Faculty Profile for Dr. Ashley McKeown

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Dr. Ashley McKeown
Professor of Instruction — Anthropology
ELA 266
phone: (512) 245-8272
Scholarly/Creative Work
Awards
Grants
Service

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Edgar, H. J. H., Spradley, M. K., Kamnikar, K. R., & McKeown, A. H. (2024). Roadmap to the Future: Calipers to Digitizing to Virtual Osteology. Forensic Anthropology, 7(2–3). https://doi.org/https://doi-org.libproxy.txstate.edu/10.5744/fa.2023.0043
  • Ahlman, T. M., McKeown, A. H., & Gaumnitz, K. M. L. (2023). 2021 Archaeological Investigations of the St. Croix Leprosy Hospital (12Vam 1-004), St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. San Marcos, TX, USA: Center for Archaeological Studies, Texas State University.
  • Ahlman, T. M., McKeown, A. H., Karastamatis, K., & Ahlman, K. (2023). 2022 Archaeological Investigations for Maroon Settlements, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. San Marcos, Texas: Center for Archaeological Studies.
  • Hoggarth, J., Friewald, C., Ebert, C., Helmke, C., Awe, J., Mink, K. G., … McKeown, A. (2022). As the baktun turned: Reconstructing Classic to Postclassic population dynamics in the Belize River Valley. In 3,000 Years of War and Peace in the Maya Lowlands: Identity, Power, and Politics, G.E. Braswell and V.V. Aquino (eds.) (pp. 209–240). Routledge Archaeology of the Ancient Americas Series. Retrieved from https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781351268004-9/ak-tun-turned-julie-hoggarth-carolyn-freiwald-claire-ebert-christophe-helmke-jaime-awe-kirsten-green-mink-patricia-powless-ashley-mckeown
  • Ahlman, T. M., & McKeown, A. H. (2021). Apprentice and Wage Laborer Economies in the British Caribbean: An Examination of Post Emancipation Material Culture and Housing on St. Kitts, West Indies. Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage, 11(3), 251–280. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/21619441.2021.2013711

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Diversity Field School Competition Award, Society for Historical Archaeology, Gender and Minority Affairs Committee. January 2020
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Favorite Professor, Alfred H. Nolle Chapter of the Alpha Chi National College Honor Society, Texas State University. April 2019
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Favorite Professor, Alfred H. Nolle Chapter of the Alpha Chi National Honor Society, Texas State University. April 2018
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Cox Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Montana, Missoula. 2008

Selected Grants

  • McKeown, Ashley Hyatt. Analysis of Human Skeletal Remains from the Elkins Site, $51434. (Funded: 2013). Grant.
  • McKeown, Ashley Hyatt. Other, $2462. (Funded: 2008). Grant.
  • McKeown, Ashley Hyatt. Visiting Scholar Faculty Development Grant, $1500. (Funded: 2008). Grant.
  • McKeown, Ashley Hyatt. Burton D. Williams Endowment Award, $1315. (Funded: 2006). Grant.
  • McKeown, Ashley Hyatt. Visiting Scholar Faculty Development Grant, $1500. (Funded: 2006). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Member
Non-tenure Line Faculty Committee
October 2023-Present
Co-Chair
Instructional Faculty Policy Committee
October 2023-Present
Member
FACTS Board
September 2014-Present
Undergraduate Advisor
Forensic Anthropology Society
September 2022-May 2024
Co-Chair
Poster Session: Identifying Disease and Health Care in the Archaeological Record, 55th Annual Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology
January 2022