Lauren Edith Young Norman CV


Curriculum Vitae

Department of Anthropology
622 Fraser Hall
1415 Jayhawk Blvd., University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045-7556
Office: 785-864-1854
Email:  lauren_norman@ku.edu

Education

2015 Ph.D., Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto. 

2009 M.Sc., Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto. 

2006 B.A., Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria.


Professional Appointments 

2019-present Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas.  

2016-2019       Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas.   


Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

2018                Comparing the fill and floor: Using a taphonomic framework to identify occupational histories at a collapsed semi-subterranean feature in northwest Alaska. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 28: 782-792.  

2018                Using ethnohistoric documents as analogical tools: A case study from northwest Alaska. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 51: 1-15.  

2017                Norman, Lauren E. Y., T. Max Friesen, Claire Alix, Michael J. E. O’Rourke, and Owen K. Mason. An early Inupiaq occupation: Observations on a Thule house from Cape Espenberg, Alaska. Open Archaeology 3: 17-48.  

2016                Friesen, T. Max, and Lauren E. Y. Norman. The Pembroke Site: Thule Inuit Migration on Southern Victoria Island. Arctic 69(1):1-18. 

2010                Norman, Lauren, and T. Max Friesen. Thule fishing revisited: The economic importance of fish at the Pembroke and Bell sites, Victoria Island, Nunavut. Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography110(2): 261-278. 

2003                Rupert, J. L., K. Kidd, L. E. Norman, M. V. Monsalve, P. W. Hochachka, and D. V. Devine. Genetic polymorphisms in the renin-angiotensin system in highaltitude and low-altitude Native American populations. Annals of Human Genetics 67(1): 17-25.

Book Chapters

2018                Alix, Claire, Owen K. Mason, and Lauren E. Y. Norman. Whales, wood, and

baleen in northwestern Alaska: Reflection on whaling through wood and boat technology at the Rising Whale site. In Whale on the Rock II, edited by Sang-Mog Lee, pp. 39-66. Ulsan Petroglyph Museum.

Book Reviews

2016                Review of The Wales, Alaska, Archaeology Project, 1996-2006, by Roger K. Harritt, 2015. Alaska Journal of Anthropology 14(1&2): 133-134. 

In Submission

Norman, Lauren E. Y., Christopher E. Barrett, Sarah Ragsdale, Anne M. Jensen, Dennis H.

O’Rourke, and Jennifer Raff. Ethical aspects of community-based paleogenomics research using museum samples. In Contextualizing Museum Collections at the Smithsonian Institution: The Relevance of Collections-Based Research in the 21st Century, edited by Maria M. Martinez, Eric Sears, and Lauren Sieg. Smithsonian Institute.

O’Rourke, Dennis H., Justin Tackney, and Lauren E. Y. Norman. An Arctic lens for the

American migration: Integrating genomics, archaeology, and paleoecology. In Human Migration: Biocultural Perspectives, edited by Lourdes Munoz Moreno and Michale H. Crawford. Oxford University Press. 

Anderson, Shelby, Katie Braymer, Claire Alix, Christyann M. Darwent, John Darwent, Owen Mason, and Lauren E. Y. Norman. Studying pre-contact gendered use of space in the Arctic: Spatial analysis of ceramics in northwestern Alaska. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.

Reuther, Joshua D., Scott Shirar, Owen K. Mason, Shelby Anderson, Joan B. Coltrain, Adam Freeburg, Peter M. Bowers, Claire Alix, Christyann M. Darwent, and Lauren E.

Y. Norman. Marine reservoir effects in seal (Phocidae) bones in the Bering Strait region, northwestern Alaska. Radiocarbon. 

Reports

2018                Alix, Claire and Owen K. Mason with contributions from Shelby Anderson,

Reyce Bogardus, Nancy Bigelow, Amber Lincoln, Lauren Norman, Chris Maio, Marine Vanlandeghem, Dennis O’Rourke, Jeffrey Rasic, Mike Lorain, and Anna Prentiss. Birnirk Prehistory and the Emergence of Inupiaq Culture in Northwest

Alaska: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives. Field Investigations at

Cape Espenberg, 2017. Annual Report to the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, Fairbanks, AK. 

