Destiny Crider, Koren 319, Luther College, 700 College Drive, Decorah, IA 52101, tel: 563-387-2156; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Destiny Crider (Ph.D. Arizona State University, 2011) is Anthropology Collections Manager and Museum Instructor at Luther College,  specializing Collections Management and mentoring student research on ethnographic and archaeological collections. She has served as Ceramic Analyst on the Cerro Portezuelo Project (materials curated by the Fowler Museum at UCLA), directed by Dr. George L. Cowgill (ASU) and Dr. Deborah L. Nichols (Dartmouth). She currently serves as ceramic consultant on ceramic analysis of Postclassic ceramics in Central Mexico. Her dissertation research focused upon social and economic interaction in Central Mexico in the Epiclassic and Early Postclassic periods using Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA) for identification of pottery production areas in combination with technological and stylistic attribute analysis. In addition, current projects include the implementation of Proton Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE) studies of Central Mexican paints used on decorated pottery and Southwest turquoise sources. Her dissertation research was supported by the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. (FAMSI), National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, Sigma-Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research, ASU Graduate and Professional Student Association. Destiny Crider was recently awarded a 2009-2010 ASU Faculty Emeriti Fellowship.