Curriculum Vitae

KEVIN P. SMITH POSITION: Deputy Director/Chief Curator Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology Brown University 300 Tower Rd. Bristol, RI 02809 17 July, 1958 United States Doctoral candidate (A.B.D.): Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan. Dissertation (in prep): The Economic Structure of Icelandic Chiefdoms: Subsistence and Political Economy in the Age of the Sturlungs, 1150-1264 A.D. MA: Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan: granted 1984 BA : Anthropology, Haverford College, Haverford, PA: granted 1981 (401) 253-8388 Kevin_P_Smith@brown.edu DATE OF BIRTH: CITIZENSHIP: EDUCATION: RESEARCH INTERESTS: Archaeology of arctic, subarctic, and temperate woodland regions; North America, North Atlantic. Archaeological theory, complex societies, archaeology of law, high-latitude adaptations. GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS: 2008 2008 2006 2004 2001 2000 2000 1998 1998 1995 1992 1990 1989 Small Grant for Exploratory Research, National Science Foundation, “Finding the Center: Exploratory Research at the Efranes-1 site, Western Iceland”. Principal Investigator. (NSF BCS-0834849: $27,531) Celebrating El Día de los Muertos, Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, to support humanities scholars and publicity for public program at the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University. Principal Coordinator ($995) Early Response Grant, Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, to support humanities scholars and publicity efforts for mini-festival, "The Vikings are Coming!" at the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Bristol, RI. Organizer. ($2,000) Early Response Grant, Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, to support humanities scholars and publicity efforts for mini-festival, "The Vikings are Coming!" at the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Bristol, RI. Organizer. ($2,000) Planning grant, New York State Council for the Arts, to evaluate integrated database systems for the curatorial divisions and public access at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Organizer. ($10,000) National Geographic Society, Research Grant, to support excavations at Háls, Borgarfjarðarsýsla, Iceland. Principal Investigator. ($26,200) Planning, Development and Implementation Grant, Margaret L. Wendt Foundation, Buffalo ($205,000) for an exhibition on the 1901 Pan-American Exposition’s “African Village.” Principal Investigator. Planning Grant, New York State Council for the Arts, to enable planning for an exhibition on the 1901 PanAmerican Exposition's "African Village" ($15,000). Principal Investigator. Research Grant, Ministry of Culture, Science and Education, Government of Iceland, ($7,500) to conduct research on jasper artifacts from the Norse site at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland. Principal Investigator. Rackham Dissertation Fellowship: Horace P. Rackham School of Graduate Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, to assist work on doctoral dissertation. Institute for Museum Services Conservation Program Grant (#1C-20321-92, $25,000), supporting engineering-conservation-architectural team planning for renovation of Buffalo Museum of Science Division of Anthropology collection storage, laboratory, and curatorial work areas. National Geographic Society, Research Grant (#4354-90; $7,500), to support excavations at Háls, Borgarfjarðarsýsla, Iceland. Krueger Enterprises Research Grant ($1,500 equivalency in analyses), for K-Ar analysis of foreign schist whetstones from medieval Icelandic archaeological sites. 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1981 1975 Thor Thors Fund Fellowship: American-Scandinavian Foundation and the Icelandic-American Foundation ($7,500), to support 1989 archaeological investigations at Háls, Borgarfjarðarsýsla, Iceland. Dean's Discretionary Fund for Academic Research: Horace P. Rackham School of Graduate Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, for field research with the National Museum of Iceland. James B. Griffin Fund Grant for Academic Research: Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, to support survey and test excavations at Terminal Archaic sites in Central Pennsylvania. Thor Thors Fund Grant: American-Scandinavian Foundation and Icelandic-American Foundation, for participation in field research with the National Museum of Iceland, Department of Archaeology. Margaret Wray French Scholarship Fund, Grant for Academic Research: Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, for travel and collections research on 1st millennium mortuary sites of the Bering Strait region. Research Grants (2), Department of Anthropology, Bryn Mawr College, to support analyses on historic ceramic and glass assemblages from 18th century manor, the Highlands, and for archaeological reconnaissance of prehistoric quarry sites in southeastern Pennsylvania. National Exploration Scholarships Program: United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, for participation in field school and excavations at Coyote Creek Pueblo, AZ. FIELD EXPERIENCE: North Atlantic 2009 Excavation director – Gilsbakki archaeological excavations, for NSF EAGER grant 0946247 (Imagining an Engendered Archaeology of the North Atlantic, Michèle Hayeur Smith and Margaret Ordoñez, University of Rhode Island, co-principal investigators). Directed two weeks of excavations and geophysical survey at the site of Gilsbakki in Hvítársíða, western Iceland, to complete work begun in 2008. 2008 Principal Investigator. Defining the Center: Exploratory Research at the Skógarnes-1 site and Gilsbakki, western Iceland. Coring, mapping, and test excavations at a post-medieval fuel production site (Skógarnes1) and Viking Age through Early Modern regional center (Gilsbakki) in the Borgarfjörður district of western Iceland. 2007 Principal investigator. Landscapes of Law reconnaissance survey. Borgarfjörður district, western Iceland. 2001 Co-investigator. Vígishellir Cave Survey and Excavation. Mapping and excavation of fortified Viking Age outlaw shelter in lava cave, interior western Iceland. With Guðmundur Ólafsson, National Museum of Iceland. 2000Director/principal investigator. Háls Archaeological Project. Excavation of Viking Age iron production site in Borgarfjarðarsýsla, Iceland. 1996­ Principal investigator. North Atlantic Jasper Survey. Collaborative geoarchaeological research project 2001documenting trace element signatures and use of jasper by prehistoric and Norse cultures around the North Atlantic basin. Fieldwork in Iceland and Newfoundland; laboratory work on samples from Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland, Norway, Canadian maritime provinces and the northeastern United States. 1996 Principal investigator. Háls Archaeological Project. Investigation of Viking Age iron production in Borgarfjarðarsýsla, western Iceland. 1991 Principal investigator. Háls Archaeological Project. Sub-surface coring survey of medieval farmstead and features at Háls, Borgarfjarðarsýsla, Iceland. 1990 Principal Investigator. Háls Archaeological Project. Stabilization of erosion faces and surface survey of 9th century iron-working complex at Háls, Borgarfjarðarsýsla, Iceland. 1989 1989 1988 1988 Field Assistant. Reykholt Archaeological Project. Excavation; 16th-19th century residential complex at Reykholt, Borgarfjarðarsýsla, Iceland. Guðmundur Ólafsson (National Museum of Iceland) and Guðrún Sveinbjarnardóttir (University of London), principal investigators. Principal Investigator. Háls Archaeological Project. Excavation, survey, and testing of 11th-14th century farm site and 10th century iron-production complex in Borgarfjarðarsýsla, Iceland. Principal Investigator. Háls Archaeological Project. Survey and test excavations; abandoned 11th-13th century farm site in Borgarfjarðarsýsla, Iceland. Field Assistant. Reykholt Archaeological Project. Excavation; 16th-19th century residential complex at Reykholt, Borgarfjarðarsýsla, Iceland. Guðmundur Ólafsson (National Museum of Iceland) and Guðrún Sveinbjarnardóttir (University of London), principal investigators. -2- 1987 1987 1986 1985 1979 Research Analyst. Bessastaðir Archaeological Investigations. Analysis of ceramics from excavations at medieval and post-medieval colonial governor's residence of Bessastaðir, Iceland. Guðmundur Ólafsson (National Museum of Iceland), principal investigator. Field Assistant. Reykholt Archaeological Project. Test excavations; medieval elite residence of Reykholt and survey of neighboring sites in Borgarfjarðarsýsla, Iceland. Guðmundur Ólafsson (National Museum of Iceland) and Guðrún Sveinbjarnardóttir (University of London), principal investigators. Research Assistant. Field reconnaissance and excavations; medieval and post-medieval sites in northern and southwestern Iceland with staff from the National Museum of Iceland, University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology, and Department of Anthropology, CUNY/Hunter. Field Assistant. Arnarneshreppur Archaeological Survey. Regional survey; Viking, Medieval, and postMedieval sites in Arnarneshreppur, Eyjafjörður, Northern Iceland. Guðmundur Ólafsson (National Museum of Iceland), principal investigator. Crew Member. Oronsay Archaeological Project. Excavation and testing; Late Mesolithic shell midden sites, Isle of Oronsay, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. Dr. Paul Mellars (U. Sheffield), principal investigator. Western Arctic 1984Crew Chief. Bryn Mawr College Karluk Archaeology Project. Excavation; late prehistoric, Koniag Phase wet site [KAR 001], Kodiak Island, Alaska. Dr. Richard H. Jordan (Bryn Mawr College), principal investigator. 