Faculty and Staff

For further information, or to arrange for examination of particular collections, contact:

Dr. Amanda Hall, Collections Manager
Florida Museum of Natural History
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-7800, USA

Tel: 352-273-1928
E-mail: ahall@floridamuseum.ufl.edu

 

 

photo of Andrea Torvinen in orange dress and blue sweater standing in front of brick wall

Dr. Andrea Torvinen, Collections Manager
Florida Museum of Natural History
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-7800, USA
E-mail: a.torvinen@ufl.edu
https://florida.academia.edu/AndreaTorvinen

Andrea is the collections manager of the Ceramic Technology Laboratory and Florida Archaeology at the Florida Museum. She is an anthropological archaeologist interested in community resilience and social identity, compositional and technological ceramic analysis, and collective action among middle-range societies. Her primary research areas are West Mexico and the U.S. Southwest but she has also engaged in fieldwork in northern Iceland and west-central Illinois. As Co-Director of the Pan-American Ceramics Project, an open-access web application of ceramic data from Canada to Argentina, she is committed to the creation of inclusive and equitable platforms for sharing archaeological data with the public.

 

Dr. Neill J. Wallis, Associate Curator in Archaeology
Florida Museum of Natural History
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-7800, USA
Tel: 352-273-1920
Fax: 352-392-3698
Email: nwallis@flmnh.ufl.edu

Neill is associate curator of Florida Archaeology and Bioarchaeology at the Florida Museum and affiliate faculty in the Department of Anthropology. He conducts archaeological research in Florida and the Southeast, focusing on the dynamics of pre-Columbian communities and social networks. His active research projects include multi-sited sourcing analyses of Swift Creek, Weeden Island, and Safety Harbor/Fort Walton pottery across northern Florida and southern Georgia, and field investigations at Woodland and Mississippian sites in north-central Florida and the Gulf coast.

South Florida Archaeology Curator and Staff

Historical Archaeology Curator and Staff