Kathryn Krasinski

Diplomas/Degrees

Diplomas/Degrees

Ph.D., University of Nevada, Reno (2010)

M.A., University of Alaska Anchorage (2005)

B.A., New York University (2002)

Professional Experience

Professional Experience

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

PART TIME FACULTY 
Adelphi University 
Department of Anthropology

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR 
Fordham University 
Department of Sociology and Anthropology

SELECTED RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2016-present PI, Survey of Ahtna Traditional Cultural Properties, BT Wygal (co-PIs). Supported by Chickaloon Village Traditional Council.

2015-present Co-PI, Fish Creek Dena’ina Village, BT Wygal, Knik Tribe, F Seager-Boss, R Martin (co-PIs). Supported by Adelphi University.

2015-present Co-PI, Holzman Site-a Late Pleistocene site in the Tanana Valley, Alaska, BT Wygal, C Holmes and B Crass (Co-PIs). Supported by Adelphi University.

2013-2016 PI, Cottonwood Creek Dena’ina Village, Western Knik Arm, Alaska, Matanuska-Susitna Borough, F Seager-Boss, Knik Tribe (co-PIs). Supported by State of Alaska.

2011-2015 Co-PI, Archaeological Survey of the Volkmar Lake and Goodpaster River Areas, Tanana Valley, Alaska, Adelphi University, BT Wygal, YA Gomez Coutouly and RM Tedor (co-PIs). Supported by French Foreign Ministry.

2010-2015 Co-PI, Prehistoric Economic Adaptations and Cultural Chronology of the Susitna Valley, Talkeetna Alaska, Adelphi University, BT Wygal and F Seager-Boss (co-PIs). Supported by State of Alaska and Adelphi University.

2006-2009 Archaeologist, Archaeological Survey and Excavation of Denali National Park and Preserve, Denali National Park.             

2008 Research Assistant, Elephant taphonomy and Late Stone Age to Early Iron Age archaeology of Hwange National Park Archaeological, Zimbabwe.

SELECTED CULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE

 2011-2016 Archaeologist Site Supervisor, Coastal Management Zone Survey, Cottonwood Creek Archaeological District National Register Nomination, land transfer surveys, Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska.                                                      

2004-2005 Staff Archaeologist and Laboratory Manager, Summit Envirosolutions, Nevada.                                                                                       

2004 Field Archaeologist, Kautz Environmental Consultants, Nevada.                                        

2003 Field and Laboratory Technician, Amaknak Bridge Site, Museum of the Aleutians, Dutch Harbor.                                                           

Recent Courses

Recent Courses

Archaeology Of Animals

Environmental Anthropology

First Year Seminar: Hazards, Disasters And Culture

Guided Readings Ancient Bodies

Peoples Of The North

You Are What You Eat: Anthropology Of Food

Specialization/Interests

Specialization/Interests

Anthropology of food, Archaeology, Zooarchaeology, Cultural adaptations and resilience in disasters, Peoples of the North, North American Indians, Archaeological and ethnographic field methods, Post-colonial approaches 

Research Interests

Research Interests

Hunter-gatherer subsistence, peopling of the Americas, Late Quaternary extinctions, cultural preservation and revitalization, community anthropology, zooarchaeology, taphonomy, subarctic.

International Experience

International Experience

2018-present   Collaborator (Archaeologist). Investigation of Bone Piles on New Island, Falkland Islands                         PIs Kit Hamley and Jacqueline Gill, University of Maine, Climate Change Institute.

2008                Research Assistant, Elephant taphonomy and Late Stone Age to Early Iron Age                                     archaeology of Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. PI Gary Haynes, University of                                     Nevada, Reno.

Chapters

Chapters

Krasinski, KE, F Seager-Boss (2022). Human rights and cultural resource management in the United States. In Globalisation, Ideology and Social Justice Discourses, edited by Joseph Zajda, Yvonne M. Vissing, and Suzanne Majhanovich, pp 169-188. Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research Volume 30. Springer, Dordrecht.

Graf, KE, LM DiPietro, KE Krasinski, BJ Culleton, DJ Kennett, AK Gore, HL Smith (2017). New Geoarchaeology and Geochronology at Dry Creek. In Dry Creek: Archaeology and Paleoecology of a Late Pleistocene Alaskan Hunting Camp, edited by T Goebel, pp 219-260. Texas A&M University Press, College Station.

