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SENIOR STAFF
David V. Ellis, M.P.A. M.P.A., Public Administration, Portland State University, 1992 David has directed archaeological field studies since 1974, initially working in Indiana, Arkansas, and Missouri. He relocated to the Pacific Northwest in 1976, where he developed a strong interest in the prehistory of the middle and lower Columbia River. David has directed cultural resource projects throughout the Pacific Northwest since his arrival in the region. He served for two years as a staff archaeologist for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and then owned a private CRM company for 10 years. From 1990 to 2007, he was a project and senior archaeologist for one of the region’s largest CRM firms. He has directed over 100 cultural resource projects that have addressed a considerable variety of private and public developments and have included large prehistoric sites, complex historic-period sites, historic-period buildings and structures, and traditional cultural places. His experience has also included the development of predictive models and preparation of cultural resource sections for environmental assessments and environmental impact statements, cultural resource management plans, agreement documents, and archaeological monitoring protocols. David has particular experience with Superfund sites and hazardous waste remedial actions, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 404 permit requirements, natural-gas pipeline and wind energy projects, wastewater treatment systems, and traditional cultural properties. His research interests include the prehistory and archaeology of the Columbia Basin and western Oregon, with a focus on the Portland Basin. He also conducts ethnographic and historic research. From 2000 to 2006, David served as chair of the Oregon Heritage Commission and from 2006 to 2009 he served as president of the Association of Oregon Archaeologists. |
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David Francis, Ph.D. C.D., Museum Studies, University of Washington, 2003 Volunteering for fieldwork at the Conowingo Dam in Maryland while still in high school, David has devoted almost 30 years of his life to exploring cultural resources. From 1988 – 1998, he worked as a field technician for various archaeological contractors in Delaware, Washington, and Oregon while simultaneously pursuing a parallel interest in creative writing that lead him to the University of Washington for MFA and PhD degrees (1992, 1996). His work as an archaeologist continued with a focus on historical research, and from 1998 – 2000, he served as co-editor of the journal Archaeology in Washington. Always interested in cross-disciplinary work, he lectured on archaeology as a metaphor for writing during a Fulbright to Poland in 1998. In 1999, he taught “Gold Panning in the Archives” for the Richard Hugo House Literary Arts Community Center. A second Fulbright grant brought him to Hungary in 2002, after which he returned to Cornish College of the Arts to teach classes in “The Archaeological Imagination” for students majoring in fine and performing arts. As his interests began to shift again in 2003 -- 2004, he returned to school to earn a degree in Museum Studies (UW, 2004) that brought him into closer contact with museum education and curatorial work. Joining the board of the Center on Contemporary Art as a curator, he organized several exhibitions in 2006 and 2007 focusing on the metaphor of archaeology and artifacts (www.cocaseattle.org; see also http://kany.net/shard.html). Currently editing reports, researching historical documents, and helping with fieldwork, David continues to explore cultural resources at the crossroads of the humanities, sciences, and the arts. Several of his archaeology-inspired poems may be found at http://www.absintheliteraryreview.com/poetics/francis.htm More links and visual art can be found at http://www.cocaseattle.org/board/francis.htm and on Michael Shanks' Art & Archaeology Blog. |
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Todd Ogle, M.A., R.P.A. M.A., Anthropology, Washington State University, 2004 After growing up in the Pacific Northwest, Todd studied history and anthropology in the Midwest at Northwestern University where he gained his first exposure to archaeological field work at Cahokia in Illinois. He earned his master’s degree from Washington State University, collecting and analyzing a variety of archaeological data including lithics, zooarchaeology, and geoarchaeology. His master’s thesis is a study of late prehistoric tools (primarily bone and antler fishing or harpoon gear) from a shell midden site in northern Puget Sound. Todd has worked professionally for a variety of private CRM firms and federal and state agencies in the Pacific Northwest, Great Plains, Midwest, and Southeast United States. He has directed numerous large- and small-scale archaeological studies for projects related to timber sales, wind power generation projects, utility and transportation projects, and public and private development for federal, state, and local compliance. These projects ranged from literature or records reviews to archaeological survey or inventory to site testing and data recovery. During his professional career, Todd has gained additional expertise in the identification and analysis of lithic artifacts. Todd’s research interests include prehistoric technologies (lithic artifacts and bone and antler tools), history and prehistory of the Pacific Northwest, complex hunter-gatherers, prehistoric settlement patterns, and site formation processes. He is a member of the Register of Professional Archaeologists, Society for American Archaeology, Association of Oregon Archaeologists, Association for Washington Archaeology, and the Oregon Historical Society. |
