Professional & Public Service

Media Coverage

• Coverage of: Mexican obsidian on Maui: Hawaiian connection, harmonic convergence, or hokum? Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.

  • • Sourcing and pseudo-archaeology. Society for Archaeological Sciences Bulletin Online. May 5, 2021.

• Coverage of: Neutron activation analysis of 12,900-year-old stone artifacts confirms 450-510+ kilometer Clovis tool-stone acquisition at Paleo Crossing (33ME274), Ohio. Journal of Archaeological Science.

  • • The first people who populated North America. BBC - Earth. March 30, 2017.

    • Clovis, masters of organized transport. 2017. Mammoth Trumpet 32(1): 1–5.

• Coverage of: The Cinmar discovery and the proposed pre-Late Glacial Maximum occupation of North America. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.

  • • Weekend reads: Publication pollution, irreproducible research crisis, and broken funding models. Retraction Watch. April 4, 2015.

• Coverage of: Northeastern North American Pleistocene mammals chronologically overlapped minimally with Paleoindians.

  • • Balter, M. "What Killed the Great Beasts of North America?" ScienceNOW. January 28, 2014.

    • "What killed the great beasts of North America? A new study points to environmental causes." The Washington Post. February 10, 2014.

    • "Was it climate change or the 'Overkill hypothesis'?" Archaeology Magazine News. January 29, 2014.

    • Neely, P. "Study questions megafauna Overkill theory; results suggest extinctions in the Northeast weren't due to humans." 2014. American Archaeology 18(1): 8.

Teaching Experience

Southern Methodist University

Graduate-Student Committee Service

Bonnie Etter (Ph.D. candidate)

Ian Jorgeson (Ph.D. candidate)

Anne Parfitt (Ph.D. candidate)

Undergraduate-Student Mentorship

Faculty co-mentor for 3 Hamilton Undergraduate Research Scholars (2021)

Professional Service

• Secretary/Treasurer, International Association for Obsidian Studies (IAOS); 2015-2020

University Service

• Faculty advisor, Anthropology Club, Southern Methodist University, 2015-Present

• Member, SMU Faculty Senate ad-hoc committee on non-tenure line faculty; Spring, 2022

Referee

• • Oxford University Press

  • University of Utah Press

  • American Antiquity

  • Archaeometry

  • Geoarchaeology

  • Journal of Archaeological Science

  • Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology

  • Lithic Technology

  • MURR Archaeometry Laboratory’s NSF Subsidy Program

Professional Memberships

• • Register of Professional Archaeologists

  • Society for American Archaeology

  • Society for Archaeological Sciences

Outreach and Public Service

• • Occasional blogger for the Society for Archaeological Sciences

  • Archaeology Exhibit. 2009 Blue Ridge Elementary Spring Carnival, Columbia, Missouri.

  • Volcanoes, Arrowheads, and X-rays. 2007 University of Missouri Graduate Education Week “Adventures in Education Fair.”

  • An Archaeological View of Thompsons Point. Brochure prepared for the 2006 Vermont Archaeology Month.