Frederic Sellet CV

Curriculum Vitae

Personal Information

Associate Professor
Anthropology
University of Kansas
1415 Jayhawk Boulevard
637 Fraser Hall
Lawrence, KS 66045-7590  

Email Address: fsellet@ku.edu
Office Phone: 785-864-1042

Education

Ph.D., Anthropology, 1999 Southern Methodist University

Dissertation/Thesis: "A Dynamic View of Paleoindian Assemblages at the Hell Gap Site, Wyoming: Reconstructing Lithic Technological Systems"

Committee Members: D. Meltzer (chair), L. Binford, G. Frison, A. Marks, J. Pélegrin

Masters, Anthropology, 1992 Southern Methodist University

D.E.A. (advanced graduate degree), Quaternary Studies, 1989

Institut de Paléontologie Humaine, Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

Dissertation/Thesis: "Core Reduction Techniques: a Technological Approach of the Mousterian Site of Les Ramandils (Port la Nouvelle, Aude, France)" With honors, first in class.

Licence (equivalent to B.A), Ethnology, 1988

Université des Sciences Humaines de Strasbourg, France

Licence (equivalent to B.A), Art History and Archaeology, 1987 Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France

Maîtrise (Masters), Art History and Archaeology, 1987

Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France

Dissertation/Thesis: "Contribution to the Study of the Mousterian Lithic Industries of the Cave of le Portel (Ariège, France)" With honors.

Employment History  

Academic

University of Kansas, Lawrence

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, 2015 - Present

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, 2010 - 2015

University of Northern Colorado, Greeley

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, 2006 - 2010

University of South Florida, Tampa

Adjunct faculty member, Department of Anthropology, 2005 - 2006  

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Honorary Fellow, Department of Anthropology, 2004 - 2005

Research  

The Journey Museum, Rapid City, South Dakota

Post-doctoral Researcher, 1999 - 2003

Professional Memberships

Plains Anthropological Society (January 2014 - Present)

Society for American Archaeology (1993 - Present)

Honors/Awards/Honor Societies

Group Honors/Awards

2012 Project Team Award for “North Park Cultural Landscape Project”, Rocky Mountain Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (RM-CESU) (2012) With R. Brunswig.  

Individual Honors/Awards

Outstanding Faculty Nominee, University of Northern Colorado (2010) Recognized by a “First Year Scholar” (outstanding freshman).

Award for Excellence in Social Science Research and Scholarly Activity (for junior faculty), University of Northern Colorado, School of Social Sciences (2009)

College Scholar Award in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Northern Colorado (2009)

Weber Graduate Fellowship Award and Graduate Dean Award, Southern Methodist University

(1997)

(Dissertation grants)

First scholar in residence at the George Frison Institute, University of Wyoming (1996)

Fulbright scholar, Franco-American Commission for Educational Exchange; Lurcy Foundation grant (1990)

Research Key Words

Archaeology of the North American Plains and Rocky Mountains; Pleistocene and Holocene huntergatherers; Prehistoric technology: primarily the organization of lithic systems in small-scale societies  

Research/Scholarly Work

Publications

Reviewed/Refereed

Books

Robinson, E., & Sellet, F. (Eds.). (in press). Lithic Technological Organization and Paleoenvironmental Change. Springer Series: Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation. 

Sellet, F., Greaves, R., & Yu, P. L. (2006). Archaeology and Ethnoarchaeology of Mobility. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 

Book Chapters

Sellet, F. (in press). My flute is bigger than yours: nature and causes of technological changes on the American Great Plains at the end of the Pleistocene. In E. Robinson & F. Sellet (Eds.), Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation.. Lithic Technological Organization and Paleoenvironmental Change. Springer Press.  

Sellet, F. (2011). Fallen Giants: The History of Paleoindian Point Types on the North American Plains. In D. Vialou (Ed.), Peuplements et Préhistoire en Amériques (pp. 97-105). Paris: CTHS, Documents Préhistoriques no 28, Editions du CTHS. (Invited)

Sellet, F., & Donohue, J. (2010). How Late is Late? Investigation of Early Holocene Adaptations at the Jim Pitts site, SD. In S. Hurst & J. L. Hofman (Eds.), Exploring Variability in Early Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways (Vol. 25, pp. 27-36). Lawrence: University of Kansas Publications in Anthropology. 

