Personal Summary

My name is John, I have grown up in Western Montana, and an Air Force vet and a doctoral student of Kelly Dixon. My research investigates the recognition and interpretation of signatures in the anthropogenic vegetation left at historical archaeological sites in the Northern Rockies.

Education

MA of Anthropology

BA of Biblical Studies

Teaching Experience

Preceptor for "Archaeological Wonders of the World," fall 2018, with Dr. Augé

Research Interests

• Fields/subfields of interest: historical archaeology; landscape archaeology; historical ecology; historical ethnobotany; and business anthropology.
• Current topics of interest: epistemologies behind anthropogenic phenomena and ecofacts; ethnobotanies of 19th century American settlers; botanical apotropaia; and origins and maintenance of anarchic practice
• Pet theories: formation process theory and behavioral archaeology; phenomenology and object-oriented philosophies (e.g., Multispecies Archaeology, entanglement, thing theory, etc.); symbolic interactionism; and pragmatic semiotics in archaeology  

Field of Study

Cultural Heritage and Applied Anthropology

Affiliations

Historical Archaeology; Society of Ethnobiology; Northwest Anthropology; and Montana Archaeological Society

Hobbies

bushcraft, DnD, MTG, Hebrew language study, Semitic philology, American pragmaticism (philosophy), and anarchist archaeology and philosophy.