Articles

Articles

* Student Co-Author

Rowe, AG, CP Bataille, S Baleka, EA Combs, BA Crass, DC Fisher, S Ghosh, CE Holmes, KE Krasinski F Lanoe, TJ Murchie, H Poinar, B Potter, JT Rasic, J Reuther, GM Smith, KJ Spaleta, BT Wygal, MJ Wooller (2024). A female woolly mammoth's lifetime movements end in an ancient Alaskan hunter-gatherer camp. Science Advances 10(3): eadk0818.

Hamley, KM, JL Gill, KE Krasinski, DV Groff, BL Hall, DH Sandweiss, JR Southon, P Brickle, TV Lowell (2022). Response to comment on “Evidence of prehistoric human activity in the Falkland Islands” (science.org) Science Advances 8(17):eabo6765. 

Surovell, TA, SA Allaun, BA Crass, JAM Gingerich, KE Graf, CE Holmes, RL Kelly, M Kornfeld, KE Krasinski, ML Larson, SR Pelton, BT Wygal (2022). Late date of human arrival to North America: Continental scale differences in stratigraphic integrity of pre-13,000 BP archaeological sites. PLoS ONE 17(4):e0264092.

Wygal, BT, KE Krasinski, CE Holmes, BA Crass, and KM Smith (2022). Mammoth Ivory Rods in Eastern Beringia: Earliest in North America. American Antiquity 86(4):59-79.

Hamley, KM, JL Gill, KE Krasinski, DV Groff, BL Hall, DH Sandweiss, JR Southon, P Brickle, and TV Lowell (2021). Evidence of prehistoric human activity in the Falkland Islands. Science Advances 7(44):eabh3803.

Haynes, G and K Krasinski (2021) Butchering marks on bones of Loxodonta africana (African savanna elephant): Implications for interpreting marks on fossil proboscidean bones. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 37: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X21001693?dgcid=coauthor

Haynes, G, K Krasinski, and P Wojtal (2020). Elephant bone breakage and surface marks made by trampling elephants: Implications for interpretations of marked and broken Mammuthus spp. bones. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 33, 102491.

Krasinski, KE and JC Blong (2020) Unresolved questions about site formation, provenience, and the impact of natural processes on bone at the Bluefish Caves, Yukon Territory. Arctic Anthropology 57(1):1-21.

Haynes, G, Krasinski, K., and Wojtal, P. (2020). A Study of Fractured Proboscidean Bones in Recent and Fossil Assemblages. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 1-70.

Wygal, BT and KE Krasinski. (2019) Post-glacial human colonization of Southern Alaska: the archaeology of Trapper Creek. Alaska Journal of Anthropology 17(1): 77-101.

Krasinski, KE. (2018). Archaeological Concepts of Remoteness and Land-Use in Prehistoric Alaska. Human Ecology 46(5):651-663.

Wygal, BT, KE Krasinski, C Holmes, B Crass. (2018). Holzman South: A late Pleistocene archaeological site along Shaw Creek, Tanana Valley, Interior Alaska. PaleoAmerica 4(1):90-93.

Krasinski, KE, KE Graf, CC Burke. (2018). From taphonomy to human ecology: Interdisciplinary contributions by Gary Haynes and his colleagues, former students, and friends. Quaternary International 466(Part B):107-112.

Krasinski, KE. (2018). Multivariate evaluation of criteria for differentiating cut marks created from steel and lithic implements. Quaternary International 466(Part B):145-156.

Krasinski, KE, BT Wygal, *J Wells, R Martin, F Seager-Boss (2016). Detecting Late Holocene Cultural Landscape Modifications in the Susitna Valley, Southcentral Alaska, Boreal Forest with LiDAR Imagery. Journal of Field Archaeology 41(3):255-270.

Gómez Coutouly, YA, B Wygal, KE Krasinski, RM Tedor (2015). A la Recherche des Premières Occupations Préhistoriques de l'Alaska: Programme International de Recherches Archéologiques dans la Vallée de la Tanana, Région Intérieure de l'Alaska (États-Unis). Les Nouvelles de l'Archéologie 141:6-12.

Graf, KE, LM DiPietro, KE Krasinski, AK Gore, HL Smith, BJ Culleton, DJ Kennett, D Rhode (2015). Dry Creek Revisited: New Excavations, Radiocarbon Dates, and Site Formation Inform on the Peopling of Eastern Beringia. American Antiquity 80(4):671-694.

