Matthew Fisher is a thirty-year old M.P.S. student in the Cultural Heritage and Resource Management program at The University of Maryland. His research interests include 1) the repatriation of authorship to indigenous culture history and space 2) prehistoric North American archaeology, and 3) anthropological theories such as Human Behavioral Ecology, Human Ecodynamics, and Evolutionary Archaeology. Matthew is fascinated by human behavior at both the individual and group levels and how it delineates spatial relevance within a landscape.
For the past two years Matthew has worked as a crew member on the B.E.A.A.R project (Beartooth Ecosystem Alpine Archaeological Research Project) in the back-country wilds of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Montana, in the Custer Gallatin National Forest. Fieldwork by the B.E.A.A.R. project seeks to answer research questions pertaining to the evolution of alpine adapted human behaviors in the face of shifting environmental conditions, temporally centered around the transition period between the terminal Pleistocene and emergent Holocene. The B.E.A.A.R. projects produces seminal archaeological research in the Beartooth mountains. By its seminal nature, the project's research data and its analysis provide the first palette of colors for the blank canvas that is the Beartooth ecosystem’s archaeological story. Through his work with the B.E.A.A.R project, Matthew hopes to merge the gap between research archaeology and Cultural Resource Management by working with First Nation tribes to develop collaborative research designs and inventive management strategies that propagate collective voicing in the writing of cultural histories.
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Degree TypeB.S.Degree DetailsAnthropology with an emphasis in archaeology, The University of West Georgia, 2014
Email
mjfish25 [at] umd.edu
