Joseph Wheeler CV

Curriculum vitae                                        Joseph Wheeler, Ph.D.

Curator of Cultural Antiquities

Museum of Culture and Industry

jos.wheeler.anthro@gmail.com

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Comparative Mythology, December 2010
Miskatonic University
Dissertation title: Connections Through Time; Looking to Symbology in Paleolithic Art as a Method Of Preverbal Communication.

BA in  Religious Anthropology May 2008
Harvard University, The Delphic Finals Club

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Memory and historicity; travel and field work; global and local heritage/historical sites; disasters; genocide studies; museum and critical heritage studies; vernacular photography; environment history; death and mourning; mythic afterlife stories, and the impacts they have on coping mechanisms; visual anthropology; teaching with technology; public interest anthropology; public education in cultural anthropology, historical anthropology; Early Industrialization of the Costal United States, Indigenous Island Cultures.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS AND EMPLOYMENT

Miskatonic University
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, fall 2010-present

Princeton University 
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, summer 2010


Research Assistant, Department of Religious Studies, 2012-2014
Research Assistant, Department of Anthropology 2012-2013
Research Assistant, Social Research Institute, 2011-12

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH FIELDWORK (TRAVEL-BASED)
2011-present US: Costal regions of MA, DE and other states in the pacific North East (dissertation)
2010-11 US: AZ, NM (cave art of the American Southwest)
2008-10 International: South Sandwich Islands, Argentina (undergraduate thesis and preliminary dissertation)

LANGUAGE AND COMPUTER ASSISTED DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY
Spanish (read/speak: high, write: medium), French (read/speak: medium)

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS, MU

2014 MU Advance FORWARD grant for leading undergraduate field seminars
and Gender Equity Research Grant ($10,000, submitted, under review)
2013 MU RCATT Sponsored Projects Travel Award (awarded, $300)
2012 Faculty Fellow, Early Comparative Religious Study,  Jane and Anita Marsh Seminar (awarded, all costs of residence/travel)
2012 Death on the Marshlands: Integrating Early Settler Families and Immigrant Populations, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Teaching Development Fellowship ($21,000, submitted, in review process, application
number: FX13130)
2010 MU Impact Award (President’s Diversity Council) to the members of the MU Studies Initiative Team and Committee
2010 Experiential Memory and Meaning-making in Cultural Museums, NEH Summer
Stipend Program ($6,000, submitted)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND INSTRUCTOR AWARDS
MU Exceptional Graduate Advisor award 2011, 2012 and 2013
LLA_Ancient Greece
LLA_Mesopotamia
LLA_Field Work/Archaeology
LLA_Ethnology

PROFESSIONAL AND HONOR SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP
American Anthropological Association
Northeast Regional Council for Museum Anthropology
Society for the Religious Anthropology of North America Society
Society for Paleolithic Studies
Council for Cave Art Interpretation 

American Studies Association