Dr. Dillon H. Carr Social Sciences Department Grand Rapids Community College 201-F Stuart White Hall Office Phone: 616-234-4284 143 Bostwick Ave NE Email: [email protected] Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Education Ph.D., 2012, Anthropology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. M.A. 2009, Anthropology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. M.A., 2004, Anthropology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ont. B.S., 2001, Archaeological Studies, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, La Crosse, WI. Dissertation Title: Paleoindian Economic Organization in the Lower Great Lakes Region: Evaluating the role of caribou as a critical resource.
Professional Employment Teaching Assistant Professor, Social Sciences Department, Grand Rapids Community College, 2011-Curr. Graduate Assistant Instructor, Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University, 2011 Adjunct Instructor, Department of Sociology, Lake Superior State University, 2010-2011 Adjunct Instructor, Department of Sociology, Northern Michigan University, 2008-2009 Adjunct Instructor, Department of Anthropology, Grand Valley State University, 2008 Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University, 2005-2007 Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of Western Ontario, 2002-2004
Research Research Team Member, Engaged Department Initiative, 2015-2017. Served as a member of a cross-institutional, cross-discipline research team investigating the effect on student learning, institutional structures, and departmental culture stemming from an initiative to integrate community engagement into departmental curriculum. Principal Investigator, Lake Superior State University, 2010. Organized and directed an archaeological field school investigating mid-Holocene human occupation during the Lake Nippising transgression at Sault Ste. Marie, MI. Research Assistant, for Dr. John Norder, Michigan State University, 2005-2006. Archaeological and ethnographic research for the Lake of the Woods Cultural Landscapes Project. Assisted in conducting field surveys for prehistoric rock art and oral history interviews. Research Assistant, for Dr. Marla Buckmaster, Northern Michigan University, 2004. Assisted in the planning and execution of archaeological fieldwork investigating the Paleoindian colonization of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Research Intern, for the Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center, 2001-2003. Prepared the National Historic Landmark nomination for the Silver Mound Archaeological District and managed the regional Paleoindian projectile point database.
Cultural Resource Management Lithic Analyst, CCRG Inc., Minocqua, WI, Consultant on two projects, 2007 and 2009
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Field Supervisor, CCRG Inc., Minocqua, WI, 2006 Field Supervisor, Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center, La Crosse, WI, 2001-2003 Field Technician, Fort McCoy Archaeological Laboratories, Fort McCoy, WI, 1999-2000 Laboratory Technician, Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center, La Crosse, WI, 1998-2000
Publications Chapters in Edited Volumes (peer reviewed) Dillon Carr and Robert Boszhardt (2010) Organization of Lithic Procurement at Silver Mound, Wisconsin: Source of Hixton Silicified Sandstone. In Ancient Mines and Quarries: A Trans- Atlantic Perspective, edited by Margaret Brewer-LaPorta, Adrian Burke, and David Field, pp. 132-141. Oxbow Press, Oxford.
Journal Articles (peer reviewed) Dillon Carr (2017) A Landscape Approach to Reconstructing Territorial Mobility during the Parkhill Phase in Southern Michigan and Ontario. PaleoAmerica 3:364-373. Danielle Lake, Gloria Mileva, Heather Carpenter, Dillon Carr, Paula Lancaster, and Todd Yarbrough. (2017) Shifting Engagement Efforts Through Disciplinary Departments: A Mistake or Starting Point? A Cross-Institutional, Multi-Department Analysis. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement 21(3):135-164. Dillon Carr and William Lovis (2016) Standardization, Reliability, and Ovate Biface Production: A View from 40-CL-227, The Round Lake Site Cache, Clinton County, Michigan, USA Canadian Journal of Archaeology 40:297-318. Christopher Ellis, Dillon Carr, and Thomas Loebel (2011) The Younger Dryas and Late Pleistocene Peoples of the Great Lakes Region, USA Quaternary International 242:534-545. Dillon Carr and Robert Boszhardt (2010) Silver Mound, Wisconsin: Source of Hixton Silicified Sandstone. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 35:197-228. Dillon Carr (2009) From Silver Lake to Deer Lake: Variability in The Early Holocene Human Occupation of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The Wisconsin Archeologist 90:31-46. Dillon Carr, Robert Boszhardt, Daniel Winkler, Andy Bloedorn, and Stephen Wagner (2008) A Preliminary Report on the Schuman Cache: An Early Paleoindian Find in Southeastern Minnesota. Current Research in the Pleistocene 25:28-29. Dillon Carr (2005) Organization of Late Paleoindian Lithic Procurement Strategies in Western Wisconsin. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 30: 3-36. Dillon Carr (2004) Deer Lake Revisited: Evaluating the Early Holocene Occupation of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Michigan Archaeologist 50-52:61-73. Dillon Carr and Robert Boszhardt (2003) The Kriesel Cache: A Late Paleoindian Biface Cache from Western Wisconsin. Plains Anthropologist 48:225-235. Dillon Carr and Robert Boszhardt (2002) The Kriesel Cache: 73 Agate Basin Preforms from Western Wisconsin. Current Research in the Pleistocene 19:7-9.
