Assistant Director

CLAIRE MCHALE MILNER

Curator and Director of Exhibits E-mail: ****@***.***

Matson Museum of Anthrpology Phone: 814-***-****

The Pennsylvania State University

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Department of Anthropology

University Park, PA 16802

Education

1998 Ph.D. Anthropology, The University of Michigan

Ceramic Style, Social Differentiation, and Resource Uncertainty in the

Late Prehistoric Upper Great Lakes. Unpublished dissertation,

Department of Anthropology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

1981 M.A. Anthropology, The University of Michigan

1978 B.A. Anthropology, Northwestern University

Employment

1998- Curator and Director of Exhibits, Matson Museum of Anthropology,

Penn State University, University Park, PA

1993-98 Curator, Matson Museum of Anthropology, Penn State University

University Park, PA

1991 Instructor, Pennsylvania State University

1990 Instructor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA

1979-88 Various teaching and lab positions as a graduate student, University of

Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

1978-79 Contract archaeologist, Illinois State University, Normal, IL

1977-78 Summer employment as field supervisor, Koster site, IL

Areas of Specialization

Museum Studies, Eastern North American Prehistory, Ethnohistory, Ceramic Analysis

Academic Awards, Fellowships and Grants

2009 Net profit from 2009 Archaeological Field School, $35,668.38

2008 Net profit from 2008 Archaeological Field School, $30,462.90

2007 Net profit from 2007 Archaeological Field School, $24,354.14

2006 Net profit from 2006 Archaeological Field School, $24,358.37

2002 Office of Undergraduate Students, Summer Sessions Grant, $2840

2001 Office of Undergraduate Students, Summer Sessions Grant, $2900

2000 Office of Undergraduate Students, Summer Sessions Grant, $2900

1999 Office of Undergraduate Students, Summer Sessions Grant, $2900

1998 Office of Undergraduate Students, Summer Sessions Grant, $2860

1998 University of Michigan Department of Anthropology Scholarship

1995 Hispanic Heritage Month Council Grant for Hispanic Heritage Month

exhibit development, Penn State University, $800

1990 Rackham Graduate School One Term Dissertation Grant, University

of Michigan

1987 Rackham Graduate School Dissertation Research Grant, University of

Michigan

1987 Rackham Graduate School Discretionary Fund Award,

University of Michigan

1983 J.B. Griffin Fund Grant, University of Michigan

1979-82 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship

1978 Anthropology Departmental Honors, Northwestern University

1978 Phi Beta Kappa, Northwestern University

Teaching Experience

2006- Director, Anth492/493: Archaeological Field School, Penn State

University

2002- Instructor, Anth380: Museum Studies, Penn State University

2002-2006 Instructor, Anth 146: North American Indians, Penn State University

1994-2002 Instructor, Anth 100: Museum Studies, Penn State University

1998-99 Director, Digging for Clues Archaeology Camp for College of Liberal Arts,

Penn State University

1997 Director, Children s Summer Archaeology Camp for College of Liberal

Arts and Alumni Association, Penn State University

1993- Supervisor for numerous student independent study and honor s projects

1991 Instructor, The Rise of Old World Civilizations, Penn State University

1990 Instructor, Paleolithic Archaeology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

1987 Adjunct Lecturer, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, University of

Michigan.

1987 Adjunct Lecturer, Exploring Anthropology: Native North Americans as

a Case Study, University of Michigan.

1986 Adjunct Lecturer, North American Indians, University of Michigan.

Department Service

2008- Undergraduate anthropology club advisor

2006- Museum Operations Committee chair, Department of Anthropology

2001- Archaeology Search Committee member, Department of Anthropology

1993- Museum Operations Committee member, Department of Anthropology

Community Service

2005- State College Children s Discovery Center Steering Committee

2004 Centre County Collections Committee (Centre Furnace Mansion)

Outreach Programs

School programs on prehistory and evolution

Gallery talks on Native American prehistory, African and Mexican cultural

diversity, and Egypt for State College elementary schools

Museum tour on anthropology for diverse adult groups, including elderhostels,

Philatellic society, alumni groups, PSU Board of Trustees Partners, and new

students and their families (Spend a Summer s Day program)

Museum tour on anthropology and scavenger hunts for diverse youth groups,

including Nittany Science Camp for Girls, ESL classes, HUB Arts and Crafts

classes, Trinidad and Tobago 4-H Club, Higher Achievement Program, and Penn

StateYork Talent Connections Program

Archaeology and forensics camps for middle to high school students

Archaeology program for children s groups, including scout troups, PSU

Adventure Day Camp, and Junior Museum of Central Pennsylvania

Coordinator of Children s Day, a day of hands-on activities highlighting

anthropological sciences for community children

Developer of museum scavenger hunt for elementary / middle school students

Co-director of teacher s workshop Native American Art and Material Culture:

