CURRICULUM VITAE FOR MARK W. ALLEN
Address:
Department of Geography and Anthropology
3801 W. Temple Ave.
California State University Polytechnic, Pomona
Pomona, CA 91768
909 869-3577, mwallen@csupomona.edu
Education:
B.A. (anthropology) University of Illinois, Cum Laude, High Departmental Honors, 1984; M.A. (anthropology) UCLA, 1986; Ph.D. (anthropology) UCLA, 1994
Academic Awards and Scholarships:
Child of United States Veteran Scholarship, full tuition waiver at the University of Illinois, 1980-4; Edmund James Scholar, University of Illinois, academic year 1983-1984; Fellowships in the Department of Anthropology at UCLA, 1984, 1985, 1992, 1993; UCLA Friends of Archaeology Graduate Student of the Year Book Award, 1992
Membership in Academic and Professional Organizations:
Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Eta Sigma, Golden Key National Honors Society, Society for American Archaeology, American Anthropological Association, Society for California Archaeology, Archaeological Institute of America (Board Member for the Orange County Chapter), Register of Professional Archaeologists
Teaching Experience:
Teaching Assistant/Associate/Fellow for UCLA Department of Anthropology, April 1986-December 1991 (13 quarters total). West Los Angeles College, February 1989 to December 1992 (five courses total). UCLA Extension, September 1992 to June 1998 (nine courses total). Santa Monica College, January to February 1995 (one intersession course). Lecturer, Department of Anthropology at UCLA, January 1995 to June 1999 (2 graduate seminars and 3 upper division undergraduate courses). Visiting Scholar, Department of Psychology, Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, August to September 1996. Participated in seminars in social psychology and social group theory. Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Pomona College, September 1998 to May 2000. Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Cal Poly Pomona, September 2000 to present.
Work Experience:
Federal Aid Interstate 270 Archaeological Mitigation Project, University of
Illinois. Archaeological excavation and survey in the American Bottom of the
Mississippi River, June to August 1984. Various contract archaeology projects
in Southern California and the Mojave Desert. Archaeological excavation, survey,
lithic analysis, and report preparation, 1985-1987. UCLA Fowler Museum of Culture
History, Senior Museum Preparator, July to December 1986, January to June 1991.
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Coordinator
for the Center for American Archeology, September 1995 to March 1996. Directed
the Center's effort to comply with NAGPRA legislation, liaison with relevant
Native American tribes and other groups. Director of the Center for American
Archeology's Museum in the Classroom Project. This project was funded by the
Illinois State Board of Education as part of the state's School Technology Program.
The Center was partnered with 25 schools throughout Illinois to assist them
in the development of internet-based and interactive curriculum projects. September
1996 to July 1997. Archaeologist for the U.S. Army's National Training Center
at Fort Irwin, California. As the cultural resources manager of the installation,
I oversaw the protection of prehistoric and historic resources for over 1,000
square miles of the Mojave Desert. I directed and coordinated projects to identify,
protect, and mitigate sites in support of intensive training maneuvers and live
fire exercises. Additional responsibilities included managing the installation's
curation facility and archaeological laboratory, report and publication preparation,
liaison with Native American tribal groups, education, and public outreach.
September 1997 to June 2000.
Research Experience:
University of Illinois Western Kentucky Archaeological Project. Archaeological excavation, survey, and human osteology. Focus on Mississippian period towns in western Kentucky, 1983-1984 UCLA Coso Junction Ranch Site Archaeological Project (western Great Basin). Site supervisor and teaching assistant for UCLA field schools and University Research Expedition Program. Master's Degree research, thesis titled "The Effects of Bow and Arrow Technology on Lithic Production and Exchange Systems: A Test Case Using Debitage Analysis, " 1985-1986. UCLA Institute of Archaeology Sin Cabezas Archaeological Project (Pacific Coast of Guatemala). Directed excavations of house and temple mounds at a Late Pre-Classic socio-political center, January to March 1986. Wakaya Archaeological Research Project (Fiji Islands). Archaeological survey and excavation, July to September 1987. Dissertation research in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. Developed regional research program to examine the roles of economic power and warfare in the development of Maori chiefdoms. Obtained grants to fund fifteen months of fieldwork, working closely with the local Maori community. Served as Project Leader in a program of Te Runanganui o te Ngati Kahungunu (an incorporated tribal authority for the region) to train the local Maori community in methods of archaeological research. Conducted archaeological survey and excavation, as well as research focusing on the ecology of Hawke's Bay and local Maori traditional history, October 1990 to December 1993. Director of Research for the Center for American Archeology's National Science Foundation Young Scholar Program. For four summers I coordinated and supervised over 100 Young Scholar research projects in archaeology. The program recruits outstanding high school juniors and seniors to participate in archaeological fieldwork and research. Several of these students went on to become semi-finalists or finalists in the prestigious Westinghouse Science Talent Search. I have assisted students in the publication of their research and in presenting their work at professional conferences. Most research projects focused on the Late Woodland period in the lower Illinois River Valley, Summers of 1994-1997. Presentation of Ph.D. research and discussion with Maori tribal elders in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, September to December 1994. Director of archaeological research project focusing on the interaction of Late Woodland populations in the lower Illinois River Valley with American Bottom Mississippian Period populations. I supervised and coordinated research on collections from the Audrey Site by National Science Foundation Young Scholars, as well as one UCLA Ph.D. student, 1994 to 1999. Continuation of Ph.D. research and collaboration with Maori tribal elders in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. Assisting Maori korero (kindergartens) and other groups to utilize my research in Maori history and cultural programs, working in conjunction with faculty from the Department of Psychology at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, August to September 1996. Research on settlement patterns, subsistence strategies, and lithic procurement systems in the Mojave Desert. Primary focus on mid and late Holocene periods. Directed surveys and test excavations in a number of areas and sites on Ft. Irwin and at Red Mountain, CA, September 1997 to present.
