Katherine A. Dungan, Research Assistant
Katherine Dungan joined the staff as a research assistant in 2008, working with ceramics from Archaeology Southwest’s excavations and collections research in the Upper Gila River Valley of New Mexico. More recently, she has begun dissertation research expanding Archaeology Southwest’s Upper Gila work backward in time to the 13th and early 14th centuries, serving as Field Director for the Archaeology Southwest/University of Arizona 2011 field school in Mule Creek. Her work in the Upper Gila and Mogollon highlands regions of New Mexico focuses on religious architecture and its role in the creation of cultural boundaries.
Katherine completed her M.A. in Anthropology at the University of Arizona , and is currently enrolled in the Ph.D. program. Her Master’s thesis examined intervisibility between shrines and small sites at the community surrounding a Chacoan outlier. She holds a B.A. in Anthropology and a Bachelor of Music in Performance from the University of Michigan.