Gómez Coutouly, YA, C Guéret, CM Renard, KE Krasinski, BT Wygal (2015). A Mid-Holocene Prehistoric Strike-A-Light from the Goodpaster Flats, Interior Alaska.  Alaska Journal of Anthropology 13(2): 71-86.

Haynes, G, KE Krasinski (2010). Taphonomic Fieldwork in Southern Africa and its Application in Studies of the Earliest Peopling of North America. Journal of Taphonomy 8(2/3):181-202.

Krasinski, KE, G Haynes (2010). Eastern Beringian Quaternary Extinctions: Chronology, Climate, and People. Alaska Journal of Anthropology 8(1):43-64.

Krasinski, KE, DR Yesner (2008). Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Site Structure in Beringia: a Case Study from the Broken Mammoth Site, Interior Alaska. Alaska Journal of Anthropology 6(1/2):27-41.

Krasinski, KE, G Haynes (2008). The Eastern Beringian Radiocarbon Record and Late-Pleistocene/Early-Holocene Extinctions. Current Research in the Pleistocene 25:174-176.

Conference Presentations

Conference Presentations

*Student Co-Author

Krasinski, KE. Alpine Archaeology in Southcentral Alaska. Oral presentation delivered to the European Association of Archaeologists, Bern, Switzerland, September 4-7, 2019.

Wygal BT, KE Krasinski, CE Holmes, BA Crass, KM Smith, D McMahan, JZ Metcalf, *C DeBlasio, *J RuizDiaz. Evaluation of Pleistocene Mammoth Ivory Use and Radiocarbon Laboratory Results from the Holzman Site in Interior Alaska. Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM, April 10 - 14, 2019.

Hamley, K, J Gill, K Krasinski, D Sandweiss. Using Paleoecology to Re-Write the Human History of the Falkland Islands. Poster presented to the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM, April 10-14, 2019.

Krasinski, KE, L Rojas*, A Bautista*, CE Holmes, BA Crass. Diachronic Patterns in Subsistence at Swan Point, Tanana Valley, Alaska. Oral presentation delivered to the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM, April 10-14, 2019.

Wygal BT, KE Krasinski, CE Holmes, BA Crass. Late Pleistocene Mammoth Ivory Use in Interior Alaska. Alaska Anthropological Association, Nome, AK, February 27–March 2, 2019.

Wygal, BT, KE Krasinski. Postglacial human colonization of southern Alaska: the archaeology of Trapper Creek. Oral presentation delivered to the Alaska Anthropological Association, Nome, AK, February 27–March 2, 2019.

Krasinski KE, CE Holmes, BA Crass. Zooarchaeological Analysis of Dietary Trends at Swan Point, Tanana Valley, Alaska. Oral presentation delivered to the Alaska Anthropological Association, Nome, AK, February 27–March 2, 2019.

2018 K Krasinski, B Wygal, C Holmes and B Crass. Investigations of the Late Pleistocene Occupations at Holzman, Shaw Creek, Interior Alaska. Society for American Archaeology, Washington D.C., April 11-15.

2018 *DeBlasio, CM, *JA RuizDiaz, BT Wygal, and KE Krasinski. Stone technology at the Prehistoric Holzman South site in Alaska. Northeastern Anthropological Association, March 23-24.

2018 Krasinski, KE and A Wade. Community Archaeology along the Chickaloon Trail: Alpine Use of the Talkeetna Mountains. Paper presented at the Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage, AK, March 21-24.

2018 Wygal, BT, KE Krasinski, CE Holmes, BA Crass, *CM DeBlasio, *ER Farrell, *JA RuizDiaz, and *KA Siegel. Pleistocene Mammoth Ivory Use at the Holzman Site in Interior Alaska. Poster presented at the Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage, AK, March 21-24.

2017 Wygal, BT, KE Krasinski, C. Holmes, BA Crass, *CM DeBlasio, *ER Farrell, *JA RuizDiaz, *KA Siegel. Late Pleistocene Mammoth Ivory Use at the Holzman site in Interior Alaska. Poster Presented at the American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C., November 29- December 3.

2017 Krasinski, KE, *A Bautista, *W Vincent III, *L Rojas, CE Holmes, BA Crass. Dene Moose Butchering at Swan Point, Tanana Valley, Alaska. Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association, Washington DC, November 29-December 3.

