Patrick Ryan Williams Assistant Curator of Archaeological Science The Field Museum of Natural History 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive Chicago, IL 60605 U.S.A. telephone: (312) 665-7008 fax: (312) 665-7193 rwilliams@fmnh.org

PERSONAL:

 Born December 8, 1970 Rutland, Vermont

EDUCATION:

1997 Ph.D., Anthropology - GIS & Remote Sensing minor, University of Florida.
      Dissertation: The Role of Disaster in the Development of Agriculture and the Evolution of Social Complexity in the South-Central Andean Sierra.
1995 M.A., Anthropology, University of Florida.
        Thesis: Agricultural Hydraulics and the State in the Torata Valley, Perú
1993 B.A., Anthropology & Geography, Northwestern University.
        Anth Thesis: Settlement Patterns of Southern Peruvian Coastal People from the Archaic to the Early Historic
        Geography Thesis:  A Reexamination of Agrarian Collapse on the Coast of Moquegua, Perú

Archaeology of empires, geographic information systems and remote sensing applications, Evolution of social complexity, development of agriculture, regional analysis of settlement systems, Andean South America.

National Science Foundation Senior Research Grant in Archaeology (2000)
Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship in Pre-Columbian Studies (2000 - declined)
Heinz Charitable Trust Grant for Latin American Archaeology (1998)
Asociación Contisuyo matching grant (1998-99)
Charles Fairbanks Scholarship (1997)
G. A. Bruno Foundation Grant for Andean Archaeological Research (1997)
Asociación Contisuyo matching grant (1997)
J. W. Fulbright Fellowship to Perú (1995)
Asociación Contisuyo matching grant (1995)
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (1993)
Asociación Contisuyo matching grant (1993)
Northwestern University CAS Student Achievement Award (1993)
Illinois Outstanding Senior in Geography Award (1993)
Phi Beta Kappa, Northwestern University (1992)
Charles D. Hurd Scholar, Northwestern University (1992)
Undergraduate Research Grant, Northwestern University (1991 & 1992)
Gamma Theta Upsilon , National Honor Society for Geography  (1991)
Phi Eta Sigma, National Freshman Honor Society (1990)
Robert C. Byrd Scholar, State of Wisconsin (1989)

Society for American Archaeology
American Anthropological Association, Archaeology Division
Registro Nacional de Arqueólogos del Perú
Register of Professional Archaeologists

September 2000 - September 2001
Assistant Professor, Department of Archaeology, Boston University.
Remote Sensing and Archaeology
Statistics and Computer Sciences for the Archaeologist
Regional Archaeology and Geographical Information Systems

January 1999 - May 2000
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and the Honors Program, University of Florida.
Honors Cultural Anthropology: (spring evaluation; fall evaluation)
Honors Fantastic Archaeology (spring evaluation; fall evaluation)
Honors Development of World Civilization(spring evaluation)
GIS and Remote Sensing Methods in Anthropology (undergrad evaluation; grad evaluation).

January-March 1998
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Anthropology, Sociology, and Criminal Justice, Valdosta State University.
Introductory Anthropology (student evaluation), (chair's evaluation)

August-December 1997
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Physical Anthropology, Dr. Susan Anton, Professor. Department of Anthropology, University of Florida.

September - December 1996
Assistant Instructor, Lost Tribes and Sunken Continents, Dr. Michael Moseley, Professor. Department of Anthropology, University of Florida.

June 1997 - present
Project Director, Cerro Baúl Excavation Project. Ongoing excavation of a Wari administrative center occupied ca. A. D. 600 - 1000.

August 1999 - May 2000
GIS Specialist, St. Johns River Archaeological Project. Department of Anthropology, University of Florida.

October 1995 - March 1996
Project Director, Moquegua Ancient Agriculture Project. Archaeological reconnaissance, remote sensing, and excavation of hydraulic sites, and ethnographic interviews with modern campesinos.

June - August 1995
Director of Mapping and Agricultural Sectors, Chen Chen Rescue Project.

June - August 1994
M. A. thesis research, Torata Valley, Perú.

June-August 1993
Director of Mapping, Cerro Baúl Mapping Project.

June - August 1991 & June - August 1992
Field Archaeologist , Ilo Preceramic Project.

