Faculty Profile: Dr. Renee B. Walker
Dr. Renee Walker received her BA in
anthropology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and her MA and Ph.D. in
anthropology from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. She joined our
department in the Fall 2002 semester and has been an Associate Professor since
2009. Before coming to SUCO, Dr. Walker was a Visiting Assistant Professor in
the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at Skidmore College.
Dr. Walker's primary research and
teaching interests are zooarchaeology, Eastern North American archaeology,
PaleoIndian and Archaic period subsistence patterns, prehistoric North American
dog domestication, and the archaeology of hunter-gatherers. She has fieldwork
experience in North America and Europe, and has conducted much of her research
at the site of Dust Cave, Alabama.
Dr. Walker received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2009
and the Richard J. Siegfried Junior Faculty Prize in Academic Excellence in
2006. Recent publications include: “Paleoindian and Archaic activities at Dust
Cave, Alabama: The secular and the sacred “(North
American Archaeologist 2011), “Late Archaic site use at Sachsen Cave
Shelter, Upper Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee” (with Jay Franklin and Maureen
Hays, North
American Archaeologist 2011), “What’s for Dinner?: Investigating
archaeological correlates for food processing at Dust Cave, Alabama” (with Lara
K. Homsey and Kandace D. Hollenbach, Southeastern
Archaeology 2010), “Documenting subsistence change during the
Pleistocene/Holocene transition: Investigations of paleoethnobotanical and
zooarchaeological data from Dust Cave, Alabama” (with Kandace D. Hollenbach, in Integrating Zooarchaeology and
Paleoethnobotany: A Consideration of Issues, Methods, and Cases, 2010),
“The Nelson site: A Late Middle Woodland habitation locale on the Nolichucky
River, Washington County, Tennessee” (with Jay D. Franklin and Michelle L.
Hammett, Tennessee
Archaeology 2008),
Foragers of the Terminal Pleistocene in North America (co-editor,
University of Nebraska Press, 2007), Bones
as Tools: Archaeological Studies of Bone Tool Manufacture, Use and
Classification (co-editor, BAR International Series 1622, 2007), and
“Early and Mid-Holocene dogs in Southeastern North America: Examples from Dust
Cave” (with Darcy F. Morey and John H. Relethford, Southeastern
Archaeology 2005).
Courses taught by Dr. Walker:
ANTH 140
Principles of Archaeology
ANTH 145
Prehistoric World Cultures
ANTH
244 Old World Archaeology
ANTH 245 North
American Archaeology
ANTH 251
Mesoamerican Archaeology
ANTH 341
Zooarchaeology
ANTH 343
Archaeological Field and Laboratory Methods
ANTH
345 Field School in Archaeology (summer session)
ANTH 390
Issues in Anthropology
Click here to see Dr.
Walker’s vita (PDF file)
Visit Dr. Walker's personal web page here
E-Mail: Renee.Walker@oneonta.edu