Continuity and Change held in conjunction with PSU Lewis and Clark

Conference (2002)

Host of museum table at State College s July 4th Fest celebration

University Education Activities

Tours on teaching anthropology through museums to social studies education

majors

Development of hands-on exercises for Introduction to Archaeology lab sections

Design of exhibits that complement Department of Anthropology courses

Facilitation of use of museum exhibits and collections by courses in other

departments, including History, Art, and Tourism, Parks and Recreation

Design of exhibits for the HUB galleries and Pattee Library

Courses Taught at Penn State:

o Anth 9 Rise of Old World Civilizations

o Anth 380 Museum Studies

o Anth492/493 Archaeological Field and Lab Techniques

o Anth 494 Historic Artifact Lab Analysis

Museum Exhibits (Collaborators Listed)

2010 The Legacy of Dr. Frederick Matson (Alissa Meehan)

2009 Early American Stoneware (Dan Dombrowski)

Shaping Everyday Life: Mexican Pottery One Hundred Years Ago (Anth

380 students)

2008 Long Ago in Stone Valley Forest (Anth 380 class and Lucy Richardson)

Colonial Images of the Dark Continent (Tracy Peshoff)

2007 Sacred Ritual Objects and Profane Souvenirs in Indonesia (Tracy Peshoff)

Children s Play (Tracy Peshoff)

So You Want to be an Archaeologist! / Exploring Pennsylvania History in the

Ground (Anth 380 students)

Walk a Mile in My Shoes (Tracy Peshoff)

The Ceramic Legacy of Dr. Frederick R. Matson (Tracy Peshoff)

2006 From Foragers to Factory Workers: Adaptive Strategies Around the World

(Anth 380 students)

Shrinking the Heads of My Enemies: Securing Souls and Seeking Revenge in

the Western Amazon Basin (Anth 380 students)

2005 Cross-Cultural Kitsch (Anth 380 students)

Anthropologists as Crime Scene Investigators (Adam Klein and Thomas Nielsen)

Obsidian in Ancient Mesoamerica (Jason DeLeon)

Fossil Evidence of Hominin Evolution (Holly Dunsworth)

Stone Tools and Hominin Evolution (Holly Dunsworth)

Adapting to the Peruvian Andes (Caryn Piorkowski)

Wearing Your Identity

Mexican Talavera (Jeremy Zukas)

2004 Time in a Bottle: Uncorking the Cultural History of Beer and Wine (Erin Lindsay)

Valuing the Creative Expressions of Women s Work (Katie Greenleaf)

2003 Artisans in Afghanistan: Ordinary Objects, Extraordinary Skills (Anth380

students)

A Journey Across Asia: Enduring Traditions and Customary Goods (Anth 380

students)

Tameran and Tumbuan Carvings of New Guinea (Anth 380 students)

A Contemporary Cabinet of Anthropological Curiosities

2002 Continuity and Change in Native American Commerce (Anth 100 Class)

Adapting to the Rain Forest: People of Lowland South America (Shelly Becker)

Congo Images (Sarah Bent)

My Legacy Will Be My Students (Scott Hammerstedt)

2001 Glimpses into the Pacific (Anth 100 Class)

Pottery and the Dawning of Civilization (Laura Strauss)

A Tour of Masks (Elizabeth Nolan)

The Lingis Collection

The DeForest Ceramic Collection

2000 Expressing Culture through Music (Eric Carbonara)

Jydepotter (Jaimin Weets)

Our Brutish Ancestors? (Jaimin Weets)

Encountering the Taino

1999 Life in the Birthplace of Storms: Ancient People of the Aleutian Islands

(Jane LeGrow)

Secrets of the Human Skeleton (Jaimin Weets)

Afghanistan: Land of Discord (Anth 100 Class)

Sananguatavut: from the real to the unreal (Sarah Renish)

1998 Images of Ourselves (Carla Ricci and Kyra Gallick)

Rural Ethiopian Crafts (Zakia Posey)

Windows into the Past (Maria Galban)

Expressing Culture through Style (Erika Pell)

Tracking Human Evolution (Anth 100 students)

1997 a thing most precious (Ellen Frola)

The Sea s Bounty: Life on the Aleutian Islands (Anth 100 Class)

The Piltdown Hoax: Triumph of the Scientific Method

Laetoli Footprints

1996 DNA: Blueprint for Life (Anne Stone)

Genetic Studies at Penn State (Anne Stone)

DeForest Pottery Collection

1995 Weaving Traditions in Latin America (Sue Barsom)

Corn Agriculture in the Americas (Joshua Borstein)

The Bonampak Murals (David Reed)

El Dia de los Muertos (Emily Cierpilowski)

