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Natalie Yates is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at Ball State University. Her scholarly work is situated at the intersection of representation and analysis of landscape systems. Her research focuses on dynamic landscape illustration and simulation, sensing methods in design process (including DIY sensing technologies, UAVs [drones], and GIS), post-industrial landscape remediation, and urban agriculture. Natalie teaches design studios, design communication, time-based media/technology methodologies, and UAS technologies.
Natalie is Ball State University’s 2020-2021 University Design Research Fellow for Exhibit Columbus. Her design research proposal and installation entitled “Calibrate” will open during Exhibit Columbus in Fall 2021. Additionally, Natalie is president of the Board of Directors of Farmished, a local non-profit for promoting a thriving local sustainable food system. Farmished is currently transforming a former machine foundry site in south Muncie into an Urban Agriculture Training Farm.
Natalie has published research at the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) national conference and co-authored the book Modeling the Environment: Techniques and Tools for the 3D Illustration of Dynamic Landscapes (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012).
Kristin Barry is an assistant professor of Architecture at Ball State where she teaches courses in architecture history and theory. She was previously an Instructor at Penn State University, where she taught graduate courses in architectural history/theory, and survey courses in ancient art history and architecture. After receiving her Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Cincinnati, Kristin began working as an archaeological architect, and has worked in Greece, France, Israel, Egypt, and Turkey to document and interpret historical sites for a modern audience. Following her Master of Architecture from the University of Cincinnati, she was on the 2008 Masterplanning team at the Archaeological Site of Ancient Troy in Turkey working to redesign the tourism site to accommodate modern needs. Her research and publication explore how architecture and design in particular describe and interpret ancient remains, as well as change or affect historical understanding at some of the most popular archaeological sites in the world. Kristin is currently the site architect at the Hierakonpolis excavation in Egypt and volunteers with the PUP Global Heritage Consortium.
Kevin is an Ohio Valley archaeologist with a primary research interest in the Late Prehistoric period (ca. AD 1000 – 1600) of the Middle Ohio Valley, particularly how humans interact with the environment. He has published collections based research, results of fieldwork, and theoretical models for the Middle Woodland (ca. 50 BC – AD 400) and Late Prehistoric periods. Other research interests include evolutionary approaches to human behavior, siteless survey and regional analysis, paleoenvironments, and systematics. Kevin also has an interest in public education and has regularly given presentation to grade school and high school classes about archaeology and science.
Recent Publications:
Hart, John P. and Kevin C. Nolan 2015 Comment on Cook and Comstock’s “Evaluating the Old Wood Problem in a Temperate Climate: A Fort Ancient Case Study”. American Antiquity 80(3):610-612.
Nolan, Kevin C., Samantha Blatt, Paul Sciulli, and Christine K. Thompson 2015 A Late Woodland Red Ochre Burial Cache in Madison County, Ohio. Manuscript accepted for North American Archaeologist 36(3).
Nolan, Kevin C. and Brian G. Redmond 2015 Geochemical and Geophysical Prospecting at Three Multicomponent Sites in the Southwestern Lake Erie Basin: A Pilot Study. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 2:94-105. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.01.002
Nolan, Kevin C. and Paul Scull 2014 Rejoinder to Sciulli and Purcell: Two Late Prehistoric Dogs from the Reinhardt Site (33PI880), Pickaway County, Ohio. Pennsylvania Archaeologist 84(2):65-73.
Nolan, Kevin C. 2014 Prehistoric Landscape Exploitation Strategies Through Time in Central Ohio: A GIS Analysis. Journal of Ohio Archaeology 3:12-37.
Nolan, Kevin C. 2014 Prospecting for Prehistoric Gardens: Results of a Pilot Study. Short Report accepted for Archaeological Prospection 21(2):147-154. DOI: 10.1002/arp.1465.
Nolan, Kevin C. and Robert A. Cook 2012 A Method for Multiple Cost Surface Evaluation of a Model of Fort Ancient Interaction. Manuscript prepared for Least Cost Analysis of Socionatural Landscapes: Archaeological Case Studies, edited by DA White, and S Surface-Evans, pp 67-93, plate 5. University of Utah Press.
Roos, Christopher I. and Kevin C. Nolan 2012 Phosphates, Plowzones, and Plazas: A Minimally Invasive Approach to Infer Settlement Structure of Plowed Village Sites in the Midwestern USA. Journal of Archaeological Science39(1):23-32, doi:10.1016/j.jas.2011.06.033.
Nolan, Kevin C. and Robert A. Cook 2011 A Critique of Late Prehistoric Systematics in the Middle Ohio Valley. North American Archaeologist 32(4):293-325.
Nolan, Kevin C. 2011 Distributional Survey of a Fort Ancient Village in Pickaway County, Ohio: Summary of 2007 Reinhardt Site Survey. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 36(1):105-130.
Nolan, Kevin C. and Steven P. Howard 2010 Using Evolutionary Archaeology and Evolutionary Ecology to Explain Cultural Elaboration: The Case of Middle Ohio Valley Woodland Period Ceremonial Subsistence. North American Archaeology 31(2):119-154.
Nolan, Kevin C. and Robert A. Cook 2010 Volatile Climate Conditions Cahokia: Comment on Benson, Pauketat and Cook 2009. American Antiquity 75(4):978-983.
Nolan, Kevin C. and Robert A. Cook 2010 An Evolutionary Model of Social Change in the Middle Ohio Valley: Was Social Complexity Impossible During the Late Woodland but Mandatory During the Late Prehistoric? Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 29:62-79; doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2009.10.004.
James Connolly is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Middletown Studies at Ball State University.. He is the author of An Elusive Unity: Urban Democracy and Machine Politics in Industrializing America (Cornell University Press) and The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism: Urban Political Culture in Boston , 1900-1925 (Harvard University Press). He also edited After the Factory: Reinventing America’s Industrial Small Cities (Lexington Books) and has published numerous articles and essays in edited volumes and journals such as Social Science History, theJournal of Urban History, and the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Connolly’s research focuses on American urban, political, and ethnic history in the 1870-1930 period. He is currently at work on “What Middletown Read,” a study of print culture and urban life at the turn of the twentieth century, in collaboration with Frank Felsenstein.
