Curriculum Vitae
Highlights
Education
Michigan State University - East Lansing, MI
Ph.D. in Anthropology, 2022
Dissertation - Coalescence and Animal Use: Examining Community Building at the Multi-Ethnic Morton Village Site
Illinois State University - Normal, IL
M.S. in Archaeology, 2015
Thesis - Subsistence Strategies in the Upper Illinois River Valley: The Kuhne Site Case Study
Michigan State University - East Lansing, MI
B.S. in Anthropology, Specialization in Museum Studies, 2013
Employment
Consultant
Writing & Project Management
Current
Online Course Instructor
Michigan State University
Introduction to Anthropology
May 2021 - August 2021
Graduate Research Assistant
Michigan State University
Morton Village Archaeological Lab
Fall 2020 - May 2021
Campus Archaeologist
Michigan State University
May 2018 - August 2020
Technical Writer
Michigan State University
Wrote and edited user documentation in Markdown
for Kora
Fall 2019 - Spring 2020
Graduate Assistant
Michigan State University
Lab for the Education and Advancement in Digital Research
August 2016 - May 2018
Publications
Stacey L. Camp, Benjamin Carter, Autumn Painter, Sarah M. Rowe, and Katheryn Sampeck
2022 Teaching Archaeological Mapping and Data Management with KoboToolbox. In Digital Heritage and Archaeology in Practice, edited by Lynne Goldstein and Ethan Watrall. University of Florida Press.
Kelsey E. Hansen, Paula L. Bryant, Autumn M. Painter, and James M. Skibo
2019 Acorn Processing and Pottery Use in the Upper Great Lakes: An Experimental Comparison of Stone Boiling and Ceramic Technology. Ethnoarchaeology 11(2):170-185.
Colaninno, Carol E., John H. Chick, Terrance J. Martin, Autumn M. Painter, Kelly B. Brown, Curtis T. Dopson, Ariana O. Enzerink, Stephanie R. Goesmann, Tom Higgins, Nigel Q. Knutzen, Erin N. Laute, Paula M. Long, Paige L. Ottenfeld, Abigail T. Uehling, and Lillian C. Ward
2017 An Interdisciplinary Human-Environmental Examination of Effects Consistent with the Anthropocene in the Lower Illinois River Valley. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 42(3):266-290.
Susan M. Kooiman, Jodie O'Gorman, and Autumn Painter (Editors)
In Review Ancient Dish: Archaeological Explorations of Indigenous Cuisines of the Midcontinent. The University of Alabama Press.
Jeff Burnett, Stacey L. Camp, and Autumn M. Painter
In Review The Archaeology of Children on Michigan State University’s Campus. In Post-Contact Archaeology of Michigan and the Great Lakes. Edited by Sarah Surface-Evans and Misty Jackson. Berghahn Books.
Susan M. Kooiman, Autumn Painter, and Joseph T. Hefner
In Review Critical Assessment of the MSU Campus Archaeology Program's Food-Based Community Engagement Project. Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage.
Fellowships & Internships
Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Michigan State University
August 2021 - December 2021
Natural Science Collections Summer Professional Internship
Michigan State University
May 2020 - August 2020
Cultural Heritage Informatics Senior Fellow
Michigan State University
August 2016 - May 2017
August 2019 - May 2020
Campus Archaeology Program Fellow
Michigan State University
August 2016 - May 2018
Cultural Heritage Informatics Fellow
Michigan State University
August 2015 - August 2016
Recent Conference Presentations
Global Digital Humanities Symposium
- Painter, Autumn M., and Marcy O'Neil
- 2018 Storytelling and Social Media: Tackling the Digital Divide. Paper presented at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Global Digital Humanities Symposim, East Lansing, Michigan.
Midwest Archaeological Conference
- Autumn M. Painter and Jeffrey M. Painter
- 2022 Unpacking Cuisine and Community at Morton Village: A Paper in honor of Jodie O’Gorman. Paper presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Archaeological Conference, LaCrosse, WI.
- Kooiman, Susan M., Jodie O'Gorman, Autumn M. Painter, and Jeffrey M. Painter
- 2021 Co-organizer of the Sponsered Sympoisum, Midcontinetal Cuisine: Recent Archaeological Explorations of Food and Cooking in the Heartland, at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Archaeological Conference, East Lansing, MI.
- Kooiman, Susan M., Jodie O'Gorman, Autumn M. Painter, and Jeffrey M. Paintern
- 2021 Why Cuisine? Paper presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Archaeological Conference, East Lansing, MI.
- Painter, Autumn M. Painter and Susan M. Kooiman
- 2021 Capturing Campus Cuisine: Connecting the Past to the Present through Historic Foodways. Paper presented at the Sponsered Sympoisum at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Archaeological Conference, East Lansing, MI.
- Painter, Autumn M. Painter and Alice Lynn McMichael
- 2019 Campus as Laboratory: An Oral History of the MSU Campus Archaeology Program. Poster presented at the 63th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Archaeological Conference, Mankato, MN.
- Painter, Jeffrey M., Autumn M. Painter, and Jack A. Biggs
- 2018 Archaeology along the Banks of the Red Cedar: Summary of the 2018 Riverbank Survey. Poster presented at the 62th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Archaeological Conference, Notre Dame, Indiana.
- Painter, Autumn M., and Susan M. Kooiman
- 2018 Historic Cuisine on the Go: A Campus Archaeology Program and MSU Food Truck Collaboration. Poster presented at the 62th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Archaeological Conference, Notre Dame, Indiana.
- Painter, Autumn M., Jeffrey M. Painter, Susan M. Kooiman
- 2017 Documenting Historic Foodways at Michigan State University. Paper presented at the 61th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Archaeological Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana.
- Kooiman, Susan K., and Autumn M. Painter
- 2017 Capturing Campus Cuisine: An 1860s Luncheon Reconstruction at MSU. Poster presented at the 61th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Archaeological Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Society for American Archaeology
- Painter, Autumn M., Jeffrey M. Painter, Jodie O'Gorman, and Terrance J. Martin
- 2021 Surviving or Thriving? Re-assessing Social Interaction and Warfare Related Food Insecurity at Morton Village. Paper presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Virtual Conference.
- Painter, Autumn M. and Jeffrey M. Painter
- 2019 Walk with Me: Reflections on Almost a Lifetime with Dr. James Skibo. Paper presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM.
- Painter, Autumn M., Terrance J. Martin, Jodie O'Gorman
- 2017 Power and Purpose: The Role of Animals in Ritual Context at a Mid-Continental Site in the Fourteenth Centry. Paper presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Society for Historical Archaeology
- Burnett, Jeffrey, Stacey Camp and Autumn M. Painter
- 2021 The Archaeology of Children on Michigan State University’s Campus. Paper presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Virtual Conference.
- Painter, Autumn M., Jeffrey Burnett, and Stacey Camp
- 2020 Translating Campus Archaeology Research into Outreach. Paper presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Boston, MA.
