Ph.D. Candidates
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|  Katharine Barker
Advisor: Carol Ward/Danny Wescott
Contact: kbbtzd@mizzou.edu
Degrees: BA, Pennsylvania State University 2004 , MA, University of Missouri 2006. I am interested in early hominin evolution, locomotion and comparative anatomy. My dissertation research is focused on the comparative functional morphology of the hominoid shoulder. I am looking specifically at the function of the clavicle, scapula, and upper ribs in extant great apes in order to infer upon the upper limb functional morphology in australopithecines.
Publications
Schopp LH, Good GE, Mazurek MO, Barker KB, Stucky RC. 2007. Masculine role variables and outcomes among men with spinal cord injury. Disability & Rehabilitation , 29 (8): 625-633.
Schopp LH, Good GE, Barker KB, Mazurek MO, Hathaway SL. 2006. Masculine role adherence and outcomes among men with traumatic brain injury. Brain Injury , 20 (11):1155-1162.
Barker, KB. 2006. The functional morphology of the hominoid clavicle. M. A. Thesis, University of Missouri , Columbia , MO.
Presentations
Barker KB, Ward CV. Patterns of upper rib morphology inHominoids , 2008 AAPA meetings, Columbus , Ohio
Barker KB, Ward CV. The Functional Morphology of the Hominoid Clavicle , 2006 AAPA meetings, Anchorage , Alaska
Raxter MH, Auerbach BM, Barker KB. Patterns of clavicular asymmetry in relation to humeral asymmetry in humans and great apes. 2006 AAPA meetings, Anchorage , Alaska
Field School : Koobi Fora '03, Field Work: Koobi Fora Research Project, ‘06 Research Assistantships: Missouri Model Spinal Cord Injury System, Health Psychology '04-05; Mark Flinn, Psychology '05-06. Teaching Assistantships: Anatomy 2203, '06-07; Biological Anthropology 2052, '07-08.
Awards: Lambda Alpha , Charles R. Jenkins Award of Distinguished Achievement, Thesis proposal, functional morphology of the hominoid clavicle, Spring 2005
Mark Boulanger
Advisor: Mike O'Brien
Contact: boulangerm@missouri.edu
Matthew Boulanger received his B.A. in Anthropology from Luther College in 1999. He worked as a project archaeologist for a small firm in Vermont until 2005, and has done fieldwork there, throughout New England, the Midwest, as well as the Czech Republic. In addition to being a graduate student, he currently works full-time at the Archaeometry Laboratory at the University of Missouri Research Reactor. Matthew is interested in multidisciplinary approaches to anthropology and archaeology. His research combines aspects of physical geography, landscape ecology, and geoscience to studying human behavior. Though his interests are far reaching and bridge disciplinary boundaries, he is currently studying the effects of rapid social change within Native American cultures, human–landscape interactions, as well as landscape ecology, geographic informations systems analysis, and geological sciences. He is also particularly interested in studying the development of North American archaeology and how that history has in part led to where we are today.
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Keith Chan
Advisor: Dr. Robert Benfer
Contact: kccnp7@mizzou.edu
I have a strong interest in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology as well as statistics, Peru, and computer programming. Dissertation Title: The Effect of Heterogeneous Health Levels on Stature Estimation. Check out my website here for my cv.
 Catherine Chmidling
Advisor: Reed Wadley
Contact: cac91e@mizzou.edu
Dissertation research: anthropology of childhood and American cultural conceptions of child-rearing as found at a Midwestern orphanage. Additional interests: folk mineralogy, lithic sourcing, prehistoric and historic archaeology, skeletal analysis, ethnohistory
PUBLICATIONS:
>Chmidling CA, Vradenburg, J. 2004. The Prevalence of Diabetes and Related Services in Missouri and Missouri's Progress Towards Meeting the Healthy People 2010 Goals . Missouri Medicine 101(3):227-231.
>Chmidling, CA, Vradenburg, J, Bronson, W. Arthritis in Missouri: Disability, Quality of Life, and Treatment. Missouri Medicine (accepted).
PRESENTATIONS:
October 2003: “Diabetes Measures in Missouri,” presented to the Diabetes Advisory Council, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.
September 19, 2002: invited speaker at a meeting of the Kanza Chapter, of the Kansas Anthropological Association. Discussed the Iron-Age cemetery of Celic-Dere, Romania.
October 20-24, 1999: presented Master's research “Lithic Procurement in the Trans-Pecos” at 57 th annual Plains Anthropological Society meeting, Sioux Falls, SD.
September 25-26, 1999: presented poster: “The Use of Multidirectional Analyses of Fragmentary Remains: A Study from Celic-Dere, Romania” by Catherine Chmidling and Kristina Lotz, at 6 th annual BARFAA (Midwestern Biological Archaeology and Forensic Anthropology Association) meeting, East Lansing, MI.
April 18, 1999: presented Master's research “Lithic Procurement in the Trans-Pecos” at Missouri Archaeological Society meeting, Columbia, MO.
March 13, 1999: First Place, Social Sciences Division, Mizzou 16 th Research and Creative Activities Forum for presentation of Master's research, “Lithic Procurement in the Trans-Pecos.”