1983 1983 1982 1982 1981 Crew Chief. Bryn Mawr College Karluk Archaeology Project. Survey and test excavation; prehistoric and historic sites, Karluk Lagoon, Kodiak Island, Alaska. Dr. Richard H. Jordan (Bryn Mawr College), principal investigator. Field Researcher. Bryn Mawr College Karluk Archaeology Project. Preliminary survey and testing; prehistoric and historic archaeological sites, Karluk Lake and Karluk River, Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska. Dr. Richard H. Jordan (Bryn Mawr College), principal investigator. Co-investigator. Reconnaissance survey; prehistoric and historic archaeological sites, Karluk Lagoon, Kodiak Island, Alaska. With Glenn W. Sheehan (Bryn Mawr College). Crew Member. Utkiavik Archaeology Project. Stage III salvage excavations; late prehistoric, protohistoric, and historic Inupiat winter village site, Utkiavik (BAR 002), Barrow, Alaska. Dr. Albert A. Dekin (Public Archaeology Facility, SUNY/Binghamton), principal investigator. Crew Member. Utkiavik Archaeology Project. Stage III salvage excavations; late prehistoric, protohistoric, and historic Inupiat winter village site, Utkiavik (BAR 002) and prehistoric Birnirk phase mortuary site, Kugok site, Barrow, Alaska. Dr. Albert A. Dekin (Public Archaeology Facility, SUNY/Binghamton), principal investigator. Temperate North America 2003- Project Director. Mount Hope Survey. Surface mapping, subsurface assessment, and documentation 2007 of late prehistoric, contact, and historic sites and features in Bristol, Rhode Island. Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University. 1997 Principal investigator. Simmons Site salvage. Documentation of looters' activities at the Simmons Site, a late prehistoric/contact period Erie village, Erie County, NY. 1996- Principal investigator. Western New York Prehistoric Land Use Survey (WNY+). Surface survey 1992 of prehistoric and historic archaeological sites in eastern Genesee County, New York. 1990 Principal Investigator. C.T. Jackson site, Huntingdon County, PA. Surface survey of Woodland and Archaic components and salvage excavation of Late Middle Woodland features. 1989 Project Director. Waterford Park Mitigation Project. Stage 1 testing, Grand Island, New York. For Wood and Miller, Archaeological Consultants, Buffalo, NY. 1988 Project Director. Riverhaven 7 Mitigation Project. Stage 3 salvage excavation; Late Woodland hamlet and Early Woodland loci, Grand Island, Erie County, New York. For Dean & Barbour Assoc., Buffalo, NY. 1988 Crew Member. Archaeological Survey, State University of New York at Buffalo. Stage 1 and 2 highway and construction mitigation contracts. Dr. Ben Nelson (SUNY/Buffalo), principal investigator. 1987 Principal Investigator. Central Pennsylvania Terminal Archaic Reconnaissance Project. Test excavations and field survey; prehistoric sites in the upper Juniata River drainage, Pennsylvania. 1985 Project Supervisor. Presque Isle Reconnaissance Survey. Reconnaissance survey; prehistoric and historic sites in southeastern Presque Isle and northeastern Alpena counties, Michigan. Dr. John M. O'Shea (U. Michigan), principal investigator. -3- 1985 1984 1981 1980 1980 1978 1975 1974 Crew Member. Homestead Commons site (20WA174). Stage I survey and Stage II test excavations; multicomponent, non-stratified Late Archaic through Late Woodland site, Ann Arbor, MI. Dr. John M. O'Shea (U. Michigan), principal investigator. Crew Member. UMMA Hubbard Lake Archaeology Project. Excavation and survey; prehistoric and historic sites, Hubbard Lake, Michigan. Dr. John M. O'Shea (U. Michigan), principal investigator. Research Assistant. Pennsylvania Jasper Quarries Reconnaissance Survey. Preliminary survey; prehistoric jasper quarries in southeastern Pennsylvania. Dr. Richard H. Jordan (Bryn Mawr College), principal investigator. Research Assistant. Highlands Historic Archaeology Project. Excavations; residential estate, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Dr. Richard H. Jordan (Bryn Mawr College), principal investigator. Crew Member. New York Route 31 Relocation Project. Stage I highway mitigation survey; prehistoric and historic sites and structures, Wayne County, New York. Dr. Mark Aldenderfer (SUNY/Buffalo), principal investigator. Crew Member. Stage II salvage excavation; Monongahela-related Late Woodland