BEN FITZHUGH

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Curriculum Vitae(abbreviated)
November, 2001

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Adjunct Curator of Archaeology, The Burke Museum
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Quaternary Research Center
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-3100

Phone: (206) 543-9604; (206) 543-5240
email: fitzhugh@u.washington.edu

Education

University of North Carolina, 1985-1989, B.A., Anthropology
University of Michigan, 1989-1996, M.A., Ph.D., Anthropology

Academic Employment

Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Assistant Professor, 1997-present.

Funded Research (last 10 years)

• P.I., Shellfish Seasonality Study, University of Michigan Rackham Discretionary Grant, $2,000 (1992). University of Michigan Department of Anthropology Margaret Wray French Award, $1,000 (1992). University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology James B. Griffin Award, $500 (1992).
• P.D./Co-P.I., National Science Foundation, Dissertation Improvement Grant and Supplement, OPP- 9311676, "Prehistoric Settlement and Land Use and the Development of Complex Social Systems in the North Pacific: A Case Study from Kodiak Island, Alaska" $21,917 (1993-1994).
• P.I., Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Dissertation Grant for archaeological research in the Kodiak Archipelago, $7,000 (1994).
• P.I., University of Michigan Rackham School of Graduate Studies Dissertation Grant for archaeological research in the Kodiak Archipelago, $2,500 (1994).
• P.I., University of Michigan Rackham Discretionary Grant for archaeological research in the Kodiak Archipelago, $1,500 (1995).
• P.I., Sigma Xi Small Grant, paleoethnobotany of charcoal from Kodiak, $500 (1995).
• P.I., Old Harbor Native Corporation grant for K-12 archaeological education, $2,500 (1995); $7,000 (1996); $4,000 (1997). Old Harbor School (through public education grants) grant for K-12 archaeological education, $1,000 (1995).
• P.I., National Science Foundation SBR-9815308, "Native Alaskan Archaeological Training," $1,500 (1998).
• P.I., National Science Foundation DEB-9910410, "Paleobiology and Biogeography of the Kurile Archipelago," $78,700 (1999)

(For more information, see Research Statement)

Publications: see separate list

Selected Conference Presentations (last 10 years)

