Department of Anthropology Brigham Young University 862 SWKT Provo, UT 84602 (801) 422-5374 msearcy@byu.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ph.D. Anthropology, 2010, University of Oklahoma M.A. Anthropology, 2005, Brigham Young University B.A. Journalism, 2000, University of North Texas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Academic 2011- Visiting Professor for the Department of Anthropology, Brigham Young current University. 2011 Adjunct instructor for Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology (ANTH 101), 2010-11 Staff archaeologist and historian for the Office of Public Archaeology, 2007-09 Instructor for General Anthropology (ANTH 1113), University of Oklahoma. 2006-07 Graduate teaching assistant for Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma. 2006 Instructor Ethnographic Films (ANTH 2953), University of Oklahoma. 2005 Graduate assistant Aided in the curation of artifacts and records, and built a lithic database for the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma. 2005 Instructor Ethnographic Films (ANTH 108), 2003 Graduate research assistant Aided in graphic design and illustration for Dr. Donald Forsyth, Department of Anthropology, Video production 2010-11 Producer/editor, Office of Public Archaeology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. 2006-09 Producer/editor, Burning Buffalo Films, Norman, OK. 2002-05 Video editor and technician, Comprehensive Clinic, Brigham Young University. 2000-02 Video editor, 12 Forward (post-production studio), Dallas, TX. Website/Publication Design 2006 Website designer, Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma. 2004-05 Publication designer/graphics editor and illustrator, New World Archaeological Foundation, 1

2003-04 Publication and graphic designer, Department of Anthropology, Brigham Young University. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Books 2011 The Life-Giving Stone: Ethnoarchaeology of Maya Metates. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. Articles 2008 Laptops in the Sand: Using Rugged Computers in the Field. SAA Archaeological Record 8(4):43-46. Co-authored with Scott Ure. 2006 The Daily Grind: An Analysis of Maize-grinding Times in Mesoamerica. Inquiry 1(1):73-82. Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. 2004 What Arrives in Front of Your Face?: K ekchi Perception of Art. Art Prostitute Issue 5. Dallas, Texas. 2003 Book Review of Silence on the Mountain by Daniel Wilkinson (Review in Spanish). Anales de la Academia de Geografía e Historia de Guatemala, Enero a Diciembre de 2002. Guatemala City. Technical Reports 2011 2010 Archaeological Investigations at Mountain Meadows, Washington County, Utah. Museum of Peoples and Cultures Technical Series No. 11-2. Brigham Young University, Provo. 2011 Archaeological Assessment of the Kenilworth Abandoned Mine Reclamation Project Site, Carbon County, Utah. Museum of Peoples and Cultures Technical Series No. 11-1. Brigham Young University, Provo. 2010 Archaeological Inventory of the Davenport Flagstaff Smelter Site, Salt Lake County, Utah. Museum of Peoples and Cultures Technical Series No. 10-7. Brigham Young University, Provo. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2011 Mining on the Swell. Producer/director/editor for short documentary highlighting life as a miner on the San Rafael Swell, Utah (in production). 2009 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 at the Society for Visual Anthropology Film, Video and Interactive Media Festival, Philadelphia. * Official Selection at the Sin Fronteras Film Festival, University of New Mexico. 2

2005 Office of Public Archaeology Promotional DVD- Marketing DVD used to inform future clientele of OPA s services. 2002 Loj lak Ixim Short ethnographic film on the maize planting ceremonies of the Q eqchi in the highlands of Guatemala (on file at the SUNY Albany media library). --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2011 Lincoln County Archaeological Initiative, grant written for the Office of Public Archaeology for a large three-year survey and obsidian sourcing project in Nevada. 2009 Morris E. and Lucille R. Opler Dissertation Fellowship, one award granted yearly for financial support during the writing stage of dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma, 2009-2010. 2008 National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant. Project Title: Cultural and Contextual Differentiation of Mesoamerican Iconography in the Southern Southwest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Papers/Posters 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. 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. 2011 Data Recovery at the Jackson Flat Reservoir Project, Kanab, Utah. Paper presented with Richard Talbot at the Utah Professional Archaeology Conference, Provo, Utah. 2010 Cultural and Contextual Differentiation of Mesoamerican Iconography in the Southwest/Northwest. Paper presented at the 11 th Biennial Southwest Symposium, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. 2008 Laptops in the Sand: Using Rugged Computers in the Field. Paper presented with Scott Ure at the Society for American Archaeology 73 rd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada. 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. 2006 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. 3

