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Dennis Jenkins, Mentor
Oregon State Museum of Anthropology / Anthropology

Eric White, McNair Scholar
Diane Teeman, McNair Scholar

Dennis L. Jenkins received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 1991. Currently a research associate with the Museum of Natural History, he also teaches (with C. Melvin Aikens) the anthropology field school in the Fort Rock Basin. His primary research interests involve early to middle Holocene cultural transitions and settlement-subsistence issues among hunter-gatherers of the Great Basin. He also directs excavations related to highway construction projects in the Northern Great Basin and adjoining regions.