Leslie Reeder-Myers

Leslie Reeder-Myers

  • College of Liberal Arts

    Anthropology

    Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

    Director

    Programs
    • Anthropology Laboratory and Museum

    Affiliated Faculty

    Programs
    • Center for Sustainable Communities
Office Location

LL8 Gladfelter Hall

Expertise

Historical Ecology; Conservation Paleobiology; Coastal Archaeology; Indigenous Fisheries; Sea Level Rise

Biography

I am an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and director of the Anthropology Laboratory at Temple University. I received my PhD from Southern Methodist University in 2012 and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History before coming to Temple in 2017.

My research explores socio-ecological systems in coastal environments. I am interested in understanding how Indigenous societies developed sustainable, resilient large-scale fisheries that survived thousands of years of climate change in the past. I focus on entanglements between social and ecological systems, and how those entanglements can help create, rather than destroy, resilience. My ongoing projects are in Chesapeake Bay, northeastern Honduras, and California.

Curriculum Vitae
Website

Selected Publications

Books

  • Rick, T.C. and L.A. Reeder-Myers. 2018. Deception Island: Archaeology of Anyapax’, Anacapa Island, California. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, Washington D.C.
  • Reeder-Myers, L.A., J. Turck, T.C. Rick, editors. 2019. Human-Environmental Dynamics on the Atlantic Coast of North America. University Press Florida, Gainesville.

Articles

  • Rick, T.C. and L.A. Reeder-Myers. 2018. Deception Island: Archaeology of Anyapax’, Anacapa Island, California. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, Washington D.C.
  • Reeder-Myers, L.A., J. Turck, T.C. Rick, editors. 2019. Human-Environmental Dynamics on the Atlantic Coast of North America. University Press Florida, Gainesville.
  • Reeder-Myers, L.A., T.J. Braje, C.A. Hofman, E.A. Elliott Smith, C. Garland, M. Grone, C.S. Hadden, M. Hatch, T. Hunt, A. Kelley, M.J. LeFebvre, M. Lockman, I. McKechnie, I.J. McNiven, B. Newsom, T. Pluckhahn, G. Sanchez, M. Schwadron, K. Smith, T. Smith, A. Spiess, G. Tayac, V.D. Thompson, T. Vollman, E.M. Weitzel, and T.C. Rick. 2021. Forgotten fisheries, Indigenous communities, and the shifting baseline of global oyster harvest. Nature Communications, in review (Oct 2021).
  • Reeder-Myers, L.A., W.A. Goodwin, A. Figueroa, A. Domic, and J.C. Fernandez-Diaz. 2021. Cultural landscapes at the Selin Farm site, northeastern Honduras. Journal of Field Archaeology, in review (Oct 2021).
  • Rick, T.C., A. Alsharekh, T. Braje, A. Crowther, D.Q. Fuller, J.M. Erlandson, K.M. Gill, H.S. Groucutt, M. Guagnin, R. Helm, C.A. Hofman, M. Horton, A. Kay, R. Korisettar, M. Petraglia, C. Radimilahy, L. Reeder-Myers, C. Shipton, H.T. Wright, N. Boivin. 2021. Coring, profiling, and trenching: archaeological field strategies for investigating the Pleistocene-Holocene Anthropocene Continuum. PLoS One, in review (Oct 2021).
  • Rick, T.C., T. Braje, K. Easterday, L. Graham, C. Hofman, B. Holguin, A. Mychajliw, L. Reeder-Myers, and M. Reynolds. 2021. Cultural Keystone Places and the Chumash Landscapes of Humqaq, Point Conception, California. American Antiquity, in review (Oct 2021).
  • Reeder-Myers, L.A. and T.C. Rick. 2019. Mitigating the effects of sea level rise and coastal erosion on the archaeological record: kayak survey in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, USA. Antiquity, 93:1040-1051.
  • Reeder-Myers, L.A. and M.D. McCoy. 2019. Preparing for the future impacts of mega storms on archaeological sites: an evaluation of flooding from Hurricane Harvey, Houston, Texas. American Antiquity, 84: 292-301.
  • Rick, T.C., L.A. Reeder-Myers, D. Breitburg, R. Lockwood, C.A. Hofman, G. Henkes, L. Kellogg, D.L. Lowery, M. Luckenbach, R.L. Mann, M.B. Ogburn, M.J. Southworth, J. Wah, J. Wesson, A.H. Hines. 2016. Millennial-scale sustainability of the Chesapeake Bay Native American oyster fishery. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113: 6568-6573.
  • Reeder-Myers, L.A. 2015. Cultural heritage at risk: A vulnerability assessment of coastal archaeological sites in the United States. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 10: 436-445.
  • Reeder-Myers, L.A., J.M. Erlandson, D.R. Muhs, T.C. Rick. 2015. Sea level, paleogeography, and archaeology on California's Northern Channel Islands. Quaternary Research, 55: 263-272.

You can view a complete list of publications here. 

Courses Taught

  • Museums and Society
  • Archaeology of North America
  • Frauds, Myths, and Pseudoscience in Archaeology
  • Evolution of Culture
  • Methods in Faunal Analysis
  • Practicum in Curation and Collections Management