George Hambrecht Ph.D.
24 Fifth Ave
Apt. 1400
New York, NY, 10011
Phone: (646) 641-9053
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DOB – October 25 1971
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EDUCATION
Ph.D.in Anthropology, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 2011
M.Phil.in Anthropology, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 2009
BAin History, Bard College, 1995
Research, Scholarly and Creative Activities
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Fall 2011Adjunct Assistant Professor, Hunter College, CUNY – Introduction to Archaeology MA level
Spring 2011Adjunct Professor, Brooklyn College, CUNY – Introduction to Zooarchaeology
Fall 2010Adjunct Professor, Brooklyn College, CUNY - Cultures in Transformation,
Anthropology upper tier core course
Spring 2010Adjunct Professor, Hunter College,CUNY – Introduction to Prehistoric Archaeology
Fall 2009Visiting Assistant Professor, Brooklyn College, CUNY. Introduction to Four-Field Anthropology/Introduction to Archaeology/Historical Archaeology
2004-05Graduate Teaching Fellow – Hunter College, CUNY– Introduction to Prehistoric Archaeology
Fall 2003Adjunct Professor, Brooklyn College, CUNY –Introduction to Four-Field Anthropology
FIELD, LABORATORY AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
2011- Deputy Director of the Human Ecodynamics Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center
2011- Co-Director – Gufuskalár Project, Snæfellsnessýsla, Iceland
2009- Assistant Project Director in charge of Historical Archaeology and Historical Monuments Preservation – Barbuda Historical Ecology Project. Director - Dr. Sophia Perdikaris(Brooklyn College/Graduate Center, CUNY).
2010-2012Undergraduate Teaching and Fieldwork Coordinator – National Science FoundationResearch Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Grant - Islands of Change Project – Principal Investigator – Dr. Sophia Perdikaris, (Brooklyn College/Graduate Center, CUNY)
2008–2011Co-director - Skutustaðir Project, Mývatnssveit, Northern Iceland – NSF International Polar Year Grant – Long-term Human Ecodynamics in the Norse North Atlantic - Director Dr Thomas McGovern, (Hunter College,CUNY GraduateCenