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Ph.D. doctoral program in anthropology, the graduate school and university center of the city university of new york, new york. 

Area of specialization: anthropology, archaeology, zooarchaeology.

ba/ma program in anthropology, hunter college, city university of new york, new york.

Four Year Program for a limited number of outstanding students holding a GPA 3.50 or greater. Program completed. Degrees awarded on January 24, 1991. Dean's List. Graduated Magna Cum Laude.

st. joseph's college, brooklyn, new york.

Program in computer science, earned 18 credits.

st. george commercial college, athens, Greece.

Certificate of Bilingual (English/Greek) Secretarial Studies. Concentration: Typing, Shorthand, Office Management, Public Relations, Economic Geography, Translation, Correspondence.

Brooklyn College, CUNY.

Assistant professor.

Graduate School and University Center, New York.

Visiting Assistant Professor.

Human ecology: an interdisciplinary journal.

Editorial Assistant.

North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO) grant.

National Science Foundation, Division of Social Sciences, Office of Polar Programs, Global Change, Arctic Systems Science (arcss). P.I: Dr.T.H. McGovern, Hunter college, New York. Project Research Administrator. Chair of Commercial Fisheries Working Group and Maritime Adaptations.

PSC CUNY ($5,297)

CUNY Collaborative grant (40K)

PSC CUNY ($4,885)

NSF Polar Programs. REU Grant (395K).

Funding for 10 undergraduates and 1 graduate student per year for total of three years. Co-PI Dr. T.H.McGovern.

Released Time for Unsponsored Research for Untenured Faculty Grant

GRADUATED MAGNA CUM LAUDE, BA/MA IN ANTHROPOLOGY, HUNTER COLLEGE, CUNY, NEW YORK.

THE SYLVESTER AND ALICE ROTHCHILD FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP.

MICHELLE Z. ROSALDO AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN ANTHROPOLOGY.

HUSTER AWARD, FOR MOST OUSTANDING MASTER'S THESIS IN THE DIVISION.

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION, RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATES,

Supervisor in specialty course geared to teach undergraduates zooarchaeological laboratory methods and techniques, P.I.: Dr. Thomas H. McGovern.

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION, RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATES, OFFICE OF POLAR PROGRAMS, FIELD PROJECT.

This was one of two original awards to encourage women to take up Northern Research careers, p.i.: Dr. Thomas H. McGovern.

1999

Alternate Faculty Council

2000

Anthropology Representative at the Faculty Council

2000

Appointments Committee

2000

Committee on Research

2000

Library Committee

2001

Chair, Committee on Research

10/1/01

Invited participant and presenter, New Faculty Luncheon on Grants and Research

1/10/01

Invited presenter CUNY Board of Trustees

5/30/00

Invited presenter at the Medieval Center, Oslo University

9/11/00

Invited participant and presenter, New Faculty Luncheon on Grants and Research

10/31/00

Invited participant by Dean Pizer to attend a meeting with the Research Foundation

3/11/00

Invited presenter in the Department of Biology - Colloquium Series

11/13/00

Invited lecturer, American Scandinavian Foundation

12/6/00

Invited lecturer, American Museum of Natural History

2000

Science advisor for Channel 13 to the series Secrets of the Dead: The Lost Vikings of Greenland

WAGNER COLLEGE, Staten Island. Instructor.

Courses taught (100 Level): Introduction to Ancient Civilizations Introduction to Anthropology

QUEENS COLLEGE, CUNY, Queens. Instructor.

Courses taught (100 Level): Prehistoric Archaeology, 2 sections.

HUNTER COLLEGE, CUNY, New York City. Instructor.

Courses taught (400 Level): Introduction to Zooarchaeology

HUNTER COLLEGE, CUNY, New York City. Instructor.

Course taught (400 Level): Field Methods and Techniques.

HUNTER COLLEGE, CUNY, New York City. Visiting Assistant Professor

Courses taught (Graduate level): The World of the Vikings. (Undergraduate level): Introduction to Archaeology

Brooklyn College, CUNY. Assistant Professor.

Introduction to Anthropology
Introduction to Archaeology.

2000 Brooklyn College, CUNY. Assistant Professor.

Introduction to Anthropology
Introduction to Archaeology
Zooarchaeology
Urban Archaeology

2001 Brooklyn College, CUNY. Assistant Professor.

Introduction to Archaeology
Zooarchaeology
People, Nature and Culture
Archaeological Field and Laboratory Methods

BETTy'S hope archaeological project, antigua.

