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1 MICHAEL T. SEARCY Department of Anthropology Brigham Young University 862 SWKT, Provo, UT (801) msearcy@byu.edu EDUCATION Ph.D. Anthropology, 2010, University of Oklahoma M.A. Anthropology, 2005, Brigham Young University B.A. Journalism, 2000, University of North Texas EMPLOYMENT Academic Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Brigham Young Visiting Professor, Department of Anthropology, Brigham Young 2011 Adjunct instructor, Department of Anthropology, Brigham Young Staff archaeologist/historian, Office of Public Archaeology, Brigham Young Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma Teaching assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma Museum curation assistant, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma Instructor, Department of Anthropology, Brigham Young 2003 Research assistant, Department of Anthropology, Brigham Young Production Producer/editor, Burning Buffalo Films, Norman, Oklahoma Video editor and technician, Comprehensive Clinic, Brigham Young Video editor, 12 Forward (post-production studio), Dallas, TX. PUBLICATIONS Book 2011 The Life-Giving Stone: Ethnoarchaeology of Maya Metates. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. Articles In press Cultural and Contextual Differentiation of Mesoamerican Iconography in the U.S. Southwest/Northwest Mexico. In Proceedings of the XI Southwest Symposium, edited by Randy McGuire and Elisa Villapondo. Arizona State Museum, Tucson. 10/31/13 1

2 In press Beginnings: The Viejo Period. In New Light on Paquimé, edited by Paul E. Minnis and Michael E. Whalen. Amerind Foundation, Dragoon, Arizona. (Senior author with Jane Kelley) In review The Viejo Period. In The Archaeology of Paquimé and the Casas Grandes Region, Chihuahua, Mexico, edited by Paul E. Minnis and Michael E. Whalen, University of Arizona Press, Tucson. (Junior author with Jane Kelley) In review Late Fremont Cultural Identities and Borderland Processes. In Being or Becoming? Late Holocene Research on Foragers and Early Farmers in the Desert West, edited by Barbara Roth and Maxine McBrinn. (Senior author with Richard Talbot) 2013 Understanding the Viejo Period: What Are the Data? In Collected Papers from the 17th Biennial Mogollon Archaeology Conference, edited by Lonnie C. Ludeman, pp , Western New Mexico University, Silver City. (Junior author with Todd A. Pitezel) 2008 Laptops in the Sand: Using Rugged Computers in the Field. SAA Archaeological Record 8(4): (Senior author with Scott Ure) 2006 The Daily Grind: An Analysis of Maize-grinding Times in Mesoamerica. Inquiry 1(1): Brigham Young University, Provo, UT What Arrives in Front of Your Face? K ekchi Perception of Art. Art Prostitute Issue 5. Dallas, Texas. Technical Reports 2012 A History of the Copper Globe, Lucky Strike, Tomsich Butte, Hidden Splendor and Little Susan Mines within the San Rafael Swell Mining District Based on Oral Interviews, Emery County, Utah, Museum of Peoples and Cultures Technical Series No Brigham Young University, Provo Archaeological Investigations at Mountain Meadows, Washington County, Utah. Museum of Peoples and Cultures Technical Series No Brigham Young University, Provo Archaeological Assessment of the Kenilworth Abandoned Mine Reclamation Project Site, Carbon County, Utah. Museum of Peoples and Cultures Technical Series No Brigham Young University, Provo Archaeological Inventory of Section 16, Eskdale, Millard County, Utah. Museum of Peoples and Cultures Technical Series No Brigham Young University, Provo. (Senior author with Lane Richens) 2011 Archaeological Inventory of State Trust Land, Hatch Rock Parcel, San Juan County, Utah. Museum of Peoples and Cultures Technical Series No Brigham Young University, Provo. (Third author with Lane Richens and Richard Talbot) 2011 Archaeological Inventory of the Proposed Bonneville Crusher Area Borrow Pit at Kennecott Utah Copper, Salt Lake County, Utah. Museum of Peoples and Cultures Technical Series No Brigham Young University, Provo. (Third author with Lane Richens and Richard Talbot) 10/31/13 2

