Office:  473 Strong Hall

Phone:  (417) 836-5145

E-Mail:  ESobel@MissouriState.edu

Spring '08 Office Hours:   1:00-3:30 WF;  or by appointment.

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Elizabeth Sobel is an anthropological archaeologist. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan in 2004. Throughout her career, she has conducted archaeology in the context of both academic research and cultural resource management. Before joining the MSU faculty in 2006, she served as an archaeologist for the Yakama Indian Nation in Washington State. She has served as adjunct faculty at Portland State University and Central Washington University.

Dr. Sobel’s anthropological interests include archaeology, ethnohistory, hunter-gatherers, traditional exchange systems, sociopolitical dynamics in small-scale societies, stone technologies, Native Americans, and early Native-European contact in the Pacific Northwest. 

Recent projects include her role as first editor of Household Archaeology on the Northwest Coast (International Monographs in Prehistory, 2006). She currently serves as researcher for the exhibit Yakama Exchange Traditions, coming to the Yakama Nation Museum in 2007.