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Paul S. Solimano, M.A., R.P.A. Paul has worked across the US including Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Georgia. He has been in the Northwest since 1990, however, where his particular focus is on the prehistory of the Columbia Plateau and the Portland Basin. He has participated in over 300 cultural resource projects and directed at least 60 including NRHP eligibility testing and data recovery excavations at 30 prehistoric and historic sites, including three Puget Sound shell middens. Aside from data recovery and testing projects, Paul has run large-scale inventory surveys for natural gas pipelines, timber sales, reservoirs, power lines and various development projects. He has unique experience with compliance issues regarding reservoir and waste treatment projects. Paul’s research interests include hunter-gatherer settlement and subsistence patterns, landscape approaches to archaeology, quantitative methods, research design development and archaeological field methods. He is a past Director-at-Large for the Association for Washington Archaeology. |
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Renae Campbell, B.A. B.A., History with Anthropology minor, Pine Manor College, 2007 Renae received her undergraduate degree from a small liberal arts college just outside of Boston, MA. She graduated at the top of her class, earning her the College Faculty award for 2007. During her senior year, Renae completed a yearlong internship at the Boston City Archeology Lab cataloguing a collection of artifacts recovered from a privy on Beacon Hill. This internship led to her senior thesis, a research project on an eighteenth century cat burial found under a historic tavern in Charlestown, MA. Eager to return to the mountainous landscape of the west, Renae moved back to Oregon after receiving her degree to work as an Archaeological Field Technician. |
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Kanani Paraso, M.A., R.P.A. M.A., Anthropology, University of Arizona, 2005 Before moving to the Pacific Northwest Kanani worked as an archaeologist throughout the Pacific as well as in Alaska, China, France, and Egypt for private companies and research institutions. While working for one of the more prominent CRM firms in Hawai'i, Kanani worked on field projects in American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, and South Korea. Projects, most of which were under contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Navy, ranged from inventory survey and testing to data recovery. In 1998 she joined the Panxian Dadong Collaborative Project as the project’s surveyor. Working for four field seasons at Dadong, a Paleolithic cave site in southern China, sparked her interest in hunter-gatherers, human-environmental interaction, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, and site formation processes. These interests and her work at Dadong culminated in her Master’s thesis at the University of Arizona. Kanani’s research interests include East Asian prehistory, Paleolithic of China, prehistory of the Pacific Northwest, hunter-gatherer settlement patterns, paleoenvironments, and site formation processes. |
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Roy Watters, M.A. M.A., Anthropology, Portland State University, 2008 Roy first came to anthropology while studying under the archaeologist Mark Papworth at The Evergreen State College. The interdisciplinary approach of Evergreen and Dr. Papworth’s embrace of all the sub-disciplines of anthropology heavily influenced Roy’s undergraduate education, which included field-based studies in Graeco-Roman archaeology and history, pre-Columbian archaeology and history of Mesoamerica, and syncretic religious traditions of indigenous communities under the Native American Studies Program. These early field-based studies have inspired him to return repeatedly to these sites to pursue academic and personal interests for over 20 years. Roy’s early professional career began in the health insurance industry where he was responsible for coordinating benefits with federal entitlement programs and ensuring compliance with both federal and state liability laws. He later worked as a lead systems analyst responsible for implementing system changeovers and training. In recent years, Roy has returned to anthropology, receiving his MA in socio-cultural anthropology from Portland State University. His thesis examined community-based religious innovations which draw upon the symbolic resources and traditions of both Christianity and native religions. He has developed research projects and conducted ethnographic research in both Mexico and the U.S. Recently he has taught as adjunct faculty for Portland State University and done multi-sited ethnographic research for Intel. Roy is currently researching traditional cultural properties (TCP) and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of native peoples in Oregon and Washington. |
