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Patricia Richards

  • Senior Scientist Emeritus, Anthropology

Education

  • PhD, Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1997
  • MS, Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1981
  • BA, Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1978

Courses Taught

  • ANTH 101 - Human Origins
  • ANTH 103 - Digging up the Past
  • ANTH 193 - Freshman Seminar - Historic Cemeteries
  • ANTH 213 - American Indian Peoples of Wisconsin
  • ANTH 301 - Human Evolution
  • ANTH 308 - North American Archaeology
  • ANTH 641 - Historical Archaeology
  • ANTH 763 - Practice and Professionalism in Anthropology

Research Interests

Archaeological mortuary analysis, 19th and 20th century cemeteries, museology, prehistory of the eastern United States, historic period archaeology, historic Native American groups of the eastern United States, human osteology, archaeological method and theory, archaeological field techniques, cultural resource management.

Related Activities

  • Director, Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery Project

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.