Staff

Steve Plog

Principal Investigator
Harrison Professor of Anthropology

Primary interests include change in Pueblo social and ritual organization, history of archaeological research in Chaco Canyon, digital archaeology, ceramic and stylistic analysis, demography, and exchange.

Worthy Martin

Principal Investigator
Acting Director for the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
Associate Professor of Computer Science

Acting Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) and Associate Professor of Computer Science with specialties in computer vision, human vision, robotics, genetic algorithms, image databases, and artificial intelligence.

Carrie C. Heitman

Co-Director

Project specialties in database architecture, digital asset management, data analysis, information/content management, and archival research. Her recently completed dissertation is titled “Architectures of Inequality: Evaluating Houses, Kinship and Cosmology in Chaco Canyon, N.M., A.D. 800-1200”

Abigail L. Holeman

Co-Director

PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology with project specialties in geo-spatial technologies, digital asset management, database architecture, and archival research. Her forthcoming dissertation is titled “Understanding Social Organization Through the Built Environment and Material Culture: Cosmological Foundations of Power in Northern Chihuahua, Mexico” (working title)

Adam S. Watson

Senior Researcher

PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology with project specialties in geo-spatial technologies, zooarchaeology, and archival research. His forthcoming dissertation is titled “Craft, Subsistence, and Political Change: An Archaeological Investigation of Economic Productivity and the Bonito Phase Political Expansion, Chaco Canyon, NM, AD 800 to 1200”

Emily Cubbon Ditto

Senior Researcher

PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with project specialties in database architecture, data analysis, and archival research. Her dissertation research focuses on the interrelationships between ritual and cosmology, social organization, and leadership and power in the Chaco World.

Samantha G. Fladd

Senior Researcher

Graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arizona with project specialties in data analysis and archival research. Her research interests include political economy, the creation of meaning, architecture, and the use of space.

Rachel Burger

Research Assistant

Research Assistant for the Chaco Research Archive with project specialties in digital imaging and digital asset management as well as ruins stabilization and archaeological data processing. Her research interests include zooarchaeology, Mesoamerica and the Pueblo Southwest.

Robbie Bingler

Programmer, Developer, and Solutions Engineer

Senior Programmer Analyst for the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities with specialties in database and interface development, and information integration.