Sellet, F. (2006). Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: The Inference of Mobility Patterns from Stone Tools. In F. Sellet, R. Greaves, & P. Yu (Eds.), Archaeology and Ethnoarchaeology of Mobility (pp. 221-239). Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 

Sellet, F. (1995). Levallois or not Levallois, does it really matter? Learning from an African case. In H. Dibble & O. B. Yosef (Eds.), The Definition and Interpretation of Levallois Technology (pp. 25-39). Madison, Wisconsin: Prehistory Press. Monographs in World Archaeology n°23.   

Journal Articles

Sellet, F. (2015). A Fresh Look at the Age and Cultural Affiliation of the Sheaman Site. PaleoAmerica, 1(1), 81-87. 

Sellet, F. (2013). Anticipated Mobility and its Archaeological Signature: a Case Study of Folsom Retooling Strategies. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 32, 383-396. 

Sellet, F., Meltzer, D. J., Vialou, Á. V., & Vialou, D. (2011). An American (projectile point) in Paris. Current Research in the Pleistocene, 28, 152-154. 

Sellet, F., Donohue, J., & Hill, M. G. (2009). The Jim Pitts Site, a Multi-Component Paleoindian Site in the Black Hills of South Dakota. American Antiquity, 74(4), 735-758. 

Sellet, F., Donohue, J., & Hill, M. G. (2008). An Antler Tool from the Goshen Level of the Jim Pitts site, South Dakota. Current Research in the Pleistocene, 25, 142-144. 

Sellet, F. (2004). Beyond the Point: Projectile Manufacture and Behavioral Inference. Journal of Archaeological Science, 31(11), 1553-1566.   

Donohue, J., & Sellet, F. (2002). The Chronology of the Goshen Bone Bed at the Jim Pitts Site. Current Research in the Pleistocene, 19, 128-129.   

Hill, M. G., Hill, M. E., May, D. W., Myers, T. P., Rapson, D. J., Sellet, F., Theler, J. L., & Todd, L. C. (2002). 2001 Investigations at the Clary Ranch site, Nebraska. Current Research in the Pleistocene, 19, 32-34.   

Hill, M. G., Hill, M. E., May, D. W., Myers, T. P., Rapson, D. J., Sellet, F., Theler, J. L., & Todd, L. C. (2002). Paleoindian Subsistence Behavior at the Clary Ranch site, Nebraska, USA. Antiquity, 76, 311-312. 

Sellet, F., & Fosha, M. (2002). The Dalton Gang Strikes up North. Dalton Points in South Dakota. Current Research in the Pleistocene, 19, 130-131. 

Sellet, F. (2001). A Changing Perspective on Paleoindian Chronology and Typology. A View from the Northwestern Plains. Arctic Anthropology, 38(2), 48-63.   

Fosha, M., & Sellet, F. (2000). The Ghost Site, a Folsom/Goshen Locality in South Dakota. Current Research in the Pleistocene, 17, 26-27.   

Sellet, F., & Fosha, M. (2000). Distribution of Folsom and Goshen Artifacts in South Dakota. Current Research in the Pleistocene, 17, 74-75.   

Sellet, F. (1998). The French Connection, investigating a possible Clovis-Solutrean link. Current Research in the Pleistocene, 15, 66-67. 

Sellet, F. (1993). Chaîne Opératoire: the Concept and its Applications. Lithic Technology, 18(12), 106-112. 

Non-Reviewed/Refereed

Book Reviews

Sellet, F. (2011). [Review of the book Clovis Technology, by Bruce Bradley, Michael B. Collins and Andrew Hemmings. International Monographs in Prehistory, Ann Arbor, Michigan]. Plains Anthropologist, 56(217), 86-88. 

Sellet, F. (2000). [Review of the book Clovis Blade Technology, Michael B. Collins, University of Texas Press]. Journal of Field Archaeology, 27, 486-488. 

Newsletter Articles

Fosha, M., & Sellet, F. (2001). Preliminary Excavations at the Movie Draw Rockshelter 39CU1401 in Custer State Park. Newsletter of the South Dakota Archaeological Society, 30(4), 1-5. 