2017                Alix, Claire, avec contributions de Owen K. Mason, Lauren Norman, Marine Vanlandeghem, Chris Maio, et Nancy Bigelow. Rapport sur les opérations réalisées de juin à août dans le nord-ouest de l’Alaska, Cape Espenberg. University Paris 1, Panthéon Sorbonne, CNRS – ArchAm. 

2017                Alix, Claire, Owen K. Mason, Lauren Norman, Nancy Bigelow, and Chris Maio. Birnirk Prehistory and the Emergence of Inupiaq Culture in Northwest Alaska: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives. Field Investigations at Cape Espenberg, 2016. Annual Report to the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, Fairbanks, AK.  

2016                Alix, Claire, with contributions by O. K. Mason, L. Norman, D. O’Rourke, N. Bigelow, S. Grieve, L. Poupon, et M. Vanlandeghem. Rapport sur les opérations réalisées de juin à août dans le nord-ouest de l’Alaska. Mission, Cap Espenberg. University Paris 1, Panthéon Sorbonne, CNRS – ArchAm. 

Funding & Awards

Selected Grants 

2019                Research-Intensive Course Grant, Human Variation and Evolution, Center for Undergraduate Research, College of Liberal Arts and Science, University of Kansas, $1,000.

2018                Co-investigator, Ancient Alaskan Origins and Expansion: Re-Aligning

Archaeological and Genetic Evidence (PI: Jennifer Raff), Discipline Specific Research (DSR), 2019 Research Excellence Initiative in the College of Liberal Arts and Science, University of Kansas, $12,000.

2018                Genome Sequencing Core Laboratory Voucher, Center for Molecular Analysis of Disease Pathways, University of Kansas, $5,375. 

2015, ‘14, ‘13 Ph.D. Conference Grant, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, $1,200, $840, $1000.

2012                School of Graduate Studies Conference Grant, University of Toronto, $200.

2012                School of Graduate Studies Travel Grant, University of Toronto, $3,000.

2012                Ph.D. Dissertation Grant, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, $1,500.

2011, 2010      Northern Science Training Program Grant, University of Toronto, $3,000; $2,900. 2010   Ph.D. Pilot                                                             Research Grant, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, $3,714.


Selected Scholarships & Fellowships

2014                Doctoral Completion Award, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, $4,545.

2013                Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Government of Ontario, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, $45,000.

2013, 2012         University of Toronto Fellowship, Department of Anthropology, $8,638, $5,000.

2009                Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canadian Graduate Scholarship—Doctoral, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, $105,000. 

2009                Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Government of Ontario, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, $15,000 (Declined).  

2009                C.B. MacPherson Graduate Admission Award, University of Toronto, $3,500.

2008                Ontario Graduate Scholarship—Thomas and Beverly Simpson Award, Government of Ontario, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, $15,000.

2007                Canadian Graduate Scholarship—Master’s, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, $17,500.

2007                C.B. MacPherson Graduate Admission Award, University of Toronto, $3,000.


Awards & Honours

2013                Teaching Assistant Award, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, $200

Invited Talks

2018                Shifting Social Landscapes: Changes in Subsistence Strategies and Group Identity in Northwest Alaska, Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Saskatchewan, January 3.  

2016                Beyond Subsistence: Interpretations of Past Animal and Human Lifeways from Arctic Archaeofaunas, Department of Anthropology, University of Tulsa, March 4.   

2012                Ethnography, Analogy, and Arctic Archaeofuanas: Assessing the Limits of Zooarchaeological Interpretation, Museum of the North, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Mammalogy Department, June 21. 


Selected Conference Activity

Papers

2019                Early Thule Inuit architecture: An anchor in migration and movement. Society for American Archaeology 84th Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, April 10-14.  

2019                Norman, Lauren, Owen K. Mason, and Claire Alix. What do whales have to do with it? Examining  the evidence for whale hunting at the Rising Whale site. 46th Annual Meeting of the Alaska                                                               Anthropological Association, Nome, AK, February 27-March 2.  

