- Culture Contact/ Colonialism/ Postcolonialism           
 
- Archaeology of Ethnicity/ Identity/ Gender
 
- Craft production and specialization                         
 
- Political economy       
 
- Socio-politics of archaeology
 
- Archaeological ethics
 
- California and Great Basin
 
 
      
  
  
                    
   
  
    
        
  
  
                
- Culture Contact
 
- Archaeology of the American Midwest and Southeast
 
- Mississippian societies (A.D. 1050-1400)
 
- Archaeology of religion, cosmology, and iconography
 
- Craft production and archaeologies of materiality
 
      
  
  
                    
   
  
    
        
  
  
                
- Ritual                                                                              
 
- Landscape Utilization/Interaction
 
- Sacred geography
 
- Iconography
 
- Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)
 
- Ethnoecology
 
- Subterranean archaeology 
 
      
  
  
                    
   
  
    
        
  
  
                
- Culture Contact                                                                       
 
- Identity                                                                                                      
 
- Ethnogenesis                                        
 
- Coalescence
 
      
  
  
                    
   
  
    
        
  
  
                
- New World Archaeology (Guatemala, Midwestern & Southeastern U.S.)
 
- Food and Sociopolitical Dynamics, Middle-Range and Early Complex Societies
 
- Commensal Politics, Emergent Complexity, Cross-Cultural Encounters, Colonial Encounters
 
- Archaeobotanical Analysis (Macrobotanicals, Starch Grains, and Phytoliths); Bayesian Analysis of Radiocarbon Dates; Crop Stable Isotope Analysis; Quantitative Methods
 
      
  
  
                    
   
  
    
        
  
  
                
- Complex hunter gatherers, incipient social complexity
 
- Microbotanical analysis, ancient starch grains, groundstone tools
 
- Resource intensification, household and communal organization