Minette C. Church, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway
P.O. Box 7150
Colorado Springs, CO 80933-7150
Telephone: (719)262-3064
Department Fax: (719)262-3164
E-Mail: mchurch@uccs.edu

 Education
1987 B.A., Anthropology and History, University of Colorado at Boulder
1991 M.A., American Civilization, University of Pennsylvania
1992 Museum Curatorship Program, American Civilization, University of Pennsylvania
2001 Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania Homesteads on the Purgatoire: Frontiers of Culture Contact in 19th Century Colorado


2003 ESRI certification in use of ArchGIS software
 

 

                                                                                                                                                 

Laetoli of Southeastern Colorado...
 

Field Work:

2003 - Lopez Plaza Archaeological Project, Comanche National Grassland, United States Forest Service"Pirates of the Purgatoire" UCCS Field School Crew

 

"Pirates of the Purgatoire" - UCCS Field School Crew 2003

 

2000 - 2004 - San Pedro Maya Project, Belize, Central America (July 11 through August 21, 2004)

SPMP Crew 2003 San Pedro Field and Lab Crew 2003

 
Selected Publications:

2004  Maya Caste War Immigrants in Colonial British Honduras: the San Pedro Maya Project, 2002-2003, by Jason Yaeger, Minette C. Church, Richard M. Leventhal and Jennifer Dornan.  In Reports in Belizean Archaeology, Belize Institute of Archaeology, Belmopan, Belize, Central America.

2003 San Pedro Maya Project: 2002 Field Season Report, by Jason Yaeger (University of Wisconsin), Minette Church (University of Colorado – Colorado Springs), Jennifer Dornan (UCLA), and Richard Leventhal (School of American Research). Submitted to the Department of Archaeology, Belize, Central America.

2003 Rock Ledge Ranch: Archaeological Testing North of the Chambers House, Rock Ledge Ranch (5EP188), Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, Spring 2001. Submitted to the City of Colorado Springs, Department of Parks and Recreation.

2002  The Grant and the Grid: Homestead Landscapes in the Late Nineteenth Century Borderlands of Southeastern Colorado, Journal of Social Archaeology 2 (2).

 
Courses at UCCS:

Anth 103 - Human Origins

Anth 220 - Survey of World Prehistory

Anth 320 - Field Techniques in Archaeology (summer field school)

Anth 321 - Laboratory Techniques in Archaeology

Anth 322 - North American Prehistory

Anth 327 - Historical Archaeology

Anth 328 - Archaeological Approaches to Gender and Sexuality

Anth 429 - Archaeological Method and Theory

Anth 498 - Senior Seminar (topics vary)