CONFERENCE, MUSEUM EXHIBITION, AND TOUR ACTIVITIES
Presentations at Professional Meetings
2023 “Legendary Landscapes, Community Access, and Continued Relevance at the Nathan Harrison Site in San Diego County, California”
-Society for American Archaeology Conference
2022 “More than Fractures: Evidence of inequities and resilience at the turn of the 20th Century”
-American Anthropology Association Conference (with Sydney S. Garcia, Mitchell Rauh, and Arion Mayes)
2022 “An Architecture of Resilience, Community, and Historical Minstrelsy at the Nathan Harrison Cabin Site”
-Society for American Archaeology Conference
2022 “Historical and Archaeological Investigations into Late 19th and Early 20th Century Beekeeping at San Diego County’s Nathan Harrison site and Beyond”
-Society for Historical Archaeology Conference (with Katherine Isola)
2021 “Nathan Harrison’s Life and Legacies: San Diego’s first permanent African-American and his survival strategies against early California’s structural racism”
-The Black Resource Center Inaugural Research Symposium
2021 “A Methodological and Theoretical Overview of the Nathan ‘Nate’ Harrison Historical Archaeology Project”
-Society for California Archaeology Conference
2021 “Spatial Patterns and Activity Areas at the Harrison Site: A Case Study in Multiple Lines of Evidence and Differential Uses of Space”
-Society for California Archaeology Conference (with James Turner and Hilary Llamas)
2021 “Technology, Transportation, and Tourism at the Harrison Site”
-Society for California Archaeology Conference (with Jamie Bastide)
2021 “How 2020 Changed the Nathan ‘Nate’ Harrison Historical Archaeology Project”
-Society for California Archaeology Conference (with Shannon Farnsworth)
2021 “Chemical Analyses of Small Sealed Metal Containers from the Harrison Site”
-Society for California Archaeology Conference (with Natalia Galeana
2021 “Food Preservation and its Ramifications at the Nathan Harrison Site”
-Society for California Archaeology Conference (with Haley Alexander)
2021 “The Role of Kerosene and its Impact at the Nathan Harrison Site”
-Society for California Archaeology Conference (with Katherine Isola)
2021 “Cycles of Controlled Substances and Prohibition at the Nathan Harrison Site”
-Society for California Archaeology Conference (with Bill Ebuen)
2021 “Why Nathan Harrison Was and Is Important” -Society for California Archaeology Conference 2021 “How 2020 Changed the Nathan Harrison Historical Archaeology Project”
-Society for Historical Archaeology Conference
2020 “Historical Minstrelsy, Double Identities, and Social Masks in Transcultural Settings”
-Eighteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities
2020 “An Introduction to All Things (and Small Things) Nathan Harrison”
-Society for California Archaeology Conference [Paper completed, accepted, but never presented due to COVID cancellation]
2020 “Everything in its Place: Spatial Analyses of the Harrison Homestead through Multiple Lines of Evidence”
-Society for California Archaeology Conference (with James Turner and Hilary Llamas) [Paper completed, accepted, but never presented due to COVID cancellation]
2020 “The Harrison Experience: Impacts of Technology, Transportation, and Tourism within the Archaeological Record”
-Society for California Archaeology Conference (with Jamie Bastide) [Paper completed, accepted, but never presented due to COVID cancellation]
2020 “A Gift for the Weary Traveler: The Harrison Spring on Palomar Mountain”
-Society for California Archaeology Conference (with Shannon Farnsworth) [Paper completed, accepted, but never presented due to COVID cancellation]
2020 “Convenience-Store Commodities, Comforts, and Contradictions at the Harrison Site”
-Society for California Archaeology Conference (with Heather Hewes) [Paper completed, accepted, but never presented due to COVID cancellation]
2020 “Medicinal Patents at the Harrison Site: Potions, Poisons, or Placebos?”
-Society for California Archaeology Conference (with Natalia Galeana) [Paper completed, accepted, but never presented due to COVID cancellation]
2020 “The Implications of Food Preservation at the Nathan Harrison Site”
-Society for California Archaeology Conference (with Haley Alexander) [Paper completed, accepted, but never presented due to COVID cancellation]
2020 “Kerosene in the Home of Nathan ‘Nate’ Harrison”
-Society for California Archaeology Conference (with Katherine Isola) [Paper completed, accepted, but never presented due to COVID cancellation]
2020 “Discriminatory Firearm Laws in the Old West and their Consequences for Nathan Harrison”
-Society for California Archaeology Conference (with Aryana Kaypour) [Paper completed, accepted, but never presented due to COVID cancellation]
2020 “Alcohol, Prohibition, and the Harrison Homestead”
-Society for California Archaeology Conference (with Bill Ebuen) [Paper completed, accepted, but never presented due to COVID cancellation]
2020 “Introduction: Project Overview”
-Society for Historical Archaeology Conference
2020 “How Wild Was Nathan Harrison’s Old West?: Unsolved Murders and Mayhem in late 19th and early 20th Century San Diego County” (with Jaime Lennox)
-Society for Historical Archaeology Conference
2020 “Photography, Performance, and Identity: Social Constructions of a Local Legend”
-Society for Historical Archaeology Conference (with Ryan Anderson)
2020 “Spatial Patterns and Activity Areas at the Harrison Site: A Case Study in Multiple Lines of Evidence and Differential Uses of Space”
-Society for Historical Archaeology Conference (with James Turner and Hilary Llamas)
2020 “Advances in Technology, Transportation, and Tourism: Archaeological Manifestations of the Late 19th-Century Emergence of Nathan Harrison as a Destination”
-Society for Historical Archaeology Conference (with Jamie Bastide)
2020 ““Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting over”: The Harrison Spring, Water Control, and Strategic Gift Exchange on Palomar Mountain”
-Society for Historical Archaeology Conference (with Shannon Farnsworth)
2020 “Chemical Analysis of Small Sealed Metal Containers from the Harrison Site”
-Society for Historical Archaeology Conference (with Natalia Galeana)
2020 “Fired Rifle Cartridges as an Archaeological Tool for Dating Later Historical Sites: Harrington Histograms and Measures of Central Tendency”
-Society for Historical Archaeology Conference (with Isabella Montalvo)
2020 “An Historical Archaeology of Minstrelsy”
-Society for Historical Archaeology Conference (with Cecelia Holm)
2020 “Public Engagement, Archaeology Museology, and Sustainable Heritage Management in the Twenty-First Century Museum Experiences: A Case Study from the Harrison Site”
-Society for Historical Archaeology Conference
2019 “Re-Discovering the Historic Alice Mural on the San Diego State Campus,” The Lewis Carroll Society of North America, Spring meeting in San Diego, California.
2018 “Archaeological Ceramic Analyses as a Vehicle for Anthropological Holism at 1607 James Fort: An essay in honor of Dr. Joseph W. Ball
-Society for American Archaeology
2018 “My Mistakes”
-Keynote speaker, San Diego State University Student Research Symposium
2018 “Material, Methodological, and Theoretical Overviews of the Nate Harrison Historical Archaeology Project”
-Society for California Archaeology Conference
2018 “The Making of Nate Harrison into Legend”
-Society for California Archaeology Conference (with Jaime Lennox)
2018 “Historical Photography, Identity Politics, and Nate Harrison”
-Society for California Archaeology Conference (with Ryan Anderson)
2018 “Archaeological and Architectural Analyses of the San Diego County's Historical Nate Harrison Cabin”
-Society for California Archaeology Conference (with Matt Tennyson)
2018 “Cottage Industry and Diet at the Nate Harrison Site”
-Society for California Archaeology Conference (with Kristin Tennesen, James Turner, and Michael Hoke)
2018 “Putting the Pieces Together: Ceramics of Nate Harrison”
-Society for California Archaeology Conference (with Jamie Bastide)
2018 “History, Identification, and Significance of Buttons at the Nate Harrison Site”
-Society for California Archaeology Conference (with Shannon Farnsworth and Hilary Moore)
2018 “Emerging Subsistence Patterns and the Nate Harrison Site”
-Society for California Archaeology Conference (with Amethyst Sanchez and Leah Hails)
2018 “Archaeological Spatial Analyses of the Historical Nate Harrison Cabin”
-Society for California Archaeology Conference (with Hilary Llamas, and Kat Davis)
2018 “Museum Potential at the Nate Harrison Site”
-Society for California Archaeology Conference (with Cecelia Holm)
2018 “The Nate Harrison Historical Archaeology Project: Material, Methodological, and Theoretical Overviews”
-Society for Historical Archaeology Conference
2018 “The Apotheosis of Nate Harrison”
-Society for Historical Archaeology Conference (with Jaime Lennox)
2018 “Historical Photography and its Impacts on the Life and Legend of Nate Harrison”
-Society for Historical Archaeology Conference (with Ryan Anderson)
2018 “A San Diego Slave Quarters: Archaeological and Architectural Analyses of the Late 19th-and Early-20th Century Nate Harrison Cabin”
