Site DirectorDr. Jaime Awe is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Northern Arizona University, as well as Emeritus member of the Belize Institute of Archaeology, where he served as Director from 2003 to 2014.
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Founder and Executive Director / Program DirectorMat’s work at Davidson Day expands beyond the classroom and into Anthropology and Archaeology with AFAR. Not only does AFAR operate field schools every summer, but is host to two major conferences, provides a summer program for elementary students, and is building new programs to provide pre-collegiate students an opportunity to discover and learn about archaeology.
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Onsite ArchaeologistMs. Christy Pritchard, RPA has twenty years of experience in archaeological research. While much of her work focuses on the development of research designs, furnishing archaeological assessments, conducting investigations and technical reporting, Christy is equally dedicated to archaeology education and outreach.
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Onsite ArchaeologistMarc Zender received his PhD from the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology of the University of Calgary in 2004. He has since taught at the University of Calgary (2002-2004) and Harvard University (2005-2011), and is now an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University, New Orleans.
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Onsite ArchaeologistJim Pritchard, RPA has been an Archaeology Consultant for twenty-five years. Jim conducts cultural resources assessments, archaeological research, investigations and technical reporting for the federal regulatory process.
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Onsite ArchaeologistMichael Creswell (MA, RPA) is an archaeologist and sustainability advocate based in Portland, Oregon. He earned a Bachelor’s in Anthropology from Appalachian State University (hence the nickname), and a Master’s degree from the University of Louisville. He has worked with AFAR since 2014, assisting in operating AFAR’s field school in Belize and the annual Maya at the Lago conference.
Sims has worked in Belize since 2007; prior to his work with AFAR, he served as a supervisor with BVAR. He is the director of AFAR’s Portugal field school, which studies the Roman villa site of Ammaia. He previously worked in Portugal for his thesis research, studying Neanderthal and early human Paleolithic sites with an international research team. In the meantime, between his involvements with AFAR each summer, Sims works throughout the West as an archaeology project manager for Digtech.
He also dedicates a lot of energy to public outreach and education, primarily through the Go Dig a Hole blog, several podcasts on the Archaeology Podcast Network, and a robust social media presence. He has a passion for developing early career researchers and making archaeology relevant in the present.
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