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Curriculum Vitae
Christopher I. Roos
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EDUCATION
Ph.D., 2008
Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona (Major: Archaeology, Minor: Geosciences)
Dissertation: Fire, Climate, and Social-Ecological Systems in the Ancient Southwest: Alluvial
Geoarchaeology and Applied Historical Ecology.
M.A., 2002
Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona (Major: Archaeology)
MA Paper: Formation Processes, Sampling, and Comparability: Independent Archaeological Theory and
Practice at the Marana Platform Mound Site (AZ AA:12:251 [ASM]).
B.A., 2000
magna cum laude with High Honors in Anthropology, University of Cincinnati.
2007
2006
Short Course on Archaeological Soil Micromorphology, University College London (Nov. 5-9, 2007)
Visiting graduate student, MicroStratigraphy Laboratory, Boston University (September – December 2006).
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Pyrogeography; coupled human and natural systems; behavioral geoarchaeology; applied historical ecology; ecological
resilience; climate change impacts; archaeological science; Southwestern US, Northern Plains, and Oceania.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2015-present Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University.
2014
Visiting Scholar, School of Anthropology, University of Arizona.
2012-2015
Faculty Associate, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona.
2010-2015
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University.
2009-2010
Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Anthropology, and Research Affiliate, Office of Sustainability,
University of South Florida.
2008-2009
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Ohio State University.
EXTERNAL RESEARCH GRANTS (as Principal Investigator)
2012-2015
Collaborative Proposal: Investigating the Subsistence Transition in Post-Lapita Fiji (2500-1500 years BP),
National Science Foundation Archaeology Program, BCS-1216312.
Total budget: $258,400
Award to SMU: $104,371
2011-2016
CNH: Long-Term Vulnerability and Resilience of Coupled Human-Natural Ecosystems to Fire Regime and
Climate Changes at an Ancient Wildland Urban Interface, National Science Foundation Dynamics of
Coupled Human-Natural Systems Program, GEO-1114898.
Total budget: $1,498,027
Subaward to SMU: $308,611
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2005-2007
Implications of Prehistoric Burning for Management of Southwestern Forests, International Arid Lands
Consortium, #05R-09.
Total budget: $99,991
EXTERNAL RESEARCH GRANTS (in Participatory or Supervisory roles)
2014-2017
Investigating the Origins of Inequality, National Science Foundation Archaeology Program, BCS-1430954,
Total budget: $259,218
PI: Brigitte Kovacevich
Role: Senior Scientist
2014-2015
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Drought, Water and Sustainable Cultural Practices, National
Science Foundation Archaeology Program, BCS-1445083.
Total budget: $29,154
Co-PI: Michael Aiuvalasit
Role: Principal Investigator and Dissertation Supervisor
2012-2014
Land Use and Chronology and GeoPolitical Processes among Late Prehistoric Communal Bison Hunters,
Montana, National Science Foundation Archaeology Program, BCS-1266118.
Total budget: $28,508
PI: María Zedeño
Role: Senior Scientist
2009-2012
The Complex Organization of Communal Bison Hunting: Revisiting the Late Prehistory of the Northern
Plains, National Science Foundation Archaeology Program, BCS-0918081.
Total budget: $193,699
PI: María Zedeño
Role: Senior Scientist
Subaward to SMU: $19,037
INTERNAL RESEARCH GRANTS
2013
Integrated Microanalysis of Wildfire Byproducts to Identify Changes in Fire Regimes. University Research
Council, SMU, $6,000
2012
Downey Family Award for Faculty Excellence, Institute for the Study of Earth and Man (SMU), $5,000
2011
Geoarchaeological Research at the Elbee Site, Institute for the Study of Earth and Man (SMU), $400
2011
Soil Chemical Perspectives on the Evolution of the Mandan Earthlodge, University Research Council, SMU,
$8,774.
2006, 2007
William and Nancy Sullivan Scholarship Fund for Archaeology (U Arizona), $700, and $500
2001-2006
Fred A. Riecker Fund Research Grant (U Arizona), $1,200, $400, and $700
2004, 2008
Emil W. Haury Educational Fund for Archaeology (U Arizona), $900, and $750
1999
Taft Undergraduate Enrichment Award (U Cincinnati), $1,200
COMPETITIVE FELLOWSHIPS AND ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIPS
2014
Sam Taylor Fellowship, General Board of Higher Education & Ministry, United Methodist Church
2007-2008
ACLS/Andrew Mellon Foundation Dissertation Completion Fellowship
2007
Institute for the Study of the Planet Earth (U Arizona), Graduate Student Travel Award
2001-2005
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
2000-2001
Emil W. Haury Graduate Fellowship (U Arizona)
1999-2000
Charles Phelps Taft Undergraduate Fellowship (U Cincinnati)
1999-2000
McMicken College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Scholarship (U Cincinnati)
AWARDS & HONORS
2012
Honoring our Professors Excellence (HOPE) honoree, Residence Life and Student Housing, SMU
2006
Student Paper Award (Social Sciences), Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science.