-Society for Historical Archaeology Conference (with Matt Tennyson)
2018 “Production and Consumption in the Old West: Examining Cottage Industry and Diet at the Nate Harrison Site”
-Society for Historical Archaeology Conference (with Kristin Tennesen, James Turner, and Michael Hoke)
2018 “Sustainable Heritage Management Strategies at the Nate Harrison Site”
-Society for Historical Archaeology Conference (with Cece Holm)
2016 “An Archaeology of San Diego Art, Identity, and Community: Confluent Uses of Historic Preservation in Research, Teaching, and Local Engagement”
-International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development
2016 “Rest in Peace?: San Diego’s Remarkably Impermanent Cemeteries and the Archaeological Necro-Politics of “America’s Finest City”
-2016 International Academic Forum Conference on the City
2015 "An Archaeology of San Diego Art, Identity, and Community: Confluent Uses of Historic Preservation in Research, Teaching, and Local Engagement"
-Humanities Conference 2015
2012 "A Century of American Life at the Whaley House: Recent Archaeological Discoveries from Old Town's Most Legendary Site"
-Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges Conference, Invited Speaker
2011 "Hegemonic Decay and the Commodification of Algonquian symbolism: Historical, Archaeological, and Linguistic Measures of Reciprocity in the Multi-Cultural Chesapeake during Contact"
-American Anthropological Association Conference
2011 "‘The First White Man on the Mountain’: Archaeological, Historical, and Cultural Examinations of Nathan Harrison’s Identity"
- Society for Historical Archaeology Conference (with Shelby Gunderman)
2009 "2007-08 SDSU/SCIC Archaeological Investigations at the Whaley House"
- Congress of History of San Diego and Imperial Counties Conference
2009 "The Lost WPA-Era Murals of State College: Historical Sustainability in San Diego Art, Identity, and Community"
- Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities
2007 "Consequences of Exchange in the Early Colonial Chesapeake: Symbolic Violence, Exchange Laterality, and Copper Quotients at James Fort and Beyond"
-Society for American Archaeology Conference
2007 "The Anthropology and Archaeology of Reciprocity in the Early Colonial Chesapeake"
-Society for Historical Archaeology Conference
2006 "Symbolic Violence and Native Agency in the Chesapeake during Contact: Reciprocal Vengeance and the Deadly Politics of Giving"
-American Society for Ethnohistory Conference
2006 "Uncovering Local Art and Industry: The Discovery of Hidden WPA Murals at San Diego State University"
-Society for Historical Archaeology Conference
2006 "Scratching the Surface: Historical and Archaeological Investigations of Nate Harrison’s Homestead"
-Society for Historical Archaeology Conference
(with Sarah Stroud)
2005 "A New Dating Technique for Historical sites: Vessel-Based Temporal Histograms"
-Jamestown Archaeology Conference
2005 "Lucas Jackson and Post-Modernism: Are Current Scholars Playing a "Cool Hand"
-Humanities Conference 2005
2005 "Preliminary Excavations at the Nate Harrison Site"
-Society for California Archaeology Conference
(with Sarah Stroud)
2005 "The Evolution of San Diego County Gravestones and Cemeteries"
-Society for California Archaeology Conference
(with David Caterino)
2005 "Death and Modern Resignation: The Evolution of San Diego County Gravestones"
-Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations
2005 "The Lost Cemeteries of San Diego County"
-Society for Historical Archaeology Conference
(with David Caterino)
2004 "The San Diego County Gravestone Project"
-Society for Historical Archaeology Conference
(with David Caterino)
2003 "New Perspectives on San Diego County Gravestones"
-Society for California Archaeology Southern Data Sharing Meeting
2003 "Homo regalos:A Call for Applied Gift Exchange in a Time of Global Commodification, Symbolic Violence, and Bloodshed"
- Humanities Conference 2003
2003 "Historical Archaeology and San Diego County's African-American Past"
-Society for Historical Archaeology Conference
(with Sarah Stroud)
2002 "Indigenous Devastation, Colonial Origins, and the Archaeology of 1607 James Fort"
-Society for Historical Archaeology Conference
2001 "A 17th-Century Chesapeake Cottage Industry: New Evidence and a Dating Formula for Colono Tobacco Pipes"
- Jamestown Archaeology Conference
(with J. Cameron Monroe)
2001 "Poet-Adventurer George Sandys, the Reverend Richard Buck, and the Archaeology of Jamestown's Hinterland"
- Society of Early Americanists Conference
2001 "Change and Exchange at James Fort"
- Society for Historical Archaeology Conference
2000 "Exchange and Violence at Jamestown: Anthropological Questions and Archaeological Answers"
- American Anthropological Association Conference
2000 "Pipebowl Mean Dates"
- Jamestown Archaeology Conference
2000 "English/Powhatan Exchange at Jamestown"
- Eastern States Archaeological Federation Conference
2000 "Space, Time, and Form at James Fort"
- Society for Historical Archaeology Conference
1999 "Archaeological Dimensions and Jamestown Rediscovery"
- Jamestown Archaeology Conference
1999 "Discovering the Original 1607 James Fort"
-Keynote Speaker, North American Cartographic Information Society Conference
1999 "Archaeological Manifestations of Economically Determined Changes in Early 17th-Century Chesapeake Intercultural Relations"
- Society for Historical Archaeology Conference
Conference Organization
2020 Session Chair, "Inclusion, Expansion, and Humility in North American Archaeology: Papers in Honor of Kent G. Lightfoot, Part A" Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, (with Kathleen Hull and Michael Grone).
2020 Session Chair, "Inclusion, Expansion, and Humility in North American Archaeology: Papers in Honor of Kent G. Lightfoot, Part B" Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, (with Stephen Silliman, Sara Gonzalez, and Peter Nelson).
2017 Conference Tour Director, “Re-Discovering the Historic Alice Mural on the San Diego State Campus,” The Lewis Carroll Society of North America, Spring meeting in San Diego, California.
2017 Conference Tour Director, “Rest in Peace? A Tour of Troubling Preservation Issues in San Diego Cemeteries,” Western History Association Conference in San Diego, California.
2012 Invited Workshop Speaker, "San Diego: Art, Community, and Historical Sustainability," Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.
2011 Invited Workshop Speaker, "San Diego: Art, Community, and Historical Sustainability," Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.
2011 Invited Workshop Panelist, "Peek-Inside-a-Journal Workshop," San Diego State University.
2010 Invited Workshop Speaker, "Historical Sustainability and the Lost Art of San Diego State," Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.
2009 Workshop Speaker, "A Tale of Two Murals, "Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.
2008 Workshop Speaker, "San Diego: Art, Community, and Sustainability," Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.
2007 Conference Session Discussant, "First Encounters: The Early Seventeenth-Century Atlantic Coast," Organization of American Historians.
2007 Workshop Speaker, "Sustainability and the Lost Murals of San Diego State," Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.
2007 Archaeological Consultant, "Project Archaeology National Program," San Diego Archaeological Center.
2007 Workshop Panelist, "Peek-Inside-a-Journal Workshop," San Diego State University.
2007 Conference Session Discussant, "In the Shadow of the ‘Two Fruitfull Sisters’: Challenging Chesapeake Orthodoxies," Society for Historical Archaeology.
2006 Conference Round Table Discussion Leader, "Defining Historical Archaeology," Society for American Archaeology.
2005 Conference Tour Director, "The Lost and Found Cemeteries of San Diego County," Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations in San Diego, California, (with David Caterino and Joyce Corbett).
2002 Session Chair, "Impacts of Contact: An Archaeology of Cross-Cultural Consequences in Eastern North America," Society of Historical Archaeology Annual Meeting in Mobile, Alabama, (with Heather Lapham).
1999-2001 Program Director, The Jamestown Archaeology Conference, Joint Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities/National Park Service annual event, 3rd Thursday every November, Jamestown, Virginia.
Exhibit Design and Curation
Mar. 18, 2021-Sept. 18, 2022 Nathan Harrison: Born Enslaved, Died a San Diego Legend, San Diego History Center.
Mar. 18, 2021-Sept. 18, 2022 Celebrate San Diego: Black History and Heritage, San Diego History Center.
April 18, 2017 Nate Harrison Exhibit, San Diego State University Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union, Montezuma Hall
Feb. 1-28, 2013 The Legendary Life of Nate Harrison, San Diego's First African-American Homesteader, Mountain View/Beckwourth Library.
Jan. 1, 2011- Nov. 1, 2011 The Legendary Life of Nate Harrison, San Diego's First African-American Homesteader, San Diego Archaeology Center.
Sept. 15, 2008- Jan. 15, 2009 The Archaeology of Nate Harrison: Legacies and Legends of an African-American Pioneer in San Diego County, San Diego State University Main Library.
