Claire McHale Milner
Director of Exibits and Curator of the Matson Museum of Anthropology
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Office: 209 Carpenter Building |
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EDUCATION:
- B.A., Northwestern University, 1978
- M.A., University of Michigan, 1981
- Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1998
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS:
Claire McHale Milner is a North American archaeologist who focuses on the Late Prehistoric period of the Upper Great Lakes. Her current research combines ethnohistorical and ceramic style data to investigate the adaptation of forager-farmer populations to high-risk environments. Her interests include tribal societies, ethnohistory, ceramic analysis, and museum studies.
COURSES TAUGHT::
- Anth 380 Museology
- Anth 146 North American Indians
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
- Milner, C.M. and John M. O'Shea 1998. The socioeconomic role of Late Woodland enclosures in northern Lower Michigan. In Ancient Earthen Enclosures of the Eastern Woodlands, edited by R.C. Mainfort, Jr. and L.P. Sullivan, pp. 181-201. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
- Milner, C.M. 1998. Ceramic Style, Social Differentiation and Resource Uncertainty in the Late Prehistoric Upper Great Lakes. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
- 2005. The next generation: Museum techniques at Penn State's Matson Museum of Anthropology. In Engaged Anthropology: Research Essays on North American Archaeology, Ethnobotany, and Museology, edited by M. Hegmon and B. S. Eiselt, pp. 238-254. Anthropological Papers, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, No. 94.
MATSON MUSEUM EXHIBITS:
- 1995 Hieroglyphic Bench at Copan, Honduras
- 1995 Corn Agriculture in the Americas (with Joshua Borstein)
- 1995 Weaving in Latin America (with Susan Barsom)
- 1995 El Dia de Los Muertos: Day of the Dead (with Emily Cierpilowski)
- 1995 DNA: Blueprint for Life (with Anne Stone)
- 1995 Evolution Timeline (with Anth 100 students)
- 1996 DeForest Pottery Collection
- 1997 Tracking Human Evolution (with Anth 100 students)
- 1997 Studies in Genetics
- 1997 The Piltdown Hoax: Triumph of the Scientific Method
- 1997 Laetoli Footprints
- 1998 Images of Ourselves (with Carla Ricci)
- 1998 Rural Crafts in Ethiopia (with Zakia Posey)
- 1998 Expressing Culture through Style (with Erika Pell)
- 1998 Windows into the Past (with Maria Gablan)
- 1999 Jydepotter (with Jaimin Weets)
- 1999 Sananguatavut: from the real to the unreal (with Sarah Renish)
- 1999 Afghanistan: Land of Discord (with Anth 100 students)
- 1999 Life in the Birthplace of Storms: Ancient People of the Aleutian Islands (with Jane LeGrow)
- 1999 Secrets of the Human Skeleton (with Jaimin Weets)
- 2000 Expressing Culture Through Music (with Eric Carbonara)
- 2000 Our Brutish Ancestors? (with Jaimin Weets)
- 2000 Encountering the Taino
- 2001 Glimpses into the Pacific (with Anth 100 students)
- 2001 Pottery and the Dawning of Civilization (with Laura Strauss)
- 2001 A Tour of Masks (with Elizabeth Nolan)
- 2001 Congo Images (with Sarah Bent)
- 2001 The Lingis Collection
- 2001 Continuity and Change in Native American Commerce (with Anth 100 students)
- 2002 Adapting to the Rain Forest: People of Lowland South America (with Shelly Becker)
- 2002 My Legacy Will Be My Student (with Scott Hammerstedt)
- 2003 Artisans in Afghanistan: Ordinary Objects, Extraordinary Skills (with Anth 380 students)
- 2003 A Journey Across Asia: Enduring Traditions and Customary Goods (with Anth 380 students)
- 2003 Tameran and Tumbuan Carvings of New Guinea (with Anth 380 students)
- 2003 Drawer Display