2017 *Wells, J, K Krasinski, David Yesner, and Fran Seager-Boss. Traditional Dena’ina Land Use at the Cottonwood Creek Village Site, Southcentral Alaska. Poster presented at the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, March 29-April 2.

2017 *Wells, J, KE Krasinski, F Seager-Boss and D Hanson. Dena’ina Food Storage at Cottonwood Creek Village, Southcentral Alaska. Poster presented at the Alaska Anthropological Association, February 27-March 2.

2017 Krasinski, KE, BT Wygal, CE Holmes and B Crass. The Holzman Site: Faunal Remains from a Late Pleistocene Occupation in the Tanana Valley, Alaska. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, March 29-April 2.

2017 *Walsh, K, KE Krasinski, F Seager-Boss and J Friedrich. Geochemical Analysis at Cottonwood Creek Village. Paper presented at the Alaska Anthropological Association, February 27-March 2.

2017 *Bautista, A, *L Rojas, *W Vincent III, KE Krasinski, CE Holmes, and BA Crass. Zooarchaeological Site Analysis at Swan Point, Alaska. Poster presented at the Alaska Anthropological Association, February, 27-March 2.

2017 Wygal, BT, KE Krasinski, CE Holmes, and BA Crass. Introducing Holzman: Another Terminal Pleistocene Archaeological Site along Shaw Creek in Interior Alaska. Paper presented at Alaska Anthropological Association, February 27-March 2.

2016 Krasinski, KE, *J Wells, F Seager-Boss. Community Collaboration at Cottonwood Creek Village, Western Knik Arm, Alaska. Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association, Minneapolis, November 16-20.

2016 Krasinski, KE, *J Wells, F Seager-Boss. Community Collaboration at Cottonwood Creek Village, Western Knik Arm, Alaska. Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association, Minneapolis, November 16-20.

2016 Wygal, BT, KE Krasinski, CE Holmes, and BA Crass. Introducing Holzman: Another Terminal Pleistocene Archaeological Site along Shaw Creek in Interior Alaska. Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association, Minneapolis, November 16-20.

2016 Wygal, BT, KE Krasinski, CE Holmes, B Crass, T Wriston. Recent Discoveries in the Late Pleistocene Archaeology of the Tanana Valley, Alaska. Poster presented at the Northeastern Anthropological Association, Saratoga Springs, April 22-23.

2016 *Shahinian, K, *A Bautista, KE Krasinski, BT Wygal. Susitna Valley Late Holocene Archaeological Site Analysis in Alaska. Poster presented at the Northeastern Anthropological Association, Saratoga Springs, April 22-23.

2016 Wygal, BT, KE Krasinski, CE Holmes, B Crass, T Wriston. The Holzman Site: A Newly Discovered Late Pleistocene Occupation in the Tanana Valley, Alaska. Poster presented at the Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage, March 2-5.

2016 *Walsh, K, KE Krasinski, T Wriston, J Friedrich. Geochemical Analysis in Southcentral Alaska. Poster presented at the Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage, March 2-5.

2016 *Wells, J, KE Krasinski, BT Wygal, F Seager-Boss, R Martin. Detecting Late Holocene Cultural Landscape Modifications Using LiDAR Imagery in the Boreal Forest, Susitna Valley, Southcentral Alaska. Paper presented at the Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage, March 2-5.

2016 Krasinski, KE, *J Wells, F Seager-Boss. Settlement Patterns at Cottonwood Creek. Paper presented at the Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage, Alaska, March 2-5

2015 Wygal, BT, KE Krasinski. Lithic Production and Upland Hunting during the Younger Dryas in the Central Alaska Range, USA. Paper presented at the European Association of Archaeologists, Glasgow, September 2-5.

2015 Krasinski, KE, BT Wygal, F Seager-Boss. Mobility and Remoteness in the Middle Susitna, Alaska. Paper presented at the European Association of Archaeologists, Glasgow, September 2-5.

2015 Martin, R, KE Krasinski, *J Wells, B Wygal, F Seager-Boss. Application of LIDAR in New Site Discoveries, Susitna Valley, Alaska. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, April 15-19.

2015 Seager-Boss, F, A Theodore, KE Krasinski, BT Wygal, R Martin. Public Archaeology at Cottonwood Creek, Alaska. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, April 15-19.