2000
Robert Paterson McKibben Award as the outstanding graduating male, McMicken College of Arts and
Sciences, University of Cincinnati.
2000
Phi Beta Kappa
PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC ORGANIZATIONS
2000-present Society for American Archaeology
2006-present Association of American Geographers
2014-present Ecological Society of America
2014-present Association for Fire Ecology
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REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Eren, Metin I., Christopher I. Roos, Brett Story, Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel, and Stephen J. Lycett
2014
The Role of Raw Material Differences in Handaxe Shape Variation: An Experimental Assessment. Journal of
Archaeological Science 49:472-487.
Roos, Christopher I., David M.J.S Bowman, Jennifer K. Balch, Paulo Artaxo, William J. Bond, Mark A. Cochrane, Carla
M. D’Antonio, Ruth S. DeFries, Fay H. Johnston, Meg A. Krawchuk, Christian A. Kull, Michelle Mack, Max
A. Moritz, Stephen J. Pyne, Andrew C. Scott, and Thomas W. Swetnam
2014
Pyrogeography, Historical Ecology, and the Human Dimensions of Fire Regimes. Journal of Biogeography
41: 833-836.
Van Keuren, Scott and Christopher I. Roos
2013
Geoarchaeological Evidence for Ritual Closure of a Kiva at Fourmile Ruin, Arizona. Journal of
Archaeological Science 40: 615-625.
Roos, Christopher I., and Thomas W. Swetnam
2012
A 1416-Year Reconstruction of Annual, Multi-decadal, and Centennial Variability in Area Burned for
Ponderosa Pine forests of the Southern Colorado Plateau Region, Southwest USA. The Holocene 22(3): 281290.
Roos, Christopher I. and Kevin C. Nolan
2012
Phosphates, Plowzones, and Plazas: A Minimally Invasive Approach to Infer Settlement Structure of Plowed
Village Sites in the Midwestern USA. Journal of Archaeological Science 39: 23-32.
Bowman, David M.J.S., Jennifer K. Balch, Paulo Artaxo, William J. Bond, Mark A. Cochrane, Carla M. D’Antonio, Ruth S.
DeFries, Fay H. Johnston, John E. Keeley, Meg A. Krawchuk, Christian A. Kull, Michelle Mack, Max A. Moritz, Stephen J.
Pyne, Christopher I. Roos, Andrew C. Scott, Navjot Sodhi, and Thomas W. Swetnam
2011
The Human Dimension of Fire Regimes on Earth. Journal of Biogeography 38: 2223-2236.
Eren, Metin I., Stephen J. Lycett, Christopher I. Roos, and C. Garth Sampson
2011
Toolstone Constraints on Knapping Skill: Levallois Reduction with Two Different Raw Materials. Journal of
Archaeological Science 38: 2731-2739.
Bowman, David M.J.S., Jennifer K. Balch, Paulo Artaxo, William J. Bond, Jean M. Carlson, Mark A. Cochrane, Carla M.
D’Antonio, Ruth S. DeFries, John C. Doyle, Sandy P. Harrison, Fay H. Johnston, John E. Keeley, Meg A. Krawchuk,
Christian A. Kull, J. Brad Marston, Max A. Moritz, I. Colin Prentice, Christopher I. Roos, Andrew C. Scott, Thomas W.
Swetnam, Guido R. van der Werf, and Stephen J. Pyne
2009
Fire in the Earth System. Science 324: 481-484.
Sullivan, Alan P., III, Patrick M. Uphus, Philip B. Mink, II, and Christopher I. Roos
2002
Inadvertent Vandalism: The Hidden Challenge for Heritage Resource Management. Cultural Resources
Management 25(2): 42-45.
CHAPTERS IN REFEREED BOOKS
Roos, Christopher I.