Public History and Archaeology Events, Ceremonies, and Dedications Conserved Historic Mural Unveilings
March 23, 2019 Market (1949) Robert Hugenberger, Exercise and Nutritional Sciences 292, San Diego State University
March 15, 2016 Alice (1940s/50s) Albert J. Lewis, Hardy Tower, San Diego State University
October 29, 2015 Backdoor Mural (1976) Art Roman and his students, Love Library, 3rd Floor, San Diego State University
March 6, 2014 Mural Triptico (1970) Gilberto Ramirez, Guillermo Aranda, and Ruben DeAnda, Montezuma Hall, San Diego State University
October 5, 2010 San Diego Industry (1936) George Sorenson, Dome Library, 1st Floor, San Diego State University
March 7, 2008 NRA Packages (1936) Genevieve Burgeson Bredo, Dome Library, 1st Floor, San Diego State University
Campus Dedications and Re-Dedications
March 14, 2022 San Diego State University’s 125th Anniversary Celebration, San Diego State University
September 14, 2017 Dedication of Sickles Plaza, San Diego State University
April 30, 2014 Dedication of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. plaque at the Open Air Theatre, San Diego State University; 50-year anniversary of MLK campus visit (5/29/1964)
April 23, 2013 Dedication of President John F. Kennedy plaque at Aztec Bowl, San Diego State University; 50-year anniversary of MLK campus visit (6/3/1963)
October 3, 2011 Re-dedication of Aztec Bowl, San Diego State University; 75-anniversary of Aztec Bowl (1936)
Public Archaeology Open Houses
June 19, 2021 Juneteenth Celebration (Nathan Harrison Site, Palomar Mountain, CA and San Diego History Center, San Diego, CA)
September 14-15, 2019 Founder’s Day, Old Town, San Diego, CA (Whaley House Site and Nathan Harrison Site)
June 13, 2019 Nathan Harrison Site, Palomar Mountain, CA
March 29, 2018 Nathan Harrison Site, Palomar Mountain, CA
March 31, 2017 Nathan Harrison Site, Palomar Mountain, CA
July 28, 2011 Whaley House Site, San Diego, CA
July 29, 2010 Whaley House Site, San Diego, CA
July 30, 2009 Whaley House Site, San Diego, CA
July 31, 2008 Whaley House Site, San Diego, CA
June 12, 2008 Nathan Harrison Site, Palomar Mountain, CA
July 2, 2007 Whaley House Site, San Diego, CA
June 14, 2007 Nathan Harrison Site, Palomar Mountain, CA
June 15, 2006 Nathan Harrison Site, Palomar Mountain, CA
July 14, 2005 Nathan Harrison Site, Palomar Mountain, CA
June 24, 2004 Nathan Harrison Site, Palomar Mountain, CA
SERVICE FOR THE UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY
Professional Service Presentations
2022 “The Life and Legend of Nathan Harrison: Archaeological, Anthropological, and Historical Insights”
- Academy of Our Lady of Peace, Invited Speaker
2022 “100 Seasons of Aztec Football”
- San Diego State University End-of-the-Year Football Banquet, Featured speaker
2022 “Aztec Culture Education”
- SDSU Athletics Program, Invited speaker
2022 “100 Seasons of Aztec Football: The Book”
- The Campanile Foundation, Featured speaker
2022 “New Insights from the Nathan Harrison Historical Archaeology Project”
- UCSD Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Invited speaker
2022 “100 Seasons of San Diego State Football: The 2000s”
- FB 100 Appreciation Event, Featured speaker
2022 “100 Seasons of San Diego State Football: The 1990s”
- FB 100 Appreciation Event, Featured speaker
2022 “100 Seasons of San Diego State Football: The 1980s”
- FB 100 Appreciation Event, Featured speaker
2022 “100 Seasons of San Diego State Football: The 1970s”
- FB 100 Appreciation Event, Featured speaker
2022 “100 Seasons of San Diego State Football: The 1960s”
- FB 100 Appreciation Event, Featured speaker
2022 “100 Seasons of San Diego State Football: 1920-59”
- FB 100 Appreciation Event, Featured speaker
2022 “SDSU Over the Decades”
- Heritage & Legacy Societies Appreciation Event, Featured speaker
2022 “SDSU’s 125th Anniversary”
- Advisory Board and Volunteer Reception, Featured speaker
2022 “Born a Slave, Died a Pioneer: Nathan Harrison and the Historical Archaeology of Legend”
- Federal Bureau of Investigation, San Diego Office, Invited speaker
2022 “San Diego before San Diego State”
- SDSU Evening Celebrating Philanthropy, Featured speaker
2021 “Aztec Culture Education”
- SDSU Athletics Program, Invited speaker
2021 “New Insights from the Nathan Harrison Historical Archaeology Project”
- San Diego Archaeological Center, Invited speaker
2021 “The Nathan Harrison Exhibit at the San Diego History Center”
- San Diego Jewish Academy, Invited speaker
2021 “Introduction for Brenna Blaylock’s Book Signing for The Story They Never Tell Us”
- San Diego History Center
2021 “Nathan Harrison: Born a Slave, Died a Legend”
- LIFE MiraCosta College, Invited speaker
2021 “An Introduction to Archaeology”
- San Diego Festival of Science and Engineering
2021 “Infra-red Photography and the Discovery of the Albert J. Lewis ‘Alice in Wonderland’”
- San Diego Festival of Science and Engineering
2021 “Modern Garbology and an Archaeological Hunt for Identity”
- San Diego Festival of Science and Engineering
2021 “A New Era for the San Diego History Center: The Nathan Harrison and Celebrate San Diego Exhibits”
2021 “Nathan Harrison and the Historical Archaeology of Legend”
- Guest lecture for Nicole Mathwich’s ANTH 348 class
2020 “Nathan Harrison: Discovering the Man behind the Legend”
- Pubic webinar, San Diego History Center, Invited speaker
2020 “The Many Murals of San Diego State”
- Tour and lecture for SDSU Artist-in-Residence Zeal Harris and College of PSFA
2020 “On the Centennial of his Passing: San Diego County Pioneer Nathan “Nate Harrison and the Historical Archaeology of Legend”
- San Diego County Archaeological Society, Invited speaker
2020 “Born a Slave, Died a Pioneer: Nathan Harrison and the Historical Archaeology of Legend”
- San Diego OASIS, Invited instructor
2020 “The Historical Archaeology of Nathan Harrison”
- Lunch and Learn Program, San Diego History Center, Invited speaker
2019 “Aztec Culture Education”
- San Diego State University Center for Teaching and Learning, Invited speaker
2019 “The Unveiling of Robert Hugenberger’s Conserved ‘Market’ Mural”
- Explore SDSU presentation
2019 “A Legacy of Student Art at San Diego State in 12 Murals,”
- San Diego State University Student Art Award Exhibition Ceremony, Invited Speaker
2019 “San Diego’s Dead”
- Guest lecture for James Turner’s ANTH 348 class
2019 “The Military Legacy of San Diego State”
- Tour and lecture on campus military monuments for Student Veterans Organization event
2019 “On the Importance of Investiture”
- The Campanile Foundation, Board of Directors meeting, Invited Speaker
2019 “Aztec Culture Education”
- San Diego State University Associated Students Board of Directors, Invited speaker
2019 “Lessons from the San Diego Gravestone Project”
- La Jolla Country Day School, Invited speaker
2018 “The San Diego Gravestone Project”
- High Tech Middle School, Invited speaker
2018 “The Lost Murals of San Diego State”
- San Diego OASIS, Invited instructor
2018 “The Nate Harrison Historical Archaeology Project”
- The Campanile Foundation, Board of Directors meeting, Invited Speaker
2018 “The Cemeteries of San Diego”
Philanthropic Education Organization, Chapter XI, Invited speaker
2018 “San Diego State’s WPA-Era Murals: Discovery, Conservation, and Community Engagement”
- San Diego OASIS, Invited instructor
2018 “Hidden WPA Treasures at San Diego State.”
- Mission Bay High School, Invited speaker
2018 “Aztec Culture Education”
- SDSU Athletics Program, Invited speaker
2018 “‘Born a Slave, Died a Pioneer: Nathan Harrison and the Historical Archaeology of Legend”
- San Diego OASIS, Invited instructor
2018 “The Lost Murals of San Diego State”
- San Diego OASIS, Invited instructor
2018 “The Hidden Treasures of San Diego State”
- SDSU Family Weekend Breakfast, Invited speaker
2018 “The Lost Murals of State College”
- Tour and lecture on campus WPA-era murals for Phil Hoog’s ANTH 103 class
2018 “Legendary Rock at State: SDSU's Unrivaled Live Music History”
- San Diego Guitar Festival, Invited Speaker
2018 “The Nate Harrison Historical Archaeology Project”
-Daughters of the American Revolution, Santa Margarita chapter, Invited Speaker
2018 “History of the San Diego State Mascot and Moniker”
- San Diego State University Presidential Task Force on Aztec Mascot and Moniker, Invited speaker
2018 “‘Born a Slave, Died a Pioneer’: Nate Harrison and the Historical Archaeology of Legend”
- University of California San Diego Archaeology Colloquium Series, Invited speaker
2017 “A Brief History of San Diego State”
- Public lecture for SDSU’s 120th Anniversary Celebration, Invited speaker
2017 “San Diego State and the WPA.”
- Mission Bay High School, Invited speaker
2017 “The Hidden Treasures of San Diego State”
- SDSU Family Weekend Breakfast, Invited speaker
2017 “The Lost Murals of State College”
- Tour and lecture on campus WPA-era murals for Phil Hoog’s ANTH 103 class
2017 “Let It Rock!: Six Decades of Popular Music at San Diego State”
- Aztec Music Group, Invited speaker
2017 “Live from San Diego State!: A History of Popular Music on Montezuma Mesa”
- The Wednesday Club, Invited speaker
2017 Aztec Culture Education
- SDSU Athletics Program, Invited speaker
2016 “San Diego State’s Legendary Rock ‘n’ Roll History”
- SDSU Pacific Northwest Regional Council Committee Meeting, Invited speaker
2016 “Hidden WPA Treasures at San Diego State”
- Mission Bay High School, Invited speaker
2016 “The Unnameable Virtue”
- Scholia Club of San Diego, Invited Speaker
2016 “Historical Archaeology of the 1607 James Fort”
- Marvin Elementary School, Invited speaker
2016 “The Nate Harrison Historical Archaeology Project”
- Rock ‘n’ Soul Summit 2016 at Harrison Serenity Ranch, Invited speaker
2016 “Music Legacies at San Diego State”
- SDSU Mortar Board Society, Invited speaker
2016 “Jazz Rocks State”
- San Diego History Center, Invited speaker
2016 “Rock at State: From 1931 to Now.”
- Point Loma Public Library, Invited speaker
2016 “Historical Archaeology and Early U. S. American Settlers in San Diego County”
- Marvin Elementary School, Invited speaker
2015 “San Diego State and the WPA.”
- Mission Bay High School, Invited speaker
2015 “Let It Rock: Live from San Diego State.”
- SDSU Monty Awards, Invited speaker
2015 ""Rock at State: A History of Live Popular Music at SDSU from 1931 to Now.""
- Inside SDSU Lecture Series, Invited speaker
2015 "A Century of Pioneers, Innovation, and Practice: Continuing Legacies of Exercise and Nutritional Sciences at San Diego State"
-Centennial Lecture Series, Invited speaker
2015 "The Legendary History of SDSU"
- SDSU Orange County Regional Committee Meeting, Invited speaker
2015 "SDSU’s Hidden History Recognized"
- SDSU Los Angeles Regional Committee Meeting, Invited speaker
2014 "The Legacy of SDSU’s Military History"
- The San Diego State University Heritage, Tower, and Legacy Societies Recognition Reception, Invited Keynote Speaker
2014 "The Heart of San Diego State"
- SDSU Bay Area Regional Committee Meeting, Invited speaker
2014 "San Diego’s Dead"
- San Diego OASIS, Invited instructor
2014 "The Legendary History of SDSU"
- San Diego Rotary Club, Invited speaker
2014 "The Heart of San Diego State"
- SDSU Bay New York Regional Committee Meeting, Invited speaker
2013 "Spatial Seriation, Vectors of Change, and Multi-Centered Modeling for Cultural Transformations among San Diego’s Historical Gravestones"
- Human Dynamics in the Mobile Age Research Cluster Lightning Talk Series, Invited speaker
2013 "The Historical Legacy of San Diego State University"
- SDSU Educational Outreach Program, "Freshman for a Day" program, Invited speaker
2013 "The San Diego Gravestone Project"
- San Diego Mystery Club, Invited speaker
2013 "Historical Archaeology at the Most Haunted House in America"
- San Diego OASIS, Invited instructor
2013 "Making Connections between Arts and Sciences, Faculty and Staff, Students and Alumni, and Research and Development at San Diego State
-San Diego State University Campanile Foundation Board Retreat, Invited speaker
2013 "Memory and Mortality: San Diego’s Dead and Changing Cemetery Landscapes"
- San Marcos Public Library, Public presentation
2013 "Hail Montezuma! And Beyond…"
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SDSU Campanile Foundation Board of Directors Retreat Presentation
2013 "Psycho-Cultural Shifts, Economic Duress, and the Doppler Effect in Historical San Diego Gravestones"
- San Diego OASIS, Invited instructor
2013 "State Secrets: Historical Archaeology at SDSU"
- Point Loma Public Library, Invited speaker
2013 "Historical Archaeology at the Most Haunted House in America"
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North San Diego County Genealogy Society, Invited Speaker
2013 "Love of the Apocalypse is not Universal, but it is Still Love Nonetheless" -SDSU Cultural Arts Special Events, Invited Speaker
2013 "The Historical Archaeology of San Diego State"
- Archaeological Institute of America, San Diego chapter, Invited Speaker
2013 "New Insights from the San Diego Gravestone Project"
- San Diego OASIS, Invited instructor
2013 "The Hidden Treasures of San Diego State"
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La Mesa Historical Society, Invited Speaker
2013 "The Legendary Yet Unknown History of Rock ‘n’ Roll at San Diego State"
-Saving the Murals & Lovin’ the Music: Valentine’s Night at SDSU
2013 "The Archaeology of San Diego State"
- San Diego OASIS, Invited instructor
2012 "The Hidden Treasures of San Diego State"
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SDSU Council of Chairs, Invited Speaker
2012 "The Archaeological History of San Diego State"
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San Diego History Center, Invited Speaker, Annual Meeting
2012 "The Hidden Treasures of San Diego State"
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Scholia Club of San Diego, Invited Speaker
2012 "San Diego State’s WPA-Era Murals: Discovery, Conservation, and Community Engagement"
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San Diego History Center, Invited Speaker
2012 "Memorialization and Landscape Legacies: Recent Insights from the San Diego Gravestone Project"
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North San Diego County Genealogy Society, Invited Speaker
2012 "San Diego’s Dead and the Evolving Landscape of the Local Past"
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Friends of the Fallbrook Library Lecture Series, Invited speaker
2012 "‘Born a Slave, Died a Pioneer’: San Diego’s Nate Harrison and the Archaeology of Legend"
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St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Visiting Scholar, Invited speaker
2012 "Gift Exchange and the Birth of English America: Four-Field Anthropological Insights"
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St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Visiting Scholar, Invited speaker
2012 "The Birth of English America: Jamestown’s Legacies and Legends"
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North San Diego County Genealogy Society, Invited Speaker
2012 "Photography, Fieldwork, and the Anthropological Experience"
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Panel Discussion, Invited panelist, San Diego Museum of Man
2012 "A Question of Memorialization"
-Daughters of the American Revolution, Linares chapter, Invited Speaker
2012 "The Archaeology of San Diego State"
-San Diego County Archaeological Society, Invited speaker
2011 "Et Tu, Governor Scott - Is Anthropology Really a Worthless Degree?"
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Panel Discussion, Invited panelist, San Diego Museum of Man
2011 " San Diego’s Material Past and the Archaeology of Legend"
- San Diego Archaeological Center "Excellence in Archaeology" event, Invited speaker
2011 "Memory and Mortality: San Diego’s Dead and Changing Cemetery Landscapes"
- San Marcos Public Library, Public presentation
2011 "Changing Expressions of Memorialization in San Diego and Beyond"
- San Diego Museum of Man, Invited Speaker
2011 "The Whaley House Historical Archaeology Project"
- Save Our Heritage Organisation, Invited speaker
2011 "The Archaeology of Legend and Legacy"
- The San Diego State University Heritage and Tower Societies Recognition Reception, Invited Keynote Speaker
2011 "Why So Serious?: Changes in Death Rituals over the Last Two Centuries"
-Daughters of the American Revolution, Santa Margarita chapter, Invited Speaker
2010 "An Archaeology of Legend in San Diego"
- San Diego State University Department of Geography Colloquium, Invited Speaker
2010 "New Insights from the San Diego Gravestone Project"
-Sons of the American Revolution, San Diego Chapter, Invited Speaker
2010 "Historical and Archaeological Reflections on the Great Depression and the New Deal at San Diego State"
- Julian Public Library, Invited speaker, part of NEA-funded initiative "The Big Read" (John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath)
2009 "The Lost WPA-Era Murals of San Diego State University"
- San Diego OASIS, Invited instructor
2009 "New Insights from the Whaley House Historical Archaeology Project"
- Point Loma Public Library, Invited speaker
2009 "Recent Findings from the Whaley House Historical Archaeology Project"
- SDSU Friends of the Library Committee Meeting, Invited Speaker
2009 "The Whaley House Historical Archaeology Project"
- San Diego OASIS, Invited instructor
2009 "The Archaeology of Legend in San Diego"
- 44th Annual Phi Beta Kappa Faculty Lecture, Phi Beta Kappa, Nu Chapter of California (San Diego State University Chapter), Invited Speaker
2009 "The San Diego Gravestone Project"
- San Diego Museum of Man, Invited Speaker
2009 "San Diego’s Dead Are on the Move: Recent Findings from the San Diego Gravestone Project"
- Lemon Grove Historical Society, Invited Speaker
2009 "The Lost and Forgotten Cemeteries of San Diego"
- Chula Vista Genealogical Society, Invited Speaker
2009 "The Nate Harrison Historical Archaeology Project"
- San Diego OASIS, Invited instructor
2009 "Recent Archaeological Finds from the Whaley House"
-Kiwanis Club of San Diego, Invited Speaker
2009 "The Archaeology of Legend in San Diego County"
-Archaeological Institute of America, San Diego chapter, Invited Speaker
2009 "The Birth of English America"
- San Diego OASIS, Invited instructor
2009 "Jamestown’s Legends and Legacies"
-Daughters of the American Revolution, Malibu chapter, Invited Speaker
2009 "Archaeology and Legend in Historic San Diego"
-El Cajon Historical Society, Invited Speaker
2009 "What’s New at the Nate Harrison Site"
-Escondido History Center, Invited Speaker
2009 "The Lost and Forgotten Cemeteries of San Diego County"
- SDSU Extended Studies Lecture, Invited Speaker
2009 "The Most Haunted House in America--Archaeology at San Diego’s Historic Whaley House"
- San Diego OASIS, Invited instructor
2009 "Recent Insights from the Nate Harrison Site"
-Spring Valley Public Library, Invited Speaker
2008 "The Archaeology of Local Legend"
-Point Loma Rotary Club, Invited Speaker
2008 "The Legacy of the WPA at San Diego State"
-Maritime Civil Affairs Squadron One, Invited speaker and tour leader
2008 "Grave Matters: The Symbolism of Grave Art"
- Museum of San Diego History, Invited speaker and tour leader
2008 "Archaeology is Everywhere!: Preserving WPA-Era Murals at San Diego State"
- The Wednesday Club, Invited speaker
2008 "San Diego’s Dead: Recent Finds from the San Diego Gravestone Project"
- San Diego OASIS, Invited instructor
2008 "The San Diego Gravestone Project"
- Save Our Heritage Organisation’s Third Thursday Author Series, Invited speaker
2008 "The Archaeology of San Diego Legend"
- San Diego State University College of Arts & Letters Dean’s Advisory Council, Invited speaker
2008 "The Archaeology of Nate Harrison: Legacies and Legends of an African- American Pioneer in San Diego County"
