Education

• Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1985
• M.A., University of Michigan, 1975
• B.A., Cornell University, 1972

Areas of Teaching Expertise

• Archaeology of the Americas
• South American Archaeology
• Michigan Archaeology
• Field School in Archaeology
• Introduction to Environmental Studies
• North American Indian Cultures
• Archaeological Method and Theory

Research Interests

• Origin and development of complex societies
• Regional settlement systems
• Cultural boundaries and ethnicity
• Andean and Upper Amazonian Regions
• Upper Great Lakes; Eastern Woodlands

Selected Publications

• “Reconstruyendo el Estado en la Sierra Central del Perú: La Interacción entre Pastores y Agricultores durante el Período Intermedio Tardío en la Región de Tarama-Chinchaycocha” in Investigaciones Sociales: Revista del Instituto de Investigaciones Histórico Sociales 12: 55-98. Lima: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (con J. R. Parsons y R. Matos M.). 2004
• Prehispanic Settlement Patterns of the Upper Mantaro and Tarma Drainages, Department. of Junín, Peru. Volume 1: The Tarama-Chinchaycocha Region. Ann Arbor: Museum of Anthropology Memoirs, University of Michigan (with J. R. Parsons and R. Matos M.), 2000
• "Rebuilding the State in Highland Peru: Herder-Cultivator Interaction during the Late Intermediate Period in the Tarama-Chinchaycocha Region". Latin American Antiquity, 8(4):317-341, (co-author with J. R. Parsons and R. Matos M.), 1997