2015
Western Apache Pyrogenic Placemaking in the Mountains of Eastern Arizona. In Engineering Mountain
Landscapes: An Archaeology of Social Investment, edited by M. Zedeño and L. Schreiber. University of Utah
Press, Salt Lake City. In press.
Beck, Margaret E., and Christopher I. Roos
2013
From Households to Middens: Refuse Deposition Patterns in Two Communities. In Power and Economy in
Early Classic Period Hohokam Society: An Archaeological Perspective from the Marana Mound Site, edited
by J. M. Bayman, S. K. Fish, and P.R. Fish, pp. 19-32. Arizona State Museum Archaeological Series 207,
University of Arizona, Tucson.
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Roos, Christopher I., Alan P. Sullivan, III, and Calla MacNamee
2010
Paleoecological Evidence for Indigenous Burning in the Upland Southwest. In The Archaeology of
Anthropogenic Environments, edited by R. Dean, pp. 142-171. Center for Archaeological Investigations,
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
MANUSCRIPTS IN REVIEW
Roos, Christopher I.
In review
Anthropogenic Burning and Fire Landscapes. In The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the American
Southwest, edited by B. Mills and S. Fowles. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Roos, Christopher I., Julie S. Field, and John V. Dudgeon
In review
Anthropogenic Burning, Agricultural Intensification, and Landscape Transformation in Post-Lapita Fiji.
Journal of Ethnobiology.
Roos, Christopher I., Kacy L. Hollenback, Andrew N. Quicksall, Adam Wiewel, Lindsay Dieterich, and Fern Swenson
In review
Ethnohistory as Ethnoarchaeology: Anthrosol Chemistry of a 19 th Century Earthlodge Floor at the Fort Clark
State Historic Site, North Dakota. Journal of Archaeological Science.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
Roos, Christopher I.
2013
Environmental Reconstruction in Archaeological Science. In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, edited by
C. Smith, pp. 2408-2416. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany.
NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Hollenback, Kacy L. and Christopher I. Roos
2012
Activity Areas, Soil Chemistry, and Earthlodges: Examining Changes in the Use of Space in 15th through
19th century Mandan Dwellings. North Dakota Archaeological Association Newsletter 33(1):7-9.
Roos, Christopher I.
2011
Archaeology, Climate Change, and Sustainability of Human Ecosystems. Anthropology News 52(4):27.
2007
Were Wildland Fires “Natural” Prior to Late 19 th Century Euroamerican Settlement of the Eastern Mogollon
Rim Region? Glyphs 57(13):3-4.
2005
Experimental Perspectives on the Manufacturing Technology and Preservation of Tucson Basin Incipient
Plain Ware Pottery. In Material Cultures and Lifeways of Early Agricultural Communities in Southern
Arizona, edited by R. Jane Sliva, pp. 257-264. Anthropological Papers No. 35. Center for Desert
Archaeology, Tucson.
RESEARCH PROJECTS AND POSITIONS
2012-present Co-PI: Southern Methodist University, Post-Lapita Fiji Project
2011-present Co-Director and Co-PI: Southern Methodist University, Jemez Fire and Humans in Resilient Ecosystems
Project
2011
Director: Southern Methodist University, Mandan Earthlodge Project
2010-2011
Paleoecologist: University of Arizona, Kutoyis Archaeology Project
2008
Geoarchaeologist: PaleoCultural Research Group, Ward/Chief Looking’s Village Archaeology Project
2008
Assistant Director: University of Vermont, Shumway Archaeological Project at Fourmile Ruin
2005-2008
Project Director: University of Arizona, Mogollon Rim Historical Ecology Project
2005
Archaeologist/Crew Chief: Arizona State Museum, Homolovi Research Project at Chevelon Pueblo
2004
Assistant Director: University of Arizona, Archaeological Field School, Pinedale, AZ
2003
Graduate Teaching Assistant: University of Arizona, Archaeological Field School, Pinedale, AZ
2002-2003
Archaeologist and GIS Specialist: International Archaeological Research Institute, Inc., Honolulu, HI
2002-2003
GIS Specialist: Kohala Archaeology Project, University of Hawaii—Manoa, Department of Anthropology
2001-2002
Lab Analyst: Arizona State Museum, Borderlands Research Project
2001
Graduate Assistant: Arizona State Museum, Marana Archaeological Research Project
2001
Graduate Assistant: University of Arizona, Kalinga Ethnoarchaeology Project, Philippines
2000
Field Assistant: University of Cincinnati, Körös Regional Archaeology Project, Hungary
1999
Field Assistant and Lab Technician: University of Cincinnati, Upper Basin Archaeological Research Project
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Southern Methodist University, Department of Anthropology
ANTH 2302: People of the Earth: The First Five Million Years, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Spring 2012.
ANTH 3318: Life in the Ancient Southwest, Fall 2012, Fall 2015.
ANTH/CFA 3384: Paradise Lost? Long-Term Perspectives on Human Environmental Impacts, Spring 2011
(two sections), Spring 2012 (honors), Fall 2012, Spring 2013 (two sections, one honors), Fall 2014, Spring
2015.
ANTH 3385: Sustainable Living, Fall 2015.
ANTH 6332: Special Topics: Archaeology of Hunter-Gatherer Societies, Fall 2010.
ANTH 4350/6332: Special Topics: Geoarchaeology, Spring 2015.
ANTH 6342: Science and the Human Past, Fall 2011, Fall 2014.
University of South Florida, Department of Anthropology
ANT 3101: Archaeology, Fall 2009.
ANG 5937: Climate Change and the Sustainability of Human Ecosystems, Spring 2010.
Ohio State University, Department of Anthropology
ANTH H201: Honors World Prehistory, Fall 2008 (twice), Winter 2009, Spring 2009.
ANTH 401: Fundamentals of Archaeology, Spring 2009.
ANTH 552.03: Prehistoric Indians of Eastern North America, Spring 2009.
ANTH 801.01: Graduate Seminar: Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology, Winter 2009.
University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology
TRAD 101: Patterns in Prehistory, Summer 2006, Summer 2007.
TRAD 104: Origins of Human Diversity, Summer 2007.
SELECTED TECHNICAL REPORTS
2013
Archaeological and Geoarchaeological Fieldwork (with M. D. Mitchell). In Archaeological,
Geoarchaeological, and Geophysical Investigations during 2008 at Chief Looking’s Village, Burleigh
County, North Dakota, edited by M. D. Mitchell, pp. 33-56. PaleoCultural Research Group Research
Contribution No. 85. Ms. On file at the State Historical Society of North Dakota.
2010
Letter Report on Fieldwork at a Thermal Feature at Elbee (32ME408). Report prepared for the Knife River
Indian Villages National Historic Site (8/20/2010). Ms. on file, Knife River Indian Villages National Historic
Site, Stanton, ND.
2008
Final Report for IALC Grant #05R-09, “Implications of Prehistoric Burning for Management of
Southwestern Forests.” Report prepared for the International Arid Lands Consortium, Tucson, AZ
(5/26/2008). Ms. on file, International Arid Lands Consortium, Tucson, AZ.
2004
Report of 2004 University of Arizona Archaeological Field School Investigations in Apache-Sitgreaves
National Forest. Report prepared for Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, Springerville, AZ (with B. J. Mills).
Ms. on file, Apache-Sitgreaves, National Forest, Springerville, AZ.
2003
Archaeological Survey and GPS Mapping in the Kohala Field System, Hawai`i Island—2002 Field Season.
Report prepared for Kohala Archaeological Research Project, University of Hawai’i—Manoa. Ms. on file,
Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
2002
Phase I Cultural Resource Survey of the Kamehameha Schools Kapalama Campus. International
Archaeological Research Institute, Inc., Honolulu (with T. Reith and D. J. Welch). Ms. on file, Kamehameha
Schools, Honolulu, HI.
2002
Appendix A: Probability Models of Archaeological Site Location and Discovery. In Work Plan for an
Archaeological Assessment Concerning Proposed U.S. Marine Corps Jungle Warfare Training in Portions of
Waikane Valley and Kualoa Ranch, Island of O’ahu, Hawai’i, pp. 27-45, prepared by M.T. Carson.
International Archaeological Research Institute, Inc., Honolulu. Ms. on file, International Archaeological
Research Institute, Inc., Honolulu, HI.
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SYMPOSIA ORGANIZED
2015
Fire and Humans in Resilient Ecosystems of the Southwest US, Symposium organized for the 2015 annual
meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, CA. April 15-19, 2015. (with Matt
Liebmann).
2014
Discovering Long-Term Climate Vulnerabilities at the Nature-Society Interface, Symposium organized for
the 2014 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Chicago, IL. February
14-18, 2014.
2014
Changing Ideas, Changing Islands: New Research in Western Polynesian Prehistory, Symposium organized
for the 2014 quadrennial meeting of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Siem Reap, Cambodia (with
Julie Field and John Dudgeon). January 12-18, 2014.