3 2010 Archaeological Inventory of the Davenport Flagstaff Smelter Site, Salt Lake County, Utah. Museum of Peoples and Cultures Technical Series No Brigham Young University, Provo. Book Review 2003 Silence on the Mountain (Daniel Wilkinson). Anales de la Academia de Geografía e Historia de Guatemala, Enero a Diciembre de Guatemala City. PRODUCTIONS 2012 Mining on the Swell. Producer/director/editor of documentary highlighting life of miners on the San Rafael Swell. Bureau of Land Management and Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining Starvation Doctrine: The Plight of Illegal Immigrants in America. Full-length documentary addressing the issue of illegal immigration and immigration reform in the U.S. Burning Buffalo Films, Norman, OK (co-directed with Zac Davis). Winner of Best Oklahoma Short Film at the Dead Center Film Festival, Oklahoma City. Official Selection - Society for Visual Anthropology Film, Video and Interactive Media Festival, Philadelphia. Official Selection - Sin Fronteras Film Festival, University of New Mexico Loj lak Ixim Ethnographic film on the maize planting ceremonies of the Q eqchi in the highlands of Guatemala. PAPERS/PRESENTATIONS Conference Papers/Posters 2013 Accessories of Modern Mayan Grinding Stones. Paper presented at the 78 th annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Honolulu, Hawaii Documenting the Past: Implementing New Mapping Technologies at Archaeological Sites. Paper presented at the 2012 Trimble Dimensions conference, Las Vegas, Nevada. (Junior author with Scott Ure) 2012 The Viejo Period. Poster presented at the 2012 Amerind Seminar public session in Tucson, Arizona The Viejo Period of the Casas Grandes Cultural Tradition. Paper presented at the 17 th Biennial Mogollon Archaeology Conference, Silver City, New Mexico. (Junior author with Todd Pitezel) 2012 Astronomical Implications for the Mound of the Cross at Paquimé, Chihuahua, Mexico. Paper presented at the 77 th annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, Tennessee. (Senior author with David Derrick) 2011 El Renacimiento del Simbolismo Mimbres en Casas Grandes. Paper presented at the XIV Conferencia de Arqueología de la Frontera Norte, Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, México. 10/31/13 3

4 2011 Decorative Renascence: Tracing Early Ceramic Designs into the Late Prehistoric Period in the U.S. Southwest/Northwest Mexico. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology 76 th Annual Meeting, Sacramento, California Data Recovery at the Jackson Flat Reservoir Project, Kanab, Utah. Paper presented at the Utah Professional Archaeology Conference, Provo, Utah. (Senior author with Richard Talbot) 2010 Cultural and Contextual Differentiation of Mesoamerican Iconography in the Southwest/Northwest. Paper presented at the 11 th Biennial Southwest Symposium, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico Laptops in the Sand: Using Rugged Computers in the Field. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology 73 rd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada. (Senior author with Scott Ure) 2007 Mano and Metate Manufacturing Techniques of the Maya: An Ethnoarchaeological Approach to Understanding Standardization and Measurements. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology 72 nd Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas Moving from Guessing to Educated Guessing: Testing the Ethnographic Record with Experimental Archaeology. Paper presented at the Archaeological Sciences of the Americas Symposium, Tucson, Arizona Moving from a Grinding Halt: Expanding the Interpretation of Groundstone through Ethnoarchaeology. Paper presented at Society for American Archaeology 71 st Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Senior author with Jaime Holthusen) 2005 Poster - Mayan Metate Ethnoarchaeology. College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences Research Conference, Brigham Young 2004 What Arrives in Front of Your Face? K ekchi Perception of Art. Paper presented at International Studies Forum, International Studies Program, Brigham Young 2004 The Archaeology/Technology Relationship and the Rise of the Technoarchaeologist. Paper presented at Utah Professional Archaeological Conference, Provo, Utah. (Senior author with Scott Ure) Invited Lectures 2013 Archaeoastronomy at Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico, Utah Statewide Archaeological Council, Utah County chapter meeting Archaeological Methods/Utah Archaeology, American Leadership Academy, Archaeology/Anthropology class taught by Mandy Law Cultural Resource Management/Applied Archaeology in ANTH 247 Applied Anthropology, BYU Seeing Anthropology in a Visual Landscape, BYU Anthropology Club Careers in Archaeology, ANTH 101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, BYU Ethnoarchaeology, ANTH 110 Introduction to Archaeology, BYU Archaeological Methods/Utah Archaeology, 4 th Grade, Cherry Hill Elementary School, Orem, Utah. 10/31/13 4