2015 Krasinski, KE. Towards a Multivariate Model for Accurately Identifying Cutmarks. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, April 15-19.

2015 *Wells, J, KE Krasinski, R Martin, BT Wygal, F Seager-Boss. Using GIS to Identify Archaeological Features in the Subarctic Boreal Forest. Poster presented at the Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage, March 4-7.

2015 Wygal, BT, KE Krasinski, and F Seager-Boss. Stages of Human Colonization in Southcentral Alaska. Paper presented at the Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage, March 4-7.

2015 Seager-Boss, F, KE Krasinski and M Clark. Matanuska Valley Bone Preservation in Glacial Loess. Paper presented at the Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage, March 4-7.

2015 Krasinski, KE, BT Wygal, F Seager-Boss. The Effect of Remoteness on Human Ecology and Land Use in Southcentral Alaska. Paper presented at the Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage, March 4-7.

2015 *Wells, J, KE Krasinski, R Martin, BT Wygal, F Seager-Boss. Detecting Cultural Landscape Modifications in the Alaska Boreal Forest with LiDAR Imagery. Paper presented at the Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage, March 4-7.

2014 Wygal, BT, KE Krasinski. Cultural Implications for the Prehistoric Human Colonization of Southern Alaska. Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association, Washington DC, December 3-7.

2014 Krasinski, KE Fran Seager-Boss, *K Taormina, BT Wygal. Late Holocene Landscape Use in the Middle Susitna River Valley, Alaska. Poster presented at the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, April 23-27.

2014 Wygal, BT and KE Krasinski. Late Glacial Exploration and Colonization of the Last Beringian Frontier. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, April 23-27

2014 *Mitchell, D, KE Krasinski, BT Wygal, Y Axel Gómez Coutouly. Site Discovery and Lithic Analyses from the Middle Tanana Valley, Alaska. Paper presented at the Northeastern Anthropological Association, Potsdam, April 11-12.

2014 *Wells, J, BT Wygal, KE Krasinski, Fran Seager-Boss. Adelphi Archaeological Survey and Excavations in the Susitna Valley, Alaska. Paper presented at the Northeastern Anthropological Association, Potsdam, April 11-12.

2014 Krasinski, KE, BT Wygal, YA Gomez Coutouly, *D Mitchell. The Archaeology of the Goodpaster-Volkmar Region, Middle Tanana Valley, Alaska: An International Collaboration. Poster presented at the Alaska Anthropological Association, Fairbanks, March 5-8.

2014 Wygal, BT, KE Krasinski, F Seager-Boss, and *J Wells. The Early to Middle Prehistoric Archaeology of Trapper Creek, Alaska: Expanded Excavations and Recent Results. Poster presented at the Alaska Anthropological Association, Fairbanks, March 5-8.

2014 *Wells, J, BT Wygal, KE Krasinski, F Seager-Boss. Middle Susitna Valley Archaeological Survey Report from Project Years 2011-2013. Paper presented at the Alaska Anthropological Association, Fairbanks, March 5-8.

2014 *Mitchell, D, KE Krasinski, BT Wygal, YA Gomez Coutouly. Archaeological Survey of the Volkmar and Goodpaster River Areas of the Middle Tanana Valley. Paper presented at the Alaska Anthropological Association, Fairbanks, March 5-8.

2014 Krasinski, KE. The Dog Ate My Homework: Identifying Patterns of Carnivore Damage in Faunal Assemblages. Paper presented at the Alaska Anthropological Association, Fairbanks, March 5-8.

2014 Krasinski, KE, BT Wygal, F Seager-Boss. The Diachronic Nature of Social and Economic Remoteness in the Middle Susitna, Alaska. Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association, Washington DC, March 4-7.

2013 Davis, L, C Hill, KE Krasinski. Taphonomy of the Lindsay Mammoth site. Poster presented at the Paleoamerican Odyssey, Santa Fe, October 17-19.

2013 Krasinski, KE, G Haynes. Identifying human modification patterns on proboscidean remains. Poster presented at the Paleoamerican Odyssey, Santa Fe, October 17-19.

2013 BT Wygal, KE Krasinski, F Seager-Boss. Do Recent Discoveries at Trapper Creek Suggest an Earlier Occupation of the Middle Susitna Valley? Poster presented at the Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage, March 13-16.

2013 *Taormina, K, KE Krasinski, BT Wygal. Patterns in Dena’ina House Structures in Southcentral, Alaska. Paper presented at the Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage, March 13-16.

