Ph.D., Harvard University (Anthropology), 1995
M.A., Harvard University (Anthropology), 1993
M.A., Tufts University (Classical Archaeology), 1984
B.S., Tufts University (Archaeology, with special honors; Chemistry, cum laude), 1983
 

EMPLOYMENT

University of South Florida. Professor, Department of Anthropology (2006-); Acting Chair (summers 2002, 2003); Deputy Chair (2001-03); Associate Professor (2001-2006), Assistant Professor (1996-2001); Courtesy Professor, Department of Geology. Courses taught: Introduction to Anthropology; Archaeology; Archaeological Methods; Archaeological Science; Environmental Archaeology; European Prehistory; Fantastic Archaeology; Laboratory Methods; Mediterranean Archaeology; Old World Prehistory; Statistics. Member: Institute for Biomolecular Science (1996-2000). Core faculty: Classical Civilizations Program, Italian Studies Program. Affiliate faculty: Department of Environmental Science and Policy; Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program.

University of Massachusetts-Boston. Lecturer, Department of Anthropology (1995-96).

Harvard University. Laboratory Manager, Archaeometry Laboratories (1990-96); Teaching Fellow, Departments of Anthropology, Earth & Planetary Science, and Organismic & Evolutionary Biology (1987-94); Research Assistant, Department of Anthropology (1988); Keeper, Center for Archaeological Research and Development (1987-88).

Tufts University. Teaching and Research Assistant, Classics Department (1982-87).

Summer Super Stars Program, Bergen Community College. Instructor (summers 1985-86).

College Academy Program, Framingham State College. Instructor (summers 1980-84).
 

BIOGRAPHIES
Biographies appear in Leading Educators of the World 2005; Who’s Who in America; Who’s Who in America Science and Engineering; Who’s Who in the South and Southwest; Who’s Who in American Education; Academic Keys Who's Who in Social Sciences Higher Education; International Who's Who of Professionals; Lexington Who’s Who; Dictionary of International Biography; Directory of American Scholars; America’s Registry of Outstanding Professionals; 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century (with Order of Excellence Award given to less than 200); Outstanding People of the 20th Century; and International Biographical Centre Lifetime Achievement Award.
 

FIELDWORK

Principal Investigator (with A. Usai), excavation of Nuraghe Nuracale, Scano di Montiferro, Sardinia (2006-)
Principal Investigator (with C. Lugliè & G. Tanda), survey and excavation of the Sennixeddu obsidian workshop, Sardinia (2002, 2005)
Principal Investigator, geoarchaeological survey of central Mediterranean obsidian sources: Lipari, Palmarola, Pantelleria (2000-2003)
Principal Investigator, ground penetrating radar survey of the Foster Property, Sarasota County, Florida (January 2000)
Principal Investigator, archaeological investigation of the Holley Site, Hernando County, Florida (1999-2000)
Principal Investigator, cultural resources assessment survey, Uppakrik Subdivision, Sarasota, Florida (July 1999)
Principal Investigator, archaeological and historic cultural resources assessment survey, Colonia-Edmondson Road Improvement Project,
    Venice, Florida (August-October 1998)
Principal Investigator, cultural resources assessment survey, Ryan Parcel, Sarasota, Florida (July 1998)
Principal Investigator, cultural resources assessment survey, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Retreat Center, Venice, Florida (November 1997)
Principal Investigator, cultural resources assessment survey, Englewood Disposal Company, Venice, Florida (June 1997)
Principal Investigator, cultural resources assessment survey, Douglas Property, Pinellas County, Florida (March 1997)
Cultural resources assessment survey, B&B Borrow Pit #46, Polk County, Florida, directed by N. White (1996)
Field Director/Assistant Project Director, excavation at Nuraghe Santa Barbara, Bauladu, Sardinia, directed by L.J. Gallin (1988-94)
Survey/Excavation at Ripostena, Siena, Italy, directed by J. Whitehead (1989-90)
Principal Investigator, Field Survey, Monte Arci obsidian sources, Sardinia (1987-90)
Excavation, Duos Nuraghes, Borore, Sardinia, directed by G.S. Webster (1987)
Field Survey, Macomer, Sardinia, directed by M.S. Balmuth (1985)
Excavation, Central Artery, Charlestown, Massachusetts (1983)
 