Technical Reports 

Brunswig, R., & Sellet, F. (2011). Final Report on 2009 Archaeological and Supporting Studies Research at 5JA421 and the Upper Ballinger Draw Valley, North Park, Colorado: Report to the Colorado State Historical Fund and the Bureau of Land Management, Kremmling District. Department of Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley.  Report to the Bureau of Land Management, Kremmling District.

Sellet, F. (2009). The Jim Pitts site. A multi-component Paleoindian campsite in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Report on the lithic assemblage (UNC Archaeology Laboratory Technical Series No. 3). Anthropology program, School of Social Sciences, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley.  Report to the South Dakota Archaeological Research Center, Rapid City.

Sellet, F., & Brunswig, R. (2008). Archaeological Investigations at 5JA421, 5JA1475 (Pederson Ridge), 5JA1804, and 5JA1805 in North Park Colorado. Anthropology program, School of Social Sciences, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley. Report to the Bureau of Land Management, Kremmling District.

Sellet, F., & Brunswig, R. (2008). Technical Report on the Descriptive Analysis of Prehistoric Artifacts and Radiocarbon-Dated Bison Bone from the Cathedral Butte Site (5MF625) and Vicinity (UNC Archaeology Laboratory Technical Series No. 2). Anthropology program, School of Social Sciences, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley.  Report to the Bureau of Land Management, Little Snake River Field Office, Craig, CO.

Ahler, S., Sellet, F., et al. (2006, October 23). Field Report Regarding Excavations for Archaeological Mitigation During July and August 2006 at an Agate Basin Cultural Component in Area A at the Beacon Island Site, 32MN23), Lake Sakakawea, North Dakota.  Submitted to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District.

Ahler, S., Sellet, F., et al. (2006, September). Final Report on Pre-Field Planning and Fieldwork Under the Save America’s Treasures Grant Program for Area A at the Beacon Island Site (32MN234), North Dakota.  Submitted to the Historic Preservation Division of the State Historical Society of North Dakota.  

Other Publications

Sellet, F. (2011). A Coffey Break. In Kansas Preservation (3rd ed., Vol. 33, pp. 16-18). 

Invited Presentations/Lectures

Sellet, F. (2015, January 18). The First Shamans of North America. Archaeological Evidence of Paleoindian Rituals. Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD.

Sellet, F. (2014, October 22). Hidden Treasure at the Smithsonian: A Folsom Stone Tube from the Lindenmeier site.Lindenmeier: Ancient Lives, Ancient Dreams” Symposium organized by the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery, Fort Collins.

Sellet, F. (2014, March). Shamanistic Practices of the Paleo-Americans. Archaeological Association of South Central Kansas, Wichita.

Sellet, F., & Hofman, J. (2013, April). My flute is bigger than yours: nature and causes of  technological changes on the American Great Plains at the end of the Pleistocene. “Lithic Technological Organization and Paleo-environmental Changes” organized by E. Robinson and F. Sellet, at the 78th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Honolulu.

Brunswig, R., & Sellet, F. (2011, October 9). The Numic Expansion, Ute Archaeology, and the Southern Rockies: New Insights from Stratified Hunting Camp Occupations in Colorado’s North Park Valley. Presented at the Rocky Mountains Anthropological Conference in “Federal Lands Heritage and Cultural Resources Research in the Rocky Mountains: a showcase of Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) System Projects”, chaired by PeiLin Yu and Robert Brunswig, Missoula, MT.

Sellet, F. (2008, April). Missing the Forest for the Trees: Uses and Abuses of Projectile Point Typology in Paleoindian Archaeology. Presented in “The Paleoindian Research Frontiers” organized by R. Brunswig and B. Pitblado, at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver.

Sellet, F., & Brunswig, R. (2007, October 28). Parsing a Montane Park Landscape for Clues to Paleoindian Prehistoric Adaptations: Analytical Frameworks for the UNC North Park Cultural Landscape Project. Presented in “Paleoindian Research in the Southern and Middle Rocky Mountains”, organized by Bonnie Pitblado, at the Rocky Mountain Anthropological Conference, Jackson, WY.

