Dr. Emily J. Brown
6 Herrada Way
Santa Fe, NM 87508-8205
(505) 231-0157
Emily@AspenCRMSolutions.com
Education:
1994 B.A. with honors in both anthropology and music from Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR.
1998 M.A. in archaeology from Columbia University, New York, NY
1999 M.Phil. in archaeology from Columbia University, New York, NY
2005 Ph.D. in archaeology from Columbia University, New York, NY
Work Experience:
February 2000 to April 2005: Archaeologist at the Intermountain Regional Office—Santa Fe of the
National Park Service. Duties include historic structure and archaeological site condition assessment
and documentation, archaeological survey, excavation, cultural resource database creation and
management, electronic document archives development, stabilization treatment recommendations,
Section 106 compliance, National Historic Landmark nomination preparation, interpretive exhibit
design and implementation, budget and project tracking, supervision and training of student interns
and field crew members, software support and training for park staff, and other aspects of cultural
resource management.
July 2001 to September 2002: Archaeologist in the Architectural Conservation Division of the National
Park Service Intermountain Support Office. Duties include cultural resource database creation and
management, electronic document archives development, archaeological survey, historic structure
and archaeological site condition assessment and documentation, resource management data
collection design, stabilization treatment recommendations, Section 106 compliance, National Historic
Landmark nominations, budget and project tracking, supervision and training of student interns and
field crew members, software support and training for park staff, and other aspects of cultural
resource management.
Sept. 1999 to Feb. 2000: Archaeology Technician at Bandelier National Monument. Duties included
completing the archaeological survey at the Tsankawi Unit of the Park (including establishing GPS
coordinates) and writing up the results, as well as constructing modules for the Archaeological Site
Management Information System (ASMIS) database and entering data on the 2200+ sites within park
boundaries for use with Environmental Impact Statements and other cultural resource management
decisions.
May through July, 1998 and 1999: Archaeologist for the American Museum of Natural History at the
site of San Marcos Mission, New Mexico. Responsibilities included remote sensing with a soil resistivity
meter, and all aspects of excavation and processing of artifacts during a normal field season. During
the summer of 1998 I also volunteered at Mesa Verde National Monument, working with the post-burn
field crew in the condition assessments of archaeological sites burned in the recent fire, and in the
stabilization treatments done to protect the sites from increased runoff and erosion.
School Year during 1998 and 1999: Teaching Assistant for classes taught in the anthropology
department at Columbia University, specifically: Rise of Human Society, Rise of Civilization, and
Introduction to Anthropology. Responsibilities included grading assigned papers and exams, leading
discussion sections and reviews for exams, occasional full lectures, and assigning final grades.
May through July 1997: Laboratory Director for the University of Arizona Archaeological Field School
held in Pinedale, Arizona for the excavation of the Bailey Ruin and Cothrun’s Great Kiva. Duties
included all aspects of excavation in addition to those of organizing, cleaning, and packaging artifacts
and teaching those techniques to the field school students, and the recovery of botanical materials
through flotation.
Dec. 1996 through Aug. 1999: Independent Contractor working to update the List of Classified
Structures databases for the National Park Service System Support Offices in Denver and Santa Fe,
and for Dinosaur National Monument. Also worked for independent computer consulting firm
constructing and managing Access databases for various companies.
Oct. 1994 through Aug. 1996: Archaeology Technician for the Southwest Regional Office of the
National Park Service. Responsibilities included formatting Archaeological Survey Reports; entering
data from archaeological surveys using DBase; and creating 3-D computer models of archaeological
sites using Photomodeler. In particular, I was the primary person responsible for carrying out the
photography, fieldwork, and data entry for the List of Classified Structures for the entire Southwest
Region and for portions of the Colorado Plateau Region.
June through Sept. 1994: Student Conservation Association Volunteer at Bandelier National
Monument. Projects included trail monitoring, controlled burn monitoring plot installation, visitor center
display set up, data entry, and collection and analysis of archaeological artifacts from revegetation
plots as part of the Section 106 compliance process.
Papers Authored:
Brown, Emily
n.d. Post-Flashflood Archaeological Survey and Condition Assessment of the Furnace Wash Alluvial
Fan, Death Valley National Park, 2005. MS on file at Death Valley National Park and the National Park
Service Intermountain Support Office, Santa Fe.
n.d. Post-Flashflood Archaeological Survey of the Area East of Badwater Road from the Junction with
Highway 190 to Artist’s Drive, 2005. MS on file at Death Valley National Park and the National Park
Service Intermountain Support Office, Santa Fe.
n.d. Instruments of Power: Musical Performance in Rituals of the Ancestral Puebloans of the American
Southwest. Ph.D. Dissertation submitted to the Department of Anthropology, Columbia University,
2005.
n.d. Archaeological Scope of Work for the Bonnie Claire Road, Death Valley National Park, 2004. MS
on file at Death Valley National Park and the National Park Service Intermountain Support Office,
Santa Fe.
