CBBS Staff

Ashley Baker, Archeologist
ebaker@sulross.edu
Ashley has been working for the Center for the last year as an Archaeologist I, which involves extensive time in the field working on surveys and excavations. When she's in Alpine, Ashley works in the CBBS lab, processing and analyzing artifacts that were found during field excursions. She will be attending this summer's archaeological field school, and will finish her bachelor's degree at Sul Ross in the next year, with a major in Geology and a minor in Anthropology. She is the working mom of two beautiful children, Berkley and Fisher, and always has an easy smile and sound advice for co-workers as well as kids.

Roger Boren, Archeologist
rboren@sulross.edu
Roger is a magna cum laude and honors program graduate of Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. He began participating in archaeological field research with the Center for Big Bend Studies in 2001 and assumed a staff position with the CBBS in 2007. Roger is involved in various projects which range from field survey to archaeological excavation, with a special interest in the rock art of the Trans-Pecos and the surrounding area.

Sam Cason, Project Archaeologist
scason@sulross.edu
Samuel S. Cason received a B.A. from the University of Colorado in anthropology and an M.A. in anthropology from Colorado State University. He has worked as a professional archaeologist since 1997 in far-west Texas and the Rocky Mountain region while maintaining research interests in the Trans-Pecos and now holds the position of project archaeologist with the Center for Big Bend Studies. Sam is currently engaged in the analysis of materials recovered from Tranquil Rockshelter. His primary research interests are concerned with diversity in hunter-gatherer lifeways and the integration of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) into archaeological investigations. Sam has contributed to many CBBS investigations since 1998.

Susan Chisholm, Administrative Coordinator
schisholm@sulross.edu
Susan is the CBBS administrative assistant. Her duties include planning and preparation for the Annual Conference and board meetings, as well as daily upkeep of all administrative tasks related to the daily operations of the CBBS office. She graduated from the Katherine Gibbs Secretarial School in Providence, Rhode Island, and has thirty-eight years of experience in secretarial and administrative work. She has worked in legal offices, a psychologist's office, a hospital, and even a sleep lab. A woman of many talents, Susan is also an actress with twenty years' experience in petite theater. She and her husband, Clay, moved to Alpine after living in Louisiana for thirty years.

Andy Cloud, Director
wacloud@sulross.edu
William A. Cloud received both his B.A. (Archeological Studies; 1978) and M.A. (Anthropology, with a focus on Archeology; 1987) degrees from the University of Texas at Austin. Since 1980 he has participated on various archeological projects for universities (Sul Ross State University-Center for Big Bend Studies; University of Texas at Austin-Texas Archeological Survey; University of Arkansas-Arkansas Archaeological Survey), state agencies (Texas Historical Commission-Office of the State Archeologist; Texas Parks and Wildlife Department-Historic Sites Division), a federal agency (National Park Service-Big Bend National Park), and several private firms (Geo-Marine, Inc.,-Plano, Texas; Prewitt and Associates, Inc.,-Austin, Texas). He has served as Field Archeologist, Laboratory Technician, Project Archeologist, and Principal Investigator during the course of these investigations. He joined the Center for Big Bend Studies of Sul Ross State University in September 1995 as a staff archaeologist. After stints as cultural resources management coordinator and senior project archaeologist, and following the retirement of long-time CBBS director Robert J. Mallouf in August 2008, the University named him to carry the torch as director of the Center.

Avram Dumitrescu, Scientific Illustrator
adumitrescu@sulross.edu
Avram is a professional visual and graphic artist from Belfast, Northern Ireland, who currently resides in Alpine, Texas. He earned his M.A. in Applied Arts and a B.A. in Visual Communication from the University of Ulster at Belfast, and has worked as an artist and illustrator. He teaches courses in graphic and web design at Sul Ross State University. His artwork has been published in the Southern Review, Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, the Desert Candle, and the Ulster Tatler. He has also illustrated M.F.K. Fisher: Among the Pots and Pans by Joan Reardon, which was published in summer 2008 by the University of California Press. He has joined the CBBS as the scientific illustrator, and will be applying his skills and talents in the production of superb drawings of artifacts, site plans, and maps for CBBS publications.

Bobby Gray, Archeologist
rgray@sulross.edu
Bobby is a 2002 graduate of Sul Ross State University with a B.S. in Criminal Justice and a minor in Anthropology. While at SRSU Robert was a member of the J. Charles Kelley Anthropology Club and attended the 2001 CBBS Archeological Field School. In 2005 Robert was hired by the CBBS for field work involving surveying and excavation. He plans on earning a graduate degree in anthropology and becoming a career archaeologist.

