Brief Description of Education & Experience
I am an associate professor of anthropology and archaeologist in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University and director of the ASU Center for Archaeology and Society. My research focuses on integrating archaeological data with methods and models from the broader social sciences to address questions revolving around the nature of human social networks over the long-term. This work involves the development of large-scale databases, fieldwork in the US Southwest, as well as the application of a variety of computational methods to archaeological data.
Most of my research is focused on agricultural societies in the U.S. Southwest. I have conducted field and lab projects in the Cibola region of New Mexico and the Phoenix Basin of Arizona and also work on a number of regional-scale collaborative projects using large settlement and material cultural databases including the Southwest Social Networks Project and the cyberSW project. I am interested in data infrastructure in general and also collaborate on data synthesis software development projects beyond archaeology. I supervise undergraduate/graduate research assistants and post-doctoral researchers through the Center for Archaeology and Society on a number of collections and field based projects leveraging the large collections from the US Southwest and other resources housed at the Center for Archaeology and Society Anthropology Collections Facilities.
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