Journal Articles (non-peer reviewed) Dillon Carr (2001) Phase II Investigations at 47-Lc-480: The Skemp Site. University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Journal of Undergraduate Research 4:97-104.
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Book Reviews Dillon Carr (2016) Review of Caribou Hunting In The Upper Great Lakes: Archaeological, Ethnographic, and Paleoenvironmental Perspectives, edited by Elizabeth Sonnenburg, Ashley K. Lemke, and John M O’Shea. American Antiquity 81(3):595-596.
Technical Reports Carr, Dillon (2009) Lithic analysis of the Lake Owen Point North Site (47BA374), Bayfield County, Wisconsin. Report prepared for Commonwealth Cultural Resource Group. Carr, Dillon (2007) Lithic artifacts of the Lake Owen Point Site (47BA373), Bayfield County, WI. Report prepared for Commonwealth Cultural Resource Group. Carr, Dillon (2004) Silver Mound Archaeological District, Jackson County, Wisconsin. National Historic Landmark nomination submitted to the National Park Service. Carr, Dillon (2002) Phase I Investigations of Four Proposed Streambank Restoration Projects in Vernon and La Crosse Counties, WI. Report of Investigations no. 455, Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center. Carr, Dillon (2002) Phase I Investigations of the Proposed Sugar Creek Rehabilitation Project, Vernon County, WI. Report of Investigations no. 453, Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center. Carr, Dillon (2002) Geoarchaeological Investigations of Four Proposed NRCS Scrape Areas on the La Crosse River Floodplain, La Crosse County, WI. Report of Investigations no. 452, Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center. Carr, Dillon (2002) Phase I Archaeological Survey of Proposed Well #5 in Arcadia, Trempealeau County, WI. Report of Investigations no. 451, Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center. Carr, Dillon (2002) A Phase I Archaeological Survey of a Proposed Timber Harvest Project in Marathon County, WI. Report of Investigation no. 468, Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center. Carr, Dillon (2001) Phase I Archaeological Survey of the Proposed La Crosse Street Expansion Between Oakland Street and Losey Boulevard, La Crosse County, WI. Report of Investigations no. 447, Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center. Carr, Dillon (2001) Phase I Archaeological Survey at the Proposed Auroraville Cellular Tower Construction Site, Waushara County, WI. Report of Investigations no. 446, Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center. Carr, Dillon (2001) Archaeological Investigations at the Spring Creek Intersection and Maxville Cemetery Segments of the Proposed STH 25 Resurfacing Projects, Buffalo County, WI. Report of Investigations no. 444, Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center. Carr, Dillon (2001) Phase I Investigations at the Proposed Bellevue Cellular Tower, Jackson County, IA. Report of Investigations no. 439, Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center. Carr, Dillon (2001) Phase I Investigations at the Proposed Kirkwood Cellular Tower Construction Site, Linn County, IA. Report of Investigations no. 435, Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center.
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Carr, Dillon (2001) Phase I Archaeological Survey of Two Proposed EQIP Streambank Stabilization Projects on the Bad Axe River, Vernon County, WI. Report of Investigations no. 434, Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center. Carr, Dillon (2001) Phase I Archaeological Survey of the Proposed Bickel Cellular Tower Construction Site in Oconto County, WI. Report of Investigation no. 419, Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center.
Conference Presentations and Lectures Invited Conference Presentations Christopher Ellis, Dillon Carr, and Thomas Loebel (2010) The Younger Dryas and Late Pleistocene Peoples of the Great Lakes Region, invited paper presented for the INQUA Symposium at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, MO. Carr, Dillon (2008) Searching for a ‘Place’ to Call Home: A Landscape Approach to Colonizing the Western Great Lakes Region, invited paper presented at The Urbana Conference on the Early Paleoindian Colonization of the North American Midcontinent, University of Illinois.
