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Kathy Schick, co-director
Kathy received her Ph.D. in 1984 from The University of California at Berkeley. Her interests in Old World prehistory, palaeoanthropology, archaeological site formation, zooarchaeology, lithic technology, and primate studies have led her to conduct fieldwork in Africa, Asia and Europe, as well as laboratory research in the United States. She was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2004, and received the Distinguished Faculty Research Award from Indiana University in 1997.
Nicholas Toth, co-director
Nick received his Ph.D. in 1982 for The University of California at Berkeley. His research interests include African prehistory, palaeolithic studies, the evolution of human intelligence, lithic technology, experimental archaeology, microscopic approaches to archaeology, zooarchaeology, ethnoarchaeology, and primate studies. He is currently involved in experimental investigations of stone tool-making and tool-using behaviors of modern African apes and of the manufacture and use of early Palaeolithic tools. Dr. Toth was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2004.
Mila Norman, Administrative Secretary & Chief of Staff
Mila came to The Stone Age Institute in October of 2004 to serve as our Administrative Secretary. Mila has been with Indiana University for twenty years, first working seven years in Contract Administration and then serving twelve years as Office Manager in the School of Public & Environmental Affairs’ Transportation Research Center. Mila is a life-long resident of Monroe County and brings many years of experience to our organization.
Mohamed Sahnouni
Mohamed received a Doctorat 3eme cycle in 1985 from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) and a Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1996. He is the director of Paleoanthropological investigations in the Setifian sedimentary basin of northeastern Algeria and has research interests in Old World Archaeology, Paleoanthropology, Lithic technology & typology, Geo-Archaeology, African Prehistory, Prehistory of North African and Middle East, Prehistoric Rock Art, Plio-Pleistone stratigraphy & Biochronology.
Sileshi Semaw
Sileshi received his Ph.D. in 1997 from Rutgers University. He is the director of the Gona Paleoanthropological Research Project in Afar, Ethiopia, and has major research interests in Palaeolithic archaeology, lithic technology, human evolutionary studies, African prehistory, and Oldowan technology. Among other things, Sileshi's work at Gona has documented the oldest known stone tools in the world, at an age of 2.6 million years.
Tom Schoenemann
Tom received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley, and most recently taught at James Madison University in Virginia. He joined the Anthropology faculty and the Stone Age Institute in 2009. His research interests focus on the evolution of primate and hominin brains and the evolution of human intelligence.
Fritz Hanselmann
Fritz focuses on underwater archaeology and the prehistory and history of the Caribbean. He is conducting research in the Dominican Republic, including a study of Captain Kidd’s shipwreck. He is working at the Stone Age Institute on our “From the Big Bang to the World Wide Web” educational project.
Blair Hensley-Marchand
Blaire received her B.A. in Anthropology in 2006 from Indiana University. Her major research interests include zooarchaeology, taphonomy, primate behavior, experimental archaeology, and early hunting and scavenging. She has participated in archaeological fieldwork at Pinnacle Point, South Africa and in paleontological surveys in Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin. Blaire graduated with highest honors and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa in 2006.
Robert Mahaney
Robert received his B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He is especially interested in the archaeological evidence for the evolution of human intelligence as well as the evolution of the human brain.
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Ryan Littrell
Ryan is an Anthropology major at Indiana University, especially interested in paleoanthropology. He is a research assistant at the Stone Age Institute.
Postdoctoral Affiliates
Parth Chauhan
Parth received his Ph.D. in 2005 from the University of Sheffield (U.K.) and his M.A. from Deccan College Post-graduate & Research Institute (India). He worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Stone Age Institute for three years. His area of specialization is the paleoanthropology of the Indian subcontinent. He has recently been working in India on a Fulbright Research Fellowship and is presently conducting archaeological research in India.
Pei Shuwen
Pei is a postdoctoral fellow at the Stone Age Institute this year. He is a research scientist at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, China, and works at the Early Stone Age sites in the Nihewan Basin, Hebei Province, and other archaeological localities in China.
other Affiliates
Amy Sutkowski
Amy received her B.A. in Fine Arts from Indiana University. She works at the Stone Age Institute doing graphic design for various Institute projects, including the Stone Age Institute publication series, web site, and brochures and announcements.
Sharon Grubb
Sharon is our caretaker and groundskeeper at the Institute. She also works designing kitchens in town and is a spectacular baker!
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