Sissel Schroeder

Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 1997
Associate Professor of Anthropology
At UW-Madison since 2000

Archaeology

Affiliations: American Indian Studies Program

Research

My current research addresses the evolutionary significance of emerging sociopolitical complexity among tribal and chiefdom societies in the midcontinental U. S., and the spatial distribution of people in the Midcontinent in relation to inconstant and heterogeneous social, natural, and anthropogenic landscapes. Building on the GIS-based methodological framework of my early work on settlement patterns and ecological modeling in the American Bottom, I am extending the context of my research to western Kentucky (the Mississippian-era Jonathan Creek site) and southern Wisconsin (Skare, a multicomponent site). I have extended my interest in the spatial distribution of people in a new direction to consider the initial colonization of Wisconsin by Native peoples some 12,000 years ago, using the Paleoindian materials from the Skare Site as a point of departure.

Teaching

Anthro 100: General Anthropology            
Anthro 112: Principles of Archaeology
Anthro 338: Introduction to Prehistory and Archaeological Principles
Anthro/AISP 354: Archaeology of Wisconsin      
Anthro/AISP 355: Archaeology of Eastern North American  
Anthro 370: Field Course in Archaeology              
Anthro 490: Undergrad Seminar
• Topic: Household Archaeology     
• Topic: Museums in Anthropology   
• Topic: Archaeological Analysis   

Anthro 696: Archaeological Methods of Curation
Anthro 942: Seminar                                         
• Topic: Household Archaeology     
• Topic: Theory in Archaeology     
• Topic: Peopling of the Americas

Select Publications

• Schroeder, Sissel (2006)
  Walls as Symbols of Political, Economic, and Military Might. In Leadership and Polity in Mississippian Society , edited by Brian M. Butler and Paul D. Welch, Center for Archaeological Investigations, pp. 115-141. Occasional Paper No. 33. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL.
• Schroeder, Sissel (2005)
  Reclaiming New Deal Era Civic Archaeology: Exploring the Legacy of William S. Webb and the Jonathan Creek Site. CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship 2:53-71.
• Schroeder, Sissel (2004)
  Power and Place: Agency, Ecology, and History in the American Bottom, Illinois. Antiquity 78: 812-827.
• Schroeder, Sissel (2004)
  Current Research on Late Pre-Contact Societies of the Midcontinental United States. Journal of Archaeological Research 12(4):311-372.                                                                                         
• Schroeder, Sissel (1999)
  Maize Productivity in the Eastern Woodlands and Great Plains of North America. American Antiquity 64:499-516.

Curriculum Vitae

Sissel Schroeder CV

Contact

Office: 5420 Sewell Social Science Bldg.
Office phone: (608) 262-0317
Email address: sschroeder2@wisc.edu