2012
Geoarchaeology of Ritual Behavior and Sacred Places, Symposium organized for the 2012 annual meeting of
the Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, TN (with E. Christian Wells). April 18-22, 2012.
2011
Towards Sustainable Fire Regimes, fourth meeting of the Pyrogeography Working Group at the National
Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA. September 29 – October 1, 2011.
2008
Geographic Methods and Models in Archaeological Research, Symposium organized for the 2008 annual
meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA (with Philip O. Leckman). April 15-19,
2008.
2008
Material Technologies and Mobility during the Pithouse Period of the Mogollon Rim Region, East-Central
Arizona, Poster Symposium organized for the 73rd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,
Vancouver, BC (with Kacy L. Hollenback). March 26-30, 2008.
2007
Archaeology and the Response to Catastrophe, Poster Symposium organized for the 72nd annual meeting of
the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, TX (with Kacy L. Hollenback). April 25-29, 2007.
2006
Landscape Research and Heritage Preservation: Collaborative Approaches, Poster Symposium organized for
the 71st annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, PR (with M. Nieves Zedeño).
April 26-30, 2006.
INVITED LECTURES
2015
Fire, Climate, and Society in the Ancient Southwest US, presented as part of the School of Social Science
Colloquium Series, University of Queensland, June 5, 2015.
2015
Fire, Climate, and Society in the Ancient Southwest: Geoarchaeology and Applied Historical Ecology,
presented as part of the Lang Colloquium, Stanford University, February 20, 2015.
2014
Ancient Lessons for a Sustainable Future in the Fire-Prone Southwest US: Archaeology, Climate Change,
and Applied Historical Ecology, presented as part of the School of Anthropology Lecture Series, University
of Arizona, April 10, 2014.
2014
Quantitative Reflectance of Modern Wildfire Charcoals: Implications for the Origin Sedimentary Charcoal
Assemblages and for Inferring Past Wildfire Regime Shifts, presented as part of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring
Research Lecture Series, University of Arizona, April 2, 2014.
2013
Ancient Lessons for a Sustainable Future in the Fire-Prone Southwest US, presented as part of the Harvard
University Department of Anthropology Archaeology Colloquium, December 11, 2013.
2013
Fire, Climate, and Society in Ancient Southwestern Forests and Woodlands: Implications for Sustainable
Management in a Warming World, presented as part of the Baylor University Department of Geology
Seminar series, September 27, 2013.
2013
Fire, Climate, and Society in Ancient Southwestern Forests and Woodlands, presented as part of the
University of Cincinnati Department of Anthropology Colloquium series, January 8, 2013.
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2012
Fire, Climate, and Society in Ancient Southwestern Forests and Woodlands, presented as part of the SMU-inTaos Colloquium series, July 3, 2012.
2012
Geoarchaeological Evidence for Ritual Closure of a Plaza Kiva at Fourmile Ruin, Arizona, presented as part
of the University of Arizona Archaeological Field School lecture series, Rock Art Ranch, Arizona, June 18,
2012.
2010
A 1,416 Reconstruction of Annual, Decadal, and Multidecadal Fire Activity in Southwestern Ponderosa Pine
Forests: Implications for Archaeology and Sustainability, presented as part of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring
Research Brown Bag Series at the University of Arizona, December 8, 2010.
2010
Archaeology, Climate Change, and Sustainability, presented as part of the Anthropology Club Lecture Series,
Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida, March 4, 2010.
2010
Archaeology, Climate Change, and the Sustainability of Human Ecosystems: Examples from Human
Pyrogeography, presented as part of the Graduate Colloquium Series in the Department of Anthropology,
University of Florida, January 22, 2010.
2009
Fire, Climate, and Society in the Ancient Southwest, presented as part of the Department of Anthropology
Lecture Series at the Oberlin College, February 20, 2009.
2008
Fire, Climate, and Society in the Ancient Southwest, presented as part of the Department of Anthropology
Brown Bag Series at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, September 12, 2008.
2008
Archaeologically-Informed Applied Historical Ecology: Fire, Climate, and Land-Use in East-Central
Arizona, presented as part of the IGERT Seminar on Archaeological Sciences, Tucson, AZ, February 29,
2008.
2007
Alluvial Geoarchaeology of Fire History and Culturally Modified Environments along the Eastern Mogollon
Rim, Arizona, presented as part of the Laboratory of Tree Ring Research Brown Bag Series at the University
of Arizona, April 18, 2007.
