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Anthropology Faculty
Gregory A. Reinhardt, Ph.D. Dr. Reinhardt received his BA, MA, and PhD degrees in Anthropology at UCLA and has been doing archeology in Alaska off an on since 1979. As an undergraduate he volunteered in the UCLA Radiocarbon Laboratory and was awarded a President's Undergraduate Fellowship. In graduate school he received two Anthropology Department fellowships and a highly competitive Alumni Association Scholarship. His doctoral dissertation investigated Eskimo dwellings and cultural correlates. A generalist in anthropology, he has published on such topics as California rock art and linguistics; dental anthropology; paleoindian research; Arctic geoarcheology; Eskimo archeology, architecture, art, ethnology; and visual anthropology of American Indians. For the last 12 years he has been exploring the remarkable world of American material culture in his search for meaning behind our cultural depictions of American Indians. Much of his fieldwork has taken him to northern Alaska, where he has excavated mostly historical and prehistoric village sites. He was co-recipient of a three year grant (plus two supplemental grants for undergraduate research) from the national Science Foundation for work in Alaska, a project also sponsored by Earthwatch for one year. In his role as Archeology Director of the University of Indianapolis Archeology and Forensics Laboratory, he has also assisted in some forensic anthropology cases.
Christopher W. Schmidt, Ph.D.
Dr. Schmidt recieved his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1998. He is a biological anthropologist and Eastern Woodlands archeologist. His research interests include dental anthropology, skeletal biology, dietary reconstruction, subsistence, and human-paleofauna interactions. His current research focuses on reconstructing lifeways for the earliest inhabitants of Indiana. He has studied prehistoric populations from throughout the state and led excavations at sites dating from 1,000 to over 5,000 years old. In 2003 he led the excavation of a site that dates to around 10,000 years ago and includes the remains of a mastodon. He is particularly interested in seeing how diet affects the human body in terms of overall health and body size. He reconstructs diet by studying the diseases, overall wear, and microscopic wear (i.e., microwear) on human teeth. Once a population's diet is reconstructed he then documents the condition of the rest of the skeleton to see how through time certain pathological conditions (like bone disorders and trauma) are associated with each dietary regime early people had. As director of the Indiana Prehistory Laboratory, Dr. Schmidt is active in his field and works to get his students involved in fieldwork and research. He has published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, the Journal of Forensic Science, and Indiana Archeology. He is also President of the Indiana Archeology Council. Curriculum Vitae
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Biology
Anthropologists in Other Departments John H. Langdon, Ph.D.
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