Anthropology Department

Professor Jeff Chivis

Adjunct Instructor

Office: 1165 Au Sable Hall
Phone: 616-331-8933

Jeff Chivis is a doctoral candidate at Michigan State University and a member of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi. He is an archaeologist specializing in the prehistory of the Eastern United States and ceramic petrography.

His dissertation focuses on identifying passive and active displays of identity from ceramics, the formation and maintenance of social boundaries on multiple spatial scales, and the variable types of interactions occurring during the Middle Woodland period (~200 B.C. – A.D. 400) in west Michigan. He has taught ANT 111 and is currently teaching ANT 311.

Educational Background:

Michigan State University, Anthropology, M.A. 2009
Grand Valley State University, Anthropology, B.S. 2004

Research Interests:

Eastern Woodlands Prehistory, Middle Woodland period in west Michigan, formation and maintenance of social boundaries, identity, exchange, ceramic petrography, Native American studies

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