2006
Geoarchaeology of Fire and Culturally Modified Environments in Arizona, presented as part of the Boston
University Department of Archaeology Brown Bag series, November 28, 2006.
2005
Archaeology, Fire, and the Management of Past and Present Landscapes: Examples from the Uplands
Surrounding Grand Canyon, presented to the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society, April 18, 2005.
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
* indicates invited presentations
2015*
Multi-Millennial Fire Histories from Sedimentary Archives: Human and Climatic Impacts, presented at the
annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, CA, April 2015 (lead author with
M. Aiuvalasit, J. Battillo, C. Kiahtipes, and T. Swetnam).
2015*
A Tale of Two Houses: Soil Chemical and Floor Assemblage Evidence of Domestic Activities at the Menoken
Site, North Dakota, presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco,
CA, April 2015 (junior author with K. Hollenback).
2015*
Modeling Ecological Resilience and Human-Environment Interactions in Engineered Landscapes of the
Prehistoric American Southwest, presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,
San Francisco, CA, April 2015 (junior author with R. Loehman and T. Swetnam).
2015*
Luminescence Dating of Surface Ceramics from Naturally Burned Archaeological Contexts, presented at the
annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, CA, April 2015 (junior author with
D. Rosenstein).
2014
Alluvial and Colluvial Records of Multi-Millennial Fire Histories from Blackfoot Country, presented at the
annual meeting of the Plains Anthropological Society, Fayetteville, AR, October, 2014.
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2014*
Sigatoka Valley Revisited: Preliminary Results from the Post-Lapita Subsistence Transition Project,
presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, TX. April, 2014 (junior
author with J. Field, J. Dudgeon, and A. Commendador-Dudgeon).
2014*
Spatially Explicit Fire and Erosion Histories from Tributaries to the Sigatoka River, Viti Levu, Fiji:
Preliminary Evidence from the 2013 Field Season, presented at the annual meeting of the Society for
American Archaeology, Austin, TX. April, 2014 (senior author with J. Field, J. Dudgeon, and H. Moots).
2014*
Identifying Human Impacts on Fire-Prone Landscapes, presented at the annual meeting of the Society for
American Archaeology, Austin, TX. April, 2014.
2014*
Spatially Explicit Fire and Erosion Histories from Tributaries to the Sigatoka River, Viti Levu, Fiji:
Preliminary Evidence from the 2013 Field Season, presented at the quadrennial meeting of the Indo-Pacific
Prehistory Association, Siem Reap, Cambodia. January, 2014 (senior author with J. Field).
2013*
Fire, Climate, and Society in Ancient Southwestern Forests and Woodlands, presented at the annual meeting
of the Society for Ethnobiology, Denton, TX. May, 2013.
2012*
Fire, Climate, and Society in Ancient Southwestern Forests and Woodlands, presented at the Conference
Honoring the Career of Andrew C. Scott, Royal Holloway University of London, UK. September 13, 2012.
2012*
Singularized Abandonment and Closure of a Plaza Kiva at the Fourmile Ruin, Arizona, presented at the
annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, TN, April 18-22, 2012 (senior author
with S. van Keuren).
2012*
Fire, Climate, and Society in Ancient Southwestern Forests and Woodlands, presented at the biennial
Southwest Symposium, Albuquerque, NM, January 14-15, 2012.
2011*
Ceramic Analysis beyond Pottery: Archaeometric Evaluations of a Possible Pottery Firing Feature at the
Elbee Site, Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site, North Dakota, presented at the annual Plains
Anthropological Conference, October 26-29, 2011 (senior author with K. Hollenback, F. Berna, and A.
Scott).
2011*
The Archaeology of Subsistence Agriculture in Coniferous Ecosystems, presented at the annual meeting of the
Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento, CA, March 29-April 3, 2011 (junior author with A. Sullivan
and P. Mink).
2010*
Geoarchaeology of Cultural and Natural Deposits at Chief Looking’s Village, North Dakota, presented at the
Plains Anthropological Conference, Bismarck, ND. October 6-9, 2010.
2010
Geoarchaeology and the life history of sacred places: integrated deposit-oriented analysis of abandonment
and post-abandonment deposits in a plaza kiva at the Fourmile Ruin, eastern Arizona, Poster presented at the
38th International Symposium on Archaeometry, Tampa, FL. May 10-14, 2010 (senior author with S. Van
Keuren).
