Michael Striker

Education

In Progress, Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Kentucky
    Committee:  Richard W. Jefferies (chair), Scott Hutson, Christopher A. Pool, Theodore R. Schatzki

1995, M.A., Anthropology, University of Idaho
    Thesis:  Resource Availability and Sedentism among the Coeur d’Alene Indians of North Central Idaho.
    Committee:  Roderick Sprague (chair), Steven Brunsfeld, Laura Putsche

1995, B.A, Anthropology, cum laude, Michigan State University

Research Interests

Archaeology; ethnohistory; religion; ritual; cosmology; art; identity; social memory; landscape; Heideggerian materiality; Archaic and Woodland North America; Neolithic Europe.

Teaching Experience

August 2008 – Present, Lecturer in Anthropology
    Department of Anthropology, Sociology, and Philosophy, Northern Kentucky University
    Highland Heights, Kentucky

January 2003 – May 2005, January 2008 – May 2008, Part-time Faculty
    Department of Anthropology, Sociology, and Philosophy
    Northern Kentucky University
    Highland Heights, Kentucky

September 1993 – June 1994, Teaching Assistant
    Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho

Publications

Striker, Michael.  2008.  The Adena Mound as Axis Mundi and Implications for Early Woodland Settlement Patterns and Social Organization.  Current Archaeological Research in Kentcuky, Volume 10, edited by Charles Hockensmith and Ken Carstens.  Kentucky heritage Council, Frankfort.

Striker, Michael.  2007.  Toward a Descriptive and Functional Classification of Historical Artifacts for Use in Cultural Resource Management Settings.  Ohio Valley Historical Archaeology 22:47-68..

Striker, Michael.  2007.  Some Aspects of Adena Cosmology.  Currents of Change 5(2).

Striker, Michal, Donald A. Miller, and Patrick M. Uphus.  2007.  Preliminary Geological Modeling of Potential Chert Sources at Fort Knox, Kentucky.  Currents of Change 5(3).

Welch, Deborah and Michael Striker.  1994.  A Bibliography of Plateau Ethnobotany.  Northwest Anthropological Research Notes, 28(1).

Striker, Michael and Roderick Sprague.  1994.  Excavations at the Warren Chinese Mining Camp Site, 1989-1992.  University of Idaho Anthropological Reports, No. 94, Alfred W. Bowers Laboratory of Anthropology, University of Idaho, Moscow.

Presentations

Striker, Michael.  2008.  Burial Mounds as Material Manifestations of Social Memory in the Eastern Woodlands.  Paper presented at World Archaeological Congress 6, Dublin, Ireland.

Striker, Michael.  2008.  Evidence of Ancestor Veneration in Early and Middle Woodland Kentucky.  Paper presented at the 25th Annual Kentucky Heritage Council Archaeological Conference, Highland Heights.

Striker, Michael.  2007.  Sanitation Laws and Practices in Turn-of-the-Century Cincinnati.  Paper presented at the 25th Annual Symposium on Ohio Valley Historic and Urban Archaeology, Highland Heights, Kentucky.

Bryant, Donna, Ruth G. Myers, Donald A. Miller, and Michael Striker.  2007.  Results of Excavations of Five Privies along River Road in the Cincinnati Neighborhood of Sedamsville.

Striker, Michael, Donald A. Miller, and Patrick M. Uphus.  2006.  Preliminary Geological Modeling of Potential Chert Sources at Fort Knox, Kentucky.  Paper presented at the 23rd Annual Kentucky Heritage Council Archaeological Conference, Bowling Green.

Striker, Michael.  2006.  Towards a Descriptive and Functional Classification of Historical Artifacts for Use in Cultural Resource Management Settings.  Paper presented at the 24th Symposium on Ohio Valley Historic and Urban Archaeology, Madison, Indiana.

Striker, Michael.  2005.  The Adena Mound as Axis Mundi and Implications for Early Woodland Settlement Patterns     and Social Organization.  Paper presented at the 22nd Annual Kentucky Heritage Council Archaeological Conference, Lexington.

Striker, Michael.  2004.  Water and Sanitation at a Farmstead in North-Central Ohio.  Paper presented at the 22nd Symposium on Ohio Valley Historic and Urban Archaeology, New Harmony, Indiana.

Striker, Michael, Donald A. Miller, and A. Gwynn Henderson.  1999.  Results of Archaeological Testing at the Old Springs Site (15FR20) in Franklin County, Kentucky.  Paper presented at the 16th Annual Kentucky Heritage Council Archaeological Conference, Lexington.

Striker, Michael.  1997.  Evaluating the Cultural Significance of Animals in Traditional Cultures.  Paper presented at the 50th Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference.

Striker, Michael and Roderick Sprague.  1992.  Warren, Idaho Chinese Mining Camp Site, 1989-1992.  Paper presented at the 47th Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference.