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Joshua J. Kwoka
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: (716) 553-6526
www.joshuakwoka.com
Curriculum Vitae – Summer 2015
EDUCATION
2014
2008
2002
Ph.D., Department of Anthropology, University at Buffalo
Dissertation Title: Ideological Presentism and the Study of Ancient Technology: Preclassic Maya
Lithic Production at San Bartolo, Guatemala.
M.A., Department of Anthropology, University at Buffalo
B.A., Anthropology Department, Buffalo State College
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2014 – Present Research Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University at Buffalo
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Article
2012 Poplawski, Piotr, Joshua J. Kwoka, and William Engelbrecht. Rethinking Palisades in the
Northeast: Evidence from the Eaton Site. Northeast Anthropology 77/78:71-87.
Submitted – Under Review
2015 Kwoka, Joshua J. Finding Value in the Mundane: Chert Features and Communities of Practice
at San Bartolo, Guatemala. In The Value of Things: Commodities in the Maya Region from
Prehistoric to Contemporary, edited by Jennifer P. Mathews and Thomas H. Guderjan.
Manuscript submitted to the University of Arizona Press for peer review.
Manuscripts in Preparation
2015 Aesthetic Expressiveness, Presence, and Preference: Representation of the Human Form in
Mesoamerican Flaked Stone Eccentrics.
2015 Heuristic Bonds and Materialized Borders: Lithic Technology and the Search for Social
Boundaries in the Maya Lowlands.
2015 Disembodied Dams and Taskscapes: Revisiting the Maravilla Irrigation System of the
Teotihuacan Valley, Mexico.
Technical Reports
2004 Excavaciones en un Taller de Litica: Estructura 86 y Plaza Adyacente. In Proyecto
Arqueológica San Bartolo: Informe Preliminar No. 3, Tercera Temporada 2004, edited by M.
Urquizú and W. Saturno, pp.246-261. Report submitted to the Instituto de Antropología e
Historia de Guatemala, Guatemala City.
2005
Kwoka, Joshua J., and Robert E. Griffin. Investigaciones de Rasgos Culturales de Pedernal. In
Proyecto Arqueológica San Bartolo: Informe Preliminar No. 4, Quarta Temporada 2005, edited
by. M. Urquizú and W. Saturno, pp.391-405. Report submitted to the Instituto de Antropología e
Historia de Guatemala, Guatemala City.
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2011
Garrison, Thomas G., and Joshua J. Kwoka. Programa de Mapeo y Reconocimiento en El Zotz
y El Biotopo San Miguel de La Palotada. In Proyecto Arqueológico El Zotz: Informe No. 6
Temporada 2011, edited by J.L. Garrido López, S. Houston, E. Román, and T. Garrison, pp. 241254. Report submitted to the Instituto de Antropología e Historia de Guatemala, Guatemala City.
2004
Reconocimiento Dentro de la Delimitación de San Bartolo. In Proyecto Arqueológica
San Bartolo: Informe Preliminar No. 3, Tercera Temporada 2004, edited by. M. Urquizú
and W. Saturno, pp.21-29. Report submitted to the Instituto de Antropología e Historia de
Guatemala, Guatemala City.
2005
Griffin, Robert E., and Joshua J. Kwoka. Reconocimiento Dentro de la Delimitación de San
Bartolo. In Proyecto Arqueológica San Bartolo: Informe Preliminar No. 4, Cuarta Temporada
2005, edited by. M. Urquizú and W. Saturno, pp.100-109. Report submitted to the Instituto de
Antropología e Historia de Guatemala, Guatemala City.
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS
2012
2012
2002
2001
Professional Development Award, University at Buffalo
Graduate Association Conference Funding, University at Buffalo
David Vernon Bullough Award, Buffalo State College
Summer Research Fellowship, SUNY Research Foundation
INVITED TALKS
2014
2010
2009
2006
2003
1999
Crafting Community: Ancient Maya Lithic Production at San Bartolo, Guatemala. Frederick M.
Houghton Chapter of the New York State Archaeological Association, Buffalo, New York.
Settlement Pattern Studies and Archaeological Applications of GIS. Buffalo State College,
GEG425 Fundamentals of GIS (Dr. Tao Tang), Buffalo, New York.
Preclassic Social Organization at San Bartolo, Guatemala. Buffalo State College, ANT389
Mesoamerican Archaeology (Dr. Susan McGuire), Buffalo, New York.
An Introduction to the Site of San Bartolo, Guatemala. Frederick M. Houghton chapter of the
New York State Archaeological Association, Buffalo, New York.
Lithic Reduction Sequences and Flintknapping. Niagara County Community College, ANT100
Introduction to Anthropology (Instructor Bonnie Locking), Sanborn, New York.
Size and Distribution of Retouched and Utilized Flakes at the Eaton Site, West Seneca,
New York. Frederick M. Houghton chapter of the New York State Archaeological Association,
Buffalo, New York.
CAMPUS OR DEPARTMENTAL TALKS
2013
2008
Reinterpreting Maya – Teotihuacan Interaction in the Early Classic Period. Invited speaker.
Department of Anthropology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York.
Preclassic Lithic Production and Communal Social Organization at San Bartolo,
Guatemala. Invited speaker. Department of Anthropology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New
York.
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CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
Papers Presented
2013 Optimal Perspective?: Assessing Behavioral Ecology Models for Lithic Stockpiling in the
Maya Area. Paper presented at the 5th Arheoinvest Symposium “Stories Written in Stone,”
International Symposium on Chert and Other Knappable Materials. Alexandru Ioan Cuza
University of Iasi, Romania, August 20-24.
2013 Trouble in Technotopia: (Social) Constructing a Revolution in the Realm of Archaeological
Technology Studies. Paper presented at Convergence: 3rd Annual Anthropology Graduate
Student Association Interdisciplinary Symposium, University at Buffalo, New York, April 6.
2012 Ancient Maya Technopolitics and Lithic Production at San Bartolo, Guatemala. Paper presented
at the Theoretical Archaeology Group -USA meetings, Buffalo, New York, May 16-17.
2012 Beyond Practice: Agency and Change in the Work of Pierre Bourdieu. Paper presented at the
77th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, Tennessee, April 1822.
2011 The Social Field of Craft Production: Investigating Change in Lithic Production
Strategies at San Bartolo, Guatemala. Paper presented at ‘Everyone Made Stone Tools:
Exploring Methodology in Lithic Analysis,’ Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the
Ancient World, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, October 14-15.
2006 The Lithic Industry of San Bartolo. Paper presented at the 71st Annual Meeting of the
Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 26-30.
2001 Developing a Model of Relative Dating Using Retouched and Utilized Flakes. Paper presented at
the annual Student Research Symposium sponsored by the SUNY Research
Foundation and Sigma Xi, Buffalo, New York, May 1-2.
2009
Kwoka, Joshua J., Mia J. Jorgensen, Monique Boudreau, and Warren Barbour. New Data from
Plaza I, Oztoyahualco, Teotihuacan, Mexico. Paper presented at the
74th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, Georgia, April 22-26..
2007
Kwoka, Joshua J., and Robert E. Griffin. Lending a Hand: The Organization of Labor during
the Middle and Late Preclassic at San Bartolo, Guatemala. Invited paper presented at the 3rd
Maya Lithics Conference, Guatemala City, Guatemala, July 18-20.
2006
Griffin, Robert, E., Joshua J. Kwoka, and Thomas G. Garrison. Remote Sensing Chert
Exploitation Zones around San Bartolo, Guatemala. Paper presented at the Annual Computer
Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Conference, Fargo, North Dakota, April
18-21.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University at Buffalo
Introduction to Anthropology, Adjunct Instructor (Fall 2013)
World Civilizations I, Co-Instructor (Fall Semesters 2009-2012)
World Civilizations II, Co-Instructor (Spring Semesters 2010-2013)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2014 – Present, 2011
2011
2004-2007
2001-2003
2000
El Zotz Archaeology Project, El Petén, Guatemala
Maya Landscape Succession Project, El Petén, Guatemala
San Bartolo Regional Archaeology Project, El Petén, Guatemala
Yalahau Regional Human Ecology Project, Quintana Roo, Mexico
SUNY Buffalo Archaeological Field School, Eaton Site, NY
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RELATED PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
Expertise in Lithic Analysis and Geographic Information Systems; Training and Experience with X-Ray
Fluorescence Spectrometry
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2007-Present
2012, 2014
2004-2009
2003
2000-2003
2000-2002
Curator, Teotihuacan Archaeology Laboratory, University at Buffalo
Research Aide/Lithic Analyst, UB Archaeological Survey
GIS Administrator, Niagara County Department of Health
Lithic Analyst, Butterbaugh Archaeological Consultants
Field Technician/Crew Chief, Commonwealth Cultural Resources Group, Inc.
Field Technician, Panamerican Consultants, Inc.
TEACHING AREAS/COURSES PREPARED TO TEACH
Four-field Introductory Anthropology Courses
Lithic Analysis
Anthropological/Archaeological Applications of GIS
Pseudoscience and “Archaeological Fantasies”
The Ancient Maya
Archaeology of Mesoamerica
Introduction to New World Archaeology
Anthropology of Technology (Upper-level undergraduate/graduate theory class)
Archaeological Approaches to Ancient Technology
Anthropological/Archaeological Method and Theory
LANGUAGES
Spanish: Basic proficiency in reading, speaking, and writing.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS
2014 – Present
2013 – Present
2013 – Present
2006 – Present
Council on Undergraduate Research
Association of Archaeological Wear and Residue Analysts
International Association for Obsidian Studies
Society for American Archaeology
REFERENCES
Warren Barbour – Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
University at Buffalo
380 MFAC – Ellicott Complex
Buffalo, NY 14261-0026
(716) 440-1997
[email protected]
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William E. Engelbrecht – Professor Emeritus
Department of Anthropology
Buffalo State College
1300 Elmwood Ave.
Buffalo, NY 14222
(716) 884-6094
[email protected]
Thomas G. Garrison – Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Grace Ford Salvatori Hall
3601 Watt Way, Ste. 120
University Park Campus
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089
(213) 740‐1980
[email protected]
Douglas Perrelli – Director of Archaeological Survey
Department of Anthropology
University at Buffalo
380 MFAC – Ellicott Complex
Buffalo, NY 14261-0026
(716) 645-2297
[email protected]
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