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IPFW-AS Personnel
The staff of the IPFW-AS has
over 100 years of combined archaeological experience, and expertise in a wide
variety of field and laboratory settings, methodologies, and techniques.
Our personnel are experienced in all stages of Section 106 compliance and grant funded research involving: survey, excavation, curation, museology, public outreach, detailed artifact analysis, statistical methods, archaeological remote sensing (magnetometry, resistivity, GPR), predictive modeling, CAD, GIS, electronic publishing, digital data collection and long-term data maintenance. Feel free to contact us for more information about how our staff can meet your needs.
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Dr. Robert G. McCullough received his
undergraduate degree in Anthropology from Indiana University
in 1982. After several years of experience in cultural resource
management, he received an M.A. from Ball State University in 1991
and his Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 2000,
with a dissertation on Late Prehistoric
settlement variability during the Oliver phase of central
and south-central Indiana. He was appointed director of the IPFW-Archaeological
Survey in January 2001. Under his direction, the Survey has been
awarded numerous federal and state grants for archaeological work, completed
scores of Section 106 projects, and been designated a Center of Excellence
by IPFW.
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Craig Arnold acts as Field and Laboratory Supervisor for most IPFW-AS survey and
excavation projects. He holds bachelor degrees in history (BYU 1992) and anthropology
(IPFW 2003). He received a M.A. from the University of Wyoming after completing a
thesis focusing on intrasite spatial analysis of faunal remains at the Hanson site,
a Paleoindian Folsom occupation in the Bighorn Mountains of northern Wyoming. His
archaeological interests focus on hunter-gatherer subsistence and hunting strategies,
historic and battlefield archaeology, geophysical investigative techniques, and
public outreach archaeology.
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Colin Graham is a full-time Staff Archaeologist for the IPFW-AS. Colin holds a B.A. in Anthropology, and is also a graduate
of the IPFW Archaeological Remote Sensing Field School which is funded
by the National Science Foundation. Colin conducts magnetometry, resistivity,
and ground penetrating radar surveys for our CRM and grant-funded research
activities. He also authors reports and report sections for those activities.
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Andrew Smith, Staff Archaeologist
Andrew Smith is a full-time Staff Archaeologist for the IPFW-AS. Andrew has a B.A.
in Anthropology from IPFW and is finishing an M.A. in Anthropology at Ball State
University, Muncie. Andrew specializes in lithic sourcing and is interested in deeply
buried sites. Andrew conducts CRM projects and authors reports for those activities.
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Eric Sanchez
Eric holds a B.A. degree in Anthropology (IPFW 2008). In addition to all aspects of laboratory work, Eric is experienced reconnaissance surveys and archaeological excavations. He also serves as a staff assistant with the summer archaeological field school course. Eric is interested in geophysical survey, environmental archaeology, and subsistence studies.
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Sharon Smith is a full-time Staff Archaeologist for the IPFW-AS and holds a B.A. degree in Anthropology (IPFW 2010). Sharon is trained in conducting magnetometry and soil resistivity geophysical surveys and participates in reconnaissance surveys and archaeological excavations. Sharon also serves as a staff assistant with the summer archaeological field school course. She is involved with all aspects of laboratory work and is the survey’s primary artifact photographer. Sharon is also interested and involved in prehistoric pottery analysis and typology. |
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Nancy Reed, Account Clerk
Nancy Reed is our professional financial coordinator. Nancy uses her extensive experience
with the Purdue network, and business managment, to provide our staff and clients with first-rate guidance and oversight for
all of our projects.
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Dorothea McCullough is the Project Historian
for the IPFW-AS. Dot received her Ph.D. in American History from
Indiana University, Bloomington, in 2001, with a dissertation
on women’s roles in southern Indiana during the first decade of statehood
through 1850. Her research interests are antebellum material culture,
gender roles, and religion. While in graduate school, she worked several years at
the Journal of American History as editorial assistant, copy
editor, and assistant production manager. Dot McCullough also
brings curatorial experience to the IPFW-AS, having served as Curator
of Collections at the William Hammond Mathers Museum at Indiana
University, Bloomington, and as Archaeological Collections Manager
at the Indiana State Museum.
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IPFW-AS Research Associates
These individuals provide their expertise
to our research projects, and are valued members of the IPFW-AS
community.
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Dr.
Michael Strezewski, Research Associate
Michael Strezewski is an Assistant Professor
of Anthropology at the University of Southern
Indiana, and is a former IPFW-AS Postdoctoral Research Assistant.
He received his M.A. in 1995 from Southern Illinois University
and completed his dissertation in 2003 at Indiana University, Bloomington.
His dissertation research focused on the analysis of six Mississippian
burial sites in the central Illinois River valley, focusing on aspects
of Native American religion and worldview. His research interests
include the Late Prehistoric period in the Midwest and Mississippian
mortuary archaeology. In 2006, Mike was field director for IPFW-AS
remote sensing and excavations at the site of
Kethtippecanunk
an 18th century Wea Indian and French trader’s village in Tippecanoe
County, Indiana.
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Andrew White, M.A., Research Associate
Andrew White is a doctoral student in
Anthropology at the University of Michigan,
and formerly served as the Assistant Director for the IPFW-AS. Andy
has over fifteen years of archaeological experience and has worked in the midcontinental
United States, Micronesia, and the Balkans. He obtained his M.A. from Southern
Illinois University-Carbondale in 1999 and worked at the Glenn A.
Black Laboratory of Archaeology from 1998 to 2002. His research interests
include social dynamics in hunter-gatherer systems, computational modeling
and complexity theory, lithics, and the Paleoindian
and Archaic prehistory of eastern North America.
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Scott Hipskind is a Master's student in Anthropology at the University of Mississippi and
formerly served as lab manager for the IPFW-AS. Scott has a B.A. in Anthropology from IPFW (2006). His research interests include midwestern Woodland to Late Prehistoric social
dynamics, lithic and ceramic technologies, and geophysics.
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