APL-Lab People

Dr. Grant Snitker

Dr. Snitker is an environmental archaeologist, specializing in charcoal analysis, computational and analytical proxy modeling, and quantitative methods to understand the dynamic relationship between fire, humans, and long-term environmental change. He also works to improve methods and tools in cultural resource management and fire archaeology, including LiDAR data collection and analysis. He works primarily in the Western United States and the Western Mediterranean. When not doing archaeology, he is usually hiking, fly-fishing, spending time with friends and family, or some combination of all three.

Alex Fetterhoff

Alex Fetterhoff is a graduate student pursuing her Masters in Anthropology within the School of Social Science at USU Logan. Alex grew up in Colorado, with the beautiful, culturally rich Rocky Mountains as her playground. Growing up there also means that she was accustomed to dry, smoky Summers. It is no surprise that she now has research interests in wildland fire and how it affects archaeology. Alex has collaborated with federal agencies in California and Washington since 2024, working on experimental archaeology projects that aim to create better fire management plans. It is through her work there that her interests have also expanded to paleoecology, cultural burning, and collaborating with Tribal communities. In her free time, Alex enjoys reading, hiking with her dog, and playing video games.

Corinne Blair

Corinne is a graduate student in the Anthropology M.S. Program. Her thesis research is on warfare and conflict in the Pacific Northwest.

Savanna Henning

Savanna is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology and Cultural Resource Management at Utah State University, advised by Dr. Grant Snitker. Her research interests include Mediterranean and Near Eastern archaeology, lithic analysis, and the application of GIS and remote sensing to archaeological research. She has worked in Cyprus, Israel, and Jordan, including at the Kourion Urban Space Project in Cyprus and Abila of the Decapolis in Jordan. 

Iris Murphy

Iris Murphy is an MS Anthropology student at USU specializing in lithics, conservation, and ritual archaeology. She has a broad range of experience from identifying sites in the field to analyzing lithics in the lab.  With a background in natural and cultural resources, Iris is dedicated to expanding our understanding of how humans interact with their environment across space and time.

Dr. Jonathan Paige

New Mexico Consortium

Dr. Paige studies the evolution of technologies, the role they play in human evolution, and how groups culturally adapt to new and challenging environments. More generally, he is invested in theoretically informed and computational approaches to analyzing large archaeological datasets, and building the research infrastructure to make such studies possible. He has worked on archaeological projects in the Levant, Oceania, and the Americas, and worked in cultural resource management in Central Texas and Arizona. He now applies that background to his work at NMC on the North American archaeological record.

Dr. Katherine Peck

University of Wyoming

Dr. Peck is an archaeologist who uses computational approaches (spatial modelling, remote sensing, machine learning) to study ancient human-environmental interactions. She is particularly interested in understanding the relationship between agricultural strategies, environmental variables, and long-term productivity—especially in landscapes usually considered "marginal."