Sellet, F., & Fosha, M. (2007, October 13). An Avonlea Rock Shelter in the Black Hills: Report on Test Excavations at the Movie Draw Site (39CU1401). Presented in “Caves and Rockshelters of the Black Hills”, organized by A. Tratebas and R. Weathermon, 65th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference, Rapid City, South Dakota.

Sellet, F. (2007, April). Folsom retooling strategies. Presented in “Current and Future Directions in the Paleoindian Archaeology of the Great Plains and Southwest”, organized by M. Bever, 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin.

Sellet, F. (2006, November). Invited participant, closed-door workshop:  “Special Session: Hard Comparisons: Paleoindian-Archaic Lithics in Person”, Chairs: Jack L. Hofman and Neal H. Lopinot, 64th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference, Topeka.  

Sellet, F. (2006, April). How Late Is Late? Presented at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in “Hunter and Gatherer lifeways of the early Holocene”, organized by S. Hurst and J. Taylor-Montoya, San Juan.

Sellet, F. (2001, April). Stones in Space: Voyage in Virtual Reality? Presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in “Multiple Occupations and Complex Depositions: Archaeology in Three Dimensions (Beyond Stratigraphy?)”, organized by M. Kornfeld and J. Enloe, New Orleans. 

Sellet, F. (2000, April). Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: The Inference of Mobility Patterns from Stone Tools. Presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Philadelphia.

Presentations/Lectures

Reynolds, C., Wismer-Lanoe, M., Brunswig, R., & Sellet, F. (2014, April). Fragmentation of Late Prehistoric Faunal Remains in Northeastern Colorado. 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin.

Sellet, F., Brunswig, R., Mandel, R., Guarino, M., & Robinson, E. (2013, October 19). The Paleoenvironmental and archaeological context of the Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene transition at the KibRidge site. Paleoamerican Odyssey Conference, Santa Fe.

Sellet, F., & Brunswig, R. (2013, March 15). Public Lands and University Partnerships through the CESU System: University of Northern Colorado and BLM Heritage Studies in the North Park Valley, Southern Colorado Rockies. Presented at the George Wright Society Meetings “Protected Areas in a Changing World” in “Cultural resource research, education, and technical assistance projects on Colorado's public lands”, Denver.

Sellet, F., & Brunswig, R. (2010, November). Archaeology and Civic Engagement Partnerships on Public Lands. Presented at the 43rd Annual Chacmool Conference, Calgary.

Sellet, F., Jodry, M., & Stanford, D. (2010, April). « Ceci n’est pas une pipe? » A Possible Paleoindian Pipe from the Lindenmeier Site. Presented at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis.

Sellet, F., Brunswig, R., Mayer, J., & Morris, R. W. (2008, October 4). The Cathedral Butte Site: A Late Paleoindian Assemblage from North West Colorado. Presented at the 66th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference, Laramie, WY.

Sellet, F., & Brunswig, R. (2008, April). Ten Thousand Years of North Park Archaeology: Current Status of UNC’s North Park Cultural Landscapes Project. Presented at the Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists Annual Meeting, Fort Collins.

Sellet, F., & Brunswig, R. (2007, September 29). Mountain Basin Hunting Systems and Strategies: Evidence from UNC’s North Park Cultural Landscapes Project. Presented at the Colorado Archaeological Society Meetings, Aurora, CO.

Sellet, F., & Fosha, M. (2004, May). The Movie Draw Rockshelter, a Late Woodland-Late Prehistoric Presence in the Black Hills. Presented at Island in the Plains, 12th Annual Black Hills Archaeological Symposium, Keystone.

Hill, M. G., Sellet, F., et al. (2003, October). 2003 Excavations at the Clary Ranch Site, Garden County (Ash Hollow), Western Nebraska: Resolving aspects of the Formation History. Presented at the 61st Annual Plains Anthropological Conference, Fayetteville.

Sellet, F., & Fosha, M. (2003, October). Preliminary Assessment of the Late Woodland-Late Prehistoric Archaeological Sequence at the Movie Draw Rockshelter, South Dakota. Presented at the 61st Annual Plains Anthropological Conference, Fayetteville.

