Integrated Studies

Faculty

Paul Buck, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Anthropological Education
Location: Basic and Water Building, Office 222
Phone: (702) 992-2620
E-mail: Paul.Buck@nsc.nevada.edu

Dr. Buck is an anthropologist and educator.  He has been involved in archaeological and anthropological projects in a wide variety of contexts in western North America and Egypt for almost 30 years.   His research interests include prehistoric human adaptation to arid environments of western North America, the transition from food collecting to food producing economies in the Southwestern U.S. and Egypt, the impact of technological change on prehistoric cultures, and applications of remote sensing and geoarchaeology to prehistory.   He has published on remote sensing research and other archaeological projects in international, national, and regional peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Buck currently has on-going field research in the archaeology of the prehistoric Anasazi in NW Arizona of the Mt. Trumbull region.

Dr. Buck teaches Introduction to World Prehistory, Archaeology of Egypt, Field Methods in Prehistoric Archaeology (summer only), Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, and Community Based Learning capstone courses related to high school science and science outreach to underrepresented middle school and high school students.  As statewide Director of the MESA program (Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement, a part of the NSHE’s current NSF EPSCoR grant), he leads after school science enrichment programs for middle school and high school students, prepares freshman minority students for college in the NSHE, and provides support for freshman students at University of Nevada Reno and University of Nevada Las Vegas