Autumn Painter
Academic Hourly at Illinois State Archaeological Survey
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAutumn Painter is a registered professional archaeologist and zooarchaeologist with a decade of experience probing foodways and cultural coalescence through animal bone analysis in the Eastern Woodlands. She currently writes and edits Special Projects reports for the Illinois State Archaeological Survey while running a consulting practice offering project management and scholarly writing. Her background blends hands-on collection curation, digital heritage tools, and public outreach—having developed online resources, taught digital archaeology workshops, and managed museum and lab collections. Autumn’s work bridges academic research and applied practice, translating technical zooarchaeological data into accessible narratives and actionable project deliverables. Based in Champaign, Illinois, she balances rigorous field and lab methods with a knack for building community-facing educational projects—plus she’s an unabashed dog mom.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Anthropology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Anthropology at Michigan State UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Archaeology, Master of Science (M.S.), Archaeology at Illinois State University
Github Skills (16)
scroll10
collections4
laravel4
matrix4
metadata3
schema3
php3
publish3
open-data3
orientdb3
management3
mysql3
database2
audio2
multimedia1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
beyeraut/mappingmv
Jan 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:785 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
beyeraut/archaeology101
Jan 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:918 commits, 865 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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