EXTRAMURAL GRANTS & CONTRACTS

Samuel H. Kress Foundation, travel to ASMOSIA VIII conference, Aix-en-Provence, France, $1250 (2003)
National Science Foundation ( BCS-0612858), Tracing Dietary and Social Change in Prehistoric Sardinia (PI for doctoral student Luca Lai), $11,970 (2006-7)
Samuel H. Kress Foundation (co-PI, with J.J. Herrmann & A. Van den Hoek), Scientific Studies of Marble Used in Algeria in Antiquity, $17,514 (2006)
University of Missouri-Columbia, Museum of Art and Archaeology, Isotopic Analysis of Marble, $250 (2005)
Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Cientifico y Technologico (FONDECYT) no. 1040553 y 7040154, Dieta de las Poblaciones Alfareras Prehispanas de Chile Central
     (PI: F. Falabella; External Investigator: R.H. Tykot), $6240 (2004-5)
University of North Carolina, Ancient Diet at Cerro Oreja (Peru) (NSF award to Celeste Gagnon), $1615 (2004-5)
CONICET Buenos Aires, Argentina. Diet at the Argentine Pampa Site of Arroyo Seco (PI: G. Politis), $1320 (2004-5)
National Science Foundation, The Marquesillo Archaeological Survey Project (PI for doctoral student Travis Doering), $11,530 (2004-5)
Museo de Historia Natural, Argentina, Stable Isotope Analysis of Human Remains from Central-Western Argentina, $6575 (2003-5)
Field Museum, Chicago, Neolithic Subsistence Adaptations at Liangchengzhen, Shandong, China (NSF award to A. Underhill), $3815 (2002-05)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Stable Isotope Analysis of Classical Marble Sculptures, $5630 (2002-05)
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society (award to student N. Shelnut), Isotopic Analysis of Mummies from Northwestern Argentina, $200 (2004)
Universidad de Magallanes, Stable Isotope Analysis of Human Remains from Tierra del Fuego, $60 (2004)
Centro Nacional Patagonico, Argentina, Stable Isotope Analysis of Human Remains from north-central Patagonia, $325 (2003-4)
Southern Methodist University, Stable Isotope Analysis of Human Remains from Yaxuna, Mexico, $1120 (2003-4)
Boston University, Stable Isotope Analysis of Human Remains from La Milpa, Belize, $540 (2003-4)
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, Isotopic and XRD Analysis of Marble from Antioch, $3840 (2002-4)
University of Cambridge (England), Stable Isotope Analysis of Middle Bronze Age Sant’Abbondio (Campania, Italy) Skeletal Samples, $475 (2003)
Samuel H. Kress Foundation, travel to ASMOSIA VII conference, Thasos, Greece, $1340 (2003)
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society (award to student N. Falk), Differential Subsistence Adaptations of Agriculturalists and Herders of the Early Intermediate Period in the Lurin Valley, Peru:
     New Data From Stable Isotope Analysis, $1000 (2003)
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society (award to student L. Lai), Tracing Differences in Dietary Patterns Between Inland and Coastal Sites in Neolithic Sardinia, $800 (2003)
Howard University, Stable Isotope Analysis of Archaeological Samples from Chunchucmil, Mexico, $285 (2002-03)
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society (award to student K. Lafrenz), Source of Ivory from the Uluburun Shipwreck, Turkey, $300 (2002-03)
National Science Foundation (pending), Acquisition of an ICP Mass Spectrometer (co-PI with T. Pichler), $419,598 (2002-2003)
Aristotelian University, Greece, Bone Chemistry of the Iron Age cemetery at Tzamala, $135 (2002)
Museo Municipal de Historia Natural, San Rafael, Argentina, Isotopic Analysis in Northwest Argentina, $900 (2001-02)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Stable Isotope Analysis of Classical Marble Sculptures, $1250 (2001-02)
Universidad Nacional de Mar de la Plata, Argentina, southern Patagonia paleodiet study, $145 (2001)
National Science Foundation, Research Experiences for Undergraduates Supplement, $4000 (2001)
Florida State University, Isotopic Analysis of Teeth from Mesoamerica, $80 (2001)
Rhode Island School of Design, Source Analysis of Marble Sculptures in the RISD Collections, $300 (2001)
CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina, southern Patagonia paleodiet study, $484 (2001)
National Science Foundation, Research Experiences for Undergraduates Supplement, $4000 (2000)
National Science Foundation (BCS-0075535), Obsidian Sources and Prehistoric Trade in the Central Mediterranean, $160,079 (2000-2002)
Gotland University, Sweden, Dietary Change during the Viking and Early Christian Periods, $950 (2000-2001)
Samuel H. Kress Foundation, travel to ASMOSIA VI conference, Venice, Italy, $1500 (2000)
Panamerican Consultants Inc., Ground Penetrating Radar Survey of Foster Property, Sarasota, $750 (2000)
Programa de Estudios Prehistoricos (Buenos Aires, Argentina), southern Patagonia paleodiet study, $1125 (2000)
Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, South Africa, Sr/Ca ratios and trophic positioning of early hominids, $4250 (1999-2000)
Cornell University (NSF grant to C. Luke), source analysis of Ulua Valley (Honduras) Classic Maya marble vessels, $5511 (1999-2000)
University of Southampton, source analysis of Bova Marina (Italy) obsidian, $425 (1999-2000)
University of Maine (Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerica Studies grant to S. Whittington), stable isotope analysis of teeth from
    Iximche, Guatemala, $2150 (1999). Grant report on web (http://www.famsi.org/reports/whittington2/whittington2.htm)
Uppakrik archaeological survey project, $950 (1999)
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, analysis of obsidian from the Camel Site, $60 (1999)
University of Southampton, source analysis of Adriatic island obsidian, $225 (1999)
Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina, stable isotope analysis of skeletal remains from southern Patagonia, $1150 (1999)
Toledo Museum of Art, source analysis of classical marble sculptures, $60 (1999)
Institute for Aegean Prehistory, publication of Sardinian and Aegean Chronology, $7000 (1998)
Colonia-Edmondson archaeological and historical survey project, $2750 (1998)
Ryan Parcel archaeological survey project, $900 (1998)
Toledo Museum of Art, classical marble sculpture analysis, $200 (1998)
Smithsonian Institution, stable isotope analysis and tooth enamel hypoplasia, $200 (1997-98)
Cornell University, isotopic analysis of marble sources in the Ulua Valley (Honduras), $480 (1997-98)
Centro Nacional Patagonico, Argentina, paleodietary study of hunter-gatherers in northern Patagonia, $1040 (1997-98)
Diocese of Venice archaeological survey project, $2600 (1997)
Englewood Disposal archaeological survey project, $1165 (1997)
Douglas Property archaeological survey project, $1875 (1997)
American Council of Learned Societies travel grant, International Union of Pre- and Protohistoric Sciences, Forlì, Italy, $500 (1996)
Sardis Expedition, analysis of marble from Sardis, Turkey, $340 (1996)
Wenner-Gren Foundation, co-PI for grant CONF-136, Sardinian Stratigraphy and Mediterranean Chronology, $10,000 (1995)
Samuel H. Kress Foundation, travel to ASMOSIA IV conference, Bordeaux, France $1500 (1995)
Carleton College, Sardis marble project, $360 (1995)
Samuel H. Kress Foundation, conference organization grant, Science and Archaeology, $15,000 (1994)
Archaeological Institute of America publication grant, Science and Archaeology, $500 (1994)
Archaeological Institute of America conference organization grant, Science and Archaeology, $500 (1994)
Dr. M. Aylwin Cotton Foundation publication grant, Social Dynamics of the Central Mediterranean, £1000 (1994)
Historical Metallurgy Society research grant, bronze age metalworking at Nuraghe Santa Barbara, Sardinia, £100 (1994)
American School of Prehistoric Research dissertation research grant, $3500 (1993)
Dr. M. Aylwin Cotton Foundation publication grant, Sardinia in the Mediterranean: A Footprint in the Sea, £1000 (1991)
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society dissertation research grant, $750 (1991)
Pfeiffer Travelling Fellowship, study of Punic hearth ceramics, Tunisia, $750 (1987)
 
