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RESUME OF TAMIRA K. BRENNAN (Christensen)
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I. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Illinois State Archaeological Survey College of Liberal Arts
American Bottom Field Station Department of Anthropology
144C E. Ferguson Southern Illinois University
Wood River, Il 62095 Carbondale, IL 62901
II. EDUCATION
PhD in anthropology, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, in progress (ABD)
M.A. in anthropology, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, December 2005
B.A. in anthropology with high honors, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2002
III. FIELD EXPERIENCE
2011- 2012 Site Supervisor. Illinois State Archaeological Survey (ISAS), American Bottom Field
Station (ABFS). New Mississippi River Bridge Project (MRB). East St. Louis Mound
Center, southwestern IL.
2011 Supervisor. ISAS. Salvage work at the Emerald Mound Center, southwestern IL.
2009-2010 Field Director and Instructor. Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC)
eight-week archaeological field school. Kincaid Mounds site in southern IL.
2007-2010 Principal Investigator and Instructor. Southeast Missouri State University (SEMO)
4-6 week archaeological field school. Kincaid Mounds and South Cape sites, southeast
M O.
2009 Field Crew. Midwest Archaeological Research Service. Lincoln Branch, Peoria Public
Library. Phase III, Historic 19th Century Cemetery in central IL. August-October.
2005, 2008 Teaching Assistant. SIUC eight-week archaeological field schools. Kincaid Mounds
site.
2006 Volunteer Field Crew. Osteological field school at Vagnari Roman Cemetery at Gravina
in Puglia, Italy; SIUC field school at Kincaid Mounds; UIUC field school in southwest IL.
June-August.
2004 Field Crew. Panamerican Consultants, Inc. Phase I and II at Fort Benning Army Base,
Columbus, GA. April-June
2004 Field Crew. Parsons Engineering. Phase I and II at Avon Park Air Force Base, central FL.
January-April.
2002-2003 Crew Chief. Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Project (ITARP),
American Bottom Survey Division, southwestern IL. Phase II and III, various.
2002 Field Supervisor. University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) eight-week
archaeological field school at the Grossman site in southwestern IL.
2002 Volunteer Field Crew. National Park Service. Shiloh Mounds site, Shiloh, TN. August.
2001 Field Crew. ITARP. Phase II at the Hoxie Farms site, northern IL.
2001 Field Crew. UIUC eight-week archaeological field school at the Grossman site.
2000 Field Crew. UIUC eight-week archaeological field school at the Pfeffer site in
southwestern IL.
1999 Student. UIUC eight-week field school at the Halliday site in southwestern IL.
RESUME of TAMIRA K. BRENNAN (Christensen)
IV. LABORATORY EXPERIENCE
2012-2013 Research Archaeologist. Ceramic and Feature analyses of the East St. Louis Mound
Center. ISAS, ABFS.
2008-2011 Director. Archaeology Lab, SEMO, Cape Girardeau, MO.
2008 Research Assistant. Center for Archaeological Investigations Carbondale. Black Mesa
Archaeological Project. Fall term.
2000-2002 Lab Technician. ITARP at UIUC.
2000-2002 Lab Technician. North American archaeology lab, UIUC.
2001 Volunteer. The Field Museum, Chicago, IL. Department of Anthropology.
V. RESEARCH ACTIVITY
A. Projects
Present New Mississippi River Bridge Project. ISAS. Develop and implement methodology for
ceramic and feature analysis, database design, train and oversee crew.
Present Doctoral Dissertation. Department of Anthropology, SIUC. Community and Identity in
the Mississippian Period Mid-south.
2005 Master s Thesis. SIUC. Architectural Variation at the Kincaid Mounds Site.
2002 Undergraduate Honors Thesis. UIUC. A Wasp s Tale: Using Mud Dauber Nests to
Infer Upland Site Occupancy Patterns.
B. Grants Awarded
2008 Funding Proposal for the South Cape Site. Lyman, Barnhill, Irving Fund for
Archaeological Research. Missouri Archaeological Society ($650)
2007 Keeping Pace: Resource Upgrade in the Anthropology Graduate Computer Lab. SIUC
Graduate Technology Enhancement Grant ($4,639)
VI. ANALYTICAL EXPERIENCE
2012-2013 Ceramic and Feature Analysis. ISAS. 11S706, East St. Louis site.
2010-2011 Ceramic and Lithic Analysis. Dissertation Research. Kincaid Mounds site.
2010 Ceramics. Gateway Archaeology. 11S886 and 11S1619, southwestern IL.
2008 Lithics. Center for Archaeological Investigations. Kincaid Mounds site.
2008 Lithics. Independent research. South Cape site.
2006 Ceramics. Pilot Study. Kincaid Mounds site.
2006 Faunal. Rockhouse Hollow Archaic Site, southwestern IN.
2005 Human Osteology. Newton Plantation. Barbados, West Indies.
2003 Lithics. ITARP. Quicksilver site, southwestern IL.
VII. PUBLICATIONS
2011 Exploring Mississippian Polity Interaction and Craft Specialization with Ozark
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Chipped-Stone Resources. Brad Koldehoff, senior author. Missouri Archaeology. Vol.
71:132-164.
2010 The South Cape Site: a Fortified Mississippian Village in Southeast Missouri. Missouri
Archaeological Society Quarterly. Vol. 27:12-19.