Sellet, F., Hill, M. G., & Donohue, J. (2002, October). Archaeofaunal Remains from the Jim Pitts Site, Custer Co., South Dakota. Presented at the 60st Annual Plains Anthropological Conference, Oklahoma City.

Sellet, F. (2002, March). Folsom Specialists? Where Is the Point? Presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver.

Hill, M. G., Sellet, F., et al. (2001, October). 2001 Investigations at the Clary Ranch Site, Garden County (Ash Hollow), Nebraska. Presented at the 59th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference, Lincoln.

Sellet, F., & Donohue, J. (2001, April). The Jim Pitts Site and the Goshen-Plainview Problem. Presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.

Sellet, F., & Fosha, M. (2001, February). New Paleoindian Finds in Western South Dakota, Implications for Black Hills Prehistory. Presented at Island in the Plains, 9th Annual Black Hills Archaeological Symposium, Rapid City.  

Sellet, F., & Fosha, M. (2001, February). The Movie Draw Site, a Multi-Component Rockshelter in the Eastern Black Hills. Presented at Island in the Plains, 9th Annual Black Hills Archaeological Symposium, Rapid City.

Sellet, F., & Hill, M. G. (2000, November). Refinements of Folsom Subsistence and Technological Organization at Agate Basin. Presented at the 58th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference, St. Paul.

Sellet, F. (1999, October). Preliminary Analysis of the Jim Pitts Lithic Collections: the Paleoindian Levels. Presented at the 57th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference, Sioux Falls.

Sellet, F. (1998, April). Stone Tools, mobility and subsistence: New Insights into the Economic Organization of Early Paleoindians at the Hell Gap Site, Wyoming. Presented at the 63rd Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle.

Sellet, F., & Kornfeld, M. (1996, April 14). Organization of Chipped Stone Technology at the Hell Gap Site: the Early Paleoindian Complexes. Presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.

Sellet, F., & Frison, G. (1994, April 24). Hell Gap Revisited. Presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Anaheim.

Sellet, F. (1993, May 15). Technological Analysis of the Levallois Reduction Strategy of an African Khormusan Assemblage. Presented at "The definition and interpretation of Levallois technology", organized by H. Dibble and O. Bar Yosef, Philadelphia.  

Sellet, F. (1993, April 18). Another Look at Folsom Technology. Presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis.

Sellet, F. (1992, October 23). The Operating Chain: the Concept and its Applications. Presented at "Archaeological lithic classification: philosophy, purposes, taxonomy and communication", organized J. L. Lanata and M. B. Collins, The University of Texas at Austin.

Research Funding/Fellowships

University of Kansas

Externally-Funded Grant/Contract

Funded

Sellet, F. (Principal). Archaeological investigations of the Coffey site, Kansas. In collaboration with the Kansas Historical Society and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
(Current project)

Sellet, F. (Principal), & Brunswig, R. (Co-Principal). Northwestern Colorado Paleoindian Project. In collaboration with the Bureau of Land Management Little Snake Field Office. Investigation of the KibRidge Paleoindian site. (Current project)

Brunswig, R. (Principal), & Sellet, F. (Co-Principal). UNC North Park Cultural Landscape Project. In collaboration with the Bureau of Land Management Kremmling Field Office. Archaeological explorations of North Park, Colorado. (Current project)

Sellet, F. (Principal). Archaeological Evaluation of the KibRidge site (5MF3687) for Nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. US Bureau of Land Management, $10,000 ($35,000), Submitted August 28, 2015 (May 15, 2016 - May 14, 2019).

Sellet, F. (Co-Principal), & Brunswig, R. (Co-Principal). North Park Cultural Landscape project. The Bureau of Land Management, Kremmling district (2009 - 2013). Five-year assistance agreement, funded amount: $50,000. To-date annual grant amounts are for year 2009: $10,000; 2010: $7,000; 2011: $14,000.

Sellet, F. (Co-Principal), & Brunswig, R. (Co-Principal). Northwestern Colorado Paleoindian Project. The Bureau of Land Management, Little Snake district (2009 - 2013). Five-year assistance agreement, funded amount: $50,000. To-date annual grant amounts are for year 2009: $10,000; 2010: $7,000; 2012: $10,000.