2013 *Gundel, A, KE Krasinski, BT Wygal, RM Tedor. Preliminary Lithic Analysis of New Lacustrine Archaeological Localities, Tanana Valley, Alaska. Paper presented at the Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage, March 13-16.

2013 Krasinski, KE Neotaphonomic Models for Late Pleistocene Cutmark Identification. Paper presented at the Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage, March 13-16.

2012 Krasinski, KE, G Haynes. Probabilistic Models for Identifying Cutmarks. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, April 18-22.

2012 *Hernandez, N, KE Krasinski, B Wygal. Discovering Chronology: Results of the 2011 Adelphi Archaeological Fieldschool in the Susitna Valley. Paper presented at the Alaska Anthropological Association, Seattle, February 29-March 3.

2012 Krasinski, KE, BT Wygal, RM Tedor. New Lacustrine Archaeological Localities at Volkmar Lake, Tanana Valley, Alaska. Paper presented at the Alaska Anthropological Association, Seattle, February 29-March 3.

2011 Krasinski, KE, G Haynes. Actualistic Research of Proboscidean Processing and Cutmark Production. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento, March 30-April 3.

2011 Krasinski, KE, G Haynes. Who Dunnit?: Identifying Actors from Modified Proboscidean Remains. Paper presented at the Alaska Anthropological Association, Fairbanks, March 9-12.

2010 Krasinski, KE, G Haynes. Broken Bones: Taphonomic Analyses of Proboscidean Remains and Implications for the Peopling of the Americas. Paper presented at the Arctic Conference, Bryn Mawr, November 12-13.

Invited Presentations

Invited Presentations

When Paleontology and Archaeology Collide: The Example of the Lindsay Mammoth Site, Montana. 2023. Dinosaurs and MOR! Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, MT. 

Survivors: Last of the Woolly Mammoths in Alaska. 2019. Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT.

Other Work

Other Work

EDITED VOLUMES

2018 Krasinski, KE, CC Burke, and KE Graf. From Taphonomy to Human Paleoecology: A Commemorative Issue Celebrating the Career of Gary Haynes, INQUA-HABCOM President from 2003-2011. Quaternary International 466(Part B):107-340.

TECHNICAL REPORTS (*student co-author)

2019 Krasinski, KE. Archaeology of Circulation Features in the Matanuska Watershed. Interim report for National Park Service Tribal Heritage Award #P17ACP00396. Report submitted to the Chickaloon Village Traditional Council and Office of History and Archaeology, Anchorage, AK. 

2017 Krasinski, KE and BT Wygal. Archaeology and Oral History of the Middle Matanuska Watershed. Final report for National Park Service Tribal Heritage Award #P15AP00352. Report submitted to the Chickaloon Village Traditional Council.

 2016 Krasinski, KE, F Seager-Boss and *J Wells. Nomination of Cottonwood Creek Village Archaeological District, Wasilla, Alaska. Report submitted to the Office of History and Archaeology, Anchorage, AK.

2016 Krasinski, KE, F Seager-Boss and *J Wells. Cottonwood Creek Village Archaeological District Nomination Final Report (CLG #15014)

 2014 Gómez Coutouly, YA, BT Wygal, KE Krasinski, and *M Vanlandeghem. Goodpaster – Volkmar Project: Looking for the First Prehistoric North American Occupation in Tanana Valley, Alaska. Annual report submitted to the Office of Archaeological Missions in the Americas, French Foreign Ministry, Paris (in French)

 2014 Krasinski, KE. Analysis of Faunal Remains from the Dry Creek Pleistocene Deposits. Center for the Study of the First Americans, Texas A&M University, College Station.

 2014 Krasinski, KE, F Seager-Boss. Draft Archaeological District Nomination of Cottonwood Creek Dena’ina Village. Report submitted to the Alaska State Historic Preservation Office, Anchorage.

 2014 Krasinski, KE, BT Wygal, YA Gómez Coutouly, and *A Gundel. Middle Tanana Valley Archeological Survey and Inventory Report for Project Years 2011-2013: The Volkmar Lake and Goodpaster River Areas.  Report to be submitted to the Office of History and Archeology, Permit #2011-10.

