) 453-5024; E-mail: tktdc@siu.edu.

DON S. RICE
(PhD Pennsylvania State University 1976; Research archaeologist and Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts) Archaeology, ethnohistory, tropical ecology, development of complex societies; Middle America, Andes. E-mail: dsrice@siu.edu.

MARK WAGNER
(MA University of Tennessee-Knoxville 1980; Staff Archaeologist) Cultural resource management, historical archaeology, prehistory of the Midwest; Midwest North America. Tel: (618) 453-5035; E-mail: mjwagner@siu.edu.

Research Associates and Emeriti

ANDREW K. BALKANSKY (PhD Wisconsin 1997; Research Associate / Assistant Professor of Anthropology, SIUC) Archaeology, urbanism, settlement patterns, social evolution; Mexico and Central America. E-mail: abalkan@siu.edu.

R. BERLE CLAY
(PhD SIUC 1968; Research Associate / Principal Investigator, Cultural Resource Analysts Inc., Lexington, Kentucky) Ohio Valley Early-Middle Woodland periods, eastern North America late prehistoric period, near-surface geophysical survey of archaeological sites; Eastern North America. E-mail: berleclay@aol.com.

CHARLES COBB
(PhD SIUC 1988; Research Associate / Associate Professor of Anthropology, Binghamton University, SUNY) Archaeology, political economy, lithic analysis, quantitative methods, culture resource management; Eastern North America. E-mail: ccobb@binghamton.edu.

DOUGLAS HANSON
(PhD Cornell University 1988; Research Associate/ Executive Director of Information Systems, Forsyth Institute) Skeletal biology, paleodiet, paleopathology, Micronesian prehistory; Micronesia. E-mail: dhanson@forsyth.org.

GRANT D. JONES
(PhD Brandeis 1969; Research Associate / Professor of Anthropology, Davidson College) Cultural anthropology, ethnohistory; Mesoamerica. E-mail: grjones@davidson.edu.

CAROL A. MORROW
(PhD SIUC 1988; Adjunct Associate Scientist / Associate Professor of Anthropology, Southeast Missouri State University) Archaeology, lithic technology, chert exchange, Middle Woodland period; Midwestern North America. E-mail: cmorrow@semo.edu.

JON D. MULLER
(PhD Harvard 1967; Research Associate; Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, SIUC) Archaeology, art analysis and culture theory; Eastern North America, Africa. E-mail: jmuller@siu.edu.

ROBERT L. RANDS
(PhD Columbia U 1952; Research Associate) Mayan and Mesoamerican archaeology, ceramic analysis, culture contact; Mesoamerica.

PRUDENCE M. RICE
(PhD Pennsylvania State 1976; Research Associate / Professor of Anthropology, SIUC / Director, Office of Research Development and Administration, SIUC) Archaeology, ceramics; Mesoamerica, Andes. E-mail: price@siu.edu.

IZUMI SHIMADA
(PhD Arizona 1976; Research Associate / Associate Professor of Anthropology, SIUC) Archaeology, complex societies, technology and craft production, urban and ceremonial centers, experimental archaeology; Andes. Tel: (618) 453-5023. E-mail: ishimada@siu.edu.

MELODY SHIMADA
(MA Arizona 1974; Research Associate) Faunal analysis, cultural ecology of South American camelids; Andes. E-mail: melodyweav@aol.com.

PAUL D. WELCH
(PhD University of Michigan 1986; Research Associate / Associate Professor of Anthropology, SIUC) Middle range societies, evolution of political complexity, political economy, quantitative methods; Eastern North America. Tel: (618) 453-4740; E-mail: pwelch@siu.edu.


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