Bedford Village site, Bedford County, Pennsylvania. Paul S. Heberling (Juniata College), principal investigator. Field School. Coyote Creek site. Excavation; Late Mogollon pueblo site, east-central Arizona. Dr. Stanley Bussey (New Mexico State University), principal investigator. Field School. Workman Farm and Monroe Furnace sites. Excavations; prehistoric multi-component and historic industrial sites in Bedford and Huntingdon counties, Pennsylvania. Paul S. Heberling (Juniata College), principal investigator. PUBLICATIONS: Articles or chapters in refereed journals and edited books: In prep “Vínland revisited: jasper tools from L’Anse aux Meadows and the Norse exploration of the New World”. To be submitted to Antiquity. (Lead author, with Birgitta Wallace, Ronald G.V. Hancock, Ian Knight, and John D. Holland) In prep “Ferrous and non-ferrous metalworking in Viking Age and Early Medieval Iceland: Economy, technology, and scale.” To be submitted to Norwegian Archaeological Review. In prep “Getting to the matter of the core: a jasper microblade core from western Iceland.” To be submitted to American Antiquity. In prep “Hrungnir’s Hones: Whetstones and Early Medieval Trade in the North Atlantic.” To be submitted to the Journal of the North Atlantic. 2006 “Outlaws of Surtshellir Cave: the underground economy of Viking Age Iceland”. In Dynamics of Northern Societies (Publications of the National Museum of Denmark, Studies in Archaeology & History 10), edited by Jette Arneborg and Bjarne Grønnow, pp. 395-406. Copenhagen: SILA – the Greenland Research Centre and the National Museum of Denmark. 2005 “Ore, fire, hammer, sickle: iron production in Viking Age and Early Medieval Iceland.” In De Re Metallica: Studies in Medieval Metals, AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art, Volume 4, edited by Robert Bork et al., pp. 183-206. Ashgate Press, Aldershot, UK. 2004 “Patterns in time and the tempo of change: A North Atlantic perspective on the evolution of complex societies.” In Continuity or Change: The Role of Analytical Scale in European Archaeology, edited by James Matthieu and Rachel Scott, pp. 83-99. British Archaeological Reports, International Series. 2000 “Who lived at L’Anse aux Meadows?” in Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga, edited by William Fitzhugh and Elizabeth Ward, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC. 2000 “The Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene transition in western New York: a re-examination of the RitchieFitting hypothesis.” Current Research in the Pleistocene 17: 75-78. (Lead author, with Richard S. Laub) 1998 "The Early and Middle Archaic in the Niagara Frontier: documenting the 'missing years' in Lower Great Lakes prehistory." In Contributions to the Natural Sciences and Anthropology: Festschrift in Honor of George Goodyear, Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, Vol. 36, pp. 9-72 (Lead author, with Neil O'Donnell and John D. Holland). 1995 "Paleoindian manifestations in the Spring Creek drainage, Genesee County, NY." Current Research in the Pleistocene 12: 43-45. -4- 1995 1995 1994 1989 "Survey and test excavations at the Arc Site, Genesee County, New York" (Co-author, with R. Ennis, M. Hess, J. D. Holland, V. Honsinger, K. B. Tankersley and S. Vanderlaan). Current Research in the Pleistocene 12: 9-11. "Landnám: the settlement of Iceland in archaeological and historical perspective." World Archaeology 26(3): 319-347. "Synchronal deposition and Early Paleoindian contexts at the Arc Site" (Co-author, with Kenneth B. Tankersley and Stanley Vanderlaan). Southeast Archaeological Conference Bulletin 37: 66. "The spirit of survival: Cultural responses to resource variability in North Alaska" (Co-author, with Leah D. Minc). In Bad Year Economics: Cultural Responses to Risk and Uncertainty, edited by Paul Halstead and John O'Shea and Paul Halstead. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. Parsons). In The Anthropology of Iceland, edited by E. Paul Durrenberger and Gísli Pálsson, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City. "Ritual and resource variability: Mechanisms for the transmission and storage of information regarding low-frequency resource cycles in hunter-gatherer societies." In Diet and Subsistence: Current Archaeological Perspectives, Proceedings of the 19th Chacmool Conference. University of Calgary Press, Calgary, Alberta. 