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Jennifer Haas

  • Director, Archaeological Research Laboratory Center
  • Assistant Professor, Anthropology

Education

  • PhD Anthropology, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, 2019
  • MA Anthropology, University of South Carolina, 1995
  • BA History, Anthropology, Marquette University, 1992

Teaching Schedule

Course Num Title Meets
ANTHRO 467-001 Archaeological Curation: A Practicum in the Care of Research Collections M 5:30pm-8:10pm
ANTHRO 467G-001 Archaeological Curation: A Practicum in the Care of Research Collections M 5:30pm-8:10pm
ANTHRO 489-001 Internship in Anthropology, Upper Division No Meeting Pattern

Courses Taught

  • ANTH 308 - Archaeology of North America
  • ANTH 465 - Historic Preservation in Archaeology
  • ANTH 466 -  Historical Archaeology
  • ANTH 467 - Archaeological Curation
  • ANTH 530 - Paleoethnobotany Methods and Analysis
  • ANTH 535 - Analysis of Archaeological Ceramics
  • ANTH 566 - Archaeological Analysis and Report Preparation
  • ANTH 567 - Archaeological Field School
  • ANTH 763 - Professionalism in Anthropology

Research Interests

  • North American Archaeology
  • Paleoethnobotany
  • Bioarchaeology
  • Woodland Tradition
  • Foodway Archaeology

Professional Qualifications

  • Meets the Secretary of Interior’s Professional Qualifications Standards for Archaeology (Prehistoric and Historic Periods) and History (48FR44738-9)
  • Qualified archaeologist to excavate and analyze human burials under Wisconsin’s burial law and administrative rules (Wis. Stats. § 157.70(1) (i) and HS 2.04(6))

Biographical Sketch

Jennifer R. Haas serves as Principal Investigator for Cultural Resource Management at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Haas is a professionally qualified Archaeologist (prehistoric and historic periods) and Historian per the National Park Service Secretary of Interior's Professional Qualifications Standards (48FR44738-9). Haas is a Qualified Archaeologist and Skeletal Analyst under Wisconsin's burial law and administrative rules. Haas further serves as a gubernatorial appointee to the Wisconsin Burial Sites Preservation Board and board member for the Wisconsin Archeological Survey. Haas brings over twenty years of experience with regard to cultural resources, historic preservation, and archaeological/burial sites.

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.