CV

Jan 2016

Ph.D. in Anthropological Archaeology
New York University, Department of Anthroplogy
Thesis: Dynamic Communities in Early Medieval Aquitaine: A GIS Analysis of Roman and Medieval Landscapes in the Vézère Valley (Dordogne, France)

Oct 2006

M.Phil. in Archaeology
University of Cambridge, Department of Archaeology
Thesis: Setting Beowulf in the Archaeological Landscape: Integrating Literature and Archaeology

May 2005

B.A. in Anthropology and English
University of Illinois, Department of Anthropology, Department of English
Thesis: History in Galena Illinois: The Marketing of Facts and Place in the Context of Recreational Tourism

Aug 2018-present

CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Research Objects and Software Curation
Bizzell Memorial Library, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Jun 2018-present

Assistant Director Dún Ailinne Archaeological Field School
County Kildare, Ireland

Jun 2016-present

Geospatial Director Dún Ailinne Archaeological Field School
County Kildare, Ireland

2020

Rust Family Foundation Grant, Project “A New Radiocarbon Chronology for the Prehistoric Ceremonial Center at Dun Ailinne (Co. Kildare, Ireland)” with Dr. Susan Johnston (GWU)

CLIR Research Grant, Arthur P. Sloan Foundation

2019

CLIR Research Grant, Arthur P. Sloan Foundation

2018

CLIR Research Grant, Arthur P. Sloan Foundation

2014

2013-2014 Dean’s Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award in Social Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Science, New York University

2013

Dissertation Grant from the Partner University Fund project “Aurignacian Genius”; directed by Dr. Randall White (NYU, UMI 3199, UMR 5608) and Dr. François Bon (Université de Toulouse-Mirail, UMR 5608)

2012

Travel Grant from the Partner University Fund project “Aurignacian Genius”; directed by Dr. Randall White (NYU, UMI 3199, UMR 5608) and Dr. François Bon (Université de Toulouse-Mirail, UMR 5608)

2007-2011

NYU Henry H. MacCracken Fellowship, New York University

2011

Laboratory Development Grant, Department of Anthropology, New York University

2009

Ranieri Grant, Institute for Ancient Studies, New York University

Dean’s Travel Grant, New York University

2008

Ranieri Grant, Institute for Ancient Studies, New York University

Travel Grant International Summer School in 3D Modeling in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, UTH Zurich

Salwen-Goodwin Grant, Department of Anthropology, New York University

2005

Patricia O’Brien Award, University of Illinois

2016-2018

Visiting Scholar, NYU Department of Anthropology, New York, NY

Research Assistant, Ceramics Laboratory, NYU Department of Anthropology, New York, NY

2012-2018

Principal Investigator, Dynamic Communities in Early Medieval Aquitaine, Vézère Valley, Dordogne, France

2017

Geospatial Director, Mapping Magan Archaeological Project, Bat-‘Amlah, Oman

2010-2014

Historic Landscape Specialist, Excavations at Abris Cellier, Blanchard, and Castanet, Dordogne, France

2007-2008

Survey Member, Dún Ailinne Survey Project, County Kildare, Ireland

2004

Excavation Member, Huacas de Moche, Trujillo, Peru

2017

Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, NY

2016

Adjunct Professor, Critical Inquiry and Junior Seminar, Mercy College, New York University, New York, NY

Project Manager, Geoarcheology Research Associates, Inc., Yonkers, NY

2008-2015

Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, NY

2014

Adjunct Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Joliet Junior College, Joliet, IL

GSAS Teaching and Learning Program Fellow, New York University, New York, NY

2013

Adjunct Professor, Paul McGhee Division, School of Continuing and Professional Studies, New York, NY

Archaeology Technician, Geoarcheology Research Associates, Inc., Yonkers, NY

2010

Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, Queens College, Queens, NY

2007

Adjunct Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Joliet Junior College, Joliet, IL

2018

Wright, R. & Garrett, Z.S. Engineering Feats and Consequences in the Indus: Workers in the Night, in N. Gonlin & A. Nowell (eds.) Archaeology of the Night. pp. 287-306. Boulder: University Press of Colorado

2015

O’Hara, J.F., White, R., Garrett, Z.S., Higham, T., & Roussot, A. A History of Archaeology at the Aurignacian Site of the Abri de la Souquette (Commune de Sergeac, Dordogne). P@lethnology 7: 98-117

O’Hara, J.F., White, R., Garrett, Z.S., Higham, T., & Roussot, A. Le site Aurignacien de l’Abri de la Souquette (Commune de Sergeac, Dordogne): son histoire archéologique. P@lethnology 7: 99-118

2007

Garrett, Z.S.  Book Review of Marx’s Ghost: Conversations with Archaeologists by T. Patterson. Cambridge Archaeological Review 22(1): 129-133

2006

Garrett, Z.S.  Book Review of Intermediate Elites in Pre-Columbian States and Empires by C.M. Elson and A.R. Covey. Cambridge Archaeological Review 212: 136-140

2017

Dollarhide, E., Garrett, Z.S., & Rissman, P. Mapping Magan Archaeological Survey Report to the Omani Ministry of Heritage and Culture. Mapping Magan-Bat Archaeology Project