- San Diego State University Library, Exhibit opening, Invited Speaker
2008 "The Lost Murals of State College: An Archaeology of San Diego Art, Identity, and Community"
- Portuguese-American Social & Civic Club, Invited Speaker
2008 "The Nate Harrison Historical Archaeology Project"
- Christ United Presbyterian Church, Invited Speaker
2008 "New Insights from the Nate Harrison Site"
- Rancho San Diego/Spring Valley Rotary Club, Invited Speaker
2008 "Cemeteries of Oceanside and San Diego"
-Oceanside Historical Society and Oceanside Public Library, Invited Speaker
2008 "The Art and Mystery of San Diego Cemeteries"
-San Diego Museum of Art, Meet the Masters Lecture Series
2008 "Saving SDSU’s Lost WPA-Era Murals"
- SDSU Extended Studies Art History Class, Invited Speaker
2008 "Careers in Anthropology"
- SDSU Anthropology Student Association, Invited Speaker
2008 "Myth-busting at the Nate Harrison Site"
- San Diego Uptown Rotary Club, Invited Speaker
2008 "The Archaeology of Legend in San Diego"
- Arts & Letters Alumni Chapter Fourth Annual Meet the Professor Event, San Diego State University, Public presentation
2008 "Uncovering Our Past: The Conservation of Hidden WPA-Era Murals at SDSU"
- San Diego State University, SDSU Month Event, Public presentation
2008 "Nate Harrison and the Archaeology of Legend"
- San Marcos Public Library, Public presentation
2008 "Historical Archaeology and the Legend of Nathan Harrison"
- Julian Public Library, Public presentation
2008 "Discover the Story of the Mountain Man of Palomar: Nate Harrison"
- Valley Center Public Library, Public presentation
2008 "San Diego’s Dead: the Lost and Forgotten Cemeteries of America’s Finest City"
- University of San Diego, Continuing Education and Corporate and Professional Education, University of the Third Age, Invited Speaker
2007 "Restoring Local Art and Industry: The Conservation of Hidden WPA Murals at SDSU"
- San Diego State University College of the Library Meeting, Invited Speaker
2007 "Uncovering Local Art and Industry: The Discovery of Hidden WPA Murals at SDSU" -San Diego Museum of Art, Meet the Masters Lecture Series
2007 "The Lost Murals of San Diego State"
-SDSU President’s Leadership Fund 5th Annual Milestone Event, Keynote Speaker
2007 "Symbolic Violence and Native Agency in the Chesapeake during Contact: Reciprocal Vengeance and the Deadly Politics of Giving"
-University of Arizona Anthropology Department Lecture Series
2007 "The Cemeteries of San Diego"
-Explore San Diego State University Open House, Invited Speaker
2007 "Transformations in San Diego Gravestones and Cemeteries"
-University of California at Berkeley, Archaeological Research Facility Lecture Series at Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
2007 "The Nate Harrison Historical Archaeology Project"
-Project Archaeology, Archaeology as Culturally Relevant Science Curricula, Instructor
2007 "The Archaeology of America’s Home Town"
-District XIV (La Jolla chapter), California State Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, Keynote Speaker at Annual Meeting
2006 "Jamestowne: The Beginning of America"
-Los Angeles-Eschscholtzia Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Keynote Speaker at Annual Meeting
2006 "The Archaeology of America’s Home Town"
-District XIV, California State Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, Keynote Speaker at Annual Meeting
2006 "The Deadly Politics of Giving: Exchange and Violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown"
-First California Company Jamestowne Society, Keynote Speaker at Annual Meeting
2006 "Jamestown’s Legacies: The Story of the Beginning of America"
-Solana Beach Library, Public presentation
2006 "The Archaeology and Anthropology of James Fort and Beyond"
-National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, De Anza Chapter, Invited Speaker
2006 "The Legacy of SDSU’s Library and WPA Art"
- San Diego State University College of the Library Meeting, Invited Speaker
2006 "The Birth of Our Nation: Jamestown and its Legacies"
- La Jolla Country Club 12:30 Club, Invited Speaker
2006 "SDSU’s WPA Murals"
- San Diego Kiwanis Club, Invited Speaker
2006 "New Archaeological and Anthropological Insights on the Eve of Jamestown’s 400th Anniversary"
- National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars, California State Society, Invited Speaker
2006 "New Insights from the Nate Harrison Site"
- Lemon Grove Rotary Club, Invited Speaker
2006 "WPA Art and Artists at SDSU"
- The San Diego State University Heritage and Tower Societies Recognition Reception, Invited Keynote Speaker
2006 "The Legacy of the WPA at San Diego State"
- SDSU Friends of the Library Committee Meeting, Invited Speaker
2006 "SDSU, Historical Archaeology, and Nate Harrison"
-Explore San Diego State University Open House, Invited Speaker
2006 "The History and Anthropology of Nate Harrison"
-Explore San Diego State University Open House, Invited Speaker
2006 "Recently Discovered Murals at Hardy Tower"
- SDSU Senate Library Committee Meeting, Invited Speaker
2006 "The Thrill of Archaeology"
-Montesori School of San Diego, Assembly Speaker
2006 "Historical Archaeology and Nate Harrison"
-SDSU Bridges, San Diego State University; February 24, 2006, Invited Speaker
2006 "Recent Insights from the San Diego County Gravestone Project"
-SDSU Bridges, San Diego State University; February 24, 2006, Invited Speaker
2006 "The Hidden WPA Murals of San Diego State University"
-SDSU Bridges, San Diego State University; February 24, 2006, Invited Speaker
2006 "New Discoveries from Laboratory Analysis of the Artifacts from the Nate Harrison Historical Archaeology Site"
-360 Tour, San Diego State University; February 10, 2006
2006 "Historical Archaeology at San Diego State University"
-San Diego Lion’s Club, January meeting, Invited Guest Speaker
2005 "Exchange and Violence at Jamestown: Recent Archaeological Insights from the 1607 James Fort Site"
-First California Company Jamestowne Society, Keynote Speaker at Annual Meeting
2005 "The First Two Seasons of Archaeological Fieldwork at the Nate Harrison Site"
-San Diego County Archaeological Society, October Guest Speaker
2005 "An Overview of the Nate Harrison Historical Archaeology Project"
-Black Historical Society of San Diego, Board of Directors Meeting, Invited Speaker
2005 "The Historical Archaeology of Nate Harrison"
-Explore San Diego State University Open House, Invited Speaker
2005 "Recent Discoveries from the San Diego Gravestone Project"
-Archaeological Institute of America, San Diego chapter, Invited Speaker
2005 "San Diego County Cemetery Tour"
-American Culture Association, Invited Mentor and Tour Guide
2005 "Forensic Anthropology and Historical Archaeology"
-San Diego State University, Forensic Anthropology class taught by Dr. Arion Mayes, Guest Lecture
2005 "The Historical Archaeology of Nate Harrison"
-The San Diego Archaeological Center, February Guest Speaker
2005 "Recent Findings from Laboratory Analysis of the Artifacts from the Nate Harrison Historical Archaeology Site"
-360 Tour, San Diego State University; January 21, 2005
2004 "Historical Archaeology"
-El Segundo Middle School Elementary School, Assembly Speaker
2004 "Laboratory Analysis of the Artifacts from the Nate Harrison Historical Archaeology Site"
-360 Tour, San Diego State University; December 10, 2004
2004 "San Diego's Dead: Patterns in Local Cemeteries and Gravestones"
-San Diego County Archaeological Society, October Guest Speaker
2004 "Death and Mortuary Markers in San Diego County"
-San Diego State University, Death, Dying, and the Afterlife class taught by Dr. Rebecca Moore, Guest Lecture
2004 "Current Research in Historical Archaeology"
-Palomar College, Historical Archaeology class taught by Dr. Phil Debarros, Guest Lecture
2004 "Early Chesapeake Settlements"
-University of California at Los Angeles, Historical Archaeology: A World Perspective class taught by Dr. James Cameron Monroe, Guest Lecture
2004 "Anthropological Opportunities at SDSU"
-Explore San Diego State University Open House, Participant, San Diego County Gravestone Project and Anthropology Department
2004 "Archaeology Discovery: The Historical Archaeology of Palomar Mountain"
-San Diego State University Cultural Arts and Special Events, Speaker
2001 "The Archaeology of 1607 James Fort and Beyond"
- San Diego County Archaeological Society , November Guest Speaker
2001 "Invitation to Historical Archaeology"
- San Diego City College , Principles of Archaeology class taught by Dr. Lynne Christenson
2001 "The South Coastal Information Center"
- Historic Site Board of the County of San Diego , Public Hearing, Invited Speaker
2001 "Early European Exploration and Highway to the West"
-The Wintergreen Nature Foundation, 2001 Natural History Series , Guest Instructor
2000 "Pocahontas, Copper Exchange, and James Fort at Contact"
-Virginia Society Daughters of the American Colonists, Pocahontas Chapter, Annual Meeting, Keynote Speaker
2000 "Dig James Fort"
- Pembroke Meadows Elementary School , Assembly Speaker
2000 "The Archaeology of the First Permanent English Settlement in America"
-National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars, Inc., National Annual Meeting, Keynote Speaker
2000 "Recent Finds and Interpretations at Jamestown"
-College of William and Mary, Anthropology Club , Meeting
2000 "The Archaeology of Jamestown in the Regional Context of the Chesapeake"
-Wicomico Historical Society, Annual Meeting, Keynote Speaker
1999 "The Beginnings of English America"
-Tidewater Jamestown Society, Inaugural Meeting, Keynote Speaker
1999 "The Archaeology of Pocahontas, John Rolfe, and the Reverend Richard Buck"
1999 -Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities' Thomas Rolfe Branch, Annual Meeting, Keynote Speaker
1999 "Archaeological Insights into Conflicts at James Fort"
- West Point Society of Richmond, Annual Meeting, Keynote Speaker
Department Service
2006-2015 Department Chair, Department of Anthropology, San Diego State University.