• Participant, The First Annual International Conference of Arctic Social Science, Ste. Foy, Quebec. Paper title: "The seasonal significance of mollusks: archaeological shell remains from the Uyak Site, Kodiak Island, Alaska." 1992.
• Participant, Symposium on "Gender and Archaeology" at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Paper title: "Nutrition and health on the seaside: Prehistoric shellfish utilization on Kodiak Island, Alaska." Washington, D.C., November, 1993.
• Co-organizer and Participant, Symposium on "Islands as Laboratories: Archaeological Research in Comparative Perspective" at the 59th Annual Meetings of the Society of American Archaeology. Paper title: "Islands in the middle: dynamic interactions in the North Pacific." Anaheim, Ca., April 23, 1994.
• Participant, Symposium on the "Archaeology of the Gulf of Alaska" at the Annual Meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association, Paper title: >"Time lines and tide lines: early prehistory of SE Kodiak." Anchorage, AK., 1995.
• Participant, Symposium at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Paper title: "Life on the beach: evolution of settlement and land use in the SE Kodiak Archipelago." Minneapolis, MN., 1995.
• Co-organizer and Participant, Symposium on the "Archaeological Perspectives on the Relationship between Residential Mobility and Social Organization," at the 62nd Annual Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology. Paper title: "An unsettling issue: on the relationship between sedentism and socio-political complexity; the case from Southwest Alaska." Nashville, TN, April 3, 1997.
• Participant, Symposium on "Recent Research in the Archaeology of the Greater North Pacific Rim" at the Annual Meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association. Paper title: "Tides of change: prehistoric settlement and demography in the Gulf of Alaska 7000-200 BP." Anchorage, AK., March 19, 1998.
• Organizer and Participant, Symposium on "Community Archaeology in Alaska," at the Annual Meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association. Paper title "Community archaeology on the Kodiak Archipelago - or - On the importance of getting one's (sod) house in order."; Anchorage, AK. March 20, 1998.
• Participant, Symposium on "Pre-Clovis Human Occupation of the Americas: Implications Regarding Holocene Population Formation in Deglaciated North America and Beringia" at the 63nd Annual Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology. Paper title: "One if by Land, Two if by Sea: Assessing the role of the Anangula and Ocean Bay traditions in the evolution of North Pacific and Bering Sea Maritime Economy." Seattle, WA., March 26, 1998.
• Participant, Symposium in the Aomori program of the 8th Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies (CHAGS8). Paper title: "Developing a synthetic model of the evolution of complex hunter-gatherers." Aomori, Japan, October 22, 1998.
• Participant, Symposium on "Evolutionary Theory in Archaeology" at the 64th Annual Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology. Paper title: "Risky business: modeling technological innovation in evolutionary ecology." Chicago, IL. March 25, 1999.
• Organizer and Participant of Symposium, "Beyond Foragers and Collectors: Evolutionary change in Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems" at the 65th Annual Meetings of the Society of American Archaeology. Paper title "Seasonality, subsistence, mobility, and politics in the evolution of complex hunter-gatherers on the Kodiak Archipelago." Philadelphia, PA, April, 2000.
• Poster, "The International Kuril Island Project: Archaeological Perspectives on Island Biogeography, Quaternary Geology, and Maritime Settlement of Southern Beringia" by Ben Fitzhugh, Scotty Moore, Chris Lockwood, Cristie Boone, Yoshihiro Ishizuka, Carole Mandryk, Valerii Shubin, Kaoru Tezuka, and Thoedore Pietsch. Poster presented twice: (1) ARCUS Arctic System Science Workshop. Seattle, WA. January 18-20. And (2) " Annual Meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association. Fairbanks, March 22-24, 2001
• Participant, "The Tanginak Spring Site: Update on the archaeology of the early Ocean Bay on Kodiak." Annual Meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association. Fairbanks, March 23, 2001.
• Participant, "Paleobiogeography of the Kuril Islands: Interdisciplinarity from an Archaeological Perspective" 7th Annual Northwest Regional Conference for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies. Olympia, WA. April 14, 2001.
• Participant, “Archaeology and the International Kuril Island Project: Summary of the 2000 field expedition.” Lead author with Chris Lockwood, Scotty Moore, and Carole Mandryk. International Symposium on Kuril Island Biodiversity. Sapporo, Japan. May 18-22, 2001.
• Participant, “Expanding IKIP: The international Kuril Island Paleobiology Project (IKIPP): Archaeology; Paleoecology; Geology.” International Symposium on Kuril Island Biodiversity. Sapporo, Japan. May 18-22, 2001.

Invited Lectures (last 10 years)

• Invited lecture, Kodiak Area Association's Elder's Conference, Kodiak, Alaska. Paper title: "Eight thousand years of history: The Sitkalidak Archaeological Survey." September 1993.
• Invited lecture, Public session of the Aomori program of the 8th Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies (CHAGS8). Lecture title: "The evolution of North Pacific maritime cultures in comparative perspective." Aomori, Japan, October 24, 1998.
• Invited lecture, "Archaeology and Geomorphology in Alaska's Kodiak Archipelago: Towards a Human Paleoecological History. " Quaternary Research Center, University of Washington. Seattle, WA, April, 1999.
• Invited lecture, "The evolution of complex hunter-gatherers in the Kodiak Archipelago." Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, November 4, 1999.
• Invited Colloquium, " Risk and innovation in technological evolution.<"/b> University of California at Los Angeles, Department of Anthropology, December 6, 1999.
• Invited Lecture, " Sitkalidak Archaeological Survey and Kodiak social evolution." University of California at Los Angeles, Institute of Archaeology, December 6, 1999.
• Invited presentation, " Community archaeology as cultural heritage management: The Old Harbor Project" in the Department of Alaska Native and Rural Development, College of Rural Alaska's AFPB Seminar on Cultural Resource Management. Old Harbor, Alaska, April 9, 2000.
• Invited presenter, in the International Conference: New Perspectives of the Study of Hunting and Gathering Culture In East Asia and North Pacific. Presentation title: "The Origins of Maritime Hunter-Gatherers in the North Pacific: A view from Kodiak Island, Alaska." National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan. March 10-11, 2001.

Teaching (current offerings)

• ARCHY 270/571: UW Field School in Archaeology
• ARCHY 304: New World Prehistory
• ARCHY 469B: Arctic Prehistory
• ARCHY 498: Explanatory Theory in Archaeology
• ARCHY 520: Principles of Archaeological Theory (recent topic: Archaeological Perspectives on the Evolution of Institutional Social Inequality)
• ARCHY 575: Archaeological Field Research Design

(For more information on teaching, see teaching statement)

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