2008 Lithic Artifacts. In, Archaeological Investigations at the Quicksilver Site: A Mississippian
Homestead in the Silver Creek Headwaters, Madison County, Illinois. Brad Koldehoff and
Charles Moffat, co-authors. Research Report No. 93. Illinois Transportation Archaeology
Research Program, Urbana, Illinois.
2007 In-Ground Evidence of Above-Ground Architecture at Kincaid Mounds. In, Architectural
Variability in the Southeast. Cameron H. Lacquement, editor, pp.74-100. University of
Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
VIII. UNPUBLISHED TECHNICAL REPORTS
2011 Preliminary Report of 2010 Fieldwork at Kincaid Mounds State Historic Site. Report
submitted the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield, Illinois
2010 Preliminary Report of 2009 Fieldwork at Kincaid Mounds State Historic Site. Report
submitted the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield, Illinois.
2009 Feature 10 Burial Report. Meadow Campbell, lead-author. Report submitted to Dawn
Cobb, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield, Illinois
2007 2007 Field Season Summary and Preliminary Report: 23CG8. Manuscript on file,
Department of Foreign Languages and Anthropology, Southeast Missouri State University.
IV. SELECTED PRESENTATIONS at PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
2012 Feature 2000: A New Mississippian Mound at the East St. Louis Mound Complex. Co-
author Steve Boles. Paper presented at the 69th Annual Southeast Archaeology Conference,
Baton Rouge, LA.
2012 Kincaid in the New Century Recent Investigations of A Prehistoric Illinois Metropolis.
Brian Butler lead author, Corin Pursell co-author. Paper presented at the 77th Annual
meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, TN.
2011 Conceptualizing Community in the Southeast. Erin Stevens Nelson coauthor. Paper
presented at the 68th Annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference,
Jacksonville, FL.
2010 The Big Implications of Small Scale Changes: Intra-site Level Community and Identity.
Paper presented at the Southeast Archaeology Conference, Lexington, KY.
201*-****-**** Excavations at Kincaid Mounds. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Illinois Archaeological Survey, Bloomington, IL.
2009 South Cape: a Fortified Mississippian Site in Southeast Missouri. Paper presented at the
Southeast Archaeology Conference, Mobile, Alabama.
2009 An Update on the Rise and Demise of Kincaid. Brian Butler lead author, Paul D. Welch and
Corin Pursell co-authors. Paper presented at the Southeast Archaeology Conference,
Mobile, Alabama.
2009 Domestic Diversity at Kincaid Mounds. Paper presented at the Midwest Archaeological
Meetings, Iowa City, Iowa.
2009 What s New (and Old) at the South Cape Site. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of
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the Missouri Archaeological Society, Lake Ozarks, Missouri.
2008 Mississippian Lithic Utilization at the Cahokia, Wickliffe and South Cape Sites. Paper
presented with Brad Koldehoff, lead author, at the Missouri Archaeological Society Lithics
Symposium, Meramec State Park, Missouri.
The Built Environment at Kincaid. Paper presented at the 64th Southeastern Archaeological
2007
Conference, Knoxville, Tennessee.
2007 Kincaid Ceramic Chronology Revisited. Corin Pursell, lead author. Paper presented at the
64th Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Architecture at the Kincaid Mounds Site. Paper presented at the 62nd Southeastern
2005
Archaeological Conference, Columbia, South Carolina.
2003 The Quicksilver site: A Mississippian Homestead in the Silver Creek Headwaters. Charles
A. Moffat, co-author. Paper presented at the 49th Annual Midwestern Archaeological
Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
2001 A Wasp s Tale: Using Mud Dauber Nests to Infer Upland Site Occupancy Patterns. Paper
presented at the 58th Annual Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Chattanooga,
Tennessee.
X. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
A. Appointments
2009-2011 Archaeology Editor. Popular Anthropology Magazine.
2011-2013 Member. Society for American Archaeology Committee on Curriculum.
B. Membership in Professional Associations
2013 Member. Register of Professional Archaeologists
2010-2013 Member. Midwest Archaeological Conference
2008-2013 Member. Illinois Archaeological Survey
2007-2013 Member. Missouri Association of Professional Archaeologists
2007-2013 Member. Missouri Archaeological Society
2002-2013 Member. Society for American Archaeologists
2001-2013 Member. Southeastern Archaeological Conference
2006-2009 Associate Member. Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
2001-2006 Member. Illinois Association for Advancement of Archaeology
XI. PUBLIC SERVICE
2012 Invited Lecture. Recent Investigations at the East St. Louis Mound Center. For the
Mounds City Chapter of the Missouri Archaeological Society.
2012 Volunteer. Prairie Research Institute s Naturally Illinois Expo, Champaign, IL.
XII. ADDITIONAL TRAINING and SKILLS
A. Workshops
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2012 I-initiative workplace harassment/discrimination prevention course
2012 COCA Trenching and Shoring safety training
2011 Red Cross CPR and First Aid training
2010 State of Illinois employee online ethics training
2008 Ground Penetrating Radar Workshop, St. Louis, IL.
2007 Section 106 Workshop, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield, IL.
B. Software
Intermediate level:
ESRI GIS and spatial analysis software (2006)
AutoCAD 2010
Microsoft Office 2010 (Excel, Word, Access)
SPSS 20.0
Filemaker Pro 11
Abode Illustrator CS6
C. Equipment
Total Station (Sokkia Sets 4B, 30R, 50RX)
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