2006 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. 2005 Poster - Mayan Metate Ethnoarchaeology. College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences Research Conference, 2004 What Arrives in Front of Your Face?: K ekchi Perception of Art. Paper presented at International Studies Forum, International Studies Program, 2004 The Archaeology/Technology Relationship and the Rise of the Technoarchaeologist. Paper presented at Utah Professional Archaeological Conference, Provo, Utah. Lectures 2011 Class lecture: Cultural Resource Management in Mexico presented in ANTH 512 Heritage Resource Management 2010 Forum Lecture: Symbols and Social Hierarchy: Mesoamerican Iconography at Casas Grandes, Mexico. Department of Anthropology, Brigham Young University. 2010 Invited lecture and film screening: Starvation Doctrine: The Plight of Illegal Immigrants in America, event sponsored by the BYU Anthropology Club. 2010 Class lecture: Methods of Iconographical Analysis presented in ANTH 562 Formative Mesoamerica 2010 Class lecture and film screening: Starvation Doctrine: The Plight of Illegal Immigrants in America, presented in ANTH 2203 Peoples of the World course, University of Oklahoma. 2009 Class lecture and film screening: Starvation Doctrine: The Plight of Illegal Immigrants in America, presented in ANTH 2953 Race and Ethnicity, University of Oklahoma. 2009 Class lecture and film screening: Starvation Doctrine: The Plight of Illegal Immigrants in America, presented in GEOG 1103 Human Geography, University of Oklahoma. 2009 Invited lecture and film screening: Starvation Doctrine: The Plight of Illegal Immigrants in America, presented to the Cleveland County Democratic Party, Norman, Oklahoma. 2007 Invited lecture and film screening: Starvation Doctrine: The Plight of Illegal Immigrants in America, preliminary screening of film at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma. 2005 Class lecture at Brigham Young University Mesoamerican Civilizations presented in MFG 201 History of Creativity, Other Presentations 2007 Facilitator for the film China Blue at the Margaret Mead Film Festival, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Norman. 2005 Gallery Showing - What Arrives in Front of Your Face?: K ekchi Perception of Art. Photography on display. Harold B. Lee Library Hallway Gallery, 4

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2011 Project director, San Rafael Swell Mining Oral History Project and documentary. Office of Public Archaeology, 2011 Crew chief, Fort Harmony excavation, New Harmony, Utah. Office of Public Archaeology, 2011 Crew member and GIS coordinator, Idaho Power Company Line 220 and Line 432 surveys. Office of Public Archaeology, 2011 GIS coordinator and crew member, Hatch Rock, Moab, Utah survey. Office of Public Archaeology, 2011 Crew member, Trees/Rocky Mountain Power survey. Office of Public Archaeology, 2011 Crew member, SITLA- Eskdale, Utah survey. Office of Public Archaeology, 2011 Project coordinator, Archaeological Assessment of the Kenilworth Abandoned Mine Reclamation Project Site. Office of Public Archaeology, Brigham Young University. 2010 GIS coordinator and crew member, Idaho Power Company Hagerman Area Cultural Resource Monitoring Project. Office of Public Archaeology, Brigham Young University. 2010 Crew member, Mountain Meadows Massacre site excavation. Office of Public Archaeology, 2010 Field supervisor, Jackson Flat Reservoir project, Kanab, Utah. Office of Public Archaeology, 2008 Crew member for the 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. 2007 Crew member and digital mapping specialist, Sand Hollow II excavation, Hurricane, Utah. Office of Public Archaeology, Provo, UT. Project director: Rich Talbot; field director: David Yoder. 2006 Crew member, El Pueblito excavation, hilltop site in the Casas Grandes Valley, Chihuahua, Mexico. Project director: Todd Pitezel, University of Arizona. 2006 Crew member, Cerro de Moctezuma Prehistoric Trails survey in Chihuahua, Mexico. Project director: Todd Pitezel, University of Arizona. 2005 Crew member, North Creek Rock Shelter excavation (9000 year old cave site in southern Utah). Project director: Dr. Joel Janetski, BYU Anthropology Department. 2005 Ethnographic fieldwork with the Poqomam Maya of San Luis Jilotepeque, Jalapa, Guatemala. Researched the use-life of grinding stones as well as the metate producers who work at the local basalt quarry. Funded by the New World Archaeological Foundation. 2004 Ethnographic fieldwork (primary field season) in several communities in Highland Guatemala for thesis research. Focus of research was a material study of the use-life of manos and metates. 5

2003 Ethnographic fieldwork (pilot study) in Guatemala for thesis research in 2004. Fieldwork included locating two of the last known metate-producing quarries in Guatemala and establishing study communities. 2003-05 Various brief field experiences: Power line survey in central Utah, crew member at an Ancestral Puebloan excavation in southern Utah (Washington, UT). Both projects were run by the Office of Public Archaeology, Provo, Utah. Assisted in the mapping of a Fremont village site in southeastern Utah (Moctezuma Canyon) and a bison kill site in southwestern Oklahoma. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2011 Thesis committee member for Scott Ure (Fremont ceramics), BYU graduate student, Department of Anthropology. 2011 Thesis committee member for Wendi Dahle (Fremont ethnobotany), BYU graduate student, Department of Anthropology. 2011 Office of Research and Creative Activities (ORCA) faculty mentor for Madison Mercer, BYU undergraduate student, Department of Anthropology. 2011 Eagle Scout project advisor for Austin Harris, Orem, UT. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Languages Analysis Computer Other Spanish and Q eqchi Maya. Ground stone, ceramics, iconography Proficient in Adobe graphics software (including Photoshop, Illustrator, and web design tools), non-linear video editing software (Final Cut/AVID/Adobe Premiere), DVD Studio Pro, Encore DVD, and working knowledge of SPSS, ArcGIS, and Avenza Mapublisher. Experience in marketing and advertising in multiple media formats including print, web, and television. 6