 

INTERNAL AWARDS & HONORS

USF Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program Grant, Pre-Inca Agriculturalists and Herders in the Lurin Valley, Peru, $500 (2004)
USF Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies, Travel to Greece for Conference Presentation and Meeting with Research Colleagues, $1000 (2003)
USF President’s Award for Faculty Excellence (2003)
USF Established Researcher Grant, “Dietary and Subsistence Adaptations in Precolonial Florida,” $5000 (2003)
USF Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program Grant, “The Importance of Maize in Prehistoric Mexico,” $1000 (2001)
USF College of Arts & Sciences, Faculty Development Grant, “Pre- and Post-Contact Subsistence patterns in Peninsular Florida,” $1500 (2001)
USF Library Enhancement Grant, acquisition of archaeology books and serial back issues, $3500 (2000-01);  $5000 (1999-2000); $2600 (1998-99);
    $5000 (1997-98)
USF Library Enhancement Grant, co-recipient, acquisition of books and serial back issues on Classical Civilizations, $10,000 (2000-01); $10,000 (1999-2000);
    $10,000 (1998-99); $10,000 (1997-98); $10,000 (1996-97)
USF Instructional Development Grant, Improving Student Learning in Anthropology with Digital Media, $5550 (2000)
USF Faculty International Travel Grant, International Archaeometry Symposium, Mexico City, $1500 (2000)
Faculty Development Program, USF Anthropology Department, SAA conference travel, $400 (1999)
USF Faculty International Travel Award, World Archaeological Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, $1500 (1998)
USF Presidential Young Faculty Award, Origins and Significance of Maize Agriculture in Latin America, $10,000 (1998)
USF Research and Creative Scholarship Award, Sources and Trade of Western Mediterranean Obsidian, $7500 (1998)
USF Faculty International Travel Award, International Radiocarbon Conference, Lyon, France, $630 (1998)
USF Faculty Development Grant, “Developing a Protocol for Isotopic Analysis of bone,” $1000 (1997)
Nominee, Society for American Archaeology Outstanding Dissertation Award (1997)
USF Faculty International Travel Award, International Union of Pre- and Protohistoric Sciences, Forlì, Italy, $1500 (1996)
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Harvard University, Class Marshal (1996)
Harvard Department of Anthropology travel award, Society for American Archaeology meeting, $200 (1996)
Harvard Department of Anthropology travel awards, Society for American Archaeology annual meetings, $600 (1992-94)
Teschemacher Awards for summer research, $4000 (1987-1991)
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Student Council travel grant, American Anthropological Association annual meeting, $400 (1990)
Teschemacher Award for Summer Research, field survey in Sardinia, $750 (1985)
Tuition (Merit) Scholarship, Tufts University, $5000 (1983-84)
Special Honors in Archaeology, Senior Honors Thesis, Tufts University (1983)
 

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP & SERVICE

Peer Review of articles, books and grant proposals for Accounts of Chemical Research, Addison Wesley Longman, American Antiquity, American Journal of Physical Anthropology (AJPA), Antiquity, Archaeology, Asian Perspectives, ASMOSIA IV and V, The Australian Research Council, The British Academy, Cambridge Archaeological Journal (CAJ), Computer Applications in Archaeology 2002, Current Anthropology (CA), European Journal of Mineralogy, Florida Scientist, Geoarchaeology, Greenwood Publishers, Journal of Archaeological Science (JAS), Journal of Archaeological Research (JAR), Journal of Field Archaeology (JFA), Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology (JMA), Latin American Antiquity (LAA), Leakey Foundation, Materials Research Society (MRS), Metals in Antiquity, Mayfield, McGraw-Hill, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), National Geographic Society, National Science Foundation (NSF), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC, United Kingdom), Periodico di Mineralogia, Prentice-Hall, Quaternary International, Routledge, U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF), University of Pennsylvania Museum Publications, and The Wellcome Trust.