Grants Obtained:
University of California grants to support research in Guatemala and New Zealand,
1986-1991. Seven individual awards. Fulbright Grant to conduct dissertation
research in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, October 1989 to December 1990. MACCESS
(Maori Access Program) funds to support a program conducted with Te Runanganui
o te Ngati Kahungunu, an incorporated Maori tribal authority in Hawke's Bay,
New Zealand. Also included funds for fieldwork and radiocarbon dates. New Zealand
Department of Conservation, to support archaeological research in Hawke's Bay,
New Zealand, February to July 1990. New Zealand Historic Places Trust, to process
radiocarbon dates from Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, July 1991. New Zealand-United
States Educational Foundation, to disseminate research and copies of my dissertation
to Maori elders and professional archaeologists in New Zealand, September to
December 1994. Museum in the Classroom Program of the Illinois State Board of
Education. This project partnered the Center for American Archeology (Kampsville,
Illinois) with 25 Illinois schools in the development of on-line, interactive
curriculum projects based on archaeological research. This grant was part of
the Illinois State Board of Education's Technology Program to increase the quantity
and quality of student and educator access to on-line resources, experts, and
communication avenues, 1996.
Cal Poly International Center. This grant and other Cal Poly funding paid for
my participation in a Center for International Education Exchange Faculty Development
Seminar on the Legacy of Ancient Carthage in Tunisia, June 2001.
Publications:
1984, Preliminary Report on Human Skeletal Remains from the Adams Site. In Mississippian Towns of the Western Kentucky Border, edited by R. Barry Lewis, pp. 65-75, 121, 151. Kentucky Heritage Council, Frankfort.
1989, Excavaciones de 1986 en el Monticulo C4. In Investigaciones Arqueologia en la Costa Sur de Guatemala, edited by D. Whitley and M. Beaudry, pp. 108-119. UCLA Institute of Archaeology Press, Los Angeles.
1991, New Zealand Archaeology and an Active Maori Involvement. Anthropology UCLA 18:70-82.
1992, The Pa of Hawke's Bay: Preliminary Results of Fieldwork. Archaeology in New Zealand 35:17-26.
1994, Warfare and Economic Power in Simple Chiefdoms: The Development of Fortified Villages and Polities in Mid-Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, UCLA. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor.
1996, Pathways to Economic Power in Maori Chiefdoms: Ecology and Warfare in Prehistoric Hawke's Bay. Research in Economic Anthropology 17:171-225.
1998, Fort Irwin Archaeology: A Preserved Past for the Mojave Desert. San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly, Volume 45 (1,2):71-75.
1999, The Evolution of Political Complexity in Maori Hawke's Bay: Archaeological History and its Challenge to Psychological Theory. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research and Practice, 3:64-80 (with James H. Liu).
In prep. Hillforts and the Cycling of Maori Chiefdoms: Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors. In Reycraft and Railey (eds.) I Fall To Pieces: Global Perspectives on the Collapse of Complex Society. Greenwood Press.
In prep. Co-editor of the Proceedings of the Millennium Conference: The Human Journey and Ancient Life in California's Deserts.
Book Reviews:
2000, Hanamiai: Prehistoric Colonization and Cultural Change in the Marquesas
Islands (East
Polynesia), by Barry Vladimir Rolett. American Antiquity 65:773-4.
Conference Papers and Other Presentations:
Preliminary Report on Human Skeletal Remains from the Adams Site. First Annual Kentucky Heritage Council Conference, Lexington, 1984.
Recent Fieldwork in Hawke's Bay. New Zealand Archaeological Association Annual Conference, Wellington, 1990.
New Zealand Archaeology with an Active Maori Involvement. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 1991.
