Education

2009 - Ph.D. in Earth & Planetary Sciences - Washington University in St Louis, MO (Dissertation)

2006 - A.M. in Earth & Planetary Sciences - Washington University in St Louis, MO

2004 - M.A. in Anthropology - Washington State University, Pullman, WA (Thesis)

2001 - A.B. in Geoarchaeology - Hamilton College, Clinton, NY (Thesis)

Employment

2009-Present - Assistant Professor - Earlham College

Courses: Climates Future, Climates Past; Environmental Geology; Geochemistry; Soils; Hydrogeology; The American West: 4 Corners; Environmental Colloquium: Campus Garden Proposal

2005-2009 - guest lecturer - Washington University in St Louis

Courses: Earth & the Environment, Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction, Methods of Geochemistry: Mass Spectrometry

2004-2008- Teaching Assistant - Washington University in St Louis

            Courses: Earth & the Environment, Surface Processes, Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction

Papers & Reports

Charlotte Beck, Amanda K. Taylor, G. Tom Jones, Cynthia M. Fadem, Caitlyn R. Cook, and Sara A. Millward (2010). Rocks are heavy: Transport costs and paleoarchaic quarry behavior in the Great Basin. In: Evolutionary ecology and archaeology: Applications to problems in human evolution and prehistory. Jack M. Broughton, and Michael D. Cannon, editors. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City: 288-309.

Cynthia Fadem (2009). Deciphering the Earliest Holocene: Post-glacial landscape evolution at Oneida Lake, New York. Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken, Germany. 108 p.

Cynthia M. Fadem, Jennifer R. Smith, Andrew Moore, Marko Mendjusic (2009). Pedologic Analysis of the Danilo Bitinj Site, Central Dalmatia, Croatia. Catena 78:181-184.

Gary A. Huckleberry, Cynthia M. Fadem (2007). Environmental Change Recorded in Sediments from the Marmes Rockshelter Archaeological Site, Southeastern Washington State, U.S.A. Quaternary Research 67:21-32.

Conference Abstracts

Piper E. Lewis, and Cynthia M. Fadem. Clast & bedrock mineralogy of the Pokrovnik Site, Dalmatia, Croatia: Evidence from XRD analysis & comparison with soil mineralogy.

            April 2012 - Geological Society of America - North-Central Division Annual Regional Meeting, Dayton, OH

Cynthia M.Fadem, Piper E. Lewis, and Samuel W. Fordyce. Soil & sediment mineralogy of the Pokrovnik Site, Dalmatia, Croatia: Evidence from XRD analysis

            October 2011 - Geological Society of America Annual National Meeting, Minneapolis, MN

Cynthia M.Fadem, Nathan L. Young, and Celine M. Carus. Geoarchaeology of the Northern Debed River Valley, Armenia: Preliminary results

            October 2011 - Geological Society of America Annual National Meeting, Minneapolis, MN

Cynthia M.Fadem. Pedologic assessment of Mummy Cave, northwestern Wyoming, USA

           September 2011 - Developing International Geoarchaeology Conference, Knoxville, TN

Cynthia M.Fadem, Zoe T. Middlebrooks, P. Geer Gillespie, Kiril G. Gorbenko, Dmitry Filatov, and Nicholas Efremov-Kendall. Geoarchaeology of the Late Bronze Age in Southern Ukraine: Preliminary Results.

Cynthia M. Fadem, Jennifer R. Smith, Andrew Moore, Marko Mendjusic. Soils and Site-choice in Neolithic Dalmatia.