Matthew Palus serves as the Assistant Director for the Cultural and Heritage Resource Management (CHRM) Graduate Program. He is also a Senior Lecturer for the program, and teaches Introduction to CHRM (ANTH 741), Applied Archeological Theory (ANTH 746), CHRM Internship (ANTH 749) and CHRM Thesis (ANTH 799). Before joining the leadership of the CHRM program, Palus was a Senior Archeologist and Project Manager with The Ottery Group, a consulting firm in Silver Spring, Maryland, and he has been affiliated with the Department of Anthropology as a lecturer since 2003. He holds a doctoral degree in anthropology from Columbia University (2010), and a Master of Applied Anthropology degree from the University of Maryland (2000). He has been an archeologist in Maryland for 20 years, with experience in all levels of effort at historic sites throughout the Middle Atlantic, including architectural survey and HABS documentation, archival research, cemetery investigations, and oral history interviews. His focus is on historical sites pertaining to urban development and modern infrastructure, post-emancipation African American life, and military sites.