Overview
Dr. Crystal Dozier is an anthropological archaeologist with over a decade of experience. Dr. Dozier received her PhD and MA from Texas A&M University and her BA from the University of Chicago. Her work contends with political economy and social identity in the past, especially as embodied through foodways and cooking technologies. Dr. Dozier’s research explores nutrition, fermentation technology, feasting, and ancient diets using macro and micro-botanical techniques. Her work has garnered wide attention, as featured by Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic, Archaeology Magazine, and more. She directs the Archaeology of Food Laboratory, which provides resources for students to develop their own research projects. Dr. Dozier also serves as the Chair for the Department of Anthropology and City Archaeologist for the city of Wichita.
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Archaeology of food, Feasting, Experimental Archaeology, Pre-Columbian Fermentation Technology, Gendered Archaeology, Mircro-botanical Analyses, Economic Anthropology, Reflective Teaching Methods in Anthropology
Dozier, Crystal A.
2023 Testing Circuits of Commerce in the Distant Past: Archaeological Understandings of Social Relationships and Economic Lives. In Living Better Together: Social Relations and Polycentricity in the Work of Ostrom and Zelizer, Virgil Storr and Stefanie Haeffele, eds. Pp: 77-99. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17127-7_5
Dozier, Crystal A. and Grace E. Tsai
2022 Experimental Recreation of 16th Century Wine: Palynological and Enological Characteristics. Archaeology of Food and Foodways 1(1): 16-33. DOI: 10.1558/aff.17752
Hoard, Robert J., Crystal A. Dozier, and Jennifer Banks*
2022 The Positive Side of Negative Results: Plant Microfossil Analysis of an Early Ceramic Vessel. Kansas Anthropologist 43: 7-10.
Dozier, Crystal A., Jennifer Banks*, Savannah A. Gann*, Elayne V. Howard*, and John G. Jones.
2021 “Phytolith Analysis and Ceramic Microfossil and Residue Analysis.” In Pueblo on the Plains: The Second Season of Investigations at the Merchant Site in Southeastern New Mexico, by Myles R. Miller, Tim B. Graves, Charles D. Frederick, Mark Willis, John D. Speth, J Philip Dering, Susan J. Smith, et al., 335–58. Versar Cultural Resources Report 872-EP. El Paso, Texas: Versar.
Dozier, Crystal A., Angelina G. Perrotti, and Elayne V. Howard*
2021 Effects of Acetolysis on Starch Granules. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 36. 102818. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.102818
Dozier, Crystal A. and Justin Jennings
2021 Identification of chicha de maiz in the Pre-Columbian Andes through Starch Analysis: New Experimental Evidence. In Andean Foodways: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Pre-Columbian, Colonial, Contemporary Food and Culture, J.E. Staller editor. Pp: 187-204. Springer Nature. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-51629-1_7
Dozier, Crystal A., Doyong Kim, and David H. Russell
2020 Chemical Evidence in Leon Plain pottery from the Toyah phase (1300-1650 CE) in the American Southern Plains. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 32: 102450. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102450
Haley, Cambria* and Crystal A. Dozier
2020 Preliminary Survey of the Eastern Half of 41UR30, the Boxed Spring Site. Caddo Archaeology Journal 30: 76-79. Open Access Online
Canterbury, Jacob A, Chase W. Beck, Crystal A. Dozier, Megan L. Greenfelder, Kristin Hoffmeister, Jude Magaro, Ali Mendha, Angelina Perotti, Casey Wayne Riggs, Anthony Taylor, Lori E. Wright.
2020 Bariatric Surgery as a Proxy for Nutritional Stress in Stable Isotope Investigations of Archaeological Populations. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 30: 102196. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102196
Dozier, Crystal A.
2020 Anthropological Archaeology and the Viennese Students of Civilization. Review of Austrian Economics 33(1): 219-235. DOI: 10.1007/s11138-019-00443-2
Sonderman, Elanor M., Crystal A. Dozier, and Morgan F. Smith
2019 Analysis of a coprolite from Conejo Shelter, Texas: Potential ritualistic Viperous snake consumption. Journal of Archaeological Science 25: 85-93. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.03.032
Dozier, Crystal A.
2019 Evidence for Feasting in the Southern Plains: Maintenance and Reinforcement of the Toyah Social Field, 1250-1650 AD. Plains Anthropologist 64(251): 275-299. DOI: 10.1080/00320447.2018.
Dozier, Crystal A.
2017 Teaching Anthropological Concepts of Race in Higher Education: Insights and Challenges at a Predominately White Institution. Teaching Anthropology 7(1): 15-33. DOI: 10.22582/ta.v7i1.458
Dozier, Crystal A.
2017 The Origins of Entrepreneurship and the Market Process: An Archaeological Assessment of Competitive Feasting, Trade, and Social Cooperation. In Interdisciplinary Studies of the Market Order: New Applications of Market Process Theory, P. Boettke, V. Storr, and C. Coyne, eds. Pp 113-137. London: Rowman and Littlefield International Ltd.
Dozier, Crystal A.
2016 Airborne starch dispersal from stone grinding: Experimental results and implications. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 8: 112-115. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.05.057
Dozier, Crystal A.
2016 Saccharomyces cerevisiae Fermentation Effects on Pollen: Archaeological Implications. Ethnobiology Letters 7(1): 32-37. DOI: 10.14237/ebl.7.1.2016.573
*student co-author
2023 Retention Fellow, Fairmount College, Wichita State University
2022 Young Faculty Scholar Award, Wichita State University
2019 Tilford Diversity Fellow, Office of Academic Affairs, Wichita State University
Temporary Chair, Department of Anthropology (2024-present)
Kansas Antiquities Commission, Kansas Historical Society (2024-present)
City Archaeologist, City of Wichita, Kansas (2019-present)
Graduate Coordinator, Department of Anthropology (2019-2024)
First Generation Coordinating Council, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Representative (2019-2022)
Curriculum Committee, Society for American Archaeology (chair: 2020-2023; member 2015-2020)