Brown, Emily and Heather Atherton
n.d. Excavation and Historic Preservation of the Old Lady Gay Ranch House, Bonito Creek, Safford,
Arizona, 2003. MS on file at the Safford District Office of the Bureau of Land Management and the
National Park Service Intermountain Support Office, Santa Fe.
Brown, Emily, Glenn Simpson, and Mark Mortier
n.d. Report of the Archaeological Documentation and Condition Assessment for the Fall 2002 Season
of the Abandoned Mineral Lands Project, Death Valley National Park. MS on file at Death Valley
National Park and the National Park Service Intermountain Support Office, Santa Fe.
n.d. Report of the Archaeological Documentation and Condition Assessment for the Spring 2003
Season of the Abandoned Mineral Lands Project, Death Valley National Park. MS on file at Death
Valley National Park and the National Park Service Intermountain Support Office, Santa Fe.
Donald, Emily
n.d. Determining Archaeological Site Conditions for Entry into ASMIS, 1999-2000. MS on file at
Bandelier National Monument.
2003 The Archaeology of Music and Performance in the Prehistoric Southwest. In Archaeology and
the Muse, eds. J. Jameson, J. Ehrenhard, and C. Finn. University of Alabama Press.
Donald, Emily and Heather Atherton
n.d. The Salt Creek Road Archaeological Survey Completion Report, 2001. MS on file at
Canyonlands National Park the National Park Service Intermountain Support Office, Santa Fe.
Donald, Emily and Glenn Simpson
2002 History, Symbolism and Mythology of Death Valley National Park’s Twenty Mule Team Wagon
Set, Proceedings of the Seventh Death Valley History Conference, ed. J. Johnson. Death Valley
Natural History Association.
Donald, Emily and Jim Trott
n.d. Report of the Archaeological Condition for the 2000 Field Season, Canyon de Chelly National
Monument. MS on file at Canyon de Chelly National Monument and the National Park Service
Intermountain Support Office—Santa Fe.
Donald, Emily, Mark Mortier, and Glenn Simpson
n.d. Report of the Archaeological Documentation and Condition Assessment for the Spring 2002
Season of the Abandoned Mineral Lands Project, Death Valley National Park. MS on file at Death
Valley National Park and the National Park Service Intermountain Support Office, Santa Fe.
Drake, Tony, Emily Brown, and Heather Atherton
n.d. Archaeological Survey and Historic Preservation at the Swansea Townsite, 2003-4. MS on file at
the Lake Havasu District Office of the Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service
Intermountain Support Office, Santa Fe.
Dudley, Peter and Emily Donald
n.d. Tsankawi Cultural Resources Inventory 1999. MS on file at Bandelier National Monument.
Papers Presented:
Aug. 13, 1999 The Archaeology of Music and Performance in the American Southwest. Presented at
the 72nd Pecos Archaeological Conference, Show Low, Arizona.
April 22, 2001 Instruments of Power: The Archaeology of Music and Performance in the American
Southwest. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans,
Louisiana.
February 8, 2002 “Manly Men and Overcivilized Sissies”: History, Symbolism and Mythology of Death
Valley National Park’s Twenty Mule Team Wagon Set. Presented at the Seventh Death Valley History
Conference, Death Valley National Park.
March 23, 2002 The Ogre Kachina and Bourdieu: Ritualization and Performance in the Prehistoric
American Southwest. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,
Denver, Colorado.
August, 2004 Musical Instruments of the Ancestral Puebloans. Presented at the 77th Pecos
Archaeological Conference, Bluff, Utah.
Other Qualifications, Honors, and Awards:
2001 Canon National Parks Science Scholar Award ( 3 years of funding to complete Ph.D.), Access
database training course, Wilderness First Aid course
2000 Special Service Award from Canyon de Chelly National Monument for condition assessment
work during the summer field season
1997-1999 Three Stigler Summer Research Grants from Columbia University
1996 4-year Faculty Fellowship to Columbia University and Lorrin T. Brownmiller Anthropology
Scholarship
1996 Citation of Excellence from the National Park Service Denver Office for work on the List of
Classified Structures
1995 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Training Course
1990-1994 12 trimesters on the Deans List at Lewis and Clark College, Rene J. Ratte Award
nominee, Rae Seitz Music Scholarship, Scholastic Excellence Award
I hold membership in the Society for American Archaeology, and the Archaeological Society of New
Mexico (ASNM). I am the editor of La Jornada, the ASNM newsletter, and currently serve on the Board
of Trustees of both ASNM and the Friends of Pecos National Historical Park. I am also serving as a
consultant to the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe on an upcoming exhibit on Pueblo
music.
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