Hieroglyphic Bench at Copan, Honduras

1994 Human Evolution Timeline (Anth 100 Class)

Archaeological Field Experience

2008-09 Director, Scare Pond Farm, PA, Penn State University

2006-07 Director, Daniel Massey Farmstead, PA, Penn State University

2004 Crew member, Annis site, KY, Penn State University

1998 Director, Centre Furnace Mansion, PA, Penn State University

1997 Director, Milesburg site, PA, Penn State University

Director, jasper quarry excavation, PA, Penn State University

1988 Field director, Cherry Island Phase II, MI, University of Michigan

1987 Assistant field director, Hampsher site, MI, University of Michigan

Survey supervisor, Cranbrook Estates Development Project, MI,

University of Michigan

1986 Assistant field director, Hubbard Lake Research Project, MI,

University of Michigan

1985 Field director, Hubbard Lake Research Project, MI, University of

Michigan

1984-88 Crew member, several contract projects, MI, University

of Michigan

1983-84 Assistant field director, Hubbard Lake Research Project, MI, University

of Michigan

1983 Crew member, Bat Cave, NM, University of Michigan

Director, Vogelaar site, MI, University of Michigan

1982 Crew member, Copes site, LA, University of Michigan

1981 Field director, Sycip site, The Philippines, University of Michigan

Crew member, Henderson site, NM, University of Michigan

Crew member, South Jordan Project, University of Tulsa

1978-79 Field assistant, IL, Illinois State University Contract Program

1978 Crew supervisor, Koster Site, IL, Northwestern Field School

1977 Teaching assistant, Koster Site, IL, Northwestern Field School

1976 Student, Koster Site,IL, Northwestern Field School.

Laboratory Experience

2008- Scare Pond Farm site analysis, PA, PSU field school

2006- Massey site artifact analysis, PA, PSU field school

1992- Ripley site ceramic analysis, NY, NSF project

1992-96 Scott Point site ceramic analysis, MI

1982-92 Hubbard Lake feature and ceramic analysis, MI

1982-84 Research assistant, University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology

Great Lakes Range

1982 Curation assistant for the Great Lakes Indian Basketry Project,

University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology Ethnology Range

1979 Laboratory assistant for Illinois State University Contract Program

1978 Laboratory assistant for Northwestern University lithics study

Publications

2005 The next generation: museum techniques at Penn State s Matson Museum of

Anthropology. In Engaged Anthropology: Research Essays on North American

Archaeology, Ethnobotany, and Museology, edited by Michelle Hegmon and B.

Sunday Eiselt, pp. 238-254. Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan,

Anthropological Papers No. 94.

2002 (John M. O Shea and Claire McHale Milner) Material indicators of territory,

identity, and interaction in a prehistoric tribal system. In The Archaeology of

Tribal Societies, edited by William A. Parkinson, pp. 200-226. International

Monographs in Prehistory Archaeological Series 15, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

1998 (Sarah W. Neusius, Lynne P. Sullivan, Phillip D. Neusius, and Claire McHale

Milner) Fortified village or mortuary site? Exploring the use of the Ripley site. In

Ancient Enclosures of the Eastern Woodlands edited by and R. Mainfort and L.

Sullivan, pp. 202-230.

Florida University Press, Gainesville.

1998 (Claire McHale Milner and John M. O Shea) The socioeconomic role of Late

Woodland earthwork enclosures in Northern Lower Michigan. In Ancient

Enclosures of the Eastern Woodlands edited by and R. Mainfort and L. Sullivan,

pp. 181-201. Florida University Press, Gainesville.

1990 Localization in small-scale societies: Late Prehistoric social organization in

the western Great Lakes. In Between Bands and States, edited by S. A.

Gregg, pp. 35-57. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois

University at Carbondale, Occasional Paper No. 9.

1990 The ceramic assemblage at 20SA620. In The Bridgeport Township Site,

Archaeological Investigations at 20SA620, edited by J. M. O'Shea and M.

Shott, pp. 109-184. University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology,

Anthropological Paper No. 81.

Technical Reports

n.d. Nineteenth Century Farmsteads in Central Pennsylvania, manuscript on file.

2009 Report on the Centre Furnace Mansion Archaeological Excavations, July, 1999.

Submitted to Angela Breeden, Executive Director, Centre Furnace Mansion.

2007 Ripley site ceramics

1988 A Phase II Archaeological Investigation for the Proposed Development of

Lake Erie Metropark, Cherry Island, Wayne County, Michigan. University of

Michigan Museum of Anthropology, Great Lakes Division Report. Submitted

to Huron-Clinton Metroparks, Wayne County, Michigan.

1984 (Michael J. Shott and Claire A. McHale) Report of Phase I Archaeological

Investigation of Island Park, City of Ann Arbor, Michigan. University of

Michigan Museum of Anthropology, Great Lakes Division Report. Submitted

to the Department of Parks and Recreation, City of Ann Arbor.

