Carl
Carlson-Drexler is
a Ph.D. candidate in the historical archeology program at the
College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA, and a research
archeologist with the
USACE's Construction Engineering Research Laboratory. He specializes
in conflict archeology and is working on Civil War-related sites
in southwest Arkansas--especially the site of Dooley's Ferry in
Hempstead County on the Red River. Carl will be "in residence"
in southwest Arkansas starting in the Fall of 2009--teaching at
SAU and working on his dissertation. He is a veteran of the Van
Winkle's Mill project.
Pritam Chowdhury is currently a Ph.D. student in anthropology at the University of Arkansas, but has a wide-ranging career including cultural anthropology projects and several years in the private sector doing cultural resource management. Pritam is now focusing on Caddo archeology and working on materials excavated in the 1970s from the Ferguson site, a Middle Caddo mound site in Hempstead County. He is a veteran of the Van Winkle's Mill project.
Edward González-Tennant is a Ph.D. student in anthropology at the University of Florida. As a part of his larger dissertation, Ed is interested in historical archeology and landscape archeology at sites related to Japanese internment during WWII in south Arkansas--in Drew and Chicot Counties. He is a veteran of the Van Winkle's Mill project.
David Markus completed
his BA in anthropology at the University
of Florida and is now a graduate student at the University
of Arkansas. For his upcoming MA work he is interested in historical
archeology, African and Jewish Diaspora and sites in Historic
Washington State Park in Hempstead County.
Duncan McKinnon received
his MA from the University of
Arkansas in May of 2008--his thesis project was a large-scale
remote sensing survey at Battle
Mound, a late Caddo site in Lafayette County. For his Ph.D.
dissertation he is continuing to focus on Caddo archeology and applications
of archeo-geophysics. Duncan currently holds a research assistantship
with the Arkansas
Archeological Survey.
•