Television show with Patrick Chouinard, “Life, Death & Ritual in the Mediterrranean,” channel 96 and other stations in Florida, July 2003. Consultant, Mysteries of Egypt exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry, Tampa, Florida, 2000. Featured researcher, WUSF-TV series Beyond Science, Modern Archaeology: Digging the Past, first broadcast March 7, 1999.
 

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

THESIS COMMITTEE PARTICIPATION AND CHAIRMANSHIP (*)

*Melissa Miller, “A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis Aimed Toward Discovering the Sex and Population Affinity of Five Unknown Individuals,” Senior Honors Thesis, University of South Florida, 2002.

*John Bernal, “A Macroscopic Analysis of Dental Remains from Mound C-F at the Crystal River, Florida Archaeological Site,” Senior Honors Thesis, University of South Florida, 2002.

Thomas I. McIntosh, “Diachronic Variation in Middle Archaic - Late Archaic Lithic Technology at the Big Pine Tree Site, Allendale County, South Carolina,” Master’s Thesis, University of South Florida, 2001.

Mary Elizabeth Fitts, “Two Eighteenth Century Seminole Burials from Alachua County, Florida,” Master’s Thesis, University of South Florida, 2001.

David Stewart Butler, “An Archaeological Model of Seminole Combat Behavior,” Master’s Thesis, University of South Florida, 2001.

Phyllis E. Kolianos, “Florida Journals of Frank Hamilton Cushing 1895-1896 and Related Manuscript,” Master’s Thesis, University of South Florida, 2001.

Jason W. Wilson, “Strontium-Calcium Ratio Analysis and Dietary Adaptations of Early Hominids and Hominoids from South Africa,” Senior Honors Thesis, University of South Florida, 2000.

Jennifer Kelly, “Stable Isotope Analysis and Prehistoric Human Diet in Southern Patagonia,” Senior Honors Thesis, University of South Florida, 2000.

Michelle L. Whitaker, “Anasazi Subsistence in La Plata, New Mexico: Carbon, Corn and Culture,” Senior Honors Thesis, University of South Florida, 1999.

Anna L. East, "Feasibility of Using FDOT Properties for Archaeological Research: A GIS Application," Master's Thesis, University of South Florida, 1998.

Mary Haidar, "A Consideration of Depositional Process in the Urban Archaeological Record: A Case Study from Ybor City, Florida," Master's Thesis, University of South Florida, 1998.

Kimberly A. Mays Perez, "Variability of Bone Tool Manufacture at the Household Level in the Glades Culture, South Florida," Senior Honors Thesis, University of South Florida, 1998.

Ted W. Fassler, "An Archaeological Survey of the Anclote Keys Light Station," Master's Thesis, University of South Florida, 1998.

Stacey Linn Nott, "Developing Criteria for Evaluating Archaeological Site Significance," Master's Thesis, University of South Florida, 1998.

Christina Ulrich, "Predictive Modeling in Urban, Historic Archaeology in Minneapolis Using Geographic Information Systems," Master's Thesis, University of South Florida, 1997.

Jane Berkeley, "Method of Determining Adequacy of Fine-Screen Faunal Material," Master's Thesis, University of South Florida, 1996.

Catherine Bonn, "Tattooing and Body Painting in the Aegean Bronze Age," Senior Honors Thesis, Harvard University, 1996.

Karen Hartshorn, "The Source of Corsican Obsidian: Provenience Analysis and Exchange Relationships in the Neolithic Mediterranean," Senior Honors Thesis, Harvard University, 1995.