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Randall White, February 2017 CURRICULUM VITAE NAME : Randall K. WHITE CITIZENSHIP : Canadian and US citizen ADDRESSES : USA Department of Anthropology, New York University, (cal.) BP 38ky Blanchard Abri 2012 in discovered 25 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10003 USA France La Valade 24620 Les Eyzies de Tayac – Sireuil France TELEPHONE : USA Office: (212) 998-8571 (347) 504 5253 France Cell : 06 71 86 38 81 ACADEMIC BACKGROUND AND APPOINTMENTS 1994-present Professor, Department of Anthropology, New York University. 2013 - 2015 Three-year term as Director on both French and American sides, Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CIRHUS), a major collaborative arrangement between the French CNRS and New York University. 2012 - present Member, Scientific Council of the Réseau National des Maisons de Recherche des Sciences de l'Homme (RNMRSH). Delegated to serve as the liaison between the (RNMRSH) and the Maison d'Archéologie et Ethnologie René Ginouvès, Nanterre, participating in the annual evaluation of the latter, comprising more than 120 professional archaeologists. 2014 - present Chercheur invité, USR 3414 (CNRS), Maison des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société, Toulouse (MSHST). 2012 - present Elected member, 8th Commission (Upper Paleolithic), of the Union internationale des sciences préhistoriques et protohistoriques (UISPP). 2012 - present Appointed member of the French Ambassador's commission on the future of the French language in American universities. 2011-present Member, Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CIRHUS) CNRS-NYU: History, Knowledge and Culture. 2009-present Chercheur associé, UMR 5608 TRACES, CNRS, Université de Toulouse. 1987-1994 Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, New York University. 1981-1987 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, New York University. 1 Randall White, February 2017 2005-2006 Consultant for the installation of the modern human section of the new permanent Hall of Human Evolution, American Museum of Natural History. 2005 Curator, La Femme de Toujours, exhibit of Paleolithic representations of women, Pôle international de la Préhistoire, Les Eyzies, France, June through October. 2002-2006 Assistant to Conservateur-en-chef, Musée national de Préhistoire, Les Eyzies-de- Tayac, France for the conception and installation of the personal ornaments section of the new and expanded permanent galleries. 2001-2004 Elected member, Office de Tourisme, Montignac-sur-Vézère, France. 1987-present Executive Director, Institute for Ice Age Studies, New York, NY. 1985-1987 Guest Curator, American Museum of Natural History. In charge of creation of exhibit entitled, Dark Caves, Bright Visions: Life in Ice Age Europe. 1980-1981 Izaac Walton Killam Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta. 1980 Ph.D. conferred by the Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Canada. 1976-1977 Attended courses offered by Professor François Bordes, Institut du Quaternaire, Université de Bordeaux I, Bordeaux, France. 1976 B.A. (honors) in Anthropology (Magna cum laude) conferred by the Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, Canada. FIELD AND RESEARCH PROJECTS 2016-present Director of multidisciplinary, international excavations at the 40,000 year old Protoaurignacian site of Sous-le-Roc, St. Léon-sur-Vézère, France. 2015-present Participant in CemeNTAA, an ANR-funded interdisciplinary research project. (with Rendu, W., L. Gourichon, H. Alarashi, E. Blaise, S. Bonnardin, T. G. Bromage, P. J. Crabtree, E. Discamps, V. Dubois, E.-L. Jiminez, S. Naji, V. Parmigiani, E. Pubert, S. Rigaud, S. Stock). 2014-present Director of multidisciplinary, international excavations at the 38,000 year old multi-component Aurignacian site of Abri Cellier, Tursac, France. 2011-2013 Director of multidisciplinary, international excavations at the 38,000 year old Aurignacian site of Abri Blanchard, Dordogne, France. 2004-2013 Director of multidisciplinary, international excavations at the 37,000 year old Aurignacian site of Abri Castanet, Dordogne, France. 2000-present Otto Hauser : archéologue ou agent de l’ennemi ? Historical and archival research on the Otto Hauser affair. 1996-2013 Collaboration with Yvette Taborin in the analysis and publication of the Châtelperronian and Aurignacian personal ornaments from the grotte de Renne, Arcy-sur-Cure, Yonne, France. 2 Randall White, February 2017 1998-present Member, research team in excavation and analysis of Aurignacian levels at the Grotte d'Isturitz, Pyrénées-atlantiques, France. Responsible for analysis and publication of several hundred personal ornaments dated to 41-33,000 BP. 1996-2008 Microscopic and technological analysis of more than 150 Upper Paleolithic female statuettes from across Europe. 