A. Kate Trusler
University of Missouri
Email address: akt9r2@mail.missouri.edu
A. Professional Preparation
Bellevue Community College, Bellevue, WA , A.A., Arts and Sciences, 2004
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Extension Certificate in Forensics, 2004
University of Washington, Seattle WA, BA, Anthropology, 2006
University of Leicester, Leicester, UK, MA in Classical Mediterranean Archaeology, 2010
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, Ph.D, Anthropology, In progress.
B. Appointments
 2014-2015, Graduate Instructor, Introduction to Biological Anthropology Lab
 2013-2014, Graduate Instructor, Introduction to Biological Anthropology Lab
 Spring 2013, Teaching Assistant, Human Skeletal Analysis, Lecture and Lab
 Fall 2012, Teaching Assistant, Human Origins, Lecture and Lab
 2011-2012, Research Assistant, Faunal Analysis – sorting of faunal material from the
Marmes archaeological site (MU, under Lee Lyman)
 2005-2006, Teaching Assistant in Archaeology Lab. Lithic and mircodebitage analysis.
Training and supervising 10-12 students per quarter (UW, under Ben Fitzhugh)
 2005-2006, Museum Lab Assistant – collections management and database management
responsibilities (UW-Burke Museum, under Laura Phillips)
C. Products
Trusler, A. Kate. 2014. Impact of Recovery Methods on Richness in Roman Faunal Assemblages.
Archaeometry 56: 1075-1084.
Trusler, A. Kate. Paper title: Evaluating Socioeconomic Status Using Sus Scrofa Food Utility
Indices. International Council for Archaeozoology. San Rafael, Argentina, September
2014.
Trusler, A. Kate. Poster title: Where’s the loo? An analysis of the spatial distribution of private
latrines in Pompeii. Archaeological Institute of America Meeting. Chicago, IL, January
2014.
Trusler, A. Kate. Poster Title: Differential Distribution of Sanitation Features in Pompeii.
Archaeological Institute of America Meeting. Seattle, WA, January 2013.
Trusler, A. Kate. 2010. Downpipes and Sanitation: indications for population dynamics,
urbanization and household behavior in Pompeii. MA Thesis. University of Leicester,
School of Archaeology and Ancient History.
Fitzhugh, Ben and A. Kate Trusler, 2009. Experimentation and innovation in the archaeological
record: A case study in technological evolution from Kodiak, Alaska. In Stephen
Shennan (Ed), Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution. University of California Press:
Berkley. Pp. 203-220.
D. Synergistic
i. Fieldwork
I have field experience in both the United States as a cultural resource management field
technician and, more relevantly, in Italy, where I received my initial field school training and
spent two years surveying for my master’s thesis research.
 Survey, Waste management systems, Pompei, Italy, 2008-2009
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Survey, CH2M Hill in western Oregon, July 2007- January 2008. Survey, site
identification, test pits
Field school, Anglo-American Project in Pompeii, Pompei, Italy, 2006. Excavation,
survey, artifact processing
ii. Faunal Experience
In addition to the faunal experience that I have already begun to gain working on the
Maasplein assemblage, I also have experience working on two collections from Washington, one
as an undergraduate and one as a research assistant for R. Lee Lyman. The Marmes research
project was funded by an NSF award.
 2013- , Faunal Analysis – primary analyst of the faunal material from the Roman site of
Maasplein, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (MU/University of Iowa, dissertation research)
 2011-2012, Faunal Analysis – screening and sorting of faunal material from the Marmes
archaeological site (MU, under Lee Lyman)
 2006, Faunal Analysis – collection reorganization and analysis of mammal faunal
material from 45SJ1 (UW, under Donald Grayson)
iii. Invited lectures
In November 2013 I was invited to be a guest speaker at Lycoming College, an
undergraduate institution in Williamsport, PA. Lycoming has a biannual interdisciplinary seminar
for seniors and the fall’s Scholar Seminar topic was Sanitation, the real poop. As one of two
archaeologists in the seminar I presented the paper, “Where’s the loo? Sanitation in the Roman
World.”
In October of 2014, I was invited to be a guest lecturer in the Introduction to
Anthropology course at the University of Missouri. I presented the paper, “Where’s the loo?
Sanitation in the Roman World.”
iv. Other outreach and departmental service
In 2013, another MU graduate student and I founded the Mizzou Atlatl Club as a
subdivision of the Anthropology Student Association. The club meets weekly and provides
demonstrations and training to students on campus. We have also been asked to give
demonstrations for university classes and in conjunction with the MU Museum of Anthropology
to give demonstrations for local school groups. In 2014, we were invited to a local elementary
school to teach atlatl use and history to a group of approximately 50 fifth grade students and their
teachers.
Additionally, I accompanied a group of students from a local elementary school to
Cahokia Mounds State Historical Site as a guest archaeologist for the NSF GK-12 fellowship
program.
I also served as the 2014 graduate student faculty representative in the department of
Anthropology. That experience allowed me to work closely with faculty and graduate students to
facilitate communication about a departmental move and new policy. It also granted my key
insights into the duties of facility.
v. Grants
For my pilot research I received two Raymond Wood Opportunities for Excellence in
Archaeology grants, which is awarded for archaeological research resources. I was awarded $400
in 2013 and $300 in 2014.
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