1989 "Regional archaeological research in Iceland: potentials and possibilities" (Lead author, with Jeffrey R. 1988 Reviews: 1986 Review of "Heinrich Holmberg's Ethnographic Sketches [1855-1863]: The Rasmuson Library Historical Translation Series, Vol. 1." (with Sergei Kan) Alaska History 2(1): 68-69. Translations: 1997 Reykholt in History, by Reverend Geir Waage. Reykholt, Iceland. Icelandic into English translation. Technical Papers and Non-Refereed Manuscripts: 2004 Rannsókn á minjum í Surtshelli, Rannsóknarskyrslur Þjóðminjasafns 2001:VIII. Guðmundur Ólafsson, Kevin P. Smith and Agnes Stefánsdóttir. Reykjavík: National Museum of Iceland. (www.natmus.is/media/rannsoknir/Rannsokn_a_minjum_i_Surtshelli.pdf) 2000 Viking Age iron production, Early Medieval farming, and the landscape of western Iceland: Preliminary report on investigations at Háls, Borgarfjarðarsýsla, 2000. Submitted to the National Museum of Iceland and the National Geographic Society. 1998 1997 Investigations at Hals, Borgarfjarðarsýsla, Iceland. Report submitted to the National Museum of Iceland and the National Geographic Society. 1997 First preliminary report of 1996 investigations at the site of Háls, Borgarfjarðarsýsla, Iceland. Reported submitted to the National Museum of Iceland and the National Geographic Society. 1991b Archaeological Investigations at Háls, Borgarfjarðarsýsla: 1991. Report submitted to the National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavík. 1991a Háls, Borgarfjarðarsýsla: 1989 investigations of the Háls Archaeological Project, Preliminary Report. Submitted to the American-Scandinavian Foundation and National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavík. 1988 Archaeological Investigations at Háls, Hálsasveit, Borgarfjarðarsýsla, Iceland: First preliminary report, 1987-1988. Submitted to the National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavík. 1988 Ceramics from Bessastaðir, Iceland: A Preliminary Report on Collections from the 1987 Excavations. Submitted to the National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavík. 1985 Report of the 1985 Presque Isle Reconnaissance Survey, Presque Isle and Alpena Counties, Michigan. Submitted to Michigan History Division, Michigan Department of State, Lansing, MI. PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS: 2009 2009 Between the Mountains and the Sea: Regional Archaeological Research in Borgarfjardarsysla, Western Iceland. Chair/Organizer: Poster symposium presented at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, GA, April 2009. Fuel economy in early modern Iceland: stress and opportunity during a period of climatic uncertainty at Skógarnes, Iceland. Lead author (Kevin P. Smith, Thomas Urban, Michele Hayeur Smith, Magnús Sigurgeirsson and Kevin Martin) for poster presented in the poster symposium, Between the Mountains and -5- 2009 2009 2008 2007 2006 2004 2003 the Sea: Regional Archaeological Research in Borgarfjardarsysla, Western Iceland, at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, GA, April 2009. Into the nest of eagles and on to the foxes’ den: preliminary investigations at Gilsbakki in Hvítársíða,   western Iceland. Co­author (Michèle Hayeur Smith, Kevin P. Smith, Thomas Urban, and Kevin Martin) in  poster presented in the poster symposium Between the Mountains and the Sea: Regional Archaeological Research in Borgarfjardarsysla, Western Iceland at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, GA, April 2009. Electromagnetic surveying at an Icelandic farmstead. Co-author (Thomas M. Urban, Kevin P. Smith, Michèle Hayeur Smith, and Kevin Martin) in poster presented in the poster symposium Between the Mountains and the Sea: Regional Archaeological Research in Borgarfjardarsysla, Western Iceland at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, GA, April 2009. Outlaws, demons, farmers, chieftains and things: the archaeology and landscape of law in Early Medieval Iceland. Peabody Museum, Brown Bag series, Harvard University. March 12, 2008. Towards an archaeology of law. Presented at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas, April 2007. Outlaw archaeology: marginality, resistance, and exile – tales from the Viking Age and beyond. Presented at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 2006. Independent people, householders, and outlaws: reconciling economic autonomy, political centralization, and trade in medieval Iceland. Paper presented at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. April 3, 2004. The missing years in Lower Great Lakes prehistory. Paper presented at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Milwaukee, WI. April 10, 2003. 2002Ore, fire, hammer, sickle: Iron production in Viking Age and Early Medieval Iceland. Presented in the symposium “De Re Metallica I – Vulcan’s Lair: Metal Extraction and Production in the Middle Ages,” AVISTA sponsored session at the 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. May 5, 2002. 