 2013 Krasinski, KE, BT Wygal, BT, and F Seager-Boss. Middle Susitna Valley Archeological Survey and Inventory Report for Project Years 2011-2013. Historic Preservation Fund Project #12561.  Final report submitted to the Alaska State Historic Preservation Officer, Anchorage.

 2012 Krasinski, KE, BT Wygal, and RM Tedor. Archaeological Survey of the Volkmar Lake and Goodpaster River areas, Tanana Valley, Alaska - Project Summary 2011. Report submitted to the Office of History and Archaeology, Anchorage, Alaska.

 2010 Wygal, BT and KE Krasinski. Archeological Exploration of Denali National Park and Preserve (2006-2009). National Park Service, Denali Park, Alaska.

 2008 The Analysis of Pleistocene Bison Skulls from Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Report submitted to the National Park Service, Denali Park, Alaska.

 2008 Krasinski, KE, J Lakeman. Painted Fossil Bison Skull: When, Where, and Why was it Painted? Fact Sheet. Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska.

Grants

Grants

External Research Grants

 2019 Chickaloon Village Traditional COuncil of Alasak Contract Award. Survey and Inventory of UPpper Matanuska Watershed Cultural Resources.

2018-2019 Chickaloon Village Traditional Council of Alaska Contract Award. Survey and Inventory of Upper Matanuska Watershed Cultural Resources with Jessica Winnestaffer, Angela Wade, & BT Wygal.

2016-2017 Survey and Inventory of Upper Matanuska Watershed Cultural Resources. Contract Awarded by Chickaloon Village Traditional Council of Alaska, with BT Wygal.

2015-2016 Cottonwood Creek Archaeological District Alaska State Historic Preservation Officer Historic Preservation Grant (#15014), with F Seager-Boss.

2014 Territory Heritage Resource Consulting. Peopling of the Americas and Proboscidean Taphonomy.

2013 Searching for the First Occupation of North America in the Tanana Valley of Alaska. Research Grants for Archaeological Missions in the Americas, French Ministry of Foreign Areas. In cooperation with the Paris West University Nanterre La Défense, co PI with YA Gomez Coutouly and BT Wygal.

2012 Archaeological Survey and Inventory of Public Lands in the Middle Susitna River Valley, Southcentral Alaska. Alaska State Historic Preservation Officer Historic Preservation Grant (#13597), co PI with F Seager-Boss and BT Wygal.  

 Internal Research Grants

2018 Interdisciplinary Investigations of Woolly Mammoth Extinction in Alaska. Faculty Development Grant, Adelphi University, with CM Hamley.  

2015 Emergence of Social Inequality at the Fish Creek Archaeological Site in Southcentral Alaska. Faculty Development Grant, Adelphi University, with BT Wygal.

Theses Advised

Theses Advised

Graduate Student Committee Member

Masters Students

Emmanuel Uzodike, Adelphi University, expected 2020

Joanna Wells, University of Alaska Anchorage, 2018

Adelphi University Honors Theses Supervisor

Ray Pisacane, 2018

Dalia Gladstein 2017

Badarinarayan Maharaj 2015

Sophia Conti 2015

Adelphi Univeristy Undergraduate Honors Thesis Committee Member

Emily Dunlop 2020

Danaleah Schoenfuss 2015

Naz Nayeem 2015

Georgina Podany 2014

Projects Mentored

Projects Mentored

2017-2018       Emily Farrell and Kristie Siegel. Ice Age Archaeology and the Paleo Diet of the First Alaskans. Professional conference presentation.

2017-2018 Laura Rojas. Reconstructing Ethnicities from Ancient Food Remains. Professional conference presentation, Adelphi research day presentation.

2017-2018 Kimberly Campuzano. Medicinal Plant Use in Ecuadorian Immigrants to New York City. IRB proposal approved, Adelphi research day presentation.

2016-2017 Destinee Arroyo. Mapping Traditional Cultural Properties in the Matanuska Valley, Alaska.

2016-2017 Alexander Bautista and William Vincent, Jr. Cataloguing and Analysis of Late Holocene Faunal Assemblage from Swan Point, Tanana Valley, Alaska. Professional conference presentation.

2015-2016 Alexander Bautista and Kaitlin Shahinian. Site mapping at Cottonwood Creek, Knik Arm, Alaska.” Professional conference presentation.

 2014 Joanna Wells. Using LiDAR to predict cultural features in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska. Journal article.