1990-2007 Member, research team led by D. Gambier and F. Bon in excavation and analysis of Aurignacian levels at the Grotte de l'Hyène, Brassempouy, Landes, France. Responsible for analysis and publication of several hundred personal ornaments. 2000 Collaboration with speleologists in deep-cave investigations in search of new Paleolithic images, Sergeac, Dordogne, France. 1994-1998 Co-director with J. Pelegrin of long-term excavations at the 37,000 year old Aurignacian site of Abri Castanet, Dordogne, France. 1993-1999 Discovery, analysis and publication of seven missing Paleolithic female statuettes from Grimaldi, Italy (with M. Bisson). 1990-1998 Collaborative project with A. Pike-Tay to develop and refine a control sample for the analysis of archaeological seasonality and mortality profiles in caribou/reindeer teeth. 1988-1999 Analysis of more than 10,000 Early Upper Paleolithic beads and pendants in museums in England, France, Belgium, West Germany, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia and the USSR. 1987 Analysis in France of several hundred ivory, bone and steatite beads from early Aurignacian levels at Abri Blanchard, Abri Castanet and Abri de la Souquette, Vézère Valley, SW France. 1986-1999 Analysis of French Upper Paleolithic art and body ornamentation held by the Smithsonian Institution, the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, the Peabody Museum, Harvard, the Peabody Museum, Yale and the American Museum of Natural History, with A. Roussot, S. De Beaune and G. Tosello. 1985-92 Analysis of French Upper Paleolithic collections held by the Logan Museum, Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin, including several thousand stone tools, 100 works of Paleolithic art, more than 500 bone tools, and dozens of items of personal adornment from sites in the Périgord. 1985 to 1989 Collaboration with C.J. DeRousseau and M.U. Brennan in study of diet and disease in all known Middle and Upper Paleolithic skeletal material from Southwestern France. 1979-1988 Analysis of the Ami Collection held by the National Museum of Canada and other Canadian institutions. Included are 25,000 Upper Paleolithic stone tools, several dozen bone implements, and two works of Upper Paleolithic art, from sites in the Périgord. 1983 Bibliographic research into the relationship between language, material culture, and human biocultural evolution. 1982 Pilot survey of the Paleolithic in the Middle Dordogne Valley, Dordogne, France in cooperation with J.-Ph. Rigaud. 3 Randall White, February 2017 1982 Directed test excavations at Lower Magdalenian and Mousterian site of Mala in the Vézère-Beune interfluve, Dordogne, France in cooperation with J.-Ph. Rigaud. 1981 Organizational trip to Southwestern France to explore avenues of future research. 1979 Site location analysis of 85 pre-Magdalenian sites in the Dordogne and adjacent departments of Southwestern France. 1979 Discovery, with C. Archambeau, of Upper Paleolithic engravings in the Grotte de la Cavaille, Couze Valley, Dordogne, France. 1978 Crew chief at Epipaleolithic site of Kef Zoura, Algeria (directed by Dr. D. Lubell). 1978 Participant and site location analyst in archaeological survey of 19th century Copper Eskimo sites in the Thomsen River drainage, Banks Island, NWT, Canada. 1977 Participant and analyst in Middle and Upper Paleolithic survey of the Dordogne Valley, France in cooperation with J.-Ph. Rigaud, H. Laville, J.-P. Texier, and F. Delpech. 1977 Locality supervisor at Lower and Middle Paleolithic site of Abri Vaufrey, Céou Valley, Dordogne, France in excavations directed by J.-Ph. Rigaud. 1976 Assistant to J.-Ph. Rigaud and M. Conkey in Middle and Upper Paleolithic survey of Dordogne Valley, Dordogne, France. 1976 Locality supervisor at Lower and Middle Paleolithic site of Abri Vaufrey and Upper Paleolithic site of Abris Flageolet I and II, Dordogne, France, in excavations directed by J.-Ph. Rigaud. 1976 Site location analysis of nearly 100 Upper Magdalenian sites in the Dordogne and adjacent departments of Southwestern France. 1976 Participant in salvage excavation of apparent Upper Paleolithic skeletal material in the Grotte de Bernifal and an unnamed cave in the Vézère Valley, Dordogne, France under the direction of J.-Ph. Rigaud. 1975 Field assistant at Upper Paleolithic site of Abris Flageolet I and II, Dordogne, France, in excavations directed by J.-Ph. Rigaud. 1975 Assistant to Dr. D. Lubell, University of Alberta, in the analysis of Capsian lithic assemblages from Algeria. 1974 Field assistant at Lower and Middle Paleolithic site of Abri Vaufrey and Upper Paleolithic sites of Abri Flageolet I and II, Dordogne, France, in excavations directed by J.-Ph. Rigaud. SINGULAR HONORS AND AWARDS 2015 Invited participant, 152nd
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