Kevin Etherton is a returning student to UMD after graduating in 1993 with a bachelor’s degree in anthropology. After graduation he worked in the CRM field for three years performing archeological field work and historical research in the mid-Atlantic area. He left the field of archaeology in 1996 to take a job at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art in 1996, where he is currently employed as Installation Coordinator and Senior Lighting Designer.