2002 Geoarchaeological investigations at Háls, western Iceland. Poster session co-authored with Dr. Sarah Sherwood (Middle Tennessee University) at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver, CO. 2001 Reflections on Africa at the Pan-American Exposition. Presented in the series “The Latest and Best Views of the Pan-American Exposition.” College of Arts and Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY: October 18, 2001. 2001 The Hiscock site and the archaeological record of the lower Spring Creek basin, Genesee County, New York. Presented at “Smith Symposium II – The Hiscock Site: Late Pleistocene and Holocene Paleoecology and Archaeology of Western New York.” Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, NY: October 15, 2001. 2001 Ferrous and non-ferrous metalworking in early medieval Iceland: the social and environmental impacts of small-scale industry in a colonizing context. Presented at the AEA/NABO conference “Atlantic Connections and Adaptations: Economies, Environments, and Subsistence in the North Atlantic Realm.” University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland: March 29, 2001. Co-authored with Michèle Hayeur-Smith. 2000 Squeezing blood from stones: trace-element analyses of jasper tools from L’Anse aux Meadows and the Norse discovery of the New World. Paper presented at the Viking Millennium International Symposium. L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland: September 19, 2000. 2000Patterns in time and the tempo of change: A North Atlantic perspective on the evolution of complex societies. Paper presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Philadelphia, PA: April 6, 2000. 1998 Archaeology in Iceland, the 1998 Henry Rowell Memorial Lecture, American Institute of Archaeology, Baltimore Society. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD: December 4, 1998. 1998 Gone with the wind?: 1100 years of changing land-use patterns in western Iceland. Paper presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle, WA: March 29, 1998. Co-authored with Alexander T. Dixon, Karl Grönvold, Elizabeth G. Hamilton and Thomas Amorosi; presented by Smith. 1998 Iron production at the early Viking Period site of Háls, Iceland. Poster session presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle, WA: March 27, 1998. Co-authored presentation, with Elizabeth G. Hamilton (University of Pennsylvania). -6- 1998 1998 1997 1997 1997 1997 1996 1996 1995 1994 1994 1993 1992 1991 1991 1987 1987 1986 ESR fingerprinting of archaeological and geological jaspers for provenance studies. Paper presented at the 1998 Workshops in Archaeometry Conference, SUNY/Buffalo, Amherst, NY: February 21, 1998. Coauthored presentation with Jack Rink (Dept. of Geography and Geology, McMaster University). Robinson Crusoe on ice: New visions of the early exploration of the North Atlantic. Invited presentation for the American Institute of Archaeology, Niagara Frontier Chapter. Canisius College, Buffalo, NY: February 4, 1998. A microblade core from western Iceland: Possibilities and implications. Paper presented at the North Atlantic Biocultural Organization's NABO'97 conference. St. John's, Newfoundland: September 5, 1997. Northern exposures: Recent fieldwork in Iceland and the settling of the North Atlantic. Invited lecture, State University of New York at Buffalo, Student Archaeology Society, April, 17, 1997. Getting to the core of the matter: Potential implications of a microblade core from Western Iceland on North Atlantic settlement history and Arctic prehistory. Paper presented in the symposium "Understanding the Archaeological Signatures of Human Migrations," 62nd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Nashville, TN: April 4, 1997. Stumbling into prehistory, or, were Hagar and his high-horned heroes really the first into the North Atlantic? Invited paper presented at the Brock University Archaeological Society Scholarly Symposium: "Field Archaeology in North America and Europe: Traditional Problems, Innovative Approaches and Exciting Results." St. Catherine's, Ontario: March 8, 1997. The extinction of a Viking colony: Greenland - life and death at the extremes. Buffalo Museum of Science, lecture series in conjunction with the exhibit "The Weakening Web," May 5, 1996. The Early Holocene occupation of Western New York: First thoughts on old collections and new data. Houghton Chapter of the New York State Archaeological Association, Buffalo, NY. March 20, 1996. Patterns in the present and the pattern of the past: Recent archaeological fieldwork in the Black Creek drainage of Genesee County, New York. New York State Archaeology Week keynote presentation, Morgan Chapter