Thomas Whitley

Education: Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh 2000, M.A., Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh 1990, B.A., Anthropology, University of Washington 1987.

Professional Registration: Registered Professional Archaeologist (since 1998)

Experience: 32 years in archaeology, fourth year as director of ASC

DR. THOMAS WHITLEY oversees every aspect of ASC project management. He has over 30 years of experience in Cultural Resources Management (CRM). In all, he has directed more than 700 projects in the USA, Western Europe, Australia, the Caribbean, Japan, and the Middle East. He specializes in archaeological applications of GIS and spatial analysis, particularly in the areas of interpreting cognitive landscapes, remote sensing, human ecology, complex socio-economic simulations, and predictive modeling. His topical specializations include CRM law and theory, industrial archaeology, contact and colonialism, perishables analysis, the archaeology of labor, and mining landscapes.

Professor Whitley teaches CRM in the graduate program at Sonoma State University and prior to that, he was at the University of Western Australia where he coordinated the Masters of Professional Archaeology program from 2013 to 2016. He is an active member of a number of professional organizations such as the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), the Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA), the American Cultural Resources Association (ACRA), the Australian Archaeological Association (AAA), and the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Conference (CAA). He also serves on the Science Advisory Board for Digital Antiquity, and on Commission 4 of the International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques – UISPP).