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September 19, 2010
Keith Chan
506 Southampton Dr.
Columbia, MO 65203
573 529-0660
[email protected]
www.keithcchan.com
Curriculum Vitae
Areas of Interest
Bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, Peruvian prehistory, disease, statistics,
anthropometry, information technology
Education
2003-
Ph.D. candidate (Anthropology - Bioarchaeology)
University of Missouri, Columbia
Dissertation Title: Life in the Late Intermediate Period at
Armatambo, Perú
2001-2003
M.A. (Anthropology - Bioarchaeology)
University of Missouri, Columbia
Thesis Title: An Examination of Harris Lines and Femoral
Diaphyseal Bending Rigidity Using Bootstrapping
1997-2001
B.A. (Anthropology)
University of California, Berkeley
Awards and Associations
2003-2007
Life Sciences Fellow at the University of Missouri, Columbia.
This four year fellowship provides its fellows with preparation for
earning a doctorate and stresses interaction, networking, and
ethical scientific research
2005-
Society for American Archaeology, Student Member
2003-
Sigma Xi, Associate Member
2003-
American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Student
Member
Teaching and Employment
2009
Co-Director. Anthropological Radiography Group Field School.
Co-taught ten students from various radiology programs of the
United States the methods and theory of bioarchaeology while
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working on a skeletal collection in Lima, Perú.
2009
Scoring Team Leader. Assessment Resource Center. Worked with
two other team leaders to manage a team of approximately 30
scorers of a standardized test. Duties included quality control to
ensure consistency of assigned scores, and working one-on-one
with scorers who were lagging in accuracy or productivity.
2009
Co-Teacher. Missouri River Regional Library. Introduced teens to
the concept and production of “comic jams,” a form of
collaborative comic art.
2008
Scoring Team Leader. Assessment Resource Center. Manage a
team of approximately 10 scorers of a standardized test. Duties
included quality control to ensure consistency of assigned scores,
and working one-on-one with scorers who were lagging in
accuracy or productivity.
2007
Co-Instructor. Bioarchaeological field school in Lima, Perú via
the University of Missouri, Columbia. Co-taught four students
from the United States and one from Perú the methodology of
skeletal identification and data collection. Duties include assisting
in identifying and collecting skeletal data, helping students adjust
to Peruvian culture, and managing interpersonal conflicts.
2005
Volunteer Teaching Assistant. Monkeys, Apes and Humans class,
University of Missouri, Columbia. Acted as teaching assistant in
undergraduate class. Duties include grading exams and
assignments, proctoring the final exam unassisted, and two guest
lectures.
2004
Volunteer Teaching Assistant. Human Skeletal Identification
class, University of Missouri, Columbia. Co-taught a class on
human osteology. Duties include answering questions regarding
the identification and function of human bones during the lab
portion and leading review sessions.
2004
Guest lecture series. Introduction to Physical Anthropology class,
University of Missouri, Columbia. Gave three lectures covering
classification and behavior of primates for a class of
approximately eighty students.
2003
Volunteer Teaching Assistant. Human Skeletal Identification
class, University of Missouri, Columbia. Tasks included fielding
student question during the lab sections. A guest lecture is given
on my thesis research.
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2002-2003
Library Research Assistant. Anthropology library, University of
Missouri, Columbia. Duties include maintaining the collection of
publications in the anthropology library’s collection, managing a
crew of student volunteers and holding a biannual book sale.
Fieldwork and Laboratory Research
2009
Radiographic data collection. Museo Nacional de Arqueología,
Antropología, e Historia del Perú. Supervised the Anthropological
Radiography Group as they radiographed the skeletal collection
from Armatambo from the 2007 data collection period. Tasks
include choosing burials to excavate, and ensuring quality control
over the radiography process.
2007
Skeletal data collection. Museo Nacional de Arqueología,
Antropología, e Historia del Perú. Collected data from skeletal
remains from the Incan period site of Armatambo. Tasks include
thorough examination of skeletons for indicators of sex, age, and
disease processes, in addition to improving existing data
collection forms.
2004
Archaeological excavation at Buena Vista, Perú. University of
Missouri, Columbia. Expanded tasks from the previous field
season include the education of a new crew of field students,
acting as crew chief for a unit, and helping the students
acculturate to Peruvian culture.
2003
Archaeological excavation at Buena Vista, Perú. University of
Missouri, Columbia. Tasks include the preparation and
excavation of units, collecting and organizing artifacts, and the
production of plans, profiles, and artifact drawings.
2002
Forensics investigation. University of Missouri, Columbia. The
laboratory’s standard procedure was followed to completion on a
local forensics case.
2000-2001
Archaeological laboratory analysis. University of Missouri,
Columbia. Artifacts from the Museum Support Center were
sorted and recataloged.
2001
Archaeological excavation at the Presidio, San Francisco.
University of California, Berkeley. Tasks include the excavation
of units and the wetscreening of soil for artifacts.
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Publications and Presentations
2010
“A Forensic Stature Equation that Estimates Better without Race
or Sex” (submitted to the American Journal of Physical
Anthropology).
2007
Curso Taller: Arqueometría y Bioarqueología en el Perú.
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Created and
delivered a presentation in Spanish. The talk focused on current
work on the Armatambo skeletal collection curated by the Museo
Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia del Perú.
2007
Photography of Buena Vista site was featured in Mosaics, the
annual magazine of the College of Arts and Sciences at the
University of Missouri-Columbia.
2006
Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeologists. A
paper based on collaboration with Kathy Forgey from the
University of Illinois-Chicago titled “A Possible Sacrificee for the
Temple of the Fox at Buena Vista Perú” was presented at this
conference.
2005
Life Sciences Week Poster Session. A poster based on the thesis
work of Rebecca Bergfield from the University of MissouriColumbia titled “Trace Element Analysis of Ancient Hair from
Three Archaeological Sites in Perú” was presented at this event.
2004
Life Sciences Week Poster Session. A poster based on thesis
research titled “Harris Lines and Cross Sectional Geometry at the
Site of Paloma, Perú” was presented at this event. The author
fielded questions for four hours over the course of a single day.
Related Work
2010
2005
Computer Programmer. Updated Anthropomotron to version 1.3,
adding notable stature estimation equations published after the
first release of the program.
Computer Programmer. Created and publicly released a computer
program (Anthropomotron 1.1) that expedites calculations used in
forensic anthropology and bioarchaeology. Tasks included the
research of these formulae, their implementation using the Xcode
programming tool, and thorough testing for bugs.
Anthropomotron was featured on a promotional CD of freeware
and shareware programs bundled with the April 2005 issue of
Macworld magazine.
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2003
President of the Anthropology Students Association, University
of Missouri, Columbia. Duties include the hosting of biweekly
member meetings, and the organization of several annual and
biannual events, including faculty talks, trash pickup on a local
hiking trail and a bake/book sale.
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