Roderick Sprague, Ph.D.
Curriculum Vitae
Updated: 1998
I. General
Born: | Albany, Oregon, 18 February 1933 |
II. Education
1955 | Washington State University, Pullman; BA Anthropology |
1956-1958 | Military service; U. S. Army, Artillery, Spec. 5 |
1959 | Washington State University, Pullman; MA Anthropology Thesis: A Comparative Cultural Analysis of an Indian Burial Site in Southeast Washington |
1967 | University of Arizona, Tucson; PhD Anthropology Dissertation: Aboriginal Burial Practices in the Plateau Region of North America |
III. Professional Experience
1958-1959 | Graduate Teaching Assistant, Washington State University, Pullman |
1959-1960 | Laboratory Assistant, Washington State University, Pullman |
1960-1962 | Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Arizona, Tucson |
1962-1963 | Graduate Museum Assistant, University of Arizona, Tucson |
1963-1964 | Graduate Teaching Associate, University of Arizona, Tucson |
1965-1967 | Staff Archaeologist, Washington State University, Pullman |
1967-1969 | Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Idaho, Moscow |
1969-1972 | Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Idaho, Moscow |
1972-1997 | Professor of Anthropology, University of Idaho, Moscow |
1968-1981 | Head, Department of Sociology/Anthropology, University of Idaho, Moscow |
1976 | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Institution, Washington |
1986-1987 | Foreign Expert, Inner Mongolia Univ., Huhhot, People's Republic of China |
1968-1997 | Director, Laboratory of Anthropology, University of Idaho, Moscow |
1997 | Professor of Anthropology Emeritus and Director Emeritus, Laboratory of Anthropology, University of Idaho, Moscow |
IV. Professional Societies (partial)
- American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1959
- American Anthropological Association, 1959; Fellow, 1967
- Northwest Scientific Association, 1963; Trustee, 1968-71
- Society for Historical Archaeology, Dir, 1970-71; Sec-Treas, 1971-74; Pres, 1976, 1990
- CAMP-U.S.A. (Council on America's Military Past), 1972; Treas, Pac. NW Dept, 1975-87
IV. Honoraries and Awards
- Phi Kappa Phi
- Sigma Xi (University of Idaho Chapter, President 1980)
- University of Idaho Library, Award for Outstanding Service, 1986
- Sigma Xi (U of I), Published Research Paper Award, 1986
- Phi Kappa Phi Outstanding Professor Award, 1996
- Harrington Award, Society for Historical Archeology, 2000
VI. Major Publications
1960 | Archaeology of the Sun Lakes Area of Central Washington. Washington State University, Laboratory of Anthropology, Report of Investigations, No. 6. Pullman. |
1963 | Inventory of Prehistoric Southwestern Copper Bells; with Aldo Signori. Kiva, 28(4):1-20. Additions 1964. |
1965 | Disposal of the Dead at Point of Pines, Arizona; with William J. Robinson. American Antiquity, 30(4):442-453. |
1967 | A Preliminary Bibliography of Washington Archaeology. Northwest Anthropological Research Notes, 1(1). Reprinted in a another series. |
1967 | Post-1800 Historical Indian Sites. Historical Archaeology, 1:70. Ann Arbor. From Papers Presented at the Organization of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Dallas. |
1968 | A Suggested Typology and Nomenclature for Burial Analysis. American Antiquity, 33(4):479-485. |
1969 | Excavations at the Roma Site, Prince Edward Island, 1968. University of Idaho Anthropological Research Manuscripts Series, No. 1. Moscow. |
1970 | Miscellaneous Columbia Plateau Burials; with Walter H. Birkby. Tebiwa, 13(1):1-32. |
1971 | Burial Pattern Relationships Between the Columbia and Canadian Plateaus. Aboriginal Man and Environments on the Plateau of Northwest America, pp. 183-196. Calgary. |
1973 | The Pacific Northwest. Chapter 9 in The Development of North American Archaeology, pp. 250-285. New York: Doubleday. |
1975 | The Development of Historical Archaeology in the Pacific Northwest. Northwest Anthropological Research Notes, 9(1):6-19. |
1977 | The Scientist Looks at the Sasquatch, edited with Grover Krantz. Moscow: University of Idaho Press. Reprinted with additions 1985. |
1979 | A Bibliography of Idaho Archaeology, 1889-1976, with Max G. Pavesic and Mark G. Plew. Northwest Anthropological Research Notes, Memoir No. 5. Moscow. |
1980 | A Bibliography of Glass Trade Beads in North America; with Karlis Karklins. Moscow: South Fork Press. Preliminary in Historical Archaeology, 6:87-101. Supplement in 1985. |
1981 | A Functional Classification for Artifacts from 19th and 20th Century Sites. North American Archaeologist, 2(3):251-261. |
1982 | The Preservation of Written and Printed Archaeological Records. Northwest Anthropological Research Notes, 16(2):206-211. Moscow. |
1983 | Tile Bead Manufacturing. In Proceedings of the 1982 Glass Bead Conference, pp. 167-172. Rochester Museum & Science Center, Research Records, No. 16. Rochester. |
1985 | Glass Trade Beads: A Progress Report. Historical Archaeology, 19(2):87-105. Reprinted in 1991 in Approaches to Material Culture Research for Historical Archaeology, SHA. |
1987 | Plateau Shamanism and Marcus Whitman. Idaho Yesterdays, 31(1-2):55-56. Boise. |
1989 | Rock Art Studies on the Columbia River. In The Interpretation of Prehistory, a textbook reprint series from Quarterly Review of Archaeology, 10(1):146-148. Philadelphia. |
1990 | Archaeological Footnotes. Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Vol. 7, Gary E. Moulton, editor. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. |
1990 | Observations on Problems in Researching the Contemporary Glass Bead Industry of Northern China; with An Jiayao. Beads, 2:5-13. Ottawa. |
1993 | American Indian Burial and Repatriation in the Southern Plateau with Special Reference to Northern Idaho. Idaho Archaeologist, 16(2):3-13. |
1994 | Bead Typology: The Development of a Concept. In Pioneers in Historical Archaeology, Breaking New Ground, Stanley South, Editor, pp. 85-100. New York: Plenum Press. |
1998 | The Literature and Locations of the Phoenix Button. Historical Archaeology, 32(2). |
VII. Summary (including above)
Publications:
- Refereed papers: 27
- Other papers: 65
- Books edited: 5
- Reviews: 16
- Editorials: 7
- Manuscripts: 8 major, 2 over 1000 pp.
- Letter Reports: 65 (mostly projects under $1000)
- Expert Witness Reports: 6
Papers Read at Meetings:
- Regional: 15 invited, 23 volunteer, 3 symposia org, 3 symposia discussant, 4 program chair.
- National (N.A.): 14 invited, 10 volunteer, 4 symposia organized, 1 general program chair.
Research:
- 121 contracts (over $1,000) and 16 grants totally $2,229,848.
- 7 expert witness cases, 4 to trial and won.