2010*
Re-phrasing research questions at the fire-climate-society nexus: Historical ecology across the ‘TwoCultures’ divide, presented at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis working group on
Human Pyrogeography. April 19-23, 2010.
2010*
Fire and the making of Western Apache landscapes in the mountains of eastern Arizona, presented at the 75th
annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, MO. April 14-18, 2010.
2010*
Climate Change, Applied Historical Ecology, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge: The Ethical Issues
Surrounding Collaborative Research and Co-Management, presented at the 75th annual meeting of the
Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, MO. April 14-18, 2010 (junior author with K. L. Hollenback).
2009
Geoarchaeological Survey and Village Structure at a Middle Fort Ancient Village in the Scioto Valley,
presented at the third Archaeological Sciences of the Americas Symposium, Tampa, FL. October 2-3, 2009
(senior author with K. C. Nolan).
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2009
Compromise at Home: Implications of Gender-Biased Foraging Strategies and Intrahousehold Dialectics for
Archaeological Variability, presented at the 74th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,
Atlanta, GA. April 22-26, 2009 (senior author with K. L. Hollenback).
2008*
Village or Palimspest? Non-Overlapping Pithouses, Chronometry, and Cultural Deposits, presented at the
15th Mogollon Conference, Silver City, NM. October 2-4, 2008.
2008*
Fire, Climate, and Indigenous People in Ancient Southwestern Forests, presented at the Kavli Institute for
Theoretical Physics symposium Pyrogeography and Climate Change, at the University of California, Santa
Barbara.
2008*
Spatially Explicit Historical Ecology of Fire Regimes, Climate, and Indigenous Occupation in East-Central
Arizona, presented at the 2008 annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA.
April 15-19, 2008.
2008*
Palimpsests and Short-Term Occupations of Early Pithouse Period Sites in East-Central Arizona. Poster
presented at the 73rd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC. March 26-30,
2008.
2008*
Of Muds, Pots, and Formation Processes: Experimental Analyses of Organic Clays Available to Pithouse
Period Potters. Poster presented at the 73rd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,
Vancouver, BC. March 26-30, 2008 (junior author with C. R. O’Grady and K. L. Hollenback).
2008*
Hidden Households: Archaeogeophysical Mapping of Mogollon Pithouses at the Hall Point Site (AZ
P:11:300 [ASM]). Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,
Vancouver, BC. March 26-30, 2008 (junior author with P. B. Mink, II).
2008
Archaeological Historical Ecology of Ponderosa Pine Fire Regimes in East-Central Arizona. Paper presented
at the 2008 Association of Fire Ecology Symposium Fire in the Southwest: Integrating Fire into Management
of Changing Ecosystems, Tucson, AZ. January 28-31, 2008.
2008
Fire, Climate, and Coupled Human-Natural Systems in East-Central Arizona. Poster presented at the 20th
Southwest Symposium, Tempe, AZ. January 17-19, 2008.
2007*
Fire and Socioecological Systems in East-Central Arizona. Poster presented at the 72nd annual meeting of the
Society for American Archaeology, Austin, TX. April 25-29, 2007.
2007
Anthropogenic Fire for Long-term Landscape Management: Geoarchaeological Evidence for Systematic
Burning in the Upland Southwest. Paper presented at the Center for Archaeological Investigations’ Visiting
Scholar Conference titled The Archaeology of Anthropogenic Environments, Southern Illinois University,
Carbondale, IL (senior author with A. P. Sullivan and C. McNamee).
2006*
Apache Cultural Values and Research for Landscape Preservation. Poster presented at the 71st annual
meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, PR. April 26-30, 2006 (junior author with M.
Altaha and N. Laluk).
2006*
Fire and the Ancient Management of the Forestdale Landscape. Poster presented at the 71st annual meeting of
the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, PR (senior author with M. Altaha and N. Laluk). April 2630, 2006.
2006
Multi-Proxy Evidence for Human and Climatic Influences on Fire Regimes of the Mogollon Rim Region since
AD 1150. Paper Presented at the 2nd Archaeological Sciences of the Americas Symposium, Tucson, AZ,
September 13-16, 2006.
2006
Human-Modified Fire Regimes of the Forestdale Valley since AD 1150. Paper Presented at the 14th Mogollon
Archaeology Conference, Tucson, AZ. October 14-15, 2006.
Curriculum Vitae—Christopher I. Roos
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2006
Variation in Fire-Conducive Climate over the Last 1400 Years. Paper Presented at the 50 Annual Meeting of
the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science, Tucson, AZ.