Co PI with  Edith Gonzalez Scollard. Survey and excavation of a historic plantation site.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATES PROGRAM, ICELAND.

Program organizer and instructor. Geology and ecology of Iceland, excavation of abandoned Viking farm sites and of a medieval cemetery, surveying and landscape analysis.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDSCHOOL, HOFSTADIR, ICELAND.

Instructor and US student coordinator for this NABO/HUNTER/FSI (Archaeological Institute of Iceland) cooperative project. Instruction on field methods and techniques and excavation of a Viking Age settlement area.

Fishers and Fishing Villages in the Iron Age.

Survey project in localities of western and eastern Norway.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDSCHOOL, HOFSTADIR, ICELAND.

Instructor and US student coordinator for this NABO/HUNTER/FSI (Archaeological Institute of Iceland) cooperative project. Instruction on field methods and techniques and excavation of a Viking Age settlement area.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDSCHOOL, HOFSTADIR, ICELAND.

Instructor and US student coordinator for this NABO/HUNTER/FSI (Archaeological Institute of Iceland) cooperative project. Instruction on field methods and techniques and excavation of a Viking Age settlement area

RED HOOK NAVAL CEMETERY, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

Specialist on site Survey and testing of early 1900's cemetery grounds. Project P.I. Dr. Joan Geismar.

LANGENES HISTORICAL LANDSCAPE PROJECT, LANGENES, ØKSNES KOMMUNE, VESTERÅLEN, ARCTIC NORWAY.

Project Director in a NABO/Øksnes Kommune cooperative project. Small scale excavation and preparation for a large scale project. Collection of biological and geological samples, survey.

LANGENES HISTORICAL LANDSCAPE PROJECT, LANGENES, ØKSNES KOMMUNE, VESTERÅLEN, ARCTIC NORWAY.

Project Director in a NABO/Øksnes Kommune cooperative project. Extensive test pit excavation and survey. Collection of samples for dating.

LANGENES HISTORICAL LANDSCAPE PROJECT, LANGENES, ØKSNES KOMMUNE, VESTERÅLEN, ARCTIC NORWAY.

Project Director in a NABO/Øksnes Kommune cooperative project. Winter visit for ethnoarchaeological research. Also collected modern biological samples for forming a comparative collection, in depth study of modern fishing village activity and survey or archaeological sites.

LANGENES HISTORICAL LANDSCAPE PROJECT, LANGENES, ØKSNES KOMMUNE, VESTERÅLEN, ARCTIC NORWAY.

Project Director in a NABO/Øksnes Kommune cooperative project. Organized and directed research of Norwegian, Danish, U.K. and U.S. scholars. Survey and test pit excavation of early medieval farm mounds.

VASSOSEN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT, KABELVÅG, LOFOTEN, ARCTIC NORWAY.

Field Director in project organized by the University of Tromsø and the Lofotmuseet. Supervised and directed 16 crew members and organized research and cooperation with Norwegian and Canadian scholars working with paleobotanical material. Excavation of medieval structures ca. AD 1100 - 1600. Project Director: Dr. Reidar Bertelsen.

VÅGAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT, VÅGAN, LOFOTEN, ARCTIC NORWAY.

Field Director in project organized by the University of Tromsø. Supervised and directed 21 crew members and organized research and cooperation with British scholars working with insect fauna. Excavation of a medieval urban center from ca.AD 1200. Project Director: Dr. Reidar Bertelsen.

VÅGAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT, VÅGAN, LOFOTEN, ARCTIC NORWAY.

Senior Field Leader in project organized by the University of Tromsø. Supervised and directed 18 crew members. Excavation of a medieval urban center from ca.AD 1200. Project Director: Dr. Reidar Bertelsen.

HEDMARK WATERWAYS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY, NORWAY.

Archaeological survey of the shores of rivers Gloma and Vorma for the location of Stone Age and Iron Age sites.

AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT, ST. CATHERINE'S ISLAND, GEORGIA.

Extensive remote sensing of archaeological sites. Crew member responsible for topography, magnetometry and soil resistivity surveys. Project Director: Dr. David H. Thomas.

LUCAYAN ECOLOGICAL ARCHAEOLOGY PROJECT: THREE DOG SITE, SAN SALVADOR, BAHAMAS.

Crew Chief in field school sponsored by Wake Forest University, N.C. Excavation of a Lucayan-Tahino contact period site (A.D. 660 - A.D. 1520), ethnology ethnohistory, geography and ecology of the Caribbean and the Bahamas. Project Directors: Dr. Mary Jane Berman and Dr. Perry L. Gnivecki.