Johnston, S.A., Crabtree, P.J., Campana, D.V., and Garrett, Z.S.  Final Report.  Excavations at Dun Ailinne, Co. Kildare, 2016.  Report prepared for The National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Ireland

2011

Garrett, Z.S. Une première approche du register post Paléolithique du versant Est du vallon de Castel-Merle et des secteurs voisins, in White, R. (ed.) Abri Blanchard operation de diagnostic et d’autres interventions dans le vallon de Castel-merle (Commune de Sergeac, Dordogne). Rappot de fouille programmée. Bordeaux: Service Régional de l’Archéologie. 189 pp

2019

Battista, A., Brittnacher, T., Garrett, Z., Moore, J., & Pirmann, C. GeoDatabase (.gdb) Data Curation Primer. Data Curation Network.  Retrieved from the University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy, http://hdl.handle.net/11299/202823.

Garrett, Z.S. A History of Heritage at Dún Ailinne, Co. Kildare, Ireland. Heritage Values Interest Group Newsletter.

2018

Surveying de Cardi’s Oman: A re-examination of the Bronze Age record at ‘Amlah (Al-Dhahirah governorate) with E. Dollarhide. Library of Congress, Washington, DC

2016

Dynamic Communities in Early Medieval Aquitaine: A GIS Analysis of Roman and Medieval Landscapes in the Vézère Valley, France. Department of Anthropology, SUNY Stonybrook, NY

2019

Remixing the Recipe: the role of libraries in the production of heritage, Theoretical Archaeology Group, December 16-18, London, UK

Curating a Digital Archaeology Toolkit, Digital Library Federation, October 14-16, Tampa, FL

On the Periphery or the Leading Edge? Research in Prehistoric Ireland, Society for American Archaeology, April 10-14, Albuquerque, NM [session organizer]

A Site with a View? A 3D Reconstruction of the Structures at Dún Ailinne, Society for American Archaeology, April 10-14, Albuquerque, NM

Developing 3D Scanning as a Library Service: experiences from a Pilot Program at OU Libraries, Coalition of Networked Information, April 8-9, St. Louis, MO

2018

*The Diachronic Landscape of Ceremony at the Irish “Royal” Site of Dún Ailinne, Society for American Archaeology, April 12-15, Washington, DC

2016

Dynamic Communities in Early Medieval Aquitaine: A GIS Analysis of Roman and Medieval Landscapes in the Vézère Valley, France, Society for American Archaeology, April 6-10, Orlando, FL

2015

Mind the Gap: Archaeological Approaches to Null-Data Spaces, Society for American Archaeology, April 15-19, San Francisco, CA [session organizer]

Bridging the Gap: Understanding the empty Medieval landscape of Post-Roman Aquitaine, Society for American Archaeology, April 15-19, San Francisco, CA

2014

*Teaching Recitations and Labs for the Social Sciences, NYU GSAS Teaching Conference, August 25, New York, NY

*Finding Your Teaching Style, NYU GSAS Teaching Conference, August 25, New York, NY

Transitional sites in the post-Roman world: Site Survey Analysis of the Roman and Early Medieval Periods in the Vézère Valley, Society for American Archaeology, April 24-27, Austin, TX

2013

Site Survey and Analysis in the Vézère Valley (Dordogne, France), Conference on Medieval Archaeology, October 4-6, Cortlandt, NY

2012

*Reassessing Aurignacian site location: the effects of postglacial populations on Upper Paleolithic sites in the Vallon de Castel-Merle, Society for American Archaeology, April 18-22, Memphis, TN

2011

Theoretically Incompatible or Incompatible in Theory? European and American approaches to early medieval Europe, Theoretical Archaeology Group, May 17-20, Buffalo, NY

2009

Sutton Hoo: a case study in the chaîne opératoire of burial technology in Anglo-Saxon England, Society for American Archaeology, April 22-26, Atlanta, GA

2008

Setting Beowulf in the Archaeological Landscape: Integrating Literature and Archaeology, Theoretical Archaeology Group, May 23-25, Atlanta, GA

Myth in the Making: The Repercussions of the proposed Highway through the Buried Landscape of Tara, Folklore and Nationalism Symposium, February 8-10, Cambridge, MA

2018

The Hill Has Eyes: A GIS Analysis of Views from the Iron Age Site of Dún Ailinne (Co. Kildare, Ireland), University of Oklahoma Research Bazaar (ResBaz), October 11-12, Norman, OK

2013

Exploring Holocene Impacts on the Record of Aurignacian “Genius” in the Vézère Valley [poster], Aurignacian Genius Conference, April 8-9, New York, NY

2016-2017

Center for the Study of Human Origins (CSHO) at NYU Website – website developer and content production

Riverside Project Exhibit – content designer for permanent exhibition of Riverside Archaeological Project at 21 West End Ave Gallery New York, NY 10069

2013, 2016

Indiana Jones: Myth, Reality, and 21st Century Archaeology Podcast – producer and show coordinator

2013-2014

Trowel Points website – created and ran blog on the archaeology conducted by the CRM company GRA Inc, Associates

2017-2018

Committee Member, Society for American Archaeology Program Committee

2016-2018

Committee Member, Society for American Archaeology Public Education Committee

2015-2017

Volunteer, Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting

2015

Conference Co-organizer and Social Media Director, North American Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference