Judson Finley

Anthropology-Archaeology

Department Head | Sociology and Anthropology


Judson Finley

Contact Information

Office Location: Logan (MAIN 216B)
Phone: +1 435 797 9621
Email: judson.finley@usu.edu

Educational Background

PhD, Anthropology, (Archaeology), Washington State University, 2008
Rockshelter Formation Processes, Late Quaternary Environmental Change, and Hunter-Gatherer Subsistence in the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming
MA, Anthropology, (Archaeology), Washington State University, 2001
BA, Anthropology, (Archaeology), University of Wyoming, 1996

Licensures & Certifications

Wilderness First Responder Certification, Desert Mountain Medicine, 2018

Biography

Judson Finley is an archaeologist who received his PhD in anthropology from Washington State University. Judson's specialty is the geological interface with Native history of the West.

Teaching Interests

North American Archaeology, North American Indian Cultures, Cultural Resource Management Policy, Geoarchaeology, Climate Studies, Archaeometry

Research Interests

Quaternary Paleoecology of western North America; rockshelter and cave sedimentary records; obsidian and ceramic artifact geochemistry; ceramic petrography

Awards

CHASS Faculty Undergraduate Mentor of the Year, 2019

Utah State University College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Beyond Bears Ears: Public Lands, Utah, and You. Interdisciplinary Think Tank Award, 2017

Utah State University Honors College

Notable New Grant, 2016

Office of Research and Graduate Studies, Utah State University

CHASS Faculty Undergraduate Advisor Award, 2016

Utah State University College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Project of the Year Award, 2011

Rocky Mountains Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit to Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Archaeological Field School

Regional Forester Honor Award, Recreation Partner of the Year, 2009

USDA National Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region

2008

Amerind New World Studies Series Seminar, Amerind Foundation, Dragoon, Arizona

2007

Amerind New World Studies Series Seminar, Amerind Foundation, Dragoon, Arizona


Publications | Abstracts

  • Finley, J.B, Rowe, M.J, Rockshelters as Archives of Late Quaternary Geological Records in the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming : GSA Abstrsacts with Programs. Geological Society of America *

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Books

    Publications | Book Chapters

  • Finley, J.B, (2022). Connections, Relationships, and the Land: An Anthropological Field School.: Ecopedagogies: Practical Approaches to Experiential Learning. Routledge *
  • Finley, J.B, (2022). From Dinosaur to Bears Ears: Engaging Utah’s Public Lands Via Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Experiential Learning: Ecopedagogies: Practical Approaches to Experiential Learning. Routledge
  • Finley, J.B, (2022). Out of the Classroom and into the Wild: Ecopedagogies in Action: Ecopedagogies: Practical Approaches to Experiential Learning. Routledge *
  • Finley, J.B, History of Work, Stratigraphy, and Cultural Chronology: In the Shadow of the Steamboat: A Natural and Cultural History of North Warner Valley, Oregon. University of Utah Press
  • Rowe, M.J, Finley, J.B, (2021). Enhancing Environmental and Cultural Justice Outcomes Under the National Environmental Policy Act and the National Historic Preservation Act: Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene: From (Un)Just Presents to Just Futures. Routledge Press
  • Finley, J.B, (2016). Late Holocene Geoarchaeology of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming: Stones, Bones, and Profiles: Papers in Honor of George C. Frison and C. Vance Haynes. University of Colorado Press
  • Scheiber, L.L, Finley, J.B, (2012). Situating (Proto) History on the Northwestern Plains and Rocky Mountains: The Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology. Oxford University Press
  • Scheiber, L.L, Finley, J.B, (2011). Mobility as Resistance: Colonialism Among Nomadic Hunter-Gatherers In The American West: Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology as Historical Process. University of Arizona Press
  • Eckerle, W., Finley, J.B, Hanna, R., (2011). Data Collection Strategies for Assessing Artifact Zone Spatial and Associational Integrity in Sand Occupational Substrates: In Archaeology in 3D: Deciphering Buried Sites in the Western U.S.. The SAA Press
  • Eckerle, W., Ingbar, E., Taddie, S., Finley, J.B, Drews, M., Hopkins, M., (2011). Forecasting Landscape Settings Conducive to Site Burial: Archaeology in 3D: Deciphering Buried Sites in the Western U.S.. The SAA Press
  • Scheiber, L.L, Finley, J.B, (2010). Mountain Shoshone Technological Transitions Across the Great Divide: Across the Great Divide: Culture Contact and Culture Change in North America at AD 1500. University of Arizona Press
  • Finley, J.B, (2007). Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, and Geomorphology.: Medicine Lodge Creek: Holocene Archaeology of the Eastern Big Horn Basin, Wyoming. Clovis Press
  • Larson, M.L, Finley, J.B, (2004). Analytical Nodules: Retrospect and Prospect: Aggregate Analyses in Lithic Studies. University of Utah Press

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Journal Articles

Academic Journal

Professional Journal

  • Scheiber, L.L, Finley, J.B, Boyle, M., (2008). Bad Pass Archaeology. The American Surveyor , Apr/May, 12-22. *

Public or Trade Journal

  • Scheiber, L.L, Boyle, M., Finley, J.B, (2009). Archaeology: Combining Mapping Techniques with Digital Technology. PositionIT , Nov/Dec, 25-29. *

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Technical Reports

Other Reports

  • Finley, J.B, Andrews, B., Kornfeld, M., Frison, G., (2002). The Black Mountain Archaeological District: 2001 Field Studies.

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Other

Bulletins

  • Rowe, M.J, Finley, J.B, Branam, K.M, Putting America’s Archaeological Resources to Work: Three Tangible Benefits of Archaeological Preservation at Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area. The SAA Archaeological Record

Newsletter

  • Finley, J.B, Herrmann, E., (2014). Fall Newsletter of the Archaeological Geology Division of the Geological Society of America. Geological Society of America *
  • Finley, J.B, Herrmann, E., (2014). Winter Newsletter of the Geoarchaeological Interest Group of the Society for American Archaeology. Society for American Archaeology *
  • Fadem, C., Finley, J.B, (2013). Fall Newsletter of the Archaeological Geology Division of the Geological Society of America. Geological Society of America *
  • Fadem, C., Finley, J.B, (2012). Fall Newsletter of the Archaeological Geology Division of the Geological Society of America. Geological Society of America *

Other

    An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

    Teaching

    ANTH 5340, 6340 - Archaeology of the Desert West, Fall 2023
    ANTH 5330, 6330 - Geoarchaeology, Spring 2023
    ANTH, ENVS 3320 - Archaeology of Climate Change, Spring 2022
    ANTH 6340, 5340 - Archaeology of the Desert West, Fall 2021
    ANTH 5300 - Archaeology Field School, Summer 2021
    ANTH 3300 - Archaeology in North America, Spring 2021
    ANTH, ENVS 3320 - Archaeology of Climate Change, Fall 2020
    ENVS, ANTH 3320 - Archaeology of Climate Change, Fall 2020
    ANTH 5330, 6330 - Geoarchaeology, Fall 2020
    ANTH 3300 - Archaeology in North America, Spring 2020
    ANTH 6340, 5340 - Archaeology of the Desert West, Fall 2019
    ANTH 5900 - Independent Studies, Fall 2019
    HONR 3020, 3030 - Special Topics: Humanities/Creative Arts, Fall 2019
    ANTH 5330, 6330 - Geoarchaeology, Spring 2019
    ANTH 6390 - Cultural Resources Management Policy, Fall 2018
    HONR 3020, 3030 - Special Topics: Social Sciences, Fall 2018
    ANTH 5300 - Archaeology Field School, Summer 2018
    ANTH 3300 - Archaeology in North America, Spring 2018
    ANTH 6700 - Archaeology Internship, Spring 2018
    ANTH 6430 - Archaeometry, Spring 2018
    ANTH 6700 - Archaeology Internship, Fall 2017
    ANTH 5340, 6340 - Archaeology of the Desert West, Fall 2017
    ANTH 5900 - Independent Studies, Fall 2017
    ANTH 5190 - Applied Anthropology Practicum, Summer 2017
    ANTH 5900 - Independent Studies, Summer 2017
    ANTH 6700 - Archaeology Internship, Spring 2017
    ANTH 5310 - Archaeology Laboratory, Spring 2017
    ANTH 5310 - Archaeology Laboratory, Spring 2017
    ANTH 4800 - Archaeology of Climate Change, Spring 2017
    ANTH 5330, 6330 - Geoarchaeology, Spring 2017
    ANTH 5330, 6330 - Geoarchaeology, Spring 2017
    ANTH 4800 - Topics in Anthropology, Spring 2017
    ANTH 6700 - Archaeology Internship, Fall 2016
    ANTH 5310 - Archaeology Laboratory, Fall 2016
    ANTH 6390 - Cultural Resources Management Policy, Fall 2016
    ANTH 3110 - North American Indian Cultures, Fall 2016
    ANTH 5300 - Archaeology Field School, Summer 2016
    ANTH 5310 - Archaeology Laboratory, Spring 2016
    ANTH 6390 - Cultural Resources Management Policy, Spring 2016
    ANTH 5340, 6340 - Archaeology of the Desert West, Fall 2015
    ANTH 5340 - Archaeology of the Desert West, Fall 2015
    ANTH 6340 - Archaeology of the Desert West, Fall 2015
    ANTH 4800 - Native American Experience in Film, Fall 2015
    ANTH 3110 - North American Indian Cultures, Fall 2015
    ANTH 5310 - Archaeology Laboratory, Summer 2015
    ANTH 4800 - Archaeology of Climate Change, Spring 2015
    ANTH 6430 - Archaeometry, Spring 2015
    ANTH 3380 - Archaeology Field Trip, Fall 2014
    ANTH 3300 - Archaeology in North America, Fall 2014
    ANTH 3300 - Archaeology in North America, Fall 2014
    ANTH 5330, 6330 - Geoarchaeology, Fall 2014
    ANTH 5330 - Geoarchaeology, Fall 2014
    ANTH 6330 - Geoarchaeology, Fall 2014
    ANTH 5300 - Archaeology Field School, Summer 2014
    ANTH 3350 - Archaeology of Ancient Civilizations, Spring 2014
    ANTH 6390 - Cultural Resources Management Policy, Spring 2014
    ANTH 3380 - Archaeology Field Trip, Fall 2013
    ANTH 5330,6330 - Geoarchaeology, Fall 2013
    ANTH 3110 - North American Indian Cultures, Fall 2013
    ANTH 3300 - Archaeology in North America, Spring 2013
    ANTH 6390 - Cultural Resources Management Policy, Spring 2013
    ANTH 6420 - Lithic Analysis, Fall 2012

    Creative Works | Other

    • Two Eagles Interpretive Trail: When People Placed Stone Against Their Lodges, Other, Interpretive Trail - 2012

    Graduate Students Mentored

    Chelsea Cheney, Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology, August 2019
    Ryan McGrath, Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology, August 2019
    Victoria Ramirez, Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology, August 2019
    Audrey Pazmino, Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology, August 2017
    Cayla Kennedy, Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology, August 2018 - April 2021
    Trista Schiele, Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology, August 2017 - April 2021
    Richard Olsen, Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology, August 2016 - April 2020
    Caleb Ferbrache, Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology, August 2015 - December 2019
    Hillary Jones, Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology, August 2014 - April 2019
    Bethany Wurster, Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology, August 2015 - March 2019
    Anastasia Lugo-Mendez, Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology, August 2014 - March 2019
    Elizabeth Hora-Cook, Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology, August 2014 - October 2018
    Carlie Ideker, Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology, August 2012 - December 2015
    Candice Cravins, Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology, August 2011 - May 2014
    Ben Fowler, Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology, August 2009 - May 2014