Dawnella Jarratt, Archeologist
cbbs@sulross.edu
Dawnella earned her BA in anthropology with a focus in archaeology from the University of Texas at San Antonio, and plans to pursue an MA in archaeology in the future. She has volunteered with the CBBS at both the Millington and Double House sites, and participated in the 2006 field school at Wolf Den Cave. She has been hired as a Staff Archaeologist, and is working in the CBBS lab processing and analyzing artifacts from the Wolf Den Cave Project. She enjoys outdoor activities, especially camping, fishing, and hiking.

David Keller, Project Archeologist
dkeller@sulross.edu
David W. Keller earned a B.A. in History and Psychology at Texas Tech University and an M.A. in Environmental History from the University of Montana. He has taught field courses for the University of Montana and San Francisco State University and conducted archeological and historical research in Montana and the Big Bend region of Texas. His book, Below the Escondido Rim: A History of the O2 Ranch in the Texas Big Bend, was published in the summer of 2005. He is presently project archaeologist for the Big Bend National Park project and is working on a new book on the history of the Pinto Canyon Ranch.

Robert Mallouf, Archaeologist
mallouf@sulross.edu>
Robert J. Mallouf has been conducting archeological research and preservation work in Texas for over 40 years and served as Texas State Archaeologist from 1981 to 1995, and as director of the Center for Big Bend Studies and assistant professor of anthropology at Sul Ross State University from 1995 to 2008, when he retired. He has authored numerous publications related to the archaeology of Texas, as well as western Kansas and northeastern Chihuahua, Mexico. Mallouf received B.A. and M.A. degrees in anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin, and also studied at the University of California at Berkeley and the American University of Cairo, Egypt. A native of Brownwood, Texas, his background includes work as varied as commercial fishing in the Gulf of Mexico, marketing in California, and forestry and rescue work with the National Park Service in Arizona. Mallouf and his son Parker reside in Alpine, Texas.

Andrea Ohl, Archeologist
cbbs@sulross.edu
Andrea earned a B.A. in anthropology from the University of New Hampshire in Durham. She wrote her thesis on the prehistory of the upper Connecticut River valley and published several articles regarding her research. She was employed as an archaeologist in New England for seventeen years at Dartmouth College as a field school assistant and for several CRM firms as a surveyor, excavator, researcher, and writer. Andrea moved to the Big Bend in 1993 to begin construction of an earth-sheltered adobe house in the Christmas Mountains. She began working for the CBBS in 1997 on surveys, excavations, CRM projects, research, and writing. She has written CRM reports for the CBBS, and her book, The Paradise Site—A Middle Archaic Campsite on the 02 Ranch, was published in 2006. She continues to build her house, and research and write about the Middle Archaic period in the eastern Trans-Pecos.

Reeda Peel, Archeologist / Rock Art Specialist
rpeel@sulross.edu
Reeda has worked with the CBBS for years as a contractual rock art specialist, and began work as a full-time employee in 2007. She is coordinating the creation of a comprehensive digital rock art database. Following the model of Forrest Kirkland, Reeda Peel has applied her professional training and experience in fine art to the recordation of Native American rock art. Since 1990, Peel has worked with the Texas Archeological Society, served as a Texas Historical Commission Archeological Steward, and participated in archaeological projects with universities as well as state and federal agencies. In her work with the Center for Big Bend Studies, she has been documenting rock art in the Chinati Mountains, Bee Cave Canyon, and in the Graef Site near Balmorhea.

Richard Walter, Archeologist
rwalter@sulross.edu
Richard Walter grew up in Ralls, a small farming community east of Lubbock, Texas. Richard joined the South Plains Archaeological Society (SPAS) in 1967, which at that time held meetings in the basement of the old museum at Holden Hall, Texas Tech University. During the 1960s, Richard volunteered on a number of small excavations conducted by SPAS and had the privilege to work with Texas pioneer archaeologists Frank Runkles, Emitt Shedd, and Jim Word. From 1972 to 1992 Richard attended the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Texas at El Paso, and Texas Tech University. Richard's first paying job was illustrating artifacts from a Paleoindian site outside of Quito, Ecuador in 1982. Since 1990, Richard has been involved with archaeological investigations in Texas, Kansas, Indiana, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada and has been senior and co-author of more than forty archaeological reports.