Curriculum Vitae

Below are excerpts from my Curriculum Vitae. You can find a PDF copy of the document HERE.

Research Interests

Cultural resource management; archaeology of labor and immigration; racism and racialization; social industrial archaeology; landscape archaeology; archaeological GIS; historical archaeology; social and economic justice in archaeology; archaeological pedagogy; epistemology of archaeology; Japanese American history and archaeology; Pacific Northwestern United States

Professional Employment

2021     Staff Project Archaeologist, Cultural Resource Consultants, LLC. Seattle, WA.

Refereed Publications

Carlson, David. 2021. “The Materiality of Anti-Japanese Racism: ‘Foreignness’ and Racialization at Barneston, Washington (1898-1924).” International Journal of Historical Archaeology 25(3): 686-717. DOI: 10.1007/s10761-020-00563-7

Carlson, David. 2017. “The Issei at Barneston Project: An investigation into issues of race and labor at an early twentieth-century Japanese American sawmill community.” Archaeology in Washington 17 (Summer): 30-62.

Carlson, David and Amy Jordan. 2013. “Visibility and Power: Preliminary Analysis of Social Control on a Bandanese Plantation Compound, Eastern Indonesia.” Asian Perspectives 52(2): 213-243

Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

2022     Yeager Award for Scholarly Excellence, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington.

2021     First Place Award, Student Paper Competition, Northwest Anthropology Conference.

2020     Graduate School Presidential Dissertation Fellowship, University of Washington.

2020     Niles Dissertation Fellowship, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington.

2019     “Department of Anthropology Computing/Photography Refresh.” Student Technology Fund Grant. $39,676.00.

2019     Baldwin Scholarship, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington.

2017     “The Intersection of Labor and Race in Intercultural Interaction.” National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant #1743498. Co-PI with Sara Gonzalez.

2016     James Fellowship, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington.

2016     “Low-Impact Recording in Archaeology.” Student Technology Fund Grant, University of Washington. Co-PI with Sara Gonzalez and Ian Kretzler. $66,692.00

2015     Yeager Award for Teaching Excellence. Department of Anthropology, University of Washington.

2014     Yeager Award for Scholarly Excellence. Department of Anthropology, University of Washington.

2013     Anthropology Department Pilot Research Funding Award. Department of Anthropology, University of Washington.

2011     Foreign Language Area Scholarship (Intermediate Indonesian). Southeast Asia Center, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Summer.

2010     Luce Southeast Asian Archaeology Fellowship. Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, 2010-2013.