MUGAVERO SITE, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

Excavation of privies at an early 1800's historical site. Excavator. Project Director: Dr. Joan Geismar.

ICELANDIC PALAEOECONOMY PROJECT, ICELAND.

Participant in a multinational scientific group that extensively surveyed - the survey resulted to the discovery of over 60 structures- and excavated two Medieval Norse Sites in Northwest Iceland. Project Directors: Dr.T. H. McGovern and T. Amorosi. Funding received through National Research Foundation, Research Experience for Undergraduates, Office of Polar Programs.

ÅKER ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT, NORWAY.

Faunal Analyst on site. In charge of preliminary sorting, identifying, packing and conservation of all faunal remains of a 200 AD Norwegian site in Åker, Hamar. Project Director: Per Hernæs.

HUMAN ORIGINS AND PREHISTORY IN KENYA: THE KOOBI FORA FIELD SCHOOL, HARVARD UNIVERSITY AND NATIONAL MUSEUM OF KENYA, NAIROBI, KENYA.

Palaeoanthropological research, excavation, field mapping, site survey, and stratigraphic studies within the framework of research on locales in the Koobi Fora area. Project Director: Dr. H. V. Merrick.

GJOGUR, ICELAND.

Examination of faunal remains from the midden excavation of medieval farm mound.

HEBNES, NORWAY.

Examination of faunal remains from the midden rescue excavation of an early iron age farm mound.

REYKJAVIK, ICELAND.

Examination of faunal remains from the midden excavation of an early medieval (ca. AD 1150) complex.

AKURVIK, ICELAND.

Examination of faunal remains from the midden excavation of an early medieval (ca. AD 1150) fishing booth complex.

VÅGAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT, VÅGAN, LOFOTEN, ARCTIC NORWAY. FACILITY AT THE BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL LABORATORY, DEPT. OF ANTHROPOLOGY, HUNTER COLLEGE, N.Y.C.

Examination of faunal remains from the midden excavation from Vågan, the first urban center of the Arctic. The archaeofauna dates from ca. AD 1100- AD 1800.

PH.D. RESEARCH. BERGEN ZOOLOGICAL MUSEUM, NORWAY.

Examination of faunal remains and metric analysis of previously analysed collections from North Norwegian fishing villages from the Norwegian Iron Age and Middle Ages (This included the sites of the Helgøy project as well as Sauerbekken, Toften, Bleik and Haug).

BEAVER LAKE SITE, NEW YORK.

Examination of faunal remains from a rock shelter, P.I. Joseph Diamond.

GRAPES SITE, NEW YORK.

Examination of faunal remains from burials and pits from a contact period Native American Site, P.I. Joseph Diamond.

MUGAVERO SITE, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

Examination of faunal remains from privies of an early 1800's historical site. Project Director: Dr. Joan Geismar.

LUCAYAN ECOLOGICAL ARCHAEOLOGY PROJECT: THREE DOG SITE, SAN SALVADOR, BAHAMAS.

BAHAMAS.Preliminary analysis of faunal remains from a pre-contact period midden. Project Directors: Dr. Mary Jane Berman and Dr. Perry L. Gnivecki.

ÅKER ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT, AT THE ZOOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF BERGEN, NORWAY.

Faunal analyst, responsible for complete analysis and report writing of a 200 A.D. Norwegian Iron Age Site from Åker, Hamar. Project Director: Per Hernæs.

CYPRUS PALEONTOLOGICAL PROJECT, AKANTHOUS,CYPRUS. BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL LABORATORY, DEPT. OF ANTHROPOLOGY, HUNTER COLLEGE, N.Y.C.

Research associate examining fossils of pygmy hippopotamus and elephants from the island of Cyprus. Project Director: Dr. Timothy Bromage.

ICELANDIC PALEOECONOMY PROJECT, ICELAND.BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL, LABORATORY, DEPT. OF ANTHROPOLOGY, HUNTER COLLEGE, N.Y.C

Research associate of a zooarchaeological team examining faunal remains of an 18th century Icelandic site in Tjarnargata 4, Reykjavik. Project Director: Mr. Thomas Amorosi.

KODIAK ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT, KODIAK ISLAND, ALASKA. BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL LABORATORY, DEPT. OF ANTHROPOLOGY, HUNTER COLLEGE, N.Y.C.

