mabeherec@hotmail.com

EDUCATION

M.A. Candidate, Anthropological Archaeology University of California at San Diego, present.
B.A., Anthropology (minor Geology); University of Texas at Austin, 2000.
Field School; University of California at San Diego Archaeology in Jordan Program, 1999.
Land Survey Course; Austin Community College, 2001.
High School; Leander High School, Leander, Texas, 1996.

ACADEMIC HONORS

EMPLOYMENT

Section Instructor, 26 September 2002-Present.
Revelle College Humanities Writing Program, University of California at San Diego

Grant specialist, 1 June 2002-15 August 2002.
Center for Archaeological Studies, Southwest Texas State University.

• Archaeological excavation of twelve prehistoric sites at Camp Swift Texas National Guard Base, Bastrop County, Texas.
• See Field Experience for details.

Archaeological field technician, 8-17 April 2002.
PBS&J, Austin Office.

• Archaeological survey in Northern Mississippi.
• See Field Experience for details.

Social Sciences Associate I, January-December 2001.
Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin.

• Archaeological research excavation of the Gault Site, 41BL323, a Clovis occupation site in Central Texas.
  
• Excavation and Laboratory work; see Field Experience for details.

Archaeological field technician, 8-11 January 2001.
Hicks & Company, Austin, Texas.

• Day worker.
  
• Excavation of historic Snyder store and home site, Austin, Texas.
• See Field Experience for details.

Archaeological field technician, July-October 2000.
Foth and Van Dyke, Minneapolis Office.

• Archaeological surveying in Southwest Iowa and Central Minnesota.
• See Field Experience for details.

Cabinet constructor, Summer 1998.
Cabinets Deluxe.

• Table and miter saw use.
  
• Cabinet component assembly.

Clerk, Summer 1997.
Applied Economic Research.

• Database management.
  
• File management, paper and electronic.
  
• Document scanning for computer use.
  

FIELD EXPERIENCE

Camp Swift Archaeological Project

Archaeological survey, Northern Mississippi, PBS&J, 2002.

• Survey prior to Interstate 69 construction in De Soto and Marshall Counties.
  
• Pedestrian survey.
  
• Document completion (sketch maps, site descriptions).

Gault Site Archaeological Project, University of Texas at Austin, 1999-2001.

• Class, volunteer and paid work.
  
• Excavation of 41BL323, a Palaeoindian occupation site in Bell County, Central Texas.
  
• Wet screening.
  
• Electronic Distance Meter (EDM) rodman during topographic mapping and grid placement.
• Document completion (unit forms and maps, profile maps, Munsell notations, artifact catalogs).
  
• Lithic washing, preliminary sorting and weighing.
  
• Supervision of student volunteers in lithic washing and sorting.
  
• Lithic analysis mathematical calculations.

Snyder store and home site, Hicks & Company, 2001.

• Cultural resource management excavation of historic site in Austin, Texas.
  
• Pick and shovel excavation of stone wall foundations.

Archaeological survey, Southern Iowa, Foth and Van Dyke, 2000.

• Survey prior to water pipeline placement in Madison, Union, Adair, Guthrie, and Dallas Counties.
  
• Pedestrian survey.
  
• Shovel testing.
  
• Document completion (profile sketches, Munsell notations).

Archaeological survey, Central Minnesota, Foth and Van Dyke, 2000.

• Survey prior to US Highway 169 expansion in Crow Wing and Mille Lacs Counties.
  
• Shovel testing.
  
• Document completion (profile sketches, Munsell notations).

Archaeology in Jordan Jabal Hamrat Fidan Project, University of California at San Diego, 1999.

• Field school.
  
• Large scale synchronic excavation of WF001, aPre-Pottery Neolithic B site in Wadi Fidan.
  
• Preliminary lithic analysis.
  
• Ground stone analysis.
  
• Artifact cataloging for Jordanian Customs.

Silo Site Archaeological Project, University of Texas at Austin, 1997.

• Single weekend volunteer.
  
• Electronic Distance Meter (EDM) rodman during topographic mapping.

MEMBERSHIPS

Lambda Alpha National Collegiate Honors Society for Anthropology; Lifetime Member, 2000.
Texas Archeological Society.
Texas Exes (The University of Texas Ex-Students Association).

COMPUTER SKILLS

Word processor use: Word Perfect; Word Star; Microsoft Works.
Database use: Microsoft Excel and Access.
Scanner and optical character recognition use.
HyperText Markup Language programming (personal webpage: http://www.geocities.com/mabeherec/).

PUBLICATIONS

Forthcoming (April 2002). "The Devil, the Terror, and the Horror: The Whateley Twins Further Debts to Folklore and Fiction." (Literary criticism.) Lovecraft Studies. Edited by S. T. Joshi. West Warwick, Rhode Island: Necronomicon Press.