Address
P.O. Box 1883
Susanville, CA 96130
E-mail: cdj@wsu.edu.

Present Positions
Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology at Washington State University.
Research Assistant, Village Project, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University.

Education and Degrees
Ph.D., Anthropology, Fall 2005. Dissertation title: Critical Natural Resources in the Mesa Verde Region, A. D. 600-1300: Modeling Distribution, Use, and Influence on Puebloan Settlement.
T. A. Kohler Committee Chair. Washington State University, Pullman, WA.
M.A., Anthropology, May 1999. Thesis title: Anasazi Towers of the Mesa Verde Region: A GIS Analysis of Function. W.D. Lipe Committee Chair. Washington State University, Pullman, WA.
B.A., Anthropology, December, 1986. Senior thesis title: Archaeology is Anthropology. Appalachian State University, Boone, NC.

Research Projects
Research Assistant, Coupled Human/Ecosystems over Long Periods: Mesa Verde Region Prehispanic Ecodynamics (Village Project), Fall 2001 - Spring 2005. Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.

Archaeologist, Community Center Survey in the Mesa Verde Region, Summer 2002 & 2003. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez CO.

Research Associate on ethnoarchaeological research project working with the Boffi foragers of the rainforest in the southern Central African Republic, Winter 2000. Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.

Archaeologist, site management, supply requisition and organization. Topographic site mapping, excavation and profiling, Summer 1999. Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.

Archaeologist, prehistoric site excavations and profiling, Summer 1998. Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.

GeoArchaeologist, sampling and profiling at Kennewick Man Site, December 1997. Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.

Archaeological Cartographer, site mapping and map drafting of Balcony House, Spring 1993. Division of Research and Resource Management, Mesa Verde National Park, CO.

Archaeologist, High Plains Archaeology Project, intensive, multi-site excavations, Summer 1989. University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY.

Assistant Archaeological Cartographer, site mapping and map drafting of cliff-dwellings, Summer 1987. Division of Research and Resource Management, Mesa Verde National Park, CO.

Archaeological Lab Technician, processed bivalve (clam) shells to establish control collection for seasonality studies, Fall 1985 through Fall 1986. Department of Anthropology, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC.

Archaeology Research Assistant, original research on seasonality of archaeological shellfish, Fall 1986. Department of Anthropology, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC.

Academic Positions
Instructor, Peoples of the World (Anth. 203), Summer 2001. Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.

Instructor, Introduction to Physical Geology (Geol. 101), Summer 2001. Walla Walla Community College, Clarkston, WA.

Instructor, Archaeological Methods and Materials (Anth. 120), Summer 2001. Walla Walla Community College, Clarkston, WA.

Instructor, Cultural Anthropology (Anth. 202), Winter 2001. Walla Walla Community College, Clarkston, WA.

Instructor, Environmental Geology (Geol. 120), Winter 2001. Walla Walla Community College, Clarkston, WA.

Instructor, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (Anth. 102), Fall 2000, Spring 2001. Division of Social Sciences, Lewis-Clark State College, Lewiston, ID.

Instructor, Introduction to Anthropology (Anth. 101), Fall 2000. Walla Walla Community College, Clarkston, WA.

Instructor, Art and Society (Anth 201), Summer 2000. Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.

Instructor, Anthropology and World Problems (Anth. 417), Summer 2000. Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.

Instructor, Introduction to Anthropology (Anth. 101), Fall 1999. Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.

Teaching Assistant, World Civilizations from A.D. 1650 (Gen. Ed. 111), Spring 1999. Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.

Teaching Assistant, World Civilizations to A.D. 1650 (Gen. Ed. 110), Fall 1998. Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.

Teaching Assistant, Peoples of the World (Anth. 203), Fall 1997, Spring 1998. Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.

Cultural Resource Management Projects
Archaeologist, transect survey of multiple Bureau of Land Management parcels, Fall 1996, Summer 1997. Center for Northwest Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.

GeoArchaeologist, contract lab analyses of sediment samples for Yakima Tribe and Lithic Analysts Inc., Summer 1996, Spring 1997. Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.

Archaeologist, Section 106 compliance for all park projects, 1993 - 1994, Division of Research and Resource Management, Mesa Verde National Park, CO.

Archaeologist, Phase I, II and III projects, field and lab duties, Fall 1988 - Spring 1990. Louis Berger Associates, Cultural Resource Group, East Orange, NJ.

Professional Organizations
Society for American Archaeology
Sigma Xi
Community of Science

Grants and Awards
Graduate School Travel Grant, Washington State University, 2003.

Daugherty Scholarship for Excellence in Graduate Studies, Washington State University, 1997.

Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research, for thesis research, 1997.

Maintenance Advisory Group Award For Outstanding Achievement in the Preservation of Park Resources, Mesa Verde N.P., CO., 1995.

Research Grant awarded by Mesa Verde Museum Association, Mesa Verde National Park, CO., 1987.

Research Grant, Anthropology Dept., Appalachian State University, Boone, NC., 1986.

Publications/Professional Activities
Johnson, C. David, Timothy A. Kohler, and Jason Cowan
2005 Modeling Historical Ecology, Thinking about Contemporary Systems. American Anthropologist 107:96-107.

2003 Mesa Verde Region Towers: A View From Above. Kiva 68 (4): 283-300.

2003 Society for American Archaeology 69th Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Co-organized (with Tim Kohler) symposium entitled "Biocomplexity Across Sociopolitical Scales".

2003 Society for American Archaeology 68th Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI.
Organized symposium entitled "Building Models for Settlement Systems in the Late Prehispanic Mesa Verde Region: An Interdisciplinary Approach".

2003 Society for American Archaeology 68th Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI.
Presented paper entitled "Modeling Critical Resources: Natural Production and Human-Induced Degradation in the Prehistoric Mesa Verde Region".

1998 Society for American Archaeology 63rd Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA.
Presented paper on MA thesis research regarding Anasazi tower functions.

1994 PECOS Conference, Mesa Verde National Park, CO.
Presented results of archaeological testing at Square Tower Ruin, Hovenweep National Monument, UT.

1986 Southeastern Archaeological Conference (SEAC), Nashville, TN.
Presented original paper "Seasonality of Rangia From Patarata 52, Veracruz, Mexico."

References
Dr. Timothy A. Kohler
(509) 335-2698 tako@wsu.edu

Dr. William D. Lipe
(509) 335-2100 lipe@wsu.edu

Dr. John H. Bodley
(509) 335-4204 bodleyj@wsu.edu

Department of Anthropology
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-4910