2005*
Mobile Farmers? Placing the Hall Point Site in Local Context, presented at the 70th annual meeting of the
Society for American Archaeology, Salt Lake City, UT.
2005*
Intervisibility and Invisibility: A Viewshed Analysis of Pithouse Period Sites in the Mogollon Rim Region,
presented at the 70th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Salt Lake City, UT (junior
author with K. Dungan).
2004
Historical Ecology and Anthropogenic Environments in Upland Mogollon Landscape Management. Paper
Presented at the 13th Mogollon Archaeology Conference, Silver City, NM. October 30-31, 2004.
2004*
Deposit Transformation and Sherd Size: Kalinga and Hohokam Middens, presented at the 69th annual
meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Montreal, Canada (junior author with M. Beck).
2004
Implications of Anthropogenic Fire and Landscape Management on Prehistoric Plant Economies in the
Upland Southwest. Paper presented at the First Annual Archaeological Sciences of the Americas Symposium,
Tucson, Arizona (senior author with A. P. Sullivan and C. McNamee).
2002*
That’s My Pot: Assessing Individual Variability in Ceramics, presented at the 101st annual meeting of the
American Association of Anthropologists, New Orleans (junior author with K. L. Hollenback and W. A.
Longacre).
2001*
Exploring the Occupational Dynamics of the Area Surrounding Cerro de Trincheras, presented at the 66th
annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans (senior author with P. R. Fish and S.
K. Fish).
ACADEMIC SERVICE
2015-present Member, Graduate Council, Southern Methodist University.
2014-present Archaeology faculty liaison, Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University.
2014-2015
Member, Search Committee, Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University.
2012-2014
Member, Curriculum Committee, Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University.
2012
Member, Organizing Committee, Native People: Inherent Rights and Forgotten Voices, Embrey Human
Rights Program, Southern Methodist University.
2012
Member, Awards Committee, Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University.
2011-2012
Member, Department Chair Search Committee, Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University.
2011-present Member, Sustainability Committee, Southern Methodist University (University-wide).
2011-present Member, Admissions Committee, Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University.
2010-2014
Member, Library Committee, Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2015
Ad hoc referee for Quaternary Research.
2015
Ad hoc referee for research proposals to the National Science Foundation, Geography and Spatial Sciences
program.
2015
Ad hoc referee for research proposals to the National Science Foundation, Archaeology program.
2015
Ad hoc referee for Journal of Biogeography.
2014
Ad hoc referee for American Antiquity.
2014
Ad hoc referee for Cambridge University Press.
2014
Ad hoc referee for Journal of Biogeography.
2014
Ad hoc referee for research proposals to the National Science Foundation, Geography and Spatial Sciences
program.
2014
Ad hoc referee for Human Ecology.
2014
Ad hoc referee for National Museum Cultural Heritage Journal (Philippines).
2013
Ad hoc referee for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
2013
Ad hoc referee for International Journal of Wildland Fire.
2013
Ad hoc referee for Journal of Archaeological Science.
2013
Ad hoc referee for research proposals to the National Science Foundation, Archaeometry program.
2013
Ad hoc referee for research proposals to the National Geographic Society.
Curriculum Vitae—Christopher I. Roos
2012
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2012
2010
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2008
2006
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Ad hoc referee for Plant and Soil.
Ad hoc referee for research proposals to the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology program.
Ad hoc referee for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Ad hoc referee for research proposals to the Army Office of Research.
Ad hoc referee of a book chapter for Historical Environmental Variation in Conservation and Natural
Resources Management: Past, Present, and Future edited by Edited by J.Wiens, C. Regan, G. Hayward, and
H. Safford.
Ad hoc referee for Fire Ecology.
Ad hoc referee for Dendrochronologia.
Archaeological Sciences of the Americas, Symposium Organizing Committee.
Archaeological Sciences of the Americas, Organizing Committee.
GRADUATE STUDENT ADVISEES
Michael Aiuvalasit, Alejandro Figueroa
GRADUATE COMMITTEES SERVED
Richard Anderson, Andrew Boehm, Rachel Burger, Meredith Faber (Earth Sciences, Ph.D. 2012), Abigail
Fisher, Stanley Guenter (Anthropology, Ph.D. 2014), Whitney Goodwin, Chris Kiahtipes, Brooke Morgan
(Anthropology, Ph.D. 2015), Lauren O’Brien.