My Background and Research Interests: • 30 years experience in archaeology of the western United States in contract, academic, and volunteer settings. • Research Associate/Assistant professor of dendrochronology at Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research for past 17 years. • Courses taught: Introduction to Dendrochronology, Archaeological Dendrochronology, Prehistory of the Southwest, Environmental History of the Southwest, Culture Climate and Catastrophe • My major research interests include expanding dendrochronology and dendroarchaeology beyond the US Southwest, Navajo archaeology and ethnogenesis, conflict during the Protohistoric and Historic Periods in the US Southwest, 20th century migration in the West, and social and behavioral consequences of the transition to pastoralism