• Graduate Students

PhD. students supervised

• Holly McKinney –Ph.D. (2009-2013) (graduated) Taphonomic analysis of fish remains from the Mink Island Site:  implications for zooarchaeological and stable isotopic research

• Gilbert (Feng) Qu –Ph.D. (2009-2013) (graduated) (co-chair with Peter Schweitzer) Prehistoric shamanism in the Bering Straits

• Carol Gelvin-Reymiller† –Ph.D. (2007-2016) Lowland Subarctic land use and human adaptation

• David Plaskett –Ph.D. (2013-2015) Archaeology of the Athabaskan Tradition

• Gerad Smith –Ph.D. (2013-2021) (graduated) Behavioral ecology of Interior Alaskan prehistoric hunter-gatherers

• Nicholas Schmuck –Ph.D. (2014-2021) (graduated) Southwest Alaska as a proving ground for the Coastal Migration Model: testing terminal Pleistocene coastal landforms and the early Holocene archaeological record

• Justin Hays –Ph.D. (2015-present) Archaeology of the Upper Susitna Region, Alaska.

• Kathryn (Allie) Dewey –Ph.D. (2017-present) Strontium analysis of prehistoric mobility in interior Alaska 

M.A. students supervised

• Sam Coffman –M.A. (2008-2011) (graduated) Archaeology at Teklanika West: an upland archaeological site, Central Alaska

• Phoebe Gilbert –M.A. (2008-2011) (graduated) Micromorphology, site spatial variation and patterning, and climate change at the Mead Site: a multicomponent archaeological site in Interior Alaska

• Laura Crawford – M.A. (2009-2012) (graduated) (co-chair with Claire Alix) Macrofossil analysis at Cape Espenberg

• Gerad Smith – M.A. (2009-2012) (graduated) Highland hunters: prehistoric resource use in the Yukon Tanana Uplands

• Michael Wendt – M.A. (2009-2013) (graduated) Integrating climate change with human land use patterns: Archaeology of Butte Lake Northeast

• Allison Little – M.A. (2010-2013) (graduated) Lithic analyses at Mead Site, Central Alaska

• Devon Reid – M.A. (2009-2015) (graduated) Comparing toolstone procurement locations of late prehistoric populations in the North Pacific region

• Patrick Hall – M.A. (2011-2015) (graduated) Functional comparisons between formal and informal tools sampled from the Nenana and Denali assemblages of the Dry Creek Site

• Joseph Keeney – M.A. (2012-2019) (graduated) Zooarchaeological and lithic analysis of a 6000 year-old faunal assemblage from Lake Matcharak in Alaska's Central Brooks Range

• Crystal Glassburn – M.A. (2012-2015) (graduated) (co-chair with Jamie Clark) A reconstruction of steppe bison (Bison priscus) mobility in the Yukon-Tanana Uplands and implications for prehistoric human behavior

• Caitlin Holloway – M.A. (2013-2016) (graduated) Paleoethnobotany in Interior Alaska

• Katherine Mulliken – M.A. (2013-2016) (graduated) Holocene volcanism and human occupation in the Middle Susitna River Valley, Alaska

• Kaitlyn Fuqua – M.A. (2014-2019) (graduated) Northern Archaic notched biface variability

• Hilary Hilmer – M.A. (2015-2019) (graduated) (co-chair with Jamie Clark) Faunal analysis at Healy Lake Village Site, central Alaska

• Tom Allen – M.A. (2016-present) (co-chair with Josh Reuther) Lithic analysis at Little Delta River #3, central Alaska

• Holly Smith – M.A. (2016-2019) (graduated) Archaeological Impacts of the White River Ash

• Brooks Lawler – M.A. (2016-2019) (graduated) Toolstone procurement and land use in the Tangle Lakes region, Central Alaska

• Dougless Skinner – M.A. (2016-2019) (graduated) (co-chair with Sveta Yamin-Pasternak) Indigenous archaeological approaches to artifact and household analysis at a precolonial Yup'ik village Temyiq Tuyuryaq (Old Togiak)

• Preston Casey Jobe – M.A. (2017-present) Lithic analysis in the middle Holocene component at Mead, central Alaska

• Korovin Ellis – M.A. (2019-present) Lithic analysis at Swan Point, central Alaska

Undergraduate students

• Jessica Peterson –B.S. (2011) (graduated) A Study of Trade and Interaction at Lake Kinyiksukvik (Honors Thesis)

Graduate student committee member

• Sarah Meitl – M.A. (2005-2008) (graduated)

• Luanda Skeete – M.A. (2005-2008) (graduated)

• Joshua D. Reuther – Ph.D. (2006-2013, University of Arizona) (graduated) 

• Lisa Slayton – M.A. (2006-2007)

• Bonita Dainowski – Ph.D. (2007-2009)

• Bjorn Iverson – M.A. (2007-2012)

• Michelle Kaye – Ph.D. (2008-2011) (graduated)

• David Lukaszek – Ph.D. (2008-2017) (graduated) 

• Clarissa Dicke – M.A. (2009-2012) (graduated)

• Briana Horwath – M.A. (2009-2012) (graduated)

• Aimee Ely – M.A. (2010-2015)

• Mallory Fisher – M.A. (2011-2016, graduated) 

• Rob Bowman – M.A. (2013-2017, graduated) 

• Hannah Stewart – Ph.D. (2014-2016) 

• Keenan Britt – M.A. (2016-2018) 

• Kevin Sippel – M.A. (2017-2020) (graduated)

• Audra Darcy – M.A. (2018-present)