2018                  Norman, Lauren, Owen K. Mason, and Claire Alix. Whales within and without:

Subsistence and symbolism of whales in a Birnirk dwelling, northwest Alaska. XVIIIº World Congress of the Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques, Paris, France, June 4-9.

2018                Norman, Lauren, Claire Alix, and Owen K. Mason. Birnirk and Early Thule maritime hunter-gatherers: Variability in subsistence practices and tool technologies at Cape Espenberg, Alaska. XVIIIº World Congress of the Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques, Paris, France, June 4-9. 

2017                Arctic Analogies: Assessing the use of ethnohistoric sources to reconstruct activities in early Thule dwellings. 50th Meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association, Ottawa, ON/Gatineau, QC, May 10-13.   

2017                Norman, Lauren, Claire Alix, and Owen Mason. From Caribou to Seal: The implications of changes in subsistence focus from Birnirk to Thule at Cape Espenberg. Society for American Archaeology 82ndMeeting, Vancouver, BC, March 29-April 2.

2017                Norman, Lauren, Owen Mason, and Claire Alix. Fauna from the Cape:Variations in early Thule focal  resources. 44th Meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association, Fairbanks, AK, February 26-March 2. 

2016                Beyond the House: Similarities and differences in midden and house archaeofaunal assemblages. 49thMeeting for the Canadian Archaeological Association, Whitehorse, YK, May 4-7. 

2015                Ethnohistoric Designations of Cape Espenberg: Using subsistence patterns to investigate territorial divisions. 48th Meeting for Canadian Archaeological Association, St. John’s, NL, April 29-May2.  

2014                Constructing zooarchaeological life-histories: An Arctic case study. 12th International Conference of Archaeozoology, San Rafael, Argentina, September 22-27. 

2014                Study of a house: Spatial patterning of a Western Thule winter dwelling. Society for American Archaeology 79th Meeting, Austin, TX, April 23-27. 

2013                Seals and the Rest: Initial explorations of the archaeofaunal assemblage from Feature 87. Alaska Anthropological Association 40th Meeting, Anchorage, AK, March 13-16.  

2012                Seasonal Spaces: A comparison of the archaeofaunal spatial patterning of cold- and warm-season dwellings at the Pembroke Site, Nunavut. Canadian Archaeological Association, Montréal, QC, May 16-20. 

2012                Williams, Andrea, Ivan Kalmar, Lauren Norman, Susan Beckwith. Enhancing Student Learning and Engagement with an Effective Teaching Team. A Case Study of Collaborative Teaching in a Large First-Year Course. Teaching & Learning Symposium, University of Toronto, November 5th. 

Posters

2019                Kisielinski, Caroline Ashley, Justin Tackney, Lauren Norman, and Dennis H. O’Rourke. Application                                                      of sedaDNA to differentiate between ancient Arctic material cultural traditions. American Geophysical                                       Union 100th Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 9-13.

2019                Ragsdale, Sarah L., Lauren E. Y. Norman, Justin C. Tackney, Dennis H. O’Rourke. Ancient genetic                                                      analysis of the northwest Alaskan Birnirk to Thule archaeological transition. American Association of                                                      Physical Anthropologists 88th Meeting, Cleveland, OH, March 27-30.

Campus Talks

2017                From Land to Sea: Causes and Consequences of Changes in Subsistence at Cape Espenberg, Alaska, Explorations in Archaeology, University of Kansas, March 9.

2014                Critically Engaging the Ethnographic Record: A Case Study in Arctic Faunal Spatial Patterning, Archaeology Centre Research Day, Archaeology Centre, University of Toronto, February 28. 

2010                Seasonality in the Arctic: A case study of the Pembroke site, Victoria Island, Nunavut, Faunal Interest Group, Archaeology Centre, University of Toronto, November 5.   

2009                Terrestrially-Oriented Early Thule Inuit: A preliminary analysis of the Pembroke Site (NiNg-2), Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Arctic Student Network Research Symposium, University of Toronto, April 15. 

