{"id":991,"date":"2023-03-24T14:52:26","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T21:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anthro.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/?page_id=991"},"modified":"2025-06-24T08:39:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T15:39:20","slug":"2023-alumni-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/anthro.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/2023-alumni-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 – Alumni Spotlight – Stefani Crabtree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Alumni Spotlight<\/h1>\n\n\n
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Stefani A. Crabtree<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Since graduating with a doctoral degree in December 2016, Stefani Crabtree has done quite a lot! She is currently an assistant\u00a0professor of social-environmental modeling at Utah State University, where she combines her background in archaeology with environmental science to study coupled natural-human systems. She teaches agent-based modeling, a course she enjoyed taking once from Tim Kohler and again auditing from Luke Premo. She is also a complex systems fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, and also holds many external affiliations, including as a\u00a0visiting research scholar at the Levin Lab at Princeton University Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, an\u00a0associate investigator for the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, and as a\u00a0research associate at Crow Canyon Research Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2017, Crabtree was able to fulfil a dream and live among the Martu Aboriginal People in Parngurr, Western Australia, to understand their important place in Australian food webs. Building on this experience she continues to work in Australia, and her 2021 paper won a Hyperion Research Innovation Excellence award, the first time this was awarded to an archaeological project. She also continues to co-direct an archaeological project in Northern Mongolia with active field research among the nomadic pastoralists in the area. Her research is rounded out with the Archaeoecology Project,  which aims to understand the human place in food webs worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outside of work Stefani is still pursuing music, having taken up the electric guitar and mandolin during the pandemic, is learning new languages (someday she will be fluent in Mongolian and Italian, she swears!), cooking, rock climbing, and cycling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent publications:<\/h2>\n\n\n
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2022      <\/em>Crabtree, Stefani A.*<\/strong>, Jennifer G. Kahn, Rowan Jackson, Jacob Earnshaw, Iain McKechnie, Philip Verhagen, Spencer A. Wood, Patrick V. Kirch, Jennifer A. Dunne, Andrew Dugmore.
\u201cWhy are sustainable practices often elusive? The role of information flow in the management of networked human-environment interactions.\u201d Global Environmental Change <\/em>xxx(xxxx):102597. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.gloenvcha.2022.102597<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022      <\/em>Stefani A. Crabtree*<\/strong>, Jennifer A. Dunne. \u201cToward a Science of Archaeoecology\u201d Trends in Ecology and Evolution <\/em>37(11):976-984. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.tree.2022.07.010<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022      Zirou Qiua, Baltazar Espinoza, Vitor V. Vasconcelos, Chen Chen, Sara M. Constantino, Stefani A. Crabtree<\/strong>, Luojun Yang, Anil Vullikantia, Jiangzhuo Chen, J\u00f6rgen Weibull, Kaushik Basu, Avinash Dixit, Simon Levin, and Madhav Marathe. 
\u201c<\/em>Understanding the co-evolution of mask-wearing and epidemics : a network perspective.\u201d Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em>. 119 (26) e2123355119. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2123355119<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022        Jennifer G. Kahn, Abbigail Buffington, Claudia Escue, and Stefani A. Crabtree<\/strong>. \u201cSocial and Ecological Factors Effect Long-Term Resilience of Voyaging Canoes in Pre-Contact Eastern Polynesia: a Multiproxy Approach from the ArchaeoEcology Project.\u201d Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution<\/em>. 9:942. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fevo.2021.750351<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021        <\/em>Crabtree, Stefani A., <\/strong>Devin A. White, Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rik Saltr\u00e9, Alan N. Williams, Robin J. Beaman, Michael I. Bird, Sean Ulm. \u201cLandscape rules predict optimal super-highways for the first peopling of Sahul.\u201d Nature: Human Behaviour<\/em>. 5: 1303-1313. https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/s41562-021-01106-8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021          Stefani A. Crabtree<\/strong>, Sarah C. Klain. \u201cWeaving Frames of Knowledge.\u201d Australian Archaeology<\/em>. 87:3, 307-308, DOI: 10.1080\/03122417.2021.1991399<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021           <\/em>Crabtree, Stefani A., <\/strong>Jennifer A. Dunne, Spencer Wood. \u201cEcological Networks and Archaeology.\u201d Antiquity<\/em>. 95 (381): 812-825. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021        Bird, Michael I., Stefani A. Crabtree<\/strong>, Jordahna Haig, Sean Ulm, Christopher Wurster.\u201cA Global Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Perspective on Modern and Ancient Human Diet.\u201d Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em>. 118(19).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021          Verhagen, J. W. H. Philip, Stefani A. Crabtree<\/strong>, Hans Peeters, Daan Raemaekers. \u201c<\/em>Reconstructing human centered interaction networks of the Swifterbant culture in the northwestern Netherlands: An example from the ArchaeoEcology Project.\u201d Applied Sciences<\/em>. 11(11):4860.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021         <\/em>Bradshaw, Corey J., Justin M. Chalker, Stefani A. Crabtree<\/strong>, Bart A. Eijkelkamp, John A. Long, Justine R. Smith, Kate Trinajstic, Vera Weisbecker. \u201cA fairer way to compare researchers at any career stage and in any discipline using open-access citation data.\u201d PLoS One<\/em>. 16(9): e0257141. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0257141<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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