Stefani Crabtree

About Stefani Crabtree

I am Associate Professor of Socio-Environmental Modeling at Utah State University and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.I have two Ph.D.s: one from Washington State University in Pullman, WA and the other from Université de Franche-Comté in Besançon, France. I am primarily interested in how complexity science can help us understand the human place in ecosystems, specifically using agent-based modeling and network theory in my research. I have an extensive background in archaeology and ecology, doing both academic and cultural resource management archaeology in the United States and abroad, and cultural anthropology, leading ethnographic studies in Australia, New Zealand, Samoa, India, Vietnam and Mongolia. I also co-direct the Northern Mongolia Archaeology Project looking at Bronze Age settlement patterns and completing ethnoarchaeological interviews in northern Mongolia. I am additionally a contributor to the simulating complexity blog (http://simulatingcomplexity.wordpress.com/us/). In my spare time I can be found teaching yoga, enjoying the hiking trails in New Mexico, eating good food, watching a baseball game (Go Tigers!) and occasionally playing live music. Follow me on twitter @StefaniCrabtreeI was a Thomas J. Watson Fellow from 20••••05, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow from 20••••15, and a Chateaubriand Fellow from 20••••14. At Washington State my advisor was Tim Kohler and I worked on the Village Ecodynamics Project trying to understand how the exchange of food for households could have led to aggregation, and how the competition for key resources could have led to violence and warfare during times of low environmental productivity. In France I worked with the TransMonDyn project in the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age in the Languedoc area, examining how three distinct cultures (Etruscan, Greek, Gaul) engaged in exchange; my advisors there are François Favory and Laure Nuninger.

Experience

1. Complexity Fellow & Assistant Professor

   Santa Fe Institute

   Jan 2019 — Present

Education

• Washington State University

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  2009 — 2016

• Truòng Dai hoc Bách Khoa Hànôi

  Vietnamese Language

  2005 — 2005

• Scripps College

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

  2000 — 2004

• Université Paris-Sorbonne

  Archaeology

  2002 — 2003

• Université de Franche-Comté

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  2012 — 2016

Skills

• Public Speaking
• Anthropology
• Agent-Based Simulation
• Archaeological Survey
• Data Analysis
• Agent-Based Modeling
• Field Work
• Data Science
• Social Network Analysis
• Archaeology
• Writing
• University Teaching