Honors and Accomplishments

Honors and Accomplishments

Symposia Organized (Peer-Reviewed)

2019. Chair. Zooarchaeology in the Americas. Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, April 10-14.

2018. Co-Chair. Stones, Bones, and More: Papers in Archaeology and Biological Anthropology. Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage, AK, March 21-24.

2017 Chair. Archaeological Explorations of Cooperation, Sustainability, and Conflict. American Anthropological Association, Washington DC, November 29-December 3.

2017 Chair. Current Perspectives on Pacific Northwest Coast Archaeology. Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia, March 29-April 2.

2016 Chair. Archaeologies of Heritage, Memory, and Violence Symposium. American Anthropological Association, Minneapolis, November 16-20.

2015 Co-organizer and co-chair. Papers in Honor of Gary Haynes Symposium. Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, April 15-19 (with KE Graf and C Burke).

2013 Organizer and chair. Taphonomy Poster Session Symposium. Paleoamerican Odyssey, Santa Fe, October 17-19.

2012 Co-organizer and co-chair. Paleoecology and Taphonomy of Faunal Landscapes Symposium. Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, April 18-22 (with C. Burke and J. Hutson).

2009 Chair. Use-Wear and Experimentation Studies Symposium. Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, April 22-26.

Awards

2019 Dean’s Student Circle Outstanding Mentor Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Adelphi University.

2015 Outstanding Professor Award, Student Government Association, Adelphi University.

2009 Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship, Graduate Student Association, University of Nevada, Reno.     

2009 Student Poster Award, Graduate Student Association, University of Nevada, Reno. First Place.        

2009 James VanStone Advanced Graduate Student Award, Alaska Anthropological Association.

2009 Travel Award, Graduate Student Association, University of Nevada, Reno.    

2008 Student Poster Award, Graduate Student Association, University of Nevada, Reno. Second Place.                                                                                           

2008 Student Presentation Award, Graduate Student Association, University of Nevada, Reno. Second Place.                                                                   

2007, 2008, 2009 Travel Award, Amateur Archaeologists of Nevada.

Community Outreach

Community Outreach

2019 Krasinski, KE. Gender and Non-Western Civilization presentations. Mixed grade and 9^th grade class. Farmingdale High School, Farmingdale New York.

2017 Krasinski, KE. What Do Archaeologists Do? Presentation to Ms. Mandie Lorge’s 1^st grade class, Range View Elementary, Severance, Colorado.

2015 Krasinski, KE. Resilience and Adaptations to Living in Alaska. Public Presentation to Learning in Retirement Iona College, New Rochelle, New York.

2011-2015 Wygal, BT, KE Krasinski, F Seager-Boss. Archaeology of Southcentral Alaska. Summer Solstice Community BBQ and Artifact Show and Tell, Trapper Creek, Alaska.

2014 Krasinski, KE. Pre-Contact Dena’ina Diets. Public Presentation at the Northern Susitna Institute, Talkeetna, Alaska.

2014 Krasinski, KE, BT Wygal, S Coffman, F Seager-Boss. Middle Susitna Valley Archaeology. Public Presentation at the Northern Susitna Institute, Talkeetna, Alaska.

 2012 Krasinski, KE, BT Wygal. Archaeology as Science: Hypothesis Testing about the Past.  R. Lillis’ Third Grade class, Anne Hutchinson Elementary School, Eastchester, New York.

2011 Wygal, BT, KE Krasinski. Community Site Tours of the Chunilna Village Site, Chase,             Alaska.

2010 Krasinski, KE. Archaeology in Alaska. R. Lillis’ Third Grade class, Anne Hutchinson Elementary School, Eastchester, New York.

2008 Krasinski, KE. Pleistocene Bison Skulls from Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Amateur Archaeologists of Nevada, Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada.

2006 Wygal, BT, F Seager-Boss, KE Krasinski, L Louderback. Archaeology of Trapper Creek. Trapper Creek Elementary School, Trapper Creek, Alaska.

2005 Wygal, BT, F Seager-Boss, KE Krasinski, D Stone. Public Participation in the Excavation of an Early Prehistoric Site, Trapper Creek, Alaska.

Professional Activities

Professional Activities

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

 Alaska Anthropological Association, 2003-present

Alaska Consortium of Zooarchaeologists, 2003-present

American Anthropological Association, 2013-present

Northeastern Anthropological Association, 2016

Society for American Archaeology, 2007-present