Director of the Bard Archaeology Field School (1988-); Faculty of the Bard Graduate School of Environmental Studies (1990-2001); Archaeologist in Residence, Bard College (1997-).

B.A., honors, Hamilton College; M.A., University of Cincinnati; Ph.D., SUNY at Albany. Charles Phelps Taft Fellow at University of Cincinnati; Teaching Assistant (1982-85), Assistant Academic Advisor (1985-87) at SUNY Albany. Cultural Resources Management Researcher at Cincinnati Museum of Natural History (1978-80); Research Resident in Northeastern U.S. Archaeology at the New York State Museum (1987-88); Staff Archaeologist at Hudsonia Ltd. (1990-).

Interests: Historical archaeology of 19th-century rural dwellings; geomorphological impacts upon archaeological sites; experimental analysis of prehistoric artifacts; evolution of settlement, subsistence, and ceremonialism in the Northeast between 6,000 and 400 years ago; history of land use in the Hudson River Basin; landscape archaeology.