August 24, 1998: presented oral defense of Master's research, “Lithic Procurement in the Trans-Pecos Area,” to thesis committee and additional interested parties, Orono, ME.
May 1995: presented senior thesis research, "The Significance of Some Permian Shell Beds in Kansas," to Honors Committee, Kansas State University. |
Shawn K. Collins
Advisor: Dr. Deborah Pearsall
I have general interests in historic and prehistoric archaeology in the American southwest. Specifically, I am interested in paleoethnobotany, indicator plants, past and present use of plants, and especially cultural use of areas as reflected by the phytolith and macroremains records. I have worked as an archaeologist in CRM and academia, at local, state, and federal levels. |
Neil A. Duncan
Advisor: Dr. Debby Pearsall
Contact: nad2b1@mizzou.edu
In practice, I am specializing in the archaeology of South America with an emphasis on the development of complex society on the central coast of Peru. To that end, I am particularly interested in assessing the contributions of early agriculture in relationship to the Maritime Foundations of Andean Civilization. My current research for the dissertation is focused on the late Preceramic-Initial period site of Buena Vista in the middle Chillon Valley of Peru where Dr. Benfer, Bernardino Ojeda, and I have excavated for several seasons. I currently work in the Paleoethnobotany Lab with Dr. Pearsall who introduced me to the world of phytolith and starch analysis.
MA Thesis: 2003 University of Missouri-Columbia
At the Edge of the Puna: Test Excavation and Sampling for Phytolith Signatures of Ancient Corrals at Antibal, Peru.
Recent Presentations:
2004 Resolving Contemporaneity in the Peruvian Cotton Preceramic-Initial Period. Neil A. Duncan and Robert A. Benfer. Paper presented at the 69 th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Montreal, Canada.
2003 The First Field Season at Buena Vista, Chillón Valley, Peru. Neil A. Duncan, Robert A. Benfer, and Bernardino Ojeda. Paper presented at the 68 th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Milwaukee, WI.
2003 Prehistoric Agriculture on the PacificCoast of Guatemala: Insights from Phytolith Analysis. Shawn K. Collins, Deborah M. Pearsall, and Neil A. Duncan. Paper presented at the 68 th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Milwaukee, WI.
2003 An Early Fisherman's House, Lower Chilca Valley, Peru. Robert A. Benfer and Neil A. Duncan. Poster presented at the 68 th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Milwaukee, WI.
2000 Test Excavations at Antibal, Peru. Paper presented at the Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Fort Wayne, IN.
1999 Archaeological Field Notes as Text. Paper presented at the 64 th Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Chicago, IL. |
Joseph Alexander (Alex) Miller
Advisor: Dr. R. Lee Lyman
Contact: jamkb3@mizzou.edu
M.A. Thesis: 2002 SUNY University at Buffalo Faunal Analysis of the Simmons Site: a protohistoric Iroquois site.
I am a zooarchaeologist focusing on the archaeology of North America. I am interested in gaining a better understanding of the Protohistoric time period in the Northern United States. Using zooarchaeological information my current research focuses on the application of ecological models to the archaeological record.
Recent Presentations
§ 2004 Oak Grove Plantation : Zooarchaeological study of African-American life ways in Missouri 's Little Dixie Region. Paper presented at the Boonslick Chapter of the Missouri Archaeological Society. February 25, 2004 .
§ 2002 Faunal analysis of the Simmons Site presented at the Houghton Chapter, Buffalo Museum and Science Center
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 Christina Pomianek
Advisor: Dr. Reed Wadley
Contact: cnp304@mizzou.edu
I received a BA in Sociology and Anthropology and a Minor in Spanish from Truman State University in May 2004. Master's Degree in Anthropology at the University of Missouri May 2006. I am pursuing a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology here at the University of Missouri . Most of my research focuses on evolutionary explanations of human cooperation. In keeping with that theme, my M.A. thesis, Is Iban Hunting a Costly Signal: An Evaluation of the Scale and Context of Costly Signal Production , critically evaluated the appropriateness of current uses of costly signaling theory in the explanation of cooperative hunting and distribution practices. I will carry out my dissertation research in Indonesian Borneo where I will examine the impact of microfinance organizations on the flow of capital within communities and resultant changes in women's work and enterprise. Additionally, I am interested in social changes associated with the transition from local, traditional means of generating capital, such as rotating credit and savings associations, arisan and kongs i, to new microfinance opportunities in which funds are obtained from outside of the community. Presentations, CV and additional information is available at: http://christinanpomianek.googlepages.com/christinan.pomianek
 Corinne N. Rosania
Advisor: Dr. R. Lee Lyman
Contact: rosaniac@missouri.edu
My main interests lie within paleoanthropology, zooarchaeaology, and conservation biology. I am interested in reconstructing ancient dietary habits via isotope analysis. I plan to combine such data with known modern dietary habits and ecological tolerances to reconstruct past environments. Such reconstructions will also incorporate the effect of climatic changes and anthropogenic factors on the environment and local taxa. My main motivation is to utilize these data in the service of conservation biology.