New Faculty General Research Fund  

Funded

Sellet, F. (Principal). Searching for the First American. University of Kansas $8,000 (2012). The Journey Museum

Externally-Funded Grant/Contract

Funded 

Sellet, F. (Principal). People on the Fringe: Exploitation of Contrasting Environments on the North American Plains. NSF#0209605, National Science Foundation $22,000 (2002).  

Sellet, F. (Principal). Discovering Archaeology. Ludwick Foundation $31,000 (2000).

Sellet, F. (Principal). Jim Pitts project. $23,000 (2000). Private funds for the Jim Pitts project. University of Northern Colorado, Greeley

Externally-Funded Grant/Contract  

Funded

Sellet, F. (Co-Principal), & Brunswig, R. (Co-Principal). North Park Cultural Landscape project (Phase 2). The Colorado Historical Society, State Historical Fund, grants for historic preservations $53,000 (2009).

Sellet, F. (Principal). Weaponry manufacture and prehistoric adaptations: quantifying projectile point production at the Lindenmeier site. Smithsonian Institution Senior Fellowship (2009).

Sellet, F. (Co-Principal), & Brunswig, R. (Co-Principal). Archaeological Reconnaissance of 5MF625, Moffat County, CO (Little Snake River). The Bureau of Land Management, Kremmling district $2,500 (2008).  

Sellet, F. (Co-Principal), & Brunswig, R. (Co-Principal). North Park Cultural Landscape project. The Bureau of Land Management, Kremmling district $4,000 (2008).

Sellet, F. (Co-Principal), & Brunswig, R. (Co-Principal). North Park Cultural Landscape project. The Colorado Historical Society, State Historical Fund, grants for historic preservations $47,000 (2008).

Sellet, F. (Co-Principal), & Brunswig, R. (Co-Principal). Technical Study and Analysis of Artifacts and Faunal Material for Archeological Site 5MF625. The Bureau of Land Management, Little Snake district $2,200 (2008).

Not Funded 

Sellet, F. (Principal). Smithsonian Institution Postdoctoral Fellowship. Smithsonian Institution (2006).
(Unable to accept due to competing obligations at University of Northern Colorado)

Other Organization or University

Externally-Funded Grant/Contract

Funded

Sellet, F. (Principal). A dynamic view of Paleoindian assemblages at the Hell Gap site, Wyoming: reconstructing lithic technological systems. NSF#SBR-9317353, National Science Foundation doctoral dissertation grant $11,000 (1993).

Sellet, F. (Principal). Lurcy Foundation grant (Fulbright). Lurcy Foundation $12,000 (1990).

Dissertation/Thesis Supervision

University of Kansas

Dissertation Committee Chair
Michael Guarino, Status: in progress.
Greg Kauffman 2014-2016.

Dissertation Committee Member Kale Bruner, Status: in progress.

Andrew Gottsfield, Status: in progress.

Leila Joyce, Geology, Status: in progress.

Shannon Ryan, Status: in progress.

Brendon Asher, Status: completed. August 11, 2015

Alison Hadley, Status: completed. May 11, 2015

Laura Murphy, Status: completed. March 27, 2015

Emily Williams, Status: completed. February 17, 2015

Erin Dempsey, Status: completed. 2012

Doctoral Comprehensive Exam Committee Member

Brendon Asher, Status: completed. April 29, 2014

Doctoral Oral Comprehensive Committee Member

Shannon Ryan, Status: completed. February 19, 2015

Master's Committee Chair

Nicholas Arnhold, Status: completed. December 5, 2014

Master's Committee Member

Michael Hugh Davis, Status: completed. June 15, 2015

Master's Thesis Committee Chair Phillip Alig, Status: in progress.

