David Thulman, J.D., Ph.D.

  President, Director 

David Thulman, received his PhD in Anthropology from Florida State University in 2006. He received his J.D. from George Washington University 1982, and his B.A. Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania, 1978.   Thulman is an Assitant Professorial Lecturer in the Anthropology Department at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and teaches Ethics & Cultural Property, North American Archaeology, and Human Rights & Ethics.

Thulman's research focuses on social and economic issues, typologies, and general early New World archaeology, especially the social processes that create chronological and spatial patterns of consistency and variation in material culture.  In particular, he is interested in the phenomena of regionalization and boundary maintenance and the social mechanisms that facilitate the spread of ideas, as manifested in material culture, within and across regions.  

Michael K. Faught, Ph.D.

  Treasurer, Director 

Michael K. Faught is a Senior Maritime Archaeologist with Panamerican Consultants, Inc., Maritime Division. Michael holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Arizona, Tucson, he has worked on and directed terrestrial archaeology projects in the desert Southwest, with the University of Arizona, Desert Archaeology, and Old Pueblo Archaeology, and underwater archaeology in Florida, New York, Massachusetts, Georgia, Texas, Mexico, Puerto Rico, St. Croix, and St. Thomas. Publications, and other details of Michael's research interests can be seen at http://home.comcast.net/~mfaught/