Conference Presentations Lancaster, Paula, Dillon Carr, Todd Yarbrough, and Danielle Lake (2015) The Engaged Department Initiative: Aquinas, GRCC, GVSU, and MiCC Join Forces for Placed Based Engagement, paper presented at the 2015 Great Lakes Place Based Education Conference, Grand Rapids, MI. Carr, Dillon (2014) Household Organization and Band Composition during the Great Lakes Paleoindian Period, paper presented at the 60th Midwest Archaeological Conference, Urbana, Il. Carr, Dillon (2012) Paleoindian Economic Organization in the Lower Great Lakes Region, paper presented at the 2012 Ontario Archaeological Society Symposium, Windsor, Ontario. Carr, Dillon (2012) Paleoindian Economic Organization in the Lower Great Lakes Region, paper presented at the 58th Midwest Archaeological Conference, East Lansing, MI. Carr, Dillon and William Lovis (2011) The Round Lake Cache: A Gainey Phase Biface Cache from Central Michigan, paper presented at the 57th Midwest Archaeological Conference, La Crosse, WI. Norder, John and Dillon Carr (2009) From Maker/Meaning to User/Caretaker: shifting paradigms in understanding the rock art of the Canadian Shield, paper presented at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, GA. Carr, Dillon (2008) Searching for a ‘Place’ to Call Home: Colonization of the Western Great Lakes Landscape, paper presented at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia. Norder, John and Dillon Carr (2008) The Invention and Endurance of Memory and Place among First Nations of Northwestern Ontario, Canada, paper presented at the 6th World Archaeological Congress, Dublin, Ireland.
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Carr, Dillon (2007) From Silver Mound to Silver Lake: Early Holocene Archaeology of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, paper presented at the 53rd Midwest Archaeological Conference, South Bend, IN. Carr, Dillon (2006) Frontiers of the Unknown: Strategies for Colonizing an Unfamiliar Landscape, paper presented at the graduate student forum ‘Frontier Living: The Archaeology of Cultural Interaction’ Boston University, Boston, MA. Carr, Dillon (2006) The Organization of Lithic Procurement Strategies by Western Great Lakes Paleoindians, paper presented at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Carr, Dillon (2006) Skinning the Cat: Alternative Residential and Logistical Approaches to Cyclically Procuring Lithic Raw Materials, paper presented at the 52nd Midwest Archaeological Conference, Champaign-Urbana, IL. Carr, Dillon (2006) Deer Lake Revisited: Evaluating the Early Holocene Occupation of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, paper presented at the Ontario Archaeological Society Symposium, London, Ontario. Carr, Dillon (2005) Current Research Problems Concerning the Identification of Paleoindian Sites in the Upper Great Lakes Region, paper presented at the 51st Midwest Archaeological Conference, Dayton, OH. Carr, Dillon (2004) The Organization of Western Great Lakes Lithic Procurement Strategies, paper presented at the 50th Midwest Archaeological Conference, St. Louis, MO Buckmaster, Marla and Dillon Carr (2004) After The Flood: Archaeological Investigations in the Silver Lake Basin, Marquette Co., MI, paper presented at the 50th Midwest Archaeological Conference, St. Louis, MO. Carr, Dillon (2003) The Skemp Site: A Late Paleoindian Occupation in the Driftless Area of western Wisconsin, paper presented at the 49th Midwest Archaeological Conference, Milwaukee, WI. Carr, Dillon (2003) Paleoindian Occupation in the Driftless Area of Western Wisconsin, paper presented at the APALA Conference, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg. Carr, Dillon (2001) A Survey of Late Paleoindian Projectile Points in Western Wisconsin, paper presented at the 47th Midwest Archaeological Conference, La Crosse, WI. Carr, Dillon (2001) Preliminary Results of Phase II investigations at 47 LC 480, the Skemp Site, paper presented at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KT.
Poster Presentations Carr, Dillon, Daniel Winkler, and Robert Boszhardt (2008) The Schumann Cache: A Silicified Sandstone Clovis Cache from Southeastern Minnesota, poster presented at the 54th Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, Milwaukee, WI. Boszhardt, Robert, and Dillon Carr (2006) Silver Mound: Source for Hixton Silicified Sandstone, poster presented at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Carr, Dillon (2003) Silver Mound: Source Location for Hixton Silicified Sandstone, poster presented at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Milwaukee, WI.
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Carr, Dillon and Robert Boszhardt (2002) The Kriesel Cache: 73 Agate Basin Preforms from Western Wisconsin, poster presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver, CO. Carr, Dillon (2001) A Survey of Late Paleoindian Projectile Points in Western Wisconsin, poster presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, LA.