2004-2006 Undergraduate Advisor, Department of Anthropology, San Diego State University.
University Task Forces
2006-08 University General Education Task Force, San Diego State University.
University Committees
2018-20 Government and Community Relations Committee, The Campanile Foundation, San Diego State University
2018-20 Development Committee, The Campanile Foundation, San Diego State University.
2018-20 Chair, University Promotion and Tenure Review Panel, San Diego State University.
2018-19 Presidential Inauguration Advisory Committee, San Diego State University.
2018-19 Search Committee, Department of Anthropology, San Diego State University.
2015-pres. Audit Committee, Aztec Shops, San Diego State University
2017-18 Chair Review Committee, Department of Anthropology, San Diego State University.
2017-18 Market Salary Increase Review Committee, Department of Anthropology, San Diego State University.
2016-17 Search Committee, CEO/AVP position for Aztec Shops, San Diego State University.
2016-18 Professional Leaves Committee, Department of Anthropology, San Diego State University.
2016-17 Market Salary Increase Review Committee, Department of Anthropology, San Diego State University.
2016-18 University Promotion and Tenure Review Panel, San Diego State University.
2016-18 University Promotion and Tenure Review Panel, Late-Add Committee, San Diego State University.
2015-16 Reappointment, Tenure, and Promotions Review Committee, College of Arts and Letters, San Diego State University.
2015-16 Human-Environmental Dynamics Area of Excellence Search Committee, San Diego State University.
2008-10 Associated Student International Committee, San Diego State University.
2005-09 Senate Library Committee, San Diego State University.
2005-06 First-Year Tenure-Track Faculty Review Committee, Department of Anthropology, San Diego State University.
2005-06 Chair, Reappointment, Tenure, and Promotions Review Committee, Department of Anthropology, San Diego State University.
2005-06 Student Research Committee, San Diego State University.
2005-08 Senate Library Committee, San Diego State University.
2004-05 Graduation Committee, Department of Anthropology, San Diego State University.
2004-05 Post-Tenure Review Committee, Department of Anthropology, San Diego State University.
2004-05 Reappointment, Tenure, and Promotions Review Committee, Department of Anthropology, San Diego State University.
2004-05 First-Year Tenure-track Faculty Review Committee, Department of Anthropology, San Diego State University.
2004-05 Search Committee, Committee of the Whole, Department of Anthropology, San Diego State University.
2003-04 Search Committee, Committee of the Whole, Department of Anthropology, San Diego State University.
2002-03 Instructionally Related Activities Committee. College of Arts and Letters, San Diego State University.
2002-03 Search Committee, Committee of the Whole, Department of Anthropology, San Diego State University.
2001-02 Search Committee, Committee of the Whole, Department of Anthropology, San Diego State University.
Community Committees
2019 Member, External Review Committee, Department of Anthropology, Portland State University
2006-pres. Member, 400th Anniversary Committee of the First California Company of the Jamestowne Society.
Ceremonial Service
2019 Master of Ceremonies, Presidential Investiture Ceremony, San Diego State University
2016-17 Grand Marshal, Commencement Ceremonies, College of Arts and Letters, San Diego State University
2004-07 Marshal, Commencement Ceremonies, College of Arts and Letters, San Diego State University.
MEDIA PRESENTATIONS (FEATURING THE WORK OF SETH MALLIOS)
Television (Date first aired)
March 22, 2019 KGTV (ABC 10) 10News, “Recently Conserved Historic SDSU Mural to be Unveiled”
August 27, 2018 KSWB (Fox 5) Evening News, “55 years after MLK Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech, little evidence remains of visit to San Diego”
April 4, 2018 KNSD (NBC 7/39) San Diego Evening News, “MLK Assassinated 50 Years Ago Today”
February 1, 2018 KPBS About San Diego (with Ken Kramer), “The Carmel Valley Cemetery”
August 28, 2017 KFMB (CBS 8) San Diego Morning News, “Celebrating 120 Years at San Diego State”
August 28, 2017 KSWB (Fox 5) Morning News, “Celebrating 120 Years at San Diego State”
August 28, 2017 KUSI (Ind. 9) Good Morning San Diego, “Celebrating 120 Years at San Diego State”
April 1, 2017 KFMB (CBS 8) San Diego Evening News, “Excavations at the Nate Harrison Site”
April 1, 2017 KGTV (ABC 10) 10News, “SDSU archaeologists unearth bones, relics on Palomar Mountain”
April 1, 2017 CW 6 Evening News, “SDSU students uncover artifacts at the Nate Harrison Site”
October 29, 2015 KSWB (Fox 5) Evening News, “SDSU Rock ‘n’ Roll Mural Unveiled”
April 22, 2015 KPBS, Evening Edition, "Professor Digs Up Live Music History At San Diego State"
May 1, 2014 KPBS, San Diego Historic Places, "San Diego State University"
April 30, 2014 KFMB (CBS 8) San Diego Evening News, "SDSU Marks 50th Anniversary of MLK Speech"
April 30, 2014 KUSI (Ind. 9) KUSI News at 6, "SDSU celebrates one of the most important moments in school history"
April 30, 2014 KPBS, Evening Edition, "Commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s 1964 Visit to San Diego State"
April 28, 2104 KFMB (CBS 8) San Diego Evening News, "Exclusive footage of Martin Luther King’s 1964 visit to San Diego"
November 22, 2103 KGTV (ABC 10) San Diego Evening News, "San Diegans remember John F. Kennedy visit to San Diego State College"
November 22, 2013 KSWB (Fox 5) Evening News, "Reflections on the Kennedy Assassination and his 1963 Visit to San Diego State"
November 22, 2013 KUSI (Ind. 9) Good Morning San Diego, "Reflections on the Kennedy Assassination and his 1963 Visit to San Diego State"
November 21, 2013 KPBS, Evening Edition, "Reflections on the Kennedy Assassination and his 1963 Visit to San Diego State"
August 28, 2013 KGTV (ABC 10) San Diego Evening News, "Locals reflect on 50th anniversary of 'I Have a Dream' speech"
May 19, 2013 KNSD (NBC 7/39) Sound Diego, "Saving Rock –n-Roll at San Diego State"
April 24, 2013 KNSD (NBC 7/39) San Diego Evening News, "San Diego State and JFK in 1963"
April 24, 2013 CW (6) Evening News, "JFK Anniversary Celebration at San Diego State"
April 24, 2013 KUSI (Ind. 9) KUSI News at 6, "SDSU Celebrates Kennedy Anniversary"
April 24, 2013 KSWB (Fox 5) Evening News, "Historical Reenactment at San Diego State"
April 24, 2013 KGTV (ABC 10) San Diego Evening News, "The 50-Year Anniversary of JFK’s Visit to San Diego State"
April 24, 2013 KPBS, Evening Edition, "Reflections on Kennedy’s 1963 Visit to San Diego State"
April 24, 2013 KGTV (ABC 10) 10 News This Morning, "Legacies of JFK’s Visit to San Diego State"
March 7, 2013 UT-TV (Ind. 17) The Roger Hedgecock Show, "On the 50th Anniversary of JFK’s Visit to San Diego State"
February 14, 2013 KSWB (Fox 5) Evening News, "The Legendary Yet Unknown History of Rock ‘n’ Roll at San Diego State"
February 13, 2013 UT-TV (Ind. 17) The Roger Hedgecock Show, "The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll at San Diego State"
February 13, 2013 KUSI (Ind. 9) Good Morning San Diego, "Saving the Murals and Loving the Music at San Diego State"
January 17, 2013 KUSI (Ind. 9) Good Morning San Diego, "The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll at San Diego State"
January 15, 2013 KSWB (Fox 5) Evening News, "Hidden Alice in Wonderland Mural Discovered at San Diego State"
December 31, 2012 KUSI (Ind. 9) Good Morning San Diego, "San Diego State’s Neon Majorette"
December 30, 2012 KUSI (Ind. 9) Open Mike, "San Diego State’s Neon Majorette"
August 27, 2012 KSWB (Fox 5) Morning News, "Hail Montezuma: The Hidden Treasures of San Diego State"
August 27, 2012 CW (6) SD6 in the Morning, "Hail Montezuma: The Hidden Treasures of San Diego State"
August 27, 2012 KUSI (Ind. 9) Good Morning San Diego, "Hail Montezuma: The Hidden Treasures of San Diego State"
March 8, 2012 NBC, KPBS SDSU Insider, "A Hike up Historic ‘S’ Mountain"