Laboratory technician concentrating on sorting of faunal remains from Three Saints Bay site. Project Director: Mr. Thomas Amorosi.

ICELANDIC ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT, ICELAND. BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL LABORATORY, DEPT. OF ANTHROPOLOGY, HUNTER COLLEGE, N.Y.C.

Laboratory technician concentrating on sorting of faunal remains from Hofstadir site. Project Director: Mr. Thomas Amorosi.

Simpson, I. A.; S. Perdikaris; G. Cook; J.L. Campbell and W. J. Teesdale

Cultural Sediment Analyses and Transitions in Early Fishing Activity at Langenesvaeret, Vesteralen, N. Norway.

Geoscience:An International Journal, Vol. 15, No.8., 743-763.

Perdikaris, S.

From chiefly provisioning to commercial fishery: Long term economic change in Arctic Norway.

Peter Rowley Conwy (ed). Geoscience:An International Journal Vol.30(3):388-402.

Perdikaris, S.

Scaly Heads and Tales: Detecting Commercialization in Early Fisheries.

Archaeofauna.Archaeofauna. Ichthyoarchaeology and the Archaeological record. Proceedings of the 8th meeting of the ICAZ Fish Remains Working Group, Madrid, Spain; A Morales (ed.). 5 (1996): 21-33.

Perdikaris, S.

The Transition to a Commercial Economy: Lofoten Fishing in the Middle Ages, A Preliminary Report.

7th ICAZ Conference Proceedings, September 1994, Konstanz, Germany. Anthropozoologica no 25-26/1997:505-510.

Amorosi, T.; J. Woollett; S. Perdikaris; T. McGovern

Regional Zooarchaeology & Global Change Research: Problems and Potentials.

World Archaeology, 28(1):126-127.

Amorosi, T.; T. McGovern and S. Perdikaris

Bioarchaeology and Cod Fisheries, A New Source of Evidence. Cod & Climate Change.

Cod & Climate Change. J. Jakobssen & S. Schopka (eds)., ICES, Copenhagen 198:31-48.

McGovern, T.; T. Amorosi, S. Perdikaris & J. Woollett

Vertebrate Zooarchaeology of Sandnes V51: Economic Change at a Chieftain's Farm in West Greenland.

Arctic Anthropology No. 2, Vol. 33: 94-121.

McGovern, T.; G. F. Bigelow; T. Amorosi, J. Woollett, S. Perdikaris

The Zooarchaeology of Ø 17a.

Chapter of a monograph by C. L. Vebæk. In Narsaq - a Norse landnáma farm, Meddelelser om Grønland, Man & Society Series No. 18:58-74.

Perdikaris, S.

The Vikings.

Introduction in Archaeological Encyclopedia of Medieval Europe, Pamela Crabtree (ed.), Garland publishers pp.361-363.

Perdikaris, S.

Pre-Viking Scandinavia.

Introduction inArchaeological Encyclopedia of Medieval Europe. Pamela Crabtree (ed.), Garland publishers pp.269-272.

Perdikaris, S.

From Chiefly Provisioning to State Capital ventures: The transition from Natural to Market Economy and the commercialization of cod fisheries in Medieval Arctic Norway.

Ph.D. Dissertation, Graduate School and University Center, CUNY.

Perdikaris, S.

Status and Economy: A Zooarchaeological Perspective from the Iron Age Site of Åker, Norway.

Debating ComplexityStatus and Economy: A Zooarchaeological Perspective from the Iron Age Site of Åker, Norway. Debating Complexity D. A. Meyer, P. C. Dawson and D. T. Hanna (eds), - Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Archaeological Association of the University of Calgary, Canada.

Perdikaris, S. and J. Woollett

Medieval Hunting.

Introduction in Archaeological Encyclopedia of Medieval Europe, Pamela Crabtree (ed.), Garland publishers pp.168-170..

McGovern, T. H., Perdikaris, S., and C. Tinsley

Economy of Landnam: evidence of zooarchaeology.

Nordall publishers, Iceland.

McGovern, T. H. and S. Perdikaris

Viking's Silent Saga.

Natural History 10/00:50-56.

Perdikaris, S.

ker: A Zooarchaeological Perspective on a Norwegian Iron Age Site.

Unpublished Master's Thesis. Dept. of Anthropology, Hunter College, CUNY.

Perdikaris, S.

Åker: Status and Economy. A Zooarchaeological Interpretation of an Iron Age Site from Eastern Norway (Østlandet)

Official report on file with the Zoological Museum, Bergen, Norway.

