Education
Doctorate Degree
PhD in Anthropology
University of Tennessee Knoxville, 2000
Master's Degree
MA in Anthropology
University of Tennessee Knoxville, 1996
Bachelor's Degree
BA in Anthropology
Univ of Nebraska - Lincoln, 1991
Featured grants
- 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.
- Ahlman, Todd Michael. Wilson-Durham-Chandler Pottery Curation, Summerlee Foundation, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $8840. (Submitted: December 2016, Funded: February 2017 - February 2018). Grant.
- Hardy, Thomas (Co-Principal), Ahlman, Todd Michael (Principal). USACE Omaha Sikes Act Cooperative Agreement, US Army Corp of Engineers, Federal, $45000000. (Funded: August 25, 2016 - August 25, 2021). Grant.
- Ahlman, Todd Michael. Curation and Analysis of Shiner Collection, Texas PReservation Trust Fund/Texas Historical Commission, State, $22565. (Funded: 2015 - 2016). Grant.
Featured scholarly/creative works
- 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/10.1080/21619441.2021.2013711
- Ahlman, T. M., Beier, Z., & Schroedl, G. F. (Eds.). (n.d.). Military Site Archaeologies in the Caribbean: The Landscapes and Communities of Contested Places and Pasts. New York, NY, USA: Berghahn Books.
- 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.
- Jacobson, J. A., Ahlman, T. M., Armstrong, A., Gage, S., & Ahlman, K. (n.d.). Archaeological Data Recovery of Site 41CM308, Mission Hill Park, New Braunfels, Comal County, Texas. San Marcos, Texas: Center for Archaeological Studies.
- Ahlman, T. M., Beier, Z. J. M., & Schroedl, G. F. (n.d.). Introduction. In Military Site Archaeologies in the Caribbean: The Landscapes and Communities of Contested Places and Pasts. New York, NY, USA: Berghahn Books.
Featured awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: Dean's Award for Excellence in Grant Funding, Texas State University College of Liberal Arts. August 2025
- Award / Honor Recipient: Diversity Field School Award, Society for Historical Archaeology. November 2018 - January 2019
- Award / Honor Recipient: Dean’s Award for Excellence in Grant Funding, Texas State University College of Liberal Arts. August 2018
- Award / Honor Recipient: E. Mott Davis Award for Excellence in Public Outreach, Council of Texas Archeologists. April 6, 2018
- Award / Honor Recipient: Dean’s Award for Excellence in Grant Funding, Texas State University College of Liberal Arts. August 2015
Featured service activities
- Reviewer / Referee
International Journal of Historical Archaeology
- Editor
SAA Archaeological Record
- Reviewer / Referee
Advances in Archaeological Practices
- Other
Council of Texas Archaeologists
- Chair
Society for Historical Archaeology Conference Committee
- Chair
Southern Texas Archaeological Association