Prehistoric Fortifications in New Zealand and the Development of the Maori Chiefdoms. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 1992.
Pa and Power: Chiefdoms and Hillforts in Hawke' s Bay, New Zealand. Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Anaheim, 1994 (poster).
Pa, Polities, and Power in Prehistoric Hawke's Bay. Lecture presented at New Zealand Department of Conservation, Victoria University, the Hawke's Bay Chapter of the New Zealand Royal Society, and the Hastings District Council Taiwhenua (local Maori leaders), 1994.
Economic Power, Warfare, and Labor in Simple Chiefdoms: Hillforts in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, 1995.
Investigations of the Middle Woodland Through Mississippian Periods within the Lower Illinois River Valley: The National Science Foundation Young Scholars Contributions (with Harry Murphy). Midwestern Archaeological Conference, Beloit, 1995.
Warfare and Economic Power in Simple and Not so Simple Chiefdoms: The Rise of Maori Leadership in 16th and 17th Centuries Hawke's Bay. Colloquium, Northwestern University Department of Anthropology, 1995.
Failed Mississippian Expansion into the Lower Illinois River Valley: A View from the Audrey Site. Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 1996.
Excavations at Audrey North: Evidence for a Stirling Phase American Bottom Colony in the Lower Illinois River Valley (with C. Delaney-Rivera, R. Hurtado, K. Rube, and A. Winecke). Midwestern Archaeological Conference, Beloit, 1996.
The Development of Maori Chiefdoms: Warfare and Economic Power in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. Lecture at Washington University Department of Anthropology, 1996.
The Late Woodland Occupation of the Lower Illinois River Valley: A.D. 200 to
1350 (with J. Buikstra, D. Charles, K. Farnsworth, and S. Studenmund). Urbana
Late Woodland Conference, Champaign-Urbana, 1997.
Fort Irwin Pinto Period Sites in the Mojave Desert (with Michael Messersmith
and Edro Cranch). Society for California Archaeology Annual Meeting, San Diego,
1998.
Fort Irwin Archaeology: A Preserved Past for the Mojave Desert. Desert Research Symposium, San Bernardino County Museum, 1998.
The Fort Irwin Cultural Resources Program: Status and Goals. Conference entitled "New Research Directions in Desert Surficial Processes and Landscape Dynamics on Military Lands." This conference was sponsored by the U.S. Army Research Office and the Desert Research Institute. Zzyzx, CA, 1998.
The Archaeology of Fort Irwin. Kelso Conference of the Prehistory of the California Deserts. Fort Irwin, 1998.
Uncle Sam Needs You! Research Opportunities at Fort Irwin in the Mojave Desert. Invited presentation to Desert Research Institute and University of Nevada, Las Vegas Department of Anthropology, Las Vegas, 1999.
Prehistoric Lithic Procurement in the Goldstone Vicinity of Fort Irwin: A Tale of Fine-Grained Basalt and Adequate Quality Chert. Desert Research Symposium, San Bernardino County Musuem, 1999.
"In-House" and "Out-House" Archaeology at Fort Irwin: Recent Fieldwork. Kelso Conference of the Prehistory of the California Deserts, Panamint Springs, 1999.
Fort Irwin's Cultural Resources Program (with Jennifer Mitchell). Society for
California
Annual Meeting, Riverside, 2000.
Archaeology in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. Western Social Science Association
Annual
Conference, San Diego, 2000.
Hillforts and the Cycling of Maori Chiefdoms: Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors? Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 2000.
Maori Warfare and the Economy of New Zealand. Invited Lecture to the Archaeological Institute of America, Orange County, October, 2000.
Reflections on CRM in the Trenches: Or What I Did at Fort Irwin During the War Games. Lecture for the Archaeological Survey Association of Southern California, San Bernardino County Museum, February, 2001.
Warfare and Hillforts: The Maori Chiefdoms. Society for American Archaeology
Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 2001.
Cal Poly Pomona's Recent Research at the Red Mountain Spring Archaeological District (with William Gillean and Amanda Martinez). Kelso Conference of the Prehistory of the California Deserts, Hemet, 2001.
Organized Conferences and Symposia:
Investigations of the Middle Woodland through Mississippian Periods within the Lower Illinois River Valley: The National Science Foundation Young Scholars Contributions (co-organized with Harry Murphy). Midwest Archaeological Conference Annual Meeting, Beloit, WI, 1995.
Annual Kelso Conference on the Archaeology of the Mojave and Colorado Deserts. Fort Irwin, CA, 1998 and 1999.
The Archaeology of Pre-State and Early State Warfare (Co-Organized with Elizabeth Arkush). Symposium at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 2001.
Co-Organizer of Millennia Conference on the Prehistory and History of the Mojave Desert, Barstow, CA, 2001.
Program Chair for the Society for California Archaeology Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 2002.
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