Symposia and Workshops Organized

2002 Native American Art and Material Culture: Continuity Change, Teacher workshop

in conjunction with Penn State s Lewis and Clark Conference

1992 Grappling with Late Prehistoric Ceramic Diversity in the Great Lakes Region,

Midwest Archaeological Conference, Grand Rapids, MI.

Professional Meetings Papers

2005 The Next Generation: Museum Techniques at Penn State s Matson Museum of

Anthropology. Society for American Archaeology Conference, Salt Lake City, UT.

1999 Interpreting Interregional Interaction during the Juntunen Phase in the Western

Great Lakes. Midwest Archaeological Conference, East Lansing, Michigan.

1994 (Claire McHale Milner and John M. O Shea) The changing role of earthwork

enclosures during the Woodland Period in Michigan. Society for American

Archaeology Conference, Minneapolis, MN.

1994 (Sarah W. Neusius, Lynne P. Sullivan, Phillip D. Neusius, and Claire McHale

Milner) Fortified village or mortuary encampment? Exploring the function of the

Ripley site. Society for American Archaeology Conference, Minneapolis, MN.

1994 Regional identity and interregional interaction during the Juntunen Phase,

A.D. 1200-1620. Canadian Archaeological Association Meeting, Edmonton,

Alberta.

1992 Diversity within homogeneity: the role of ceramic style in Juntunen Phase

social differentiation and risk buffering. Midwest Archaeological

Conference, Grand Rapids, MI.

1990 (Claire McHale Milner and John M. O'Shea) Life after the Juntunen Site? Late

prehistoric occupation of the Upper Great Lakes. Midwest Archaeological

Conference, Evanston, IL.

1988 Regional networks in non-hierarchical societies: social change during the

late prehistoric period of the western Great Lakes. Southern Illinois

University Visiting Scholar Conference entitled Between Bands and States:

Sedentism, Subsistence, and Interaction in Small-Scale Societies,

Carbondale, IL.

1984 (Claire McHale Milner and John M. O'Shea) The Late Woodland in northeast

lower Michigan: new perspectives from Hubbard Lake. Midwest Archaeological

Conference, Evanston, IL.

Book Reviews

2008 Review of Who Owns Antiquity? Museums and the Battle Over Our Ancient

Heritage by James Cuno. Centre Daily Times December 21, 2008.

2008 Review of Archaeology as a Tool of Civic Engagement, edited by Barbara J.

Little and Paul A. Schackel. The Public Historian 30(3):99-101.

2001 Review of Ten Thousand Years of Pottery by Emmanuel Cooper.

American Antiquity 66(3):554-555.

2000 Review of Grit-Tempered: Early Women Archaeologists in the Southeastern

United States edited by Nancy Marie White, Lynne P. Sullivan, and Rochelle

A. Marrinan. Ethnohistory 48(4):726-728.

1999 Review of The Archaeology of Social Boundaries edited by Miriam T. Stark.

American Antiquity 64(3):548-549.

1997 Review of A Most Indispensable Art: Native Fiber Industries from Eastern North

America edited by James B. Petersen. American Antiquity 62(3):582.

1996 Review of Early Pottery in the Southeast: Tradition and Innovation in Cooking

Technology by Kenneth Sassaman. Southeastern Archaeology

14(2):198-199.

1989 Review of Archaeometry by Ulrich Leute. Journal of the American Chemical

Society 111(4):1537.

Invited Lectures

2010 Scare Pond Site, 2008-2009, Bald Eagle Chapter, Pennsylvania

Archaeological Society, State College, PA

2007 Massey Site archaeology, Bald Eagle Chapter, Pennsylvania

Archaeological Society, State College, PA

2004-05 Anthropology museums, Art Education 488.

2002 Egypt Talk, Bald Eagle Chapter, Pennsylvania Archaeological Society,

State College,PA.

2000 Michigan Archaeology, Bald Eagle Chapter, Pennsylvania Archaeological

Society, State College, PA.

1998 Public Outreach and Museum Studies at the Matson Museum of

Anthropology, Retired Faculty Group, State College, PA.

1995 El Dia de Los Muertos Celebration Talk at the Paul Robeson Center,

State College, PA.

1988 Cultural Interaction and Pot Sherds: The Great Lakes Before the French.

Detroit Chapter, Michigan Archaeological Society, Detroit, MI.

1988 Cultural Interaction Within the Great Lakes. River Raisin Chapter,

Michigan Archaeological Society, Monroe, MI.

1987 Michigan in the Year A.D. 1200: A View from Hubbard Lake. Huron Valley

Chapter, Michigan Archaeological Society, Ann Arbor, MI.

Professional Society Memberships

Society for American Archaeology

American Association of Museums

Bald Eagle Chapter, Pennsylvania Archaeological Society

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