Allison K Douglas, Status: completed. November 10, 2015

Michael Guarino, Status: completed. December 4, 2014

Master's Thesis Committee Member

Adam Benfer, Status: completed. 2012

Juli Tarabek, Status: completed. 2012

KU Courses Taught (past five years)  

Fall 2016

ANTH 313-26690, New Discoveries in Archaeology

ANTH 500-30096, Topics in Archaeology: The First Americans

ANTH 996-19437, Graduate Research

Spring 2016

ANTH 110-50191, Introduction to Archaeology

ANTH 310-50220, Introduction to Archaeology

ANTH 504-66948, North American Archaeology

ANTH 996-59440, Graduate Research

Fall 2015

ANTH 110-10184, Introduction to Archaeology

ANTH 310-10209, Introduction to Archaeology

ANTH 853-26509, Theor&Currnt Problm Archaeolgy

ANTH 899-20328, Master's Thesis

ANTH 996-20330, Graduate Research

Spring 2015

ANTH 110-50231, Introduction to Archaeology

ANTH 310-50266, Introduction to Archaeology

ANTH 851-67131, Data Analysis in Archaeology: Lithics

ANTH 996-60465, Graduate Research

ANTH 999-60402, Doctoral Dissertation

Fall 2014

ANTH 110-10311, Introduction to Archaeology

ANTH 310-10337, Introduction to Archaeology

ANTH 899-21391, Master's Thesis

ANTH 996-21393, Graduate Research  

Summer 2014

ANTH 899-85857, Master's Thesis

Spring 2014

ANTH 110-50315, Introduction to Archaeology

ANTH 310-50351, Introduction to Archaeology

ANTH 504-64015, North American Archaeology

ANTH 896-61457, Graduate Research

ANTH 899-61460, Master's Thesis

Fall 2013

ANTH 110-10360, Introduction to Archaeology

ANTH 310-10394, Introduction to Archaeology

ANTH 313-22635, New Discoveries in Archaeology

ANTH 899-22666, Master's Thesis

Spring 2013

ANTH 504-68190, North American Archaeology ANTH 851-68202, Data Analysis in Archaeology:

ANTH 996-62679, Graduate Research

Fall 2012

ANTH 313-24136, New Discoveries in Archaeology

ANTH 853-26041, Theor&Currnt Problm Archaeolgy

ANTH 899-24197, Master's Thesis

Spring 2012

ANTH 499-63813, Senior Honors Research

ANTH 996-64064, Graduate Research

Summary List of Courses Taught

University of Kansas (Fall 2010 - Present)

New Discoveries in Archaeology ANTH 313 (Fall 2011; Fall 2012)

Summer Archaeological Fieldwork ANTH 418-889 (Summer 2011)

Archaeology of North America ANTH 504 (Spring 2011, Spring 2013)

Data Analysis: Advanced Lithic Studies ANTH 851 (Spring 2011, Spring 2013)

Theory and Current Problems in Archaeology ANTH 853 (Fall 2010; Fall 2012)

Introduction to Archaeology, Honors Section, ANTH 111 (Fall 2010)

University of Northern Colorado (2006 - 2010)

World Archaeology ANT 120 (2006-10)

Colorado Archaeology and Beyond ANT 121-221 (2007-08)

Archaeological Research Methods ANT 220 (2006-10)

Prehistoric Art ANT 222 (2009)

Prehistory of the Americas ANT 321 (2006)

Archaeology of North America ANT 321 (2007-10)

Ancient Civilizations ANT 323 (2006-09)

Archaeological Field School ANT 325-525 (2007-10)

First Americans ANT 408 (2007)

University of South Florida (2005)

North American Archaeology ANTH 4153 (2005)  

University Service

University of Northern Colorado

Undergraduate Advisor (2006 - 2010)  

Department Service

University of Kansas

Anthropology 

Chair (Appointed)

Graduate Committee. (August 2014 - December 2015)  

Co-Chair

Undergraduate Committee. (2011)

Member

Graduate Committee. (August 2012 - December 2015)

Committee for the KU Core Curriculum Development. (2012)

Academic Misconduct Committee. (2011)

Undergraduate Committee. (2010 - 2011)

Member (Appointed)

Faculty Evaluation Committee. (Fall 2014 - Present)

University of Northern Colorado 

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Member

College Awards Committee. (2006 - 2009)

Professional Service

Editorial Responsibilities

Editorial Board Member

Current Research in the Pleistocene. (2009 - 2012)

Other Professional Service  

Discussant

"Refitting in multiple contexts: Why aren't we doing more of it?". Organized by G. McCall, 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan (April 2006)

Organizer

Symposium: Lithic Technological Organization and Paleo-environmental Changes. With E. Robinson, to be held at the 78th Annual Meeting for the Society for American Archaeology, Honolulu (2013)

Symposium: Subsistence, Material and Demographic Approaches to Mobility. With R.