Perdikaris, S.

The Åker Site, Hamar, Norway: A Preliminary Zooarchaeological Report.

Unpublished report on file with Oldsaksamlingen (Department of Antiquities), Oslo, Norway.

VIKINGS.

VIKINGS. One day conference. Brooklyn College, NY. Organizer. Event co-sponsored by AMNH, Wolfe Institute, American Scandinavian Foundation, NABO, NORSEC, CUNY Continuing Education.

ICAZ - International Council for Archaeozoology Fish Working Group Meeting.

Hunter College, N.Y.C. Organizer.

NABO/UNIVERSITY OF AKUREYRI CONFERENCE.

Anthropological Conference, University of Akureyri, Iceland. Organizer.

NABO Zooarchaeology Working Group Meeting.

Zooarchaeological Conference Hunter College, N.Y.C. Organizer.

ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY.

Anthropological Conference, Hunter College, N.Y.C. Organizer. Paper topic: Status and Economy at Åker. A Zooarchaeological Perspective for Iron Age Norway.

FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES IN ANTHROPOLOGY,

Anthropological Conference, Hunter College, N.Y.C. Organizer (with Wendy Bustard, Karen Morell, Tina Thurston and John Willis).

International Council for Archaezoology 11th meeting. Paihia, New Zealand.
Topic: Nabone Data Products: Fish Bone identification on the web.

Arctic Social Science Meeting, Quebec. Invited participant.
Topic: Education initiatives in the North Atlantic the NSF REU program at Brooklyn College.

St. Saviour Elementary School.
Topic: The Vikings

Metropolitan Chapter of the New York State Archaeological Association.
Topic: Viking Age Archaeology: From Chiefly Economy to State Organized Ventures

American Museum of Natural History, Viking Symposium.
Topic: North Atlantic Fishing Saga

Brooklyn College. The Vikings: A North Atlantic Saga.
Paper topic: Stockfish, Barley & Chieftains.

Scandinavia House, NY.
Topic: The Archaeology of the Norse North Atlantic: Major Topics and New Findings.

SAA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. Invited Session. Organizers: Clayton Tinsley and Colin Amundsen.

Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Invited Session. Organizer: Dr. Richard Hoffman

AAA 97th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. Invited Session: Population, Production and Environmental Change in North Atlantic Islands (Anthropology and Environment Section). Organizers: Jon Haukur Ingimundarson, Daniel E. Vasey.
Paper Topic: Coastal Economies in Transition

in Mystic, CT. ARCTIC SEAS: CURRENTS OF CHANGE
Paper Topic: Bioarchaeology and the Fisheries Crisis

Society of Historical Archaeology Meeting. Atlanta, Georgia.
Paper Topic: Codfish, Chieftains and Commerce in Arctic Norway.

Ichthyoarchaeology Meeting. Panama City & Chitre, Panama.
Paper topic: Archaeological Signatures in a Commercial Environment.

Arctic Archaeology Meeting. Tromsø, Norway.
Paper topic: Zooarchaeology and the Development of Fishing Villages in Medieval Arctic Norway.

Ichthyoarchaeology Meeting, Madrid, Spain.
Paper topic: Scaly Heads and Tales: Detecting Commercialization in Early Fisheries.

The Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Paper topic: Trade and Economy at a medieval fishing village: The site of Storvågan, northern Norway. A zooarchaeological perspective.

International Council of Archaeozoology, 7th Annual Conference, Konstanz, Germany.
Paper topic: The Transition to a Commercial Economy: Lofoten Fishing in the Middle Ages, A Preliminary Report.

North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO), Glasgow, UK. Invited participant.

Chacmool Conference: Debating Complexity, Calgary, Canada. Session: Approaches to the Development of Complexity in Northern, Western and Central Europe.
Paper topic: Status and Economy in Iron Age Norway: A Zooarchaeological Perspective.

Arctic Archaeology Conference, Madison, Wisconsin.
Paper topic: The Commercialization of the Fisheries in Medieval Arctic Norway.

International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS I), Quebec, Canada. Session: The North Atlantic in the Circumpolar North.
Paper topic: Zooarchaeology and the North Norwegian Fisheries.

North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO), New York, N.Y. Invited participant. Demonstrated Q-Bone computer program for faunal analysis.

BROOKLYN COLLEGE,

Anthropology Club Faculty Advisor

HUNTER COLLEGE,

Evening Session Student Government, Senator.

HUNTER GATHERERS,

Hunter College Anthropology Club, President (Evening Division)