William M. Cremin (Ph.D., Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, 1978) Professor of Anthropology

Dr. Cremin joined the Department in 1975, after having taught at Lake Forest College in Illinois. His research and teaching interests include subsistence-settlement studies, environmental archaeology, archaeobotany, and the prehistory and ethnohistory of the western Great Lakes/Midwest-riverine area. The recipient of more than a hundred awards in support of both scholarly and applied (CRM) programs of research, Cremin has conducted fieldwork in the Central Plains (Kansas) and Midwest (Illinois, Iowa, and Michigan). The results of this work have appeared as chapters in books and monographs, articles in scholarly journals, and compliance reports of archaeological research in the public sector.

For the past two decades, Cremin has focused on the transition from foraging to corn agriculture in the southern Lake Michigan basin, with emphasis on the Oneota-related Berrien phase (ca. 1400-1640). Presently, he is collaborating with colleagues Dr. Michael S. Nassaney (Anthropology) and Dr. Jose Antonio Brandao (History) on a multifaceted, long-term study of the site of French Fort St. Joseph (1691-1781) and the fur trade in southwest Michigan under the auspices of Nassaney's Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project.

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