CURRICULUM VITAE PAUL JUSTIN WHITE Department of Anthropology University of Alaska Anchorage Anchorage, AK 99508 Phone: 907 786 6455 Fax: 907 786 6850 Email: afpjw@uaa.alaska.edu EDUCATION Ph.D. Anthropology, Brown University, 2008 M.S. Industrial Archaeology, Michigan Technological University, 1999. M.A. Anthropology, University of Auckland, New Zealand (NZ), 1996. B.A. Anthropology and Geography, University of Auckland, NZ, 1995. RESEARCH INTERESTS Historical Archaeology, Industrialization, Environmental History, 19th and 20th Century Colonialism, Place and Landscape, Ethnohistory, North America and the Pacific AWARDS Phi Beta Kappa, 2008. Joukowsky Family Foundation Outstanding Dissertation Award, 2008. Dissertation fellowship, Brown University, 2005, 2006. Canon Science Scholars Program for the Americas Honorable Mention, 2005. First Class Honors, University of Auckland, 1996. PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT University of Alaska Anchorage. Assistant Professor, Dept. Anthropology, 2009-present. Michigan Technological University Research Associate, Pre-doctoral Associate, and Postdoctoral Associate Dept. Social Sciences, 2006-2009. Historic American Engineering Record Project Historian, Death Valley National Park, Death Valley, California, 2000. United States National Park Service Seasonal Archaeologist, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska, 1999. Private Consultant for United States Environmental Protection Agency, 2000-2004. OTHER RECENT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Coordinator and co-planner, Industrial heritage: Premises and practices for the twenty-first century. National Science Foundation funded workshop held Houghton, Michigan, September 25-28, 2008. 1
Invited reviewer for Science in Archaeology series, Left Coast Press, 2007, 2008. Invited reviewer for Northeast Historical Archaeology, 2007. Invited reviewer for IA: Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology, 2004, 2006. Current memberships: Society for Historical Archaeology, Society for Industrial Archaeology, American Society for Ethnohistory. GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS Undergraduate Thesis Advisor: David Nelson (2009, B.A.) Committee Member: Luke Bowman (2009, M.S.) TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of Alaska Anchorage, Department of Anthropology A211 Fundamentals of Archaeology A482 Historical Archaeology Michigan Technological University, Department of Social Sciences: SS3200 Historical Archaeology SS3211 Ethnographic Methods. SS3230 Archaeology of Industry. SS5600 Archaeology of Industry Seminar (Graduate). As Graduate Teaching Assistant Brown University, Department of Sociology, 2003-2005. Brown University, Department of Anthropology, 1998-2002. Brown University, Department of American Civilization, 1998. Michigan Technological University, Department of Social Sciences, 1996-1997. COMPLETED RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP Book Chapter 2008 Claiming an unpossessed country : Monuments to ownership and dispossession in Death Valley. In Archaeologies of placemaking: Monuments, memories, and engagement in Native North America, One World Archaeology series, vol. 59, edited by Patricia E. Rubertone, pp. 135-60. Walnut Creek, Calif.: Left Coast Press. Refereed Journal Articles 2006 Troubled waters: Timbisha Shoshone, miners, and dispossession at Warm Spring. IA: Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology 32 (1): 4-24. 2003 Heads, tails, and decisions in-between: the archaeology of mining wastes. IA: Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology 29 (2): 47-66. 2001 David Landon, Patrick Martin, Andrew Sewell, Paul White, Timothy Tumberg, and Jason Menard. A monument to misguided enterprise : The Carp River bloomery iron forge. IA: Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology 27 (2): 5-22. 2
Book Reviews In press. Historical archaeology, edited by Martin D. Hall and Stephen W. Silliman, New York: Blackwell Publishing, 2006, and Industrial archaeology: Future directions, edited by Eleanor Conlin Casella and James Symonds, New York: Springer, 2006. Submitted for IA: Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology. 1998 Industrial archaeology: Techniques, edited by Emory Kemp. Florida: Krieger Publishing Co., 1996. In Historical Archaeology 32 (2): 104-6. Selected Monographs and Reports 2008 Chuckwalla and the belligerent burro: Timbisha Shoshone, miners, and the footprints of dispossession in the Panamints. Ph.D. dissertation, Brown University. 2003 Gold Hill Mill, Death Valley National Park. Filed at the Library of Congress, Historical American Engineering Record collection. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer 2002 Skidoo Gold Mill, Death Valley National Park. Filed at the Library of Congress, Historical American Engineering Record collection. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer 2001 Cathy Gilbert, Paul White, and Anne Worthington. Cultural landscape report: Kennecott National Historic Landmark, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Anchorage: National Park Service, Alaska Support Office. 2000 Cultural landscape report: Bremner Historic District, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Anchorage: National Park Service, Alaska Support Office. [Adaptation of MS thesis.] 1996 An archaeological investigation of a Royal New Zealand Fencible cottage, Panmure, Auckland. MA thesis, University of Auckland. Conference Papers 2009 Claiming space and claiming home: An archaeological view of land conflict in Death Valley. Paper presented at the Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Toronto, January 9-13. 