I am a Research Laboratory Technician at the University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR website http://archaeometry.missouri.edu/information.html ). I supervise student lab technicians and analyze archaeological samples, including, but not limited to clay, pottery, obsidian, chert, and tooth enamel. I have attended two field schools. In summer 2005, I attended a primate behavior and ecology field school in Nicaragua and in summer 2006, I attended a paleoanthropology field school in Botswana and South Africa .
Karen Smith
Advisor: Dr. M. J. O'Brien
As a student of southeastern archaeology, I am primarily interested in ceramic manufacture and issues of ceramic typology. On a broader scale, I am interested in the history of archaeological thought. I recently completed a thesis on ceramic manufacturing processes as inferred from the archaeological remains at Farichild's Landing, Georgia.
Chet Savage
Advisor: Dr. Daniel Wescott
Contact: crscm4@mizzou.edu
Thesis Research: Lumbosacral Transitional Vertebrae and Low Back Pain: This project focuses on lumbosacral skeletal variation and investigates whether or not certain types of variation are associated with low back pain. Currently I am in the process of writing my thesis, which I will finish this summer. For my Ph.D. studies I plan to focus on morphological markers of evolutionary psychological theory, with the goal of tying theory to discrete skeletal markers.
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Jeff Speakman
Advisor: Dr. Michael J. O'Brien
My research interests center around chemical characterization of archaeological materials (e.g., ceramics, obsidian, paints and glazes, chert/flint, human bone and teeth, metals, and semi-precious minerals) by neutron activation analysis (NAA), x-ray fluorescence (XRF), and inductively-coupled-plasma mass-spectrometry (ICP-MS). I have interests in ceramic and lithic technology, quantitative research methods, remote sensing, and archaeological theory. My current research focuses on the development of portable-XRF instrumentation for characterization of archaeological materials in non-traditional laboratory environments. I have conducted fieldwork in the Russian Far East, Mesoamerica , and the American Southwest, Midwest, and Northern Plains.
Selected Publications:
Sinopoli, Carla M., Stephen Dueppen, Robert Brubaker, Christophe H. Descantes, Michael D. Glascock, Will Griffin, Hector Neff, Rasmi Shoocongdej, and Robert J. Speakman
n.d. Characterizing the Stoneware “Dragon Jars” in the Guthe Collection Chemical, Decorative and Formal Patterning. Asian Perspectives .
In Review:
Speakman, Robert J. , Michael D. Glascock, Vladimir K. Popov, Yaroslav V. Kuzmin, Andrei V. Ptashinsky, and Andrei V. Grebinikov
n.d. Geochemistry of Volcanic Glasses and Sources of Archaeological Obsidian on the Kamchatka Peninsula (Russian Far East ): First Generation Data . Current Research in the Pleistocene . In Review.Stark, Barbara L.,
Robert J. Speakman , Michael D. Glascock: n.d. Regional and Regional-Scale Compositional Variability in Pottery from South-Central Veracruz , Mexico . Latin American Antiquity.
In Review.
Kolb, Michael J., and Robert J. Speakman 2005 Elymian Regional Interaction in Iron Age Western Sicily : A Preliminary Neutron Activation Study of Incised/Impressed Tablewares. Journal of Archaeological Science . 32(5):795–804.
Speakman, Robert J. 2005 Chemical Characterization of Mesa Verde and Mancos Black-on-White Pottery Pigments by LA-ICP-MS. In Laser Ablation ICP-MS in Archaeological Research, edited by Robert J. Speakman and Hector Neff, pp.167–187. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
Speakman, Robert J., and Hector Neff: 2005 Laser Ablation ICP-MS in Archaeological Research. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
Descantes, Christophe H., Darrell Creel, Robert J. Speakman, Michael D. Glascock, and Samuel Wilson 2004: Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis of Caddoan Pottery from the George C. Davis Site (41CE19), Northeast Texas.North American Archaeologist 25(2)121–138.
Hill, David V., Robert J. Speakman , and Michael D. Glascock: 2004 Chemical Characterization of Sasanian and Early Islamic Glazed Ceramics from the Deh Luran Plain, Southwestern Iran . Archaeometry 46:585–605.
Little, Nicole C., Laura Kosakowsky, Robert J. Speakman , Michael D. Glascock, and John Lohse
2004 Characterization of Maya pottery by INAA and ICP-MS. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 262:103–110.
Speakman, Robert J., Elizabeth C. Stone, Michael D. Glascock, Altan Çilingiroglu, Paul Zimansky, and Hector Neff 2004 Neutron Activation Analysis of Urartian pottery from Eastern Anatolia . Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 262:119–127.
Speakman, Robert J., and Hector Neff: 2002 Evaluation of Painted Pottery from the Mesa Verde Region Using Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS). American Antiquity 66:137–144 .
Speakman, Robert J. , Hector Neff, Michael D. Glascock, and B. Higgins
2002 Characterization of Archaeological Materials by LA-ICP-MS. In Archaeological Chemistry: Materials, Methods, and Meaning , edited by Kathryn Jakes, pp. 48–63. ACS Symposium Series 831. American Chemical Society; Washington, D.C.
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