February 23, 2012 KPBS, San Diego Historic Places, "Cemeteries"
October 3, 2011 KNSD (NBC 7/39) San Diego Evening News, "Aztec Bowl Reaches Milestone"
August 4, 2011 KGTV (ABC 10) San Diego Evening News, "SDSU Professor Finds Pieces of School's History"
May 20, 2011 KPBS San Diego Week, "Saving the Back Door Mural"
October 5, 2010 KUSI (Ind. 9) KUSI News at 6, "SDSU WPA-Era Mural Dedicated"
April 2, 2010 KNSD (NBC 7/39) San Diego Evening News, "Mystery Lockers Finally Opened"
September 30, 2009 XETV (CW 6) San Diego Living, "San Diego’s Lost and Forgotten Cemeteries"
July 14, 2009 KNSD (NBC 7/39) San Diego Evening News, "Ghost Diggers in Pursuit of the Past"
July 30, 2008 KGTV (ABC 10) San Diego Evening News, "Archaeology at the Whaley House"
July 29, 2008 KUSI (Ind. 9) Good Morning San Diego, "Archaeology at the Whaley House"
December 11, 2007 KUSI Local Morning News (with Rod Luck), "Everett Gee Jackson and the Lost Murals of State College"
October 24, 2007 KPBS Wonderland, "Old Town, San Diego"
March 27, 2007 KPBS Full Focus, "Cemeteries of San Diego"
March 20, 2007 KNSD (CBS 8) San Diego Morning News, "Cemeteries of San Diego"
March 19, 2007 KUSI (Ind. 9) Good Morning San Diego, "The Cemeteries of San Diego"
February 25, 2007 KNSD (NBC 7/39) About San Diego (with Ken Kramer), "The Artifacts of the Nate Harrison Historical Archaeology Project"
January 29, 2007 KPBS Full Focus (with Pat Finn), "SDSU and the Works Progress Administration"
May 26, 2006 KNSD (NBC 7/39) Local Evening News (About San Diego with Ken Kramer), "The Lost WPA Murals of SDSU"
October 31, 2005 KPBS Full Focus (with Richard Rivera), "Grave Secrets"; Nominated for two Emmy Awards (Outstanding Historic/Culture Program and Best Writing, Short Form/Spot) by the Pacific Southwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences; Recipient of Emmy Award for Best Writing
March 15, 2005 KPBS Full Focus (with Karen Rostodha), "Ethnic Communities Past and Present--Addendum"
September 28, 2004 KUSI Local Morning News (with Rod Luck), "Laboratory Analysis of Artifacts from the Nate Harrison Site"
July 1, 2004 KNSD Local Morning News (with Catherine Garcia), "Archaeological Finds from the Nate Harrison Site"
July 30, 2004 KPBS Full Focus (with Karen Rostodha), "Ethnic Communities Past and Present"
June 25, 2004 KFMB 6:00 Evening News (with Andrea Makino), "Historical Archaeology at the Nate Harrison Site"
June 25, 2004 KFMB 5:00 Evening News (with Andrea Makino), "Historical Archaeology at the Nate Harrison Site"
Radio
October 29, 2015 KPBS, Morning Edition, “Rock ‘n’ Roll Mural Unveiled At San Diego State Library” 7:30-7:35 AM.
October 26, 2015 Jazz 88.3, The New Jazz Thing, “50 Years of Let It Rock! at San Diego State Were Pretty Jazzy,” 12:00-12:20AM.
April 22, 2015 KPBS Radio, Midday Edition, "Professor Digs Up Live Music History at San Diego State," 12:15-12:30 PM.
April 17, 2014 KPBS Radio, Midday Edition, "San Diego State University Seeks Memorabilia From MLK Visit," 12:40-12:45 PM.
April 24, 2013 KPBS Radio, Midday Edition, "Legacies of the JFK Visit to San Diego State," 12:40-1:00PM.
April 24, 2013 KPBS Radio, Morning Edition, "The 50-Year Anniversary of JFK’s 1963 SDSC Commencement Address," 7:30-7:35 AM.
January 16, 2013 KPBS Radio, Midday Edition, "The Discovery of Alice In Wonderland On Campus," 12:40-1:00PM.
January 10, 2013 KPBS Radio, Morning Edition, "Alice In Wonderland Mural Discovered On SDSU Campus," 7:30-7:35 AM.
May 27, 2011 NPR/KPBS Radio, Morning Edition, "Saving a Music Lover’s Mural at SDSU," 7:30-7:35 AM.
November 11, 2007 Travel Hub Radio, "Cemeteries of San Diego County," 11:00-11:30AM.
March 13, 2007 KPBS Radio, These Days (with Tom Fudge), "The Cemeteries of San Diego," 10:00-10:30AM.
May 9, 2005 KPBS Radio, These Days (with Tom Fudge), "The San Diego County Gravestone Project," 10:40-11:00AM.
Newspaper and Magazine
June 24, 2019 SDSU president’s first year ends with praise, criticism: School closer to new stadium but struggles with a variety of problems, (Gary Robbins). San Diego Union-Tribune, A1, A8.
April 17-23, 2019 Adela de la Torre’s inauguration highlights curiosity, compassion, (by Bella Ross). The Daily Aztec, pp. 1-2.
April 12, 2019 ‘Lofty Visions’ Guide New SDSU President: De la Torre speaks of cultivating a ‘culture of curiosity’ at formal inauguration, (Gary Robbins). San Diego Union-Tribune, A1, A8.
April 12, 2019 ‘Birthday Kickoff Doesn’t Sidestep San Diego’s Contentious History: Organizers: Kumeyaay persecution a key part of the area’s narrative, (Roger Showley). San Diego Union-Tribune, A1, A8.
March 31, 2019 SDSU to Celebrate First Inauguration Since 1997: De la Torre wants to create her vision for university’s future, (Gary Robbins). San Diego Union-Tribune, A1-16.
Spring 2019 Mural Magic, (Coleen L. Geraghty) 360 Magazine, p. 4.
October 30, 2018 Spooky San Diego: Bodies Lie Beneath as We Walk, Play and Shop, (by Randy Dotinga). Voice of San Diego.
April 25-May 1, 2018 SDSU students dig archaeology professor, (by Angelica Wallingford). The Daily Aztec, p. 8.
April 25, 2018 Group learns about area's first African-Amer. homesteader, (Linda McIntosh and Janelle Werthmann). San Diego Union-Tribune.
January 15, 2018 King’s Visits Live on Mostly in Memory: Surprisingly few artifacts survive from civil rights leader’s handful of appearances in San Diego, (John Wilkens). San Diego Union-Tribune, A1-7.
Nov. 15, 2017 Seth Mallios conmemora los 120 años de SDSU a través de plática, (by Elizabeth Barboza). The Daily Aztec.
Nov. 13, 2017 SDSU celebrates 120 years of history with author and anthropologist Seth Mallios, (by Diana Guevarra). The Daily Aztec.
August 20, 2017 VA. Statue Standoff Echoed in San Diego’s Struggles: Battle over historical and cultural symbols stretch back decades, (Roger Showley). San Diego Union-Tribune, A1-16.
April 20, 2017 He Left a Mark at Chicano Park: Guillermo Aranda worked on several of the celebrated murals, (Roxana Popescu). San Diego Union-Tribune, Night & Day, Pp. 24-25.
April 1, 2017 Unearthing the life of legendary pioneer Nate Harrison: SDSU students discover artifacts on homestead dig at Palomar Mountain, (Deborah Sullivan Brennan). San Diego Union-Tribune, B1-3.
March 9, 2017 SDSU’s President Hirshman to Leave in June, (Gary Warth). San Diego Union-Tribune, A1-7.
January 15, 2017 Chargers leave San Diego: Dealing with five stages of fans’ grief, (Peter Rowe). San Diego Union-Tribune, A18.
October 23, 2016 Aztec mascot battle revisited, (by Gary Warth). San Diego Union-Tribune, B1, B9.
May 2016 Showing your true colors, (by Kelly Hillock). The Daily Aztec Commencement Magazine, Issue 1, Volume 1, P. 10.
Nov. 10-17, 2015 Rock ‘n’ roll mural returns to SDSU, (by Kelly Hillock). The Daily Aztec, Vol. 102, No. 14, P. 15.
November 5, 2015 SDSU unveils historic rock ‘n’ roll mural, (by Kelly Hillock). The Daily Aztec.
October 28, 2015 SDSU event to unveil campus rock ‘n’ roll mural, (by Sarah Tanori). The Daily Aztec, Digital edition.
October 25, 2015 New campus, rock music celebrations, (by Gary Warth). San Diego Union-Tribune, A4.
October 24, 2015 SDSU shows, from stubs to star moments, (by Karla Peterson). San Diego Union-Tribune, A1, A14.
October 7, 2015 SDSU rock-and-roll anthropologists dig deep into campus music history: Ella was a badass, (by Jay Allen Sanford). San Diego Reader.
August 19, 2015 Campus hides forgotten treasures, (by Olivia Litsey). The Daily Aztec, Digital edition.
August 6, 2015 SDSU sees success with crowdfunding: Projects funded ahead of schedule in new fundraising site, (by Gary Warth). San Diego Union-Tribune, B1, B4.
February 26, 2015 You only logo once (or twice), (by Christine Whitman). The Daily Aztec, Digital edition.
October 4, 2014 Test Driving San Diego: Sure, there are books—but campus bookstores’ offerings much broader, (by Karla Peterson). San Diego Union-Tribune, A1, A6.
October 3, 2014 5 Best SDSU-Fresno games ever played?: Two top 5 lists from the Aztecs’ and Bulldogs’ viewpoints, (by Stefanie Loh). San Diego Union-Tribune, Online only.
