Associate Professor, Dept. of Anthropology
Research Associate of the Research Laboratories of Archaeology
Director, South American Archaeology Field School
• PHD Anthropology, University of California at Santa Barbara 1996
World Area Of Focus:
• International 10%-24% • Latin America 75%-99%
Languages:
• Spanish (native/bilingual proficiency)
Specialization:
Andean archaeology; heritage preservation, formation of states and chiefdoms; causes and consequences of warfare; origins of social stratification; the evolution of human behavior; method and theory in archaeology; settlement pattern analysis; the archaeology of Southwestern North America.
Relevant Experience:
• Overseas experience: Peru • Director, South American Archaeology Field School, UNC-CH • 1998-2017 Director of the Moche Origins Project and the UNC Field School In South American Archaeology • 1998-2017 Working each summer in local communities in the Moche Valley, Peru to preserve archaeological sites and better their socioeconomic situation through the construction of schools, potable water systems, and other development projects
Distinctions:
• -ongoing Kauffman Faculty Fellow and Ueltschi Service-Learning • -ongoing Numerous grants and fellowships, including Santa Fe Institute, NSF, Dumbarton Oaks, Fulbright, Wenner-Gren
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
16
Relevant Courses Taught:
• Archaeology of South America • Field School in South American Archaeology
Recent Publications:
• 2015 The Origins of the Moche State:A Case Study in Pristine State Formation. Fundamental Issues in Archaeology Series, Plenum. Forthcoming
• 2012 “Bone Chemistry at Cerro Oreja: a stable isotope perspective on the development of a regional economy in the Moche Valley, Peru during the early intermedidate period.” With P Lambert, C M Gagnon, et al. in Latin American Antiquity 23(2).
• 2010 “How Moche Rulers Came to Power: Investigating the Emergence of the Moche Political Economy.” In New Perspectives on Moche Political Organization. Dumbarton Oaks Press 2010
• 2009 The Politics of El Niños: The Rise and Fall of Prehistoric Polities in the Moche Valley, Peru. Lead author with G. Huckleberry. In El Niño, Catastrophism, and Culture Change in Ancient America, edited by D. Sandweis and J. Quilter. Dumbarton Oaks Press. 2009
• 2008 “Gramalote y el periodo inicial en el valley Moche: nuevos datos de un Viejo sitio de Pescadores,” with J B Rosario. Revista del Museo de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia 10.
• 2008 An Outbreak of Raiding and Violence in the Central Mesa Verde Region in the 12th Century AD. In Multidisciplinary Approaches to Social Violence in the Prehispanic American Southwest, edited by Patricia Crown and Deborah L. Nichols, University of Arizona Press. 2008.
• 2003 Geoarchaeological Insights Gained from Surficial Geologic Mapping, Middle Moche Valley, Peru. With G. Huckleberry. Geoarchaeology. Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 505-521, 2003.
• 2002 Irrigation and the Origins of the Southern Moche State on the North Coast of Peru. Latin American Antiquity Volume 13, Number 4, pp. 371-400, 2002.
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