Research Experience

2016-present Faunal analyst and modern and ancient DNA researcher for Collaborative Research: People, Landscape and Narratives in Time—Birnirk and the emergence of Iñupiaq culture in northwest Alaska, NSF Polar Program.   

2019                Archaeologist on crew for preliminary field assessment of Bluefish Caves, Yukon for the ODYSSEY Archaeological Research Fund, Kansas Geological Survey, University of Kansas.  

2016, 2017      Crew chief for Collaborative Research: People, Landscape and Narratives in Time—Birnirk and the emergence of Inupiaq culture in northwest Alaska, NSF Polar Program. 

2013-2017       Faunal analyst for Dynamic Inuit Social Strategies in Changing Environments: A Long-Term Perspective, International Polar Year, Nunavut.

2015                Faunal analyst for the shìshàlh (Sechelt) Archaeology Project with the Canadian Museum of                                                                     History/Musée Canadien de l’Histoire.

2015                TATP Assistant, Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation, University of Toronto.

2011-2015       Faunal analyst for Human Response to Climate Change at Cape Espenberg AD 800-1400, International Polar Year, Alaska.

2011                Crew chief/field crew member for Human Responses to Climate Change at Cape Espenberg AD 800-1400, International Polar Year, Alaska.

2010, 2008      Field crew member for the project Dynamic Inuit Social Strategies in Changing Environments: A Long-Term Perspective, International Polar Year, Nunavut. 

2007                Field crew member for Iqaluktuuq Archaeology Project, Kitkimeot Heritage Society, Nunavut.

2007                   Archaeological Collections Management Assistant, Royal BC Museum, Victoria

2005                Field crew member for the Acari Valley Project, Peru.

2003                Field crew member for the Lubbock Lake Landmark, Texas, USA.

2000                Assistant researcher with the Heart and Stroke Foundation of BC and the Yukon at the University of British Columbia. 

Teaching Experience

     University of Kansas, Instructor Integrating Anthropology (capstone)

Human Variation and Evolution

Fundamentals of Biological Anthropology 

Pedagogical Workshops for Graduate Teaching Assistants

University of Toronto, Instructor  

Introduction to Anthropology: Becoming Human

Exploring Human-Animal Interactions

University of Kansas, Course Supervision for Graduate Teaching Assistants  

General Anthropology 

Fundamentals of Biological Anthropology

University of Toronto, Head Teaching Assistant

Introduction to Anthropology   

University of Toronto, Science Team Trainer

Teaching Assistants’ Training Program, Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation

University of Toronto, Teaching Assistant

      Introduction to Anthropology        

Introduction to Anthropology: Becoming Human

Faunal Archaeo-Osteology 

Becoming Human: Introduction to Biological Anthropology and Archaeology

First Nations of North America: Hunters, Gatherers, and Farmers

First Nations of North America: Social Complexity and the State

Human Skeletal Biology  

Professional Experience

Peer Review

Science, Quaternary International, Quaternary Research, Arctic, Études/Inuit/Studies, Arctic  Anthropology, Alaska Journal of Anthropology, Open Archaeology, Anthropozoologica. 

Ad-Hoc Review

National Science Foundation, 2017.  

Expert Review

National Geographic Kids Animal Encyclopedia (Mammals), 2019.  


Departmental/University Service

Undergraduate Committee, Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas, 2019.

Ad hoc Anthropology Research Group for Bio-Archaeological Studies, Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas, 2016.

Advisory Search Committee Member to the President for the Vice-President, Research and Innovation, University of Toronto, Graduate Student Member, 2014-2015.

STEP Forward Coordinator, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, 2014-2015.

Search Committee for a Limited Term Lecturer—Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Graduate Student Representative, 2014.

STEP Forward Proposal Evaluation Committee, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto, Graduate Student Representative, 2014.

STEP Forward Committee, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto, Graduate Student Representative, 2013-2014.

Advisory Committee for the Director of the Archaeological Centre, Faculty of Arts and Science, 

University of Toronto, Graduate Student Representative, 2012.

