The CAI has 6 permanent staff members and the Visiting Scholar position, which is occupied by a new person each year. In addition, there are 12 Research Associates and Emereti who participate in CAI-sponsored projects or CAI-assisted research and teaching. There are also several Graduate Student Assistants who work on CAI projects.
Current Staff / Research Associates and Emeriti / Anthropology Faculty
Current Staff
BRIAN
M. BUTLER
(PhD SIUC 1977; Director) Archaeology, cultural resource management,
prehistoric subsistence and settlement systems; Southeastern and
midwestern North America, Micronesia. Tel: (618) 453-5031; E-mail:
bbutler@siu.edu.
JO DAY
(PhD Trinity College Dublin 2007; Visiting Scholar) Archaeology (Aegean Bronze Age; Greece); experimental archaeology; ceramic technology; ethnobotany; iconography; multisensory analyses/archaeology of the senses. Telephone (618) 453-5032; E-mail:
joday@siu.edu.
HEATHER
A. LAPHAM
(PhD University of Virginia 2002, Curator) Archaeology, zooarchaeology,
prehistoric and historic periods, culture contact, regional systems,
exchange; Eastern North Amercia. Tel: (618) 453-5033; E-mail:
hlapham@siu.edu.
KATHY LUNDEEN
Business Manager. Tel: (618) 453-5024; E-mail: tktdc@siu.edu.
DON S. RICE
(PhD Pennsylvania State University 1976; Research archaeologist and Interim
Provost and Vice Chancellor, and Associate Provost for Academic Administration)
Archaeology, ethnohistory, tropical ecology, development of complex societies;
Middle America, Andes. E-mail: drice@siu.edu.
MARK WAGNER
(MA University of Tennessee-Knoxville 1980; Staff Archaeologist)
Cultural resource management, historical archaeology, prehistory
of the Midwest; Midwest North America. Tel: (618) 453-5035; E-mail:
mjwagner@siu.edu.
MARY LOU WILSHAW-WATTS
Publications Editor. Tel: (618) 453-4280; E-mail: wilwatt2@siu.edu.
Research Associates and Emeriti
ANDREW K. BALKANSKY (PhD
Wisconsin 1997; Research Associate / Assistant Professor of Anthropology,
SIUC) Archaeology, urbanism, settlement patterns, social evolution; Mexico
and Central America. E-mail: abalkan@siu.edu.
R. BERLE CLAY
(PhD SIUC 1968; Research Associate / Principal Investigator, Cultural Resource
Analysts Inc., Lexington, Kentucky) Ohio Valley Early-Middle Woodland periods,
eastern North America late prehistoric period, near-surface geophysical survey
of archaeological sites; Eastern North America. E-mail: rbclay@crai-ky.com.
CHARLES COBB
(PhD SIUC 1988; Research Associate / Associate Professor of Anthropology,
Binghamton University, SUNY) Archaeology, political economy, lithic analysis,
quantitative methods, culture resource management; Eastern North America.
E-mail: ccobb@binghamton.edu.
DOUGLAS HANSON
(PhD Cornell University 1988; Research Associate/ Executive Director of
Information Systems, Forsyth Institute) Skeletal biology, paleodiet, paleopathology,
Micronesian prehistory; Micronesia. E-mail: dhanson@forsyth.org.
GRANT D. JONES
(PhD Brandeis 1969; Research Associate / Professor of Anthropology, Davidson
College) Cultural anthropology, ethnohistory; Mesoamerica. E-mail: grjones@davidson.edu.
CAROL A. MORROW
(PhD SIUC 1988; Adjunct Associate Scientist / Associate Professor of Anthropology,
Southeast Missouri State University) Archaeology, lithic technology, chert
exchange, Middle Woodland period; Midwestern North America. E-mail: cmorrow@semo.edu.
JON D. MULLER
(PhD Harvard 1967; Research Associate; Professor Emeritus of Anthropology,
SIUC) Archaeology, art analysis and culture theory; Eastern North America,
Africa. E-mail: em0048@siu.edu.
ROBERT L. RANDS
(PhD Columbia U 1952; Research Associate) Mayan and Mesoamerican archaeology,
ceramic analysis, culture contact; Mesoamerica.
PRUDENCE M. RICE
(PhD Pennsylvania State 1976; Research Associate / Professor of Anthropology,
SIUC / Director, Office of Research Development and Administration, SIUC)
Archaeology, ceramics; Mesoamerica, Andes. E-mail: price@siu.edu.
IZUMI SHIMADA
(PhD Arizona 1976; Research Associate / Associate Professor of Anthropology,
SIUC) Archaeology, complex societies, technology and craft production,
urban and ceremonial centers, experimental archaeology; Andes. Tel: (618)
453-5023. E-mail: ishimada@siu.edu.
MELODY SHIMADA
(MA Arizona 1974; Research Associate) Faunal analysis, cultural ecology
of South American camelids; Andes. E-mail: melodyweav@aol.com.
PAUL D. WELCH
(PhD University of Michigan 1986; Research Associate / Associate
Professor of Anthropology, SIUC) Middle range societies, evolution
of political complexity, political economy, quantitative methods;
Eastern North America. Tel: (618) 453-4740; E-mail: pwelch@siu.edu.