5 2011 Cultural Resource Management in Mexico, ANTH 512 Heritage Resource Management, BYU Symbols and Social Hierarchy: Mesoamerican Iconography at Casas Grandes, Mexico. Forum Lecture for the Department of Anthropology, BYU Methods of Iconographical Analysis, ANTH 562 Formative Mesoamerica, BYU Mesoamerican Civilizations, in MFG 201 History of Creativity, BYU. Film Screenings 2013 Mining on the Swell, John Wesley Powell River Museum, Green River, Utah Premier screening of Mining on the Swell, Museum of the San Rafael, Castle Dale, Utah Starvation Doctrine, Anthropology Club Event, Brigham Young University 2010 Starvation Doctrine, ANTH 2203 Peoples of the World, Univ. of Oklahoma 2009 Starvation Doctrine, Dead Center Film Festival, Oklahoma City 2009 Starvation Doctrine, Society for Visual Anthropology Film, Video, and Interactive Media Festival, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Starvation Doctrine, Sin Fronteras Film Festival, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 2009 Starvation Doctrine, ANTH 2953 Race and Ethnicity, Univ. of Oklahoma 2009 Starvation Doctrine, GEOG 1103 Human Geography, Univ. of Oklahoma 2009 Starvation Doctrine, Cleveland County Democratic Party, Norman, Oklahoma 2008 Premier screening of Starvation Doctrine, Sam Noble Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma, Norman 2007 Starvation Doctrine, preliminary screening at Univ. of Tulsa, Oklahoma Other Presentations 2007 Facilitator for the film China Blue at the Margaret Mead Film Festival, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Norman What Arrives in Front of Your Face? K ekchi Perception of Art. Photography on display. Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young RESEARCH 2013 Co-director, Discovering the Roots of Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico Director, Provo Mounds Archaeological Project, Provo, Utah Co-director, Viejo Period Preliminary Survey, Chihuahua, Mexico Co-director, Wolf Village Excavation, BYU Field School, Goshen, Utah Consultant/crew director, Lincoln County Archaeological Initiative (Obsidian Crossroads/Fremont Settlement), Panaca, Nevada Director, Archaeoastronomy of the Mound of the Cross, Paquimé, Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico Director, San Rafael Swell Mining Oral History Project and documentary. Office of Public Archaeology, Brigham Young 2011 Crew chief, Fort Harmony excavation, New Harmony, Utah. Office of Public Archaeology, Brigham Young 10/31/13 5

6 2011 GIS coordinator, Idaho Power Company Line 220 and Line 432 surveys. Office of Public Archaeology, Brigham Young 2011 GIS coordinator, Hatch Rock, Moab, Utah survey. Office of Public Archaeology, Brigham Young 2011 Crew member, Trees/Rocky Mountain Power survey. Office of Public Archaeology, Brigham Young 2011 Crew member, SITLA- Eskdale, Utah survey. Office of Public Archaeology, Brigham Young 2011 Project coordinator, Archaeological Assessment of the Kenilworth Abandoned Mine Reclamation Project Site. Office of Public Archaeology, Brigham Young 2010 GIS coordinator, Idaho Power Company Hagerman Area Cultural Resource Monitoring Project. Office of Public Archaeology, Brigham Young 2010 Crew member, Mountain Meadows Massacre site excavation. Office of Public Archaeology, Brigham Young 2010 Field supervisor, Jackson Flat Reservoir project, Kanab, Utah. Office of Public Archaeology, Brigham Young 2008 Crew member, Excavation of Site 315, Medio Period site in the Casas Grandes Valley in Chihuahua, Mexico. Project directors: Dr. Paul Minnis, University of Oklahoma, and Dr. Michael Whalen, University of Tulsa Crew member and mapping specialist, Sand Hollow II excavation, Hurricane, Utah. Office of Public Archaeology, Provo, UT. Project director: Rich Talbot; field director: David Yoder Crew member, El Pueblito excavation, hilltop site in the Casas Grandes Valley, Chihuahua, Mexico. Project director: Todd Pitezel, University of Arizona Crew member, Cerro de Moctezuma Prehistoric Trails survey in Chihuahua, Mexico. Project director: Todd Pitezel, University of Arizona Crew member, North Creek Rock Shelter excavation (9000 year old cave site in southern Utah). Project director: Dr. Joel Janetski, BYU Anthropology Department Ethnographic fieldwork in several communities in Highland Guatemala. Focus of research was a material study of the use-life of manos and metates and the manufacturing process of these tools at two of the last known metateproducing quarries in Guatemala. Partially funded by the New World Archaeological Foundation. UNIVERSITY/COMMUNITY SERVICE 2013 Editor, Utah Archaeology, journal of the Utah Professional Archaeological Council 2013 Member of Utah Professional Archaeological Council Executive Committee 2013 Acting Chair of Publications and Technology Committee, Department of Anthropology, BYU 10/31/13 6

7 Manuscript Reviewer Journal of Utah Archaeology (2012), Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (2012) Mentored Graduate Students Scott Ure (2013), Kristin South (2012), Wendy Dahle (2011), Jessica Simpson (chair), Hailey Ferguson (chair), Daniel King, Rachel Harris, Katie Richards, Shelley Watts, Lynn Mulkern, Fan Clive, Adrien Mooney Office of Research and Creative Activities (ORCA) faculty mentor Hannah Steffensen ( ), Madison Mercer (2012) Eagle Scout project advisor: Austin Harris (2012), Josh Harris (2013) 10/31/13 7

Brief Curriculum Vitae KEITH A. EREKSON. Director, Church History Library

8/2014 Brief Curriculum Vitae KEITH A. EREKSON Director, Church History Library 801-240-0134 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints keith.erekson@ldschurch.org 15 East North Temple St. http://www.keitherekson.com