Extracurricular University Service  

Social Coordinator, Anthropology Graduate Student Union, University of Toronto, 2010-2011.

Treasurer, Arctic Student Network, University of Toronto, 2008-2011.

Co-President, Anthropology Graduate Student Union, University of Toronto, 2008-2009.

Graduate Student Union Representative, Anthropology Graduate Student Union, University of Toronto, 2007-2008.


Community Outreach

Cinema & Science + ARCTIC, Movie screening and Q&A discussion, Museum at Prairiefire, Overland Park, Kansas, 2019.  

Sarah Ragsdale, Lauren Norman, Justin Tackney, Claire Alix, Owen Mason, and Dennis H.

O’Rourke, An ancient genetic analysis of Thule individuals at Cape Espenberg, Alaska, Poster, Shishmaref, Alaska, 2019.

Out of the Field: Preliminary Results of the 2017 Field Season of the Cape Espenberg Birnirk Project, National Park Service, Nome, Alaska, 2017.

Community Workshop: Results of the 2017 Field Season of the Cape Espenberg Birnirk Project, Shishmaref, Alaska, 2017.

Cape Espenberg Archaeology Project: A Report on the 2016 Field Season, National Park Service, Kotzebue, Alaska, 2017. 

Who are the Thule? Origins and Diversity of the Ancestors of Modern Inuit, Men’s Breakfast Group, Cadboro Bay United Church, Victoria, BC, 2017. 

Community Workshop: Results of the 2016 Field Season of the Cape Espenberg Birnirk Project, Shishmaref, Alaska, 2016. 

Anthropological Archaeology: Studying Past Human Activities, TAIE International Institute, Toronto, ON, 2014. 

 

Media & Impact

Press Coverage  

NPR: All Things Considered (2017/12), The Atlantic (2017/04).

Other Media

Guest post “Conferencing in Nome” in My Life in the GeoSciences blog (2019/03).

Related Professional Skills  

2019 Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED from American Red Cross. 

2018 Bioinfomatics Workshop for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), University of Kansas.

2018 Bayesian Chronological Modeling Workshop, Society for American Archaeology, University of Glasgow, and SUERC.

2018 Software Carpentry, KU Libraries, University of Kansas.

2013 Wilderness First Aid CPF/AED Level C.

2010 Advanced Wilderness and Remote First Aid CPR/AED Level C.

2007 Canadian Firearms Safety Course for the Possession and Acquisition Licence. 

Selected Pedagogical Training

2014 Advanced University Teaching Preparation Certificate, Teaching Assistants’ Training Program, Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation, University of Toronto.  

2013 Teaching in Higher Education, Woodsworth College, University of Toronto.

Languages

English: first language. 

French: advanced reading, intermediate speaking, and writing.

Spanish: intermediate reading, beginner speaking and writing.

Professional Affiliations 

Society for American Archaeology (2011)

Canadian Archaeological Association (2012)

Alaska Anthropological Association (2013)

International Council for Archaeozoology (2014)

American Association of Physical Anthropologists (2015)

Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (2015)

National Postdoctoral Association (2015)

Union Internationale des Science Préhistoric et Protohistoriques (2017)


SReferences

Dennis H. O’Rourke, Foundation Distinguished Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Kansas 622 Fraser Hall
1415 Jayhawk Blvd.
Lawrence, KS, USA, 66045-7556
785-864-2642
orourke@ku.edu 


T. Max Friesen, Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Toronto
19 Russell Street
Toronto, ON, Canada, M5S 2S2
416-978-4505
max.friesen@utoronto.ca 

 

Owen K. Mason
Research Affiliate, INSTAAR
University of Colorado
Geoarch Alaska
220 West Sky Drive
Boise, ID, USA, 83702-2923
907-441-5598
geoarch85@gmail.com 
 

Claire Alix, Maître de Conférences
Université de Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne
Archéologie des Amériques, UMR 8096
Maison R. Ginouvès—Archéologie et Ethnologie
21 allée de l’université
92023 Nanterre Cedex, France +33 (0) 1 46 69 26 51
claire.alix@univ-paris1.fr