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Dr. Ashley McKeown

  • Professor of Instruction - Anthropology
  • Program Faculty - Anthropology
Portrait of Dr. Ashley McKeown
  • Ahlman, Todd Michael (Principal), Percent Contribution: %50, McKeown, Ashley H (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %50. Searching for Maroon Settlements on St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, Texas State University, $15960. (Submitted: October 12, 2021, Funded: January 11, 2022 - May 2023). Grant.
  • Ahlman, Todd Michael, Percent Contribution: %34, McKeown, Ashley Hyatt, Percent Contribution: %33, Herrmann, Nicholas Paul, Percent Contribution: %33. REU Site: Exploring globalization through archaeology, National Science Foundation, Federal, $408620. (Submitted: August 2017, Funded: April 15, 2018 - April 14, 2022). Grant.
  • McKeown, Ashley Hyatt. Analysis of Human Skeletal Remains from the Elkins Site, $51434. (Funded: 2013). Grant.
  • McKeown, A. H., Owsley, D. W., Bruwelheide, K. S., & Barca, K. G. (2024). Osteological Descriptions of the Jamestown Ludwell Statehouse Burials.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Ahlman, T. M., McKeown, A. H., & Herrmann, N. P. (2025). Search and Recovery Report CS25-0241, an Aircraft Crash Site (FR-10029) Associated with MACR 3984, Clayes, Ille-et-Villaine Department, Brittany, France, Excavated from 17 May through 14 June 2025, during 25-5FR-B RT-P. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
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  • 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
  1. Member

    Non-tenure Line Faculty Committee

  2. Undergraduate Advisor

    Forensic Anthropology Society

  3. Member

    FACTS Board

  4. Member

    Faculty of Instruction Promotion Committee

  5. Co-Chair

    Instructional Faculty Policy Committee

  6. Co-Chair

    Poster Session: Identifying Disease and Health Care in the Archaeological Record, 55th Annual Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology

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