2008 A family perspective on Timbisha Shoshone land claiming and land loss, 1870-1940. Presented at the Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Portland, Oregon, October 8-11. 2008 Technological senescence on the mining frontier: The golden years of the Skidoo stamp mill. Presented at Society for Industrial Archeology Conference, San Jose, California, May 31. 2007 My pard, the Indian prince: Timbisha Shoshone involvement in Death Valley mining. Presented at Society for Industrial Archeology Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 7-10. 2003 Doubtful prospects: An archaeological view of miner and Shoshone conflict in Death Valley. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, January 14-17. 2002 The archaeology of heads, tails, and decisions in-between. Presented at Society for Industrial Archeology Conference, Brooklyn, New York, June 6-10. 2000 Confessions of the small-scale lode mine: The archaeology of the Asa Baldwin diary. Presented at Society for Industrial Archeology Conference, Duluth, Minnesota, June 1-4. Invited Symposia 3
2006 Panel discussant, Archaeology, technology, and history. Society for History of Technology Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 12-15. 2004 Co-teacher, GIS for IA: An introduction to geographic information systems. Workshop for Society of Industrial Archeology Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, June 10. Co-taught with Lynn Carlson and Lyn Malone. Organized by Patrick Malone. 2000 Invited participant, Whither IA? Retreat, Croton on Hudson, New York, February 17-18. WORKS IN PREPARATION 2009 Patrick Martin and Paul White. The historical archaeology of mining. Book manuscript under contract to University of Florida Press for American experience in archaeological perspective series, Michael Nassaney, series editor. Expected submittal, spring 2009. FIELD EXPERIENCE 1. Funded Research 2005-2006. Archaeological and ethnographic documentation of historic Timbisha Shoshone land use in the Panamint Mountains, Death Valley National Park, California. Work involved close and ongoing consultation with the Timbisha Shoshone Tribal Historic Preservation Committee and the Timbisha Shoshone THPO Barbara Durham, and interviews with tribal Elders. Funded by Brown University, National Park Service, and Canon Science Scholars award. 2001 Excavation and analysis of gold milling wastes in the Bremner Historic District. Funded through Brown University Summer Research Grant. 2000 Architectural and historical documentation of the Gold Hill Mill, Skidoo Mill, and Keane Wonder Mine, Death Valley, California. Funded by National Park Service. 1997-1998. Archaeological surveying of Kennecott National Historic Landmark and Bremner Historic District, both extensive historic mining landscapes in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska. Funded by Michigan Technological University and the National Park Service. 1997 Excavation of bloomery-furnace slag dump, Carp River Forge, and survey and sample collection from Buckeye Forge and Collins Forge, Neuganee, Michigan (ca. 1850-1860), for laboratory testing. Funded by Michigan Technological University. 1995 Director, excavation of Royal New Zealand Fencibles cottage (c. 1848), Panmure, Auckland. Funded by University of Auckland and Howick Historical Society. 2. Other Field Experience Fourteen years of experience in archaeological fieldwork at historic-period sites in Alaska, California, Michigan, New York, and Vermont in North America, as well as Nevis and the North Island of New Zealand. Field sites have ranged from multi-year excavations to landscape surveys, and involved the processing of archaeological assemblages, report writing, and the creation of GIS databases. Highlights include: 4
2004-2008. Multiyear involvement in the excavation of West Point Foundry, Cold Spring, New York, part of the Michigan Technological University summer field school. 2006 Landscape survey of Desert Queen Ranch, between 1870 and 1950, the homestead of rancher, miner, and jack-of-all-trades Bill Keys, for Joshua Tree National Park, California. 2000-2004. Cultural resource consultant at two Superfund sites, the Elizabeth and Ely Mines, Vermont, for the Environmental Protection Agency. Work included archaeological surveying, construction of GIS cultural resource databases, public consultation, and regular meetings with the Vermont SHPO, Corps of Engineers, and EPA project managers evaluating mine remediation options and heritage preservation issues. 2002 Assistant director, Nevis Sugar Plantation Survey, Nevis, directed by Marco Meniketti. Landscape survey of historic plantations and limited archaeological testing of Jamestown, a seventeenth century town site. 2001 Director, survey of placer- and lode-mining sites in the Hope/Moose Pass region of the Kenai Peninsula for Chugach National Forest, Alaska. 1999 Director, documentation of Simonelli s Jewelry Shop, a well-preserved 1930s-era manufactory in Providence Rhode Island. Documentation included isometric reconstruction of the shop machinery and power systems to Historic American Engineering Record standards. Submitted to Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, RI. 1995 Director, survey of the Bluff Stockade, a circa 1860 Maori-war era fortification, Pokeno, New Zealand. Survey report on file at Department of Conservation, Auckland, New Zealand. 1994 Director, survey of the Hampton Gardens, a circa 1860 garden of Anglican minister, East Tamaki, New Zealand. Survey report on file at Department of Conservation, Manukau City, New Zealand. 5