Greaves and P. Yu, Philadelphia. Participants: M. Alvard, L. Binford, N. Chagnon, C.

Chang, M. Conkey, N. Craig, R. Greaves, R. Kelly, M. Ogilvie, G. Politis, D. Price, F. Sellet, P. Thacker, G. Tostevin, P. Veth, P.L. Yu (April 2000)

Reviewer

American Antiquity.

Current Anthropology.

Current Research in the Pleistocene.

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.

Journal of Anthropological Research.

Journal of Anthropological Science.

Journal of Field Archaeology.

Plains Anthropologist.

PLOS One

National Science Foundation.

Research Foundation - Flanders FWO (Belgium).

Service Presentations  

Sellet, F. De Clovis a Folsom. Nature ou Culture? National Museum of Natural History, Institute of Human Paleontology (IPH), Paris, France. (Invited)

Sellet, F. Le Peuplement Pré-Clovis de L’Amérique du Nord. Où, Quand et Comment? National Museum of Natural History, Institute of Human Paleontology (IPH), Paris, France. (Invited)  

Sellet, F. (2013). Les pratiques chamaniques du Paléo-Indien Nord Américain. Institute of Human Paleontology (IPH), Paris.   

Sellet, F. (2012). Weapons of mass production," "Folsom projectiles as an archaeological measure of planning depth and prehistoric mobility strategies. University of Kansas, Explorations in Archaeology Series. 

Sellet, F. (2011). La mobilité des groupes Folsom et l’organisation de leur technologie lithique. Institute of Human Paleontology (IPH), Paris. 

Sellet, F., & Brunswig, R. (2010). A potpourri of archaeological research at UNC and beyond. Colorado Archaeology Society, Indian Peak Chapter, Boulder. 

Sellet, F., & Brunswig, R. (2009). 2008 North Park archaeological excavations. Colorado Archaeology Society, Indian Peak Chapter, Boulder. 

Sellet, F. (2009). Of pronghorn, corn and... mosquito bites: a tale of Holocene adaption to the mountains of Colorado. University of Kansas. 

Sellet, F., & Brunswig, R. (2008). UNC's North Park Cultural Landscapes Project: archaeological research into ten millennia of mountain basin hunting and gathering. Colorado Archaeology Society, Indian Peak Chapter, Boulder.   

Sellet, F. (2007). Need for Speed (II): how Paleoindian planning depth is written in stone. University of Iowa. 

Sellet, F. (2007). The Movie Draw site, a stratified site in the Black Hills. Colorado State University, Fort Collins. 

Sellet, F. (2007). The peopling of the Americas. New and current theories. Ft. Morgan Museum. 

Sellet, F. (2006). Burgers and French fries, the Solutrean hypothesis and the peopling of the New World. Wake Forest University, Museum of Anthropology. 

Sellet, F. (2005). Florida Anthropological Society, Gulf Coast Chapter, St Petersburg. 

Sellet, F. (2004). University of Wisconsin, Madison. 

Sellet, F. (2003). University of Montréal. 

Sellet, F. (2002). Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. 

Sellet, F. (2001). Denver Museum of Nature and Science, South Dakota Archaeological Society. 

Other Activity or Information

Guest Lectures before 2001

Augustana College; Colorado State University field-school; South Dakota Archaeological Society; Darton Geological Society; Friends of the Prehistoric Prairies Society; Institut de Paléontologie Humaine, Paris; University of Texas at Arlington; Southern Methodist University

External or International Connections and Collaborations

 Research Associate

Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C. (2010 - Present)

Research Associate

CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research, France) (2011 - Present)  

Visiting Professorship

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Paris, France (February 2017)  

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Paris, France (February 2016)

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Paris, France (April 2015)

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Paris, France (February 2013)  

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Paris, France (February 2011)