Lab Members
Dr. Stefani Crabtree
Director and PI
Stefani began her career in archaeology by wondering how humans have lived in such diverse ecosystems after pursuing a Watson Fellowship in New Zealand, Samoa, India and Vietnam.
Her primary research foci today are in Mongolia, the American Southwest, and Australia examining the deep embeddedness of humans in ecosystems from deep-time until today. She is an innovator in human-centered-food web models, agent-based models, and various ecological models with archaeological data. She pursued her PhDs at the Université de Franche-Comté (2017) and Washington State University (2016). Stefani is an affiliate of Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, the Santa Fe Institute, the Center for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, and a visiting lab fellow at Princeton University in Simon Levin’s lab.
Dr. Julia Clark
Post-doctoral research scientist
Julia is an anthropological archaeologist specializing in the investigation of human-environment and human-animal relationships, risk management strategies in marginal environments, and socio-political organization. Dr. Clark utilizes a range of methods in her research, including GIS analysis, predictive modeling, survey, excavation, ethnoarchaeology, experimental archaeology, and zooarchaeology. Her main area of field research is Mongolia and the Eurasian Steppe where she has been working since 2007.
Stan Rhodes
PhD Candidate (graduation Dec 2023)
Stan is a computational social scientist investigating what big factors in environments, and in the social and cognitive properties of people, connect to patterns of organizational structure and behavior. He employs agent-based models, network analysis, text mining, and statistical learning techniques. He is currently a computational social scientist and agent-based modeler with the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) at Colorado State University, in close affiliation with NOAA
Evan Holt
Ph.D. student
Evan is a Ph.D. student studying the ways that pastoralists embed themselves in food webs in Northern Mongolia. He has a Masters in Archaeology from the University of Wyoming (2020).
Hilary McDonald
PhD Student
Hilary is a Canadian archaeologist, working since 2007 as an archaeologist and photographer, she has experience abroad in northern Syria,
southeast Turkey, Kuwait, Iraq, six seasons in Egypt (ongoing) – and locally throughout western Canada. She is joining Stefani’s Australian project.
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