| Katherine Nelson |
Department of Anthropology, Tulane University
1021 Audubon Street, New Orleans, LI, 70118
(504)862-3066
Email: knelson1@tulane.edu |
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| Education |
| 1996-2001 |
Ph.D., Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Dissertation title: “The Container Complex: Ethnographic and Environmental Patterning.” |
| 1995-1997 |
M.A., Department of Anthropology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois.
Thesis title: “Pottery and Chronology: The Sequence of Occupation at Pueblo Blanco, New Mexico.” |
| 1990-1994 |
B.A., St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota. Bachelor of Arts Degree. |
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| Professional Employment |
| 2004-pres |
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. |
| 2004-pres |
Licenciatura de Registro Nacional de Arqueólogos Profesionales, Nº AR-0416. |
| 2003-pres |
Research Associate in Anthropology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois. |
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| Field Experience: Peru |
| 2004 |
Huaura Valley Survey Project Director. Intensive archaeological survey of the Huaura Valley of Peru.
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| 2003 |
Fortaleza Valley Survey Project Director. First year of a multiyear survey in the Norte Chico area of Peru documenting sites throughout the Fortaleza Valley.
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| 2002 |
Pre-Ceramic Research Participant in the Pativilca Valley, Peru. Project focused on identifying and dating early monumental architecture. Involvement includes leading field crews and setting up future fieldwork opportunities. Directors: Drs. Winifred Creamer and Jonathan Haas. |
| 1999 |
Field Director and Ceramic Analyst, University of North Carolina Field School, Ciudad de Dios, Peru. Responsible for teaching advanced undergraduate and graduate students field and lab techniques, directing excavation of Moche period households, collecting clay and temper samples, directing basic and detailed ceramic analysis, as well as writing sections for the field report. Director: Dr. Brian Billman.
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| 1998 |
Field Director and Ceramic Analyst, Center for Indigenous Studies in the Americas, Ciudad de Dios, Peru. Responsible for teaching students field and laboratory techniques, directing household excavations and conducting detailed ceramic analysis. Director: Dr. Brian Billman. |
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| Selected Publications |
| Books |
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| In Prep |
The Container Complex |
| In Prep |
Pipelines and Deserts: Papers in Honor of Fred Wendorf, edited by Kit Nelson and James Phillips. Plenum Press, New York.
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| 2002 |
Holocene Settlements of the Egyptian Sahara, Vol. I1: The Pottery of Nabta Playa, by Kit Nelson and Associates. Plenum Press, New York. |
| Articles |
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| In Prep |
Caught in a Difficult Place: Creating an All-Terrain Survey. Journal of Field Archaeology.
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| In Prep |
The Pottery of Pueblo Blanco. In Excavations at Pueblo Blanco, edited by Winifred Creamer and Jonathan Haas. (Special Edition Fieldianna expected date of publication Spring 2005).
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| In Press |
(With Judith Habicht-Mauche) Lead, Paint, and Pots: Rio Grande Intercommunity Dynamics from a Glaze Ware Perspective. In The Social Life of Pots: Glaze Wares and Cultural Transformation in the Late Prehistoric Southwest, edited by J. A. Habicht-Mauche, S. L. Eckert and D. Huntley. Under review, University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
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| 2002 |
(With Winifred Creamer, David Burdick, Patricia Hamlen, Jonathan Haas, Lisa Renken, and Aaron Wenzel) Ceramic Analysis of Intra- and Intersite Occupation at Protohistoric Pueblos in the Northern Rio Grande. In Traditions, Transition, and Technologies: Themes in Southwestern Archaeology in the Year 2000, edited by S. Schlanger, pp. 59-70. University of Colorado Press, Boulder. |
| 2002 |
Introduction. In Holocene Settlements of the Egyptian Sahara, Vol. I1: The Pottery of Nabta Playa, edited by Kit Nelson, pp. 1-8. Plenum Press, New York.
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| 2002 |
Conclusions. In Holocene Settlements of the Egyptian Sahara, Vol. I1: The Pottery of Nabta Playa, edited by Kit Nelson, pp. 97-100. Plenum Press, New York. |
| 2002 |
Ceramic Assemblages of the Nabta-Kiseiba Area. In Holocene Settlements of the Egyptian Sahara, Vol. I1: The Pottery of Nabta Playa, edited by Kit Nelson, 21-51. Plenum Press, New York |
| 2002 |
Ceramic Types of the Nabta-Kiseiba Area. In Holocene Settlements of the Egyptian Sahara, Vol. I1: The Pottery of Nabta Playa, edited by Kit Nelson, 9-20. Plenum Press, New York.
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| 2001 |
The Ceramic Sequence of Nabta Playa. In Holocene Settlements of the Egyptian Sahara, Vol. 1: The Archaeology of Nabta Playa, edited by Fred Wendorf and Romuald Schild. Plenum Press, New York.
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| 2001 |
Site E-75-8: A Slice through Time. In Holocene Settlements of the Egyptian Sahara, Vol. 1: The Archaeology of Nabta Playa, edited by Fred Wendorf and Romuald Schild. Plenum Press, New York.
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| 2001 |
Area 2, Site E-91-1. In Holocene Settlements of the Egyptian Sahara, Vol. 1: The Archaeology of Nabta Playa, edited by Fred Wendorf and Romuald Schild. Plenum Press, New York.
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| 2001 |
(With Fred Wendorf) Discussion of Site E-91-1. In Holocene Settlements of the Egyptian Sahara, Vol. 1: The Archaeology of Nabta Playa, edited by Fred Wendorf and Romuald Schild. Plenum Press, New York. |
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| Awards and Honors |
| 2004 |
Mortar Board Society Excellence in Teaching Award. |
| 2004 |
Stone Center Grant for Summer Faculty Research, Tulane University. Grant for research Archaeological Survey in the Huaura Valley of Peru ($2,470.00).
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| 2003 |
Research Associate in Anthropology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois. |
| 2003 |
Proyecto Arqueológico Norte Chico Funding for Summer Research in conjunction with the Field Museum of Natural History ($1500.00).
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| 2003 |
Stone Center Grant for Summer Faculty Research, Tulane University. Grant for research on the Pre-Ceramic Period in Peru ($1,340.00). |
| 2001 |
William P. Clements Center for Southwestern Studies Grant, SMU. Grant for research on Glaze Ware Production during the Protohistoric Period of the American Southwest.
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| 2000 |
Dean Bhat Travel Award, Dedman College, SMU.
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| 2000 |
Graduate Student Association Summer Research Grant, SMU.
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| 2000 |
Paul Steed Travel Award, Department of Anthropology, SMU.
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| 2000 |
Graduate Student Association Summer Research Grant, SMU. |
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