May - June 1991
Underwater Archaeologist, Combined Caesarea Expeditions, Israel.

Fall 1990 - Fall 1992
Contract Field Archaeologist, Midwest Archaeological Research Services, Illinois.

June - August 1990
Northwestern University Archaeological Field School, Cook County, Illinois.

English - native speaker
Spanish - near native fluency in speaking, reading, and writing.

Operating Systems: Macintosh OS 8.0, Windows 95/NT, DOS 7.0, UNIX/LINUX
Geographic Information Systems - ARC/INFO, ArcView 3.2, IDRISI;
Image Processing - ENVI, ERDAS Imagen, MacSigma0
Computer Aided Design - AutoCAD r12
Multimedia - Microsoft Powerpoint, Multimedia Maestro 2D, Adobe Photoshop 4.0/Illustrator 7.0, HTML

2002 A Re-examination of Disaster Induced Collapse in the Case of the Andean Highland States: Wari and Tiwanaku. World Archaeology 33(3). (in press)

2002 "La Frontera Wari en Cerro Baúl : Limite Imperial con Tiwanaku." Wari y Tiwanaku Modelos vs. Evidencias : III Simposio Internacional de Arqueología PUCP, Lima. (with D. Nash and J. Isla; in press).

2002 "Excavaciones Arqueológicas en el Centro Administrativo Wari de Cerro Baúl." Gaceta Arqueológica Andina Setiembre. (with J. Isla C.;in press)

2002  "Imperial Interaction in the Andes: Wari and Tiwanaku at Cerro Baúl"  in W. Isbell & H. Silverman, eds. Andean Archaeology New York: Plenum (with D. Nash; in press).

2002 "A GIS Approach to Modeling Social Relations Between Prehispanic Andean Irrigation Societies" in Digital Technologies in Archaeology, edited by M. Forte, R. Williams, J. Wiseman and F. El-Baz (in preparation). Oxford: BAR.

2001 "Cerro Baúl: A Wari Center on the Tiwanaku Frontier." Latin American Antiquity 12(1).

2000 "Empires of the Andes: A Majestic Frontier Outpost Chose Cooperation Over War " Discovering Archaeology April. (with M. Moseley and D. Nash).

2000 "Inca Agrarian Centralization and the Development of Terraced Agriculture in the District of Torata" and Wari Agricultural Intensification in Middle Horizon Moquegua" in Ancient Andean Agriculture: Issues in Intensification 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Philadelphia.

1999 Wari Imperialism on the southern periphery: Results of the excavations at Cerro Baúl, Perú. paper presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Chicago. (with J. Isla C. and D. Nash)

1999  Results of the Recent Excavations at Cerro Baúl.  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Institute for Andean Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

1998 Archaeological Population Estimates and Agrarian Productivity. Poster presented at the 97th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia (with K. Sims).

1998   A Wari Offering Context at Cerro Baúl.  paper presented at the 17th Annual Northeast Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, SUNY - Binghamton. (with D. Nash, J. Isla C., & R. Feldman).

1998 Excavations in the Ceremonial District at Cerro Baúl. paper presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle. (with J. Isla C. and R. Feldman)

1997 Globalization of the Market Economy and the Impact on Local Agrarian Communities of Andean Perú. paper presented at the 96th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D. C., November 19-23.

1997 Burning Down the House: Differential Patterns of Construction and Abandonment on Cerro Baúl. paper presented at the 17th Annual Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Orono, Maine, October 4-5. (with Donna J. Nash).

1997 The Wari Conquest of Tiwanaku in Moquegua, Perú. paper presented at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Nashville.

1996 The Evolution of Settlement and Agriculture at the Tiwanaku V Site of Chen Chen, Moquegua, Perú. poster presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.

1995 The Rise of High Elevation Irrigation Agriculture in the South-Central Andean Sierra. paper presented at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Minneapolis.

Donna Nash, Patrick Ryan Williams, & Marlon Lynn
1998  Wari Construction Technology at Cerro Baúl. poster presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle.

Johny Isla C., P. Ryan Williams, L. Medina, & D. Blom
1998 The Nature of Wari Militarism at Cerro Baúl. paper presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle.