March, 2014

Curriculum Vitae

Andrew C. Seidel

Personal Data

Current Address: Center for Bioarchaeological Research

School of Human Evolution and Social Change

Arizona State University

Box 872402

Tempe, AZ 85287-2402

Telephone: (216) 308-2529

Email:

Education

Present Ph.D. in progress Arizona State University (Anthropology)

Expected graduation: December 2015

2010 M.A. Arizona State University

2005 B.A. Oberlin College (Anthropology, Archaeological Studies)

Honors

Professional Positions

2014-present Research Assistant at the Archaeological Research Institute, Arizona State University

2013 Instruction Associate (Anatomy), University of Arizona College of Medicine

2009-2013 Teaching Assistant, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University

ASM 104 – Bones, Stones, and Human Evolution (4 semesters)

ASB 362 – Origins and Consequences of Agropastoral Economies (1 semester)

ASB/SSH 100 – Introduction to Global Health (3 semesters)

Internal Research Grants and Fellowships

Arizona State University

2008-2012 Doctoral Recruiting Fellowship

Research Experience

2010-present Forensic Anthropology Intern, Maricopa County Forensic Science Center, Phoenix, Arizona

2009-2011 Ethnographic Researcher, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University

2007-2008 Archaeology Lab Technician, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio

2006 Field Crew at the Danbury Site, Cleveland Museum of Natural History

2005-2006 Field Technician, Environment & Archaeology, Florence, Kentucky

2005 Field Technician, Langan Engineering, Elmwood Park, New Jersey

2003-2005 Archaeology Lab Technician, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio

2004 NSF Funded Field School Student, Silver Creek Archaeological Research Project, University of Arizona

2004 Field Crew at the Danbury Site, Cleveland Museum of Natural History

2003 Archaeology Intern, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio

Honors

2005 Oberlin College, Comfort Starr Award in Anthropology

Publications (Peer-Reviewed)

2014 Andrew C. Seidel and Laura C. Fulginiti. The First Cut is the Deepest: Looking for Patterns in Cases of Human Dismemberment. In Bioarchaeological and Forensic Perspectives on Violence: How Violent Death is Interpreted from Skeletal Remains, edited by Debra L. Martin and Cheryl P. Anderson. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Pages 63-82.

Invited Papers and Posters

2014 Andrew C. Seidel and Kristin L. Nado. Changing Conceptualizations of Kinship among Post-Meroitic and Christian Period Nubians from the 4th Catarct Region, Sudan. Paper presented in the symposium “Bioarchaeological approaches to kinship: bridging biology, social relatedness, and theory,” organized by Kent M. Johnson and Kathleen S. Paul at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, TX.

2013 Andrew C. Seidel and Brenda J. Baker. The descent of Christianity: Religious conversion and social change in Medieval Nubia. Poster presented in the symposium “Advances in the Bioarchaeology of Nubia and Central Sudan,” organized by Brenda Baker and Tina Jakob at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Knoxville, TN.

2005 Kicking Duff and Taking Notes: The SCARP Surveys of the Forestdale Valley. Podium presentation in the symposium “Mobile Farmers, Migrants, and Permeable Boundaries: Putting the Mogollon Rim in Archaeological Perspective,” organized by Barbara Mills, T.J. Ferguson, and John Welch at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Salt Lake City, UT.

Volunteered Papers and Posters

2014 Andrew C. Seidel and Laura C. Fulginiti. Making the Cut: Patterns of Association Between Victims, Suspects, and Body Treatment in Postmortem Dismemberment Cases. Poster presented at the 66th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Seattle, WA.

2013 Pipes as People? Abandoning the Subject/Object Divide within Mortuary Analysis. Paper presented at the 2013 Midwest Archaeological Conference, Columbus, OH.

2013 An Evaluation of the Hartnett-Fulginiti Method for Age-Estimation on an Independent Skeletal Sample. Poster presented at the 65th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Washington D.C.

2008 Linda Grimm and Andrew C. Seidel. Patterns of Technological Organization in the Beauronnian at Solvieux. Paper presented at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC.

2006 Ties That Bind: Chronological Applications of Lithic Refitting. Paper presented at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, PR.

Professional Associations

Midwestern Archaeological Conference

American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Student Affiliate in the Anthropology Section

Society for American Archaeology