Symposium Organized Carr, Dillon and Daniel Winkler (2006) Co-organized symposia titled Current Research in the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Midcontinent for the 52nd Midwest Archaeological Conference, Champaign– Urbana, Illinois.
Invited Public Lectures Carr, Dillon (2016) Pioneers of the Pleistocene: The Archaeology of Michigan’s First Peoples, invited lecture presented at Michigan Archaeology Day, Lansing, MI. Carr, Dillon (2016) Big Dead Elephants, Nuclear Catastrophe, and Other Strange Tales from the Pleistocene / Holocene Transition, invited lecture presented to the Coffinberry Chaper of the Michigan Archaeological Society, Allendale, MI. Carr, Dillon (2015) Race, Class, and the Legitimacy of Power: An Anthropological Perspective on Ferguson, Missouri, invited lecture presented for the Race and Ethnicity Conference at Grand Rapids Community College. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaV3bRlnrZ4) Carr, Dillon (2013) Invisible Walls: Race, Ethnicity, and Social Boundaries in the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan, invited lecture presented for the Race and Ethnicity Conference at Grand Rapids Community College. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ClBccjwNcQ) Carr, Dillon (2013) The Younger Dryas and the Late Pleistocene Peoples of the Great Lakes, invited lecture presented to the Indian Mounds Rock and Mineral Club, Wyoming, MI. Carr, Dillon (2012) Grand Rapids and the People Without History: The Historic Landscape of the City of Grand Rapids, invited lecture presented for the Race and Ethnicity Conference at Grand Rapids Community College. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQkBQdL65Vg) Carr, Dillon (2011) The Younger Dryas and the Late Pleistocene Peoples of the Great Lakes, invited lecture presented to the Quaternary Sciences Interest Group, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. Carr, Dillon (2011) Archaeology, Climate Change, and the Initial Peopling of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, invited lecture presented for the Three Lakes Chapter of the Sierra Club, Sault Ste. Marie, MI. Carr, Dillon (2010) Pre-Contact Archaeology of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, invited lecture presented to the Bayliss Public Library, Sault Ste. Marie, MI. Carr, Dillon (2009) Colonization of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, invited lecture presented to the Illinois State University Archaeological Field School, Grand Island, MI. Carr, Dillon (2007) Searching for a Place to Call Home: Colonization of the western Great Lakes Landscape, invited lecture presented to the Upper Grand River Valley Chapter of the Michigan Archaeological Society, East Lansing, MI.
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Carr, Dillon (2006) Searching for a Place to Call Home: Colonization of the western Great Lakes Landscape, invited lecture presented to the Robert Ritzenthaler Chapter of the Wisconsin Archaeological Society, Milwaukee, WI. Carr, Dillon (2004) After the Flood: Archaeological Investigations of the Silver Lake Basin, Marquette Co., MI, invited lecture presented to the Upper Grand River Valley Chapter of the Michigan Archaeological Society, East Lansing, MI. Carr, Dillon (2004) Paleoindian Archaeology in the Western Great Lakes, invited lecture presented to the London Chapter of the Ontario Archaeological Society, London, Ontario.
Grants and Awards Dean’s Office Research Fellowship, College of Social Sciences, Michigan State University, 2010 Dissertation Research Award, Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University, 2010 Moreau Maxwell Award, Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University, 2007 Special University Scholarship, University of Western Ontario, 2003-2004 Undergraduate Research Grant, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse, 2000
Professional Membership and Service Society for American Archaeology - Peer reviewer, American Antiquity Midwest Archaeological Conference - Peer reviewer, Midcontinenal Journal of Archaeology Michigan Archaeological Society - Local chapter vice president, 2005-2007 - Statewide vice president, 2008-2010 Conference on Michigan Archaeology - Vice president, 2015-present
Courses Taught AN 201 Introduction to Anthropology (GRCC, LSSU) AN 205 Introduction to Archaeology (GRCC)3 AN 210 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (GRCC, GVSU)3 HON 101 Archaeology of Environmental Change (LSSU) HIST 300 Archaeological Field Methods (LSSU)1 AN 280 Native Cultures of North America (GRCC, LSSU)1, 3 EXER 438 Research Methods in Exercise Science (LSSU)2 NSCI 104 Environmental Science Laboratory (LSSU) AN 101 Introduction to Biological Anthropology and Archaeology (NMU) 1 Course incorporated a 4 day field trip on the schooner Inland Seas 2 Team taught course 3 Online and classroom based sections
Online and Hybrid Teaching Certified (GRCC) Exemplary Online Instruction award recipient (AN 210 - Winter 2012)
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