CAROL I. MASON, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita of Anthropology
UW-Fox Valley
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I retired from the UW-Colleges in the Spring, 1999 as Professor Emeritus of Anthropology. I am now working on special projects as an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Lawrence University, Appleton, WI.

I graduated cum laude from Florida State University and with honors from Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi. I obtained my Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan. My major interests include the archaeology and ethnohistory of the Eastern United States with an emphasis upon the western Great Lakes. I have extensive archaeological field experience and laboratory experience in Wisconsin; Georgia; and Florida with archaeological site excavation experience ranging from the Paleo-Indian period through the Euro-American period. I have written numerous articles in scholarly journals. I authored the book, "Introduction to Wisconsin Indians: Prehistory to Statehood," published by the Sheffield Press.

I have taught undergraduate anthropology and archaeology at St. Norbert College, Lawrence University and the University of Wisconsin Colleges. Undergraduate teaching experience is where the action is if anthropology is to succeed in its efforts to provide the backbone of a liberal arts approach to education. This is where cultural difference is explored, diversity acknowledge, and the anthropological success story of the recovery and reconstruction of human and evolutionary sequences celebrated. Anthropology is a fitting introduction to a broad understanding of human achievement.