of the New York State Archaeological Association. Rochester Museum and Science Center, Rochester, NY: May 12, 1995. Wanderers of the wetlands? The late Pleistocene occupation of Western New York. Presented in the symposium, "Expanding the Paleoindian Universe: New Data from Eastern North America", Society for American Archaeology, 59th annual meeting. Anaheim, CA: April 23, 1994. (with John D. Holland and Kenneth Tankersley). The archaeological implications of organic deterioration: Interpreting the archaeological record in light of excavations at permafrost sites. Houghton Chapter of the New York State Archaeological Association. Buffalo, NY: March 16, 1994. Norse exploration in the North Atlantic. Chautauque Archaeological Society. Chautauqua, NY. Native Americans, Norsemen, and other Pre-Columbian discoverers of the New World. Cultures in Contact series, Buffalo Museum of Science and Albright-Knox Art Gallery. October 11, 1992. Archaeology and history in the North Atlantic. Houghton Chapter of the New York State Archaeological Society, November 16, 1991. Pre-Columbian archaeology of the North Atlantic region. SUNY/Buffalo Science Teachers' Forum, Buffalo, NY, October 17, 1991. Regional perspectives on cultural change in Iceland, AD 875-1550: An evaluation of archaeological potentials and possibilities. Paper presented at International Conference on the Anthropology of Iceland. The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; May 25, 1987. Archaeological perspectives on the early art traditions of the Bering Sea. Masterworks Lectures in association with the exhibit "Ancient Ivories of the Bering Sea.” Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI; March 11-13, 1987. Ritual and resource variability: A model of cultural responses to low-frequency resource cycles. Paper presented at the Symposium on Diet and Subsistence: Current Archaeological Perspectives, Chacmool Conference, Archaeological Association of the University of Calgary. Calgary, Alberta: November 8, 1986. EXHIBITIONS: 2008 2007 Dancing Tradition, Masking Change. Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, Bristol, R.I. Projector and mentor to Allison Pappas, student guest curator. April-August 2008. Facing Mesoamerica. Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, Bristol, RI. Project director and mentor to Cassandra Mesick, student/guest curator. September 2007 – September 2008. -7- 2006 2005 20042007 2002 2001 1999 1998 Believing Africa. Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Manning Hall, Brown University, Providence, RI. Co-curator and project director with students in AN 0241: Exhibitions in Museums and Shepard Krech III). May 2006 – March 2008. Warp Speeds. Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Manning Hall, Brown University, Providence, RI. Co-curator and project director with Shepard Krech III and students in AN 241: Exhibitions in Museums). May 2005-March 2006. Changing case exhibitions: Civil War, Women, and the Sande Society in Liberia; Art, War, and Tourism: an Asmat shield from Irian Jaya; Contemporary Folk Art and the Mexican Day of the Dead; A Maya Ruler’s Portrait in the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology (with Stephen Houston, Brown University); Commoditizing Culture/Orientalizing Ourselves; Yoruba and Yams; Singha. Curator, advisor, and/or project director. Rockefeller Library, Brown University, Providence, RI. Kayak, Umiak, Canoe. Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University. Project management and curatorial supervision for student guest curator, Alison Fields. Through a Clouded Mirror: Africa at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901. Buffalo Museum of Science, June 2001 – May 2002. Principal investigator and curator. The Day of the Dead in Mexico/El Día de los Muertos en México. Buffalo Museum of Science, 19992000. Principal investigator and curator. Whem Ankh: The Cycle of Life in Ancient Egypt. Buffalo Museum of Science, 1998-2003 (continuing through 2008). Principal investigator and curator. Along Rivers, Across Seas: Indigenous Watercraft from the Collections of the Buffalo Museum of Science. Summer 1994, Buffalo Museum of Science. Curator. Ice Age: Birth of Western New York. Exhibit planner/project manager. 1994 1990 MUSEUM AND LABORATORY EXPERIENCE: Deputy Director/Chief Curator. Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, Bristol, RI. August 2002 – present. Director of operations and deputy in charge of planning, collections management, and research. Associate Curator, Anthropology Division. Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, NY. September 1991-August 2002. Head of research and collection management, ethnographic and archaeological collections. Exhibition Planner. Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, NY. March 1990-August 1991. Responsible for research and project supervision of an exhibit of Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene paleontological and archaeological data from the Lower Great Lakes region. Research Assistant. Great Lakes Archaeology Division, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. John M. O'Shea, supervisor. September, 1984-December, 1986. Graphics; mapping; laboratory supervision; flotation, separation, and preliminary identification of botanic, zoological, and inorganic materials from bulk archaeological soil samples. Research Assistant. Near Eastern Archaeology Division, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Henry T. Wright, supervisor. January to May,1983. Lithic illustration. Research Assistant. North American Archaeology Division, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. John Speth, supervisor. September to December,1982. Faunal analysis, computer data entry. Research Assistant. Near Eastern Archaeology Division, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Henry T. Wright, supervisor. January to May,1981. Lithic illustration. TEACHING/EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE: Courses taught: Museums and Material Culture (AN 2400). Brown University. Team-taught with Dr. Shepard Krech III, Fall 2005, Fall 2006. Exhibitions in Museums (AN 2410). Brown University. Team-taught with Dr. Shepard Krech III, Spring 2005, Spring 2006. Museums and their Communities (AN 2420). Brown University. Team-taught with Shepard Krech III, Spring 2007 Museum Studies II (AN 256). Brown University. Team-taught with Dr. Shepard Krech III, Spring 2003. Museum Studies I (AN 255). Brown University. Team-taught with Dr. Shepard Krech III, Spring, 2004. Vikings! Brown Learning Community. Co-instructor with Michele Hayeur Smith, Spring, 2003. -8- Field Methods in Archaeology. State University of New York College at Brockport. Summer field school in archaeological survey and excavation. Team-taught with Dr. Kenneth Tankersley, July-August, 1994. Guest lectures: Methods in Public Humanities (AMCV 1550). Brown University. Fall 2007. Discovering the Past: Introduction to Archaeology and Prehistory (AN 0500). Brown University. Spring 2007, Fall 2007. Museum Interpretation of the American Experience (AMCV 2500). Brown University, Spring 2007 and 2009. The Museum as Educator. Rhode Island School of Design, Spring 2007. Art of the Vikings. Rhode Island School of Design. Spring, 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007. Consultancies: Digging Archaeology. Consultant to development of a nationally distributed archaeological, inquiry-based kit for classroom use at the elementary level. First Hand Learning. Buffalo, NY. 2000-2002. Sidewalk Archaeology. Teacher training workshops developing inquiry-based, interdisciplinary archaeological experiences for elementary and secondary students. Project TEAM and First Hand Learning, Inc. Buffalo, NY 1994-2002 (various sessions). Teaching assistantships: Early Civilizations (Cultural Anthropology 386), University of Michigan. Teaching Assistant. Dr. Henry T. Wright, instructor. January to May, 1987. North American Indians (Cultural Anthropology 315), University of Michigan. Grader. Dr. Sergei Kan, instructor. September to December, 1984. Early Civilizations (Cultural Anthropology 386), University of Michigan. Grader. Dr. Jeffrey Parsons, instructor. January to May, 1984. North American Indians (Cultural Anthropology 315), University of Michigan. Teaching Assistant. Dr. Sergei Kan, instructor. September to December, 1983. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND AFFILIATIONS: Editorial Board. Archaeologia Islandica, 2003-present. Reviewer (publications and proposals) for National Geographic Society, National Science Foundation (Archaeology and Arctic Studies), Archaeologia Islandica, Arctic Anthropology, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, International Journal of Historic Archaeology Society for American Archaeology (member since 1981, Crabtree Award Committee 2001-2007) Steering board, Reykholt Project, 1999-2001. Multi-national, inter-disciplinary project coordinated by the National Museum of Iceland, History Department/University of Iceland, and Snorrastofa, Iceland. Developmental steering committee, Fort Erie Gateway Center, Fort Erie, Ontario, 1998-2001. Proposed culturehistorical, archaeological, and tourism interpretation center on U.S./Canadian border. New York State Archaeological Association, Houghton Chapter (Vice President: 1993-1994) -9-