October 3, 2014 Greasing the Fire: Old Oil Can ‘trophy’ gives players, fans in SDSU-Fresno St. rivalry rallying prize, (by Stefanie Loh). San Diego Union-Tribune, D1, D5.
May 5, 2014 SDSU commemorates MLK speech, (by Camille Lozano). The Daily Aztec, Vol. 100, No. 63, P. 3.
April 30, 2014 S.D. Man Shares MLK Memories: Educator saw rights icon speak at college in 1964, (by Karen Kucher). San Diego Union-Tribune, B1, B4.
April 21, 2014 SDSU newspaper turns 100: Alumni of Daily Aztec honored at celebration, (by Karen Kucher). San Diego Union-Tribune, A1, A6.
April 3, 2014 Dr. King artifacts elusive: Historian needs help finding photos, tape of speech at SDSU, (by Karen Kucher). San Diego Union-Tribune, B1-2.
March 7, 2014 Q&A with Anthropology Department Chair Dr. Seth W. Mallios, (by Kelly Hillock). The Grand Dedication: The Daily Aztec Commemorative Magazine, Pp. 40-42.
March 7, 2014 A Tree Story, (by Hannah Beausang and Luke Henning). The Grand Dedication: The Daily Aztec Commemorative Magazine, Pp. 38-39.
March 7, 2014 A big day for big art, (by John Gibbons). San Diego Union-Tribune, B1.
March 6, 2014 SDSU to rededicate historic mural, (by James Chute). San Diego Union-Tribune, B5.
January 22, 2014 ‘Beau’ Jest: Film historian shines light on SDSU students’ long-forgotten parody of ’39 classic, (by John Wilkens). San Diego Union-Tribune, A1, A8.
November 25, 2013 Chatting with SDSU’s preeminent historian, (by Kelly Hillock). The Daily Aztec, Vol. 100, No. 31, P. 9.
November 21, 2013 June 6, 1963: Brief Shining Moments, (by Peter Rowe). San Diego Union-Tribune, A1, A3.
November 20, 2013 June 6, 1963: JFK in SD: A day to remember, (by Peter Rowe). San Diego Union-Tribune, A1, A3.
July 8, 2013 Book award granted to SDSU sleuth, (by Camille Lozano). The Daily Aztec, Vol. 100, No. 1, Pp. 1-2.
April 24, 2013 Aztecs relive Kennedy’s 1963 visit, (by Arturo Garcia). The Daily Aztec, Vol. 99, No. 106, Pp. 1-2.
April 24, 2013 Campus relives historic Kennedy Address, (by Antonio Zaragoza). San Diego Union-Tribune, B1, B4.
February 13, 2013 SDSU seeks support and love to save Rock n’ Roll mural (by Amanda Guerrero), Daily Aztec, Vol. 99, Issue 57, P. 2.
January 25, 2013 SDSU Hidden Mural Uncovered (by David Rozul), Mission Times Courier, P. 8.
January 24, 2013 San Diego State University’s Hidden Art Student Murals, Archaeology (Electronic magazine).
October 10, 2012 San Diego State archaeologist digs into local history, (by John Wilkens). San Diego Union-Tribune, A1, A10.
August 20, 2012 SDSU history published (by Tara Millspaugh), Daily Aztec, Vol. 98, No. 1, P. 9.
March 1, 2012 Anthropology professor digs for answers (by Tara Millspaugh), Daily Aztec, 10.
October 2, 2011 Aztec Bowl’s Glory Resurfacing, (by Pat Flynn). San Diego Union-Tribune, B1, B5.
October 5, 2010 SDSU resurrects historical mural, (by Pat Flynn). San Diego Union-Tribune, A1, B1, B4.
October 5, 2010 Digging into San Diego Past, (by Pat Flynn). San Diego Union-Tribune, B1, B3.
February 24, 2010 Professor to Speak on Historic (or Priceless) Mural Restoration at SDSU, The Julian News. Volume 25, Issue 28, P. 3.
May 21, 2009 Jamestown Revisited, Malibu Surfside News, Volume 36, Number 29, P. 8.
September 24, 2008 Students digging for a career (by Daniel Iglesias). The Daily Aztec, Volume 94, Issue 15, P. 1.
September 15, 2008 To Touch the Past: Anthropology students expose the life of Nate Harrison, San Diego's first African-American resident, (by Coleen L. Geraghty). SDSUniverse.
August 15, 2008 Digging into San Diego’s Haunted History, (by Laura A. Gantz). SDSUniverse.
August 4, 2008 Uncovered artifacts (by Wendy Fry). The Daily Aztec, Volume 93, Issue 122, P. 1.
July 31, 2008 Digging Deep into History: SDSU team is excavating where haunted legend resides, (by Sherry Saavedra). San Diego Union-Tribune, B1, B3.
2008 Unearthing the Long-Buried Whaley House Cistern, (by Dean Glass). Save Our Heritage Organisation. Volume 39, Issue 1.
July 7, 2008 Digging up the Past, (by Laura A. Gantz). SDSUniverse.
May 19, 2008 Seth Mallios Uncovers the Past, (by Libba Jackson-D’Ambrosi). SDSUniverse.
April 2008 Who Makes What… (by Julia Beeson Polloreno). San Diego Magazine, Volume 60, Issue 64, Pp. 100-109.
March 10, 2008 Part of SDSU’s past uncovered (by Wendy Fry). The Daily Aztec, Volume 93, Issue 84, Pp. 1, 2.
March 3, 2008 Lost mural found (by Wendy Fry). The Daily Aztec, Volume 93, Issue 80, P. 3.
March 2, 2008 New life for old art, (by Sherry Saavedra). San Diego Union Tribune. B1, B4.
Spring 2008 To Touch the Past: Students expose the life of a San Diego legend, (by Coleen L. Geraghty) 360: The Magazine of San Diego State University. 32-33.
November 26, 2007 Finding local history buried in the past, (by Michele Clock) The San Diego Union-Tribune. A1, A16.
October 18, 2007 Restoration of ‘Lost’ WPA-Era Mural Nearly Complete, (by Mark Lester). SDSUniverse.
June 18, 2007 Arti-‘facts’ tell a new truth (by David J. Olender). The Daily Aztec, Volume 92, Issue 124.
May 27, 2007 Grave matters: Cemeteries are the repositories of San Diego’s past, (by Roger Showley) The San Diego Union-Tribune. D2.
May 1, 2007 Queen has date with new history, (by Johanna Neuman) Los Angeles Times. A7.
April 25, 2007 City of the Forgotten Dead: Buried Cemeteries Haunt San Diego History, (by Kelly Davis) San Diego Citybeat. 11-16.
April 25, 2007 The Mystery of the Shrinking Headstone, (by Kelly Davis) San Diego Citybeat. 14-15.
March 19, 2007 Seth Mallios’ Tales from the Crypt. SDSUniverse.
March 13, 2007 Digging up the dead: SDSU Professor finds lost burial grounds in San Diego County, (by David J. Olender). The Daily Aztec. 1.
Summer 2006 Mural, Mural on the Wall: Depression-era legacy rediscovered in Hardy Tower, (by Coleen L. Geraghty) 360: The Magazine of San Diego State University. 12-15.
June 19, 2006 Works in Progress, (by Lisa Petrillo). San Diego Union Tribune. B1.
June 12, 2006 Fully exposed. SDSUniverse.
May 26, 2006 Professor discovers ‘soul of university’, (by Lisa Petrillo). San Diego Union Tribune. A1.
May 15-18, 2006 What’s your summer adventure? (by Raven S. Tyson). The Daily Aztec, Volume 91, Issue 122.
May 8, 2006 Buried Treasure, (by Colleen Geraghty). SDSUniverse.
July 17, 2005 Dig reveals clues in life of pioneer, (by Lisa Petrillo). San Diego Union Tribune. B3.
July 15, 2005 Bringing to light a piece of the puzzle, (by Lisa Petrillo). San Diego Union Tribune. North Inland 1, 3.
April 24, 2005 Learning from the passed: Cemeteries provide the place for a group’s cultural undertaking: to understand the past, (by John Wilkens). San Diego Union Tribune. E1, E3.
April 24, 2005 Resting in peace can be tough, (by John Wilkens). San Diego Union Tribune. E1.
February 16, 2005 Artifacts provide clues, few answers, (by Andrew Phelps). North County Times. B1, B5.
December 1, 2004 Archaeologists from SDSU delve secrets of Nate Harrison’s cabin, (by David Ross). Valley Roadrunner. 1-5.
November 28, 2004 Personal plots: Loved ones find freedom, healing in unkempt National City pioneer cemetery, where anything goes for tombstones (by David Hasemyer). San Diego Union Tribune. B1, B5.
July 7, 2004 Students uncover 19th century cabin, (by Christina Stewart). The Daily Aztec. 1-2.
June 24, 2004 Searching for history on Palomar Mountain: SDSU students find ex-slave’s relics, (by Ruth Lepper). San Diego Union Tribune. B1, B5.
June 21, 2004 Unearthing San Diego County’s Rural Past, (by Colleen Geraghty). SDSUniverse.
July 16, 2003 Study’s grave concerns: SDSU grad students look at older headstones, (by Ruth Lepper). San Diego Union Tribune. B1, B10.
May 5, 2003 Professor Plots Lives of the Past, (by Jennifer Zwiebel). SDSUniverse.
Podcast
February 4, 2019 Presidential Investiture at SDSU, (by Adela de la Torre). SDSU Charla.
October 9, 2017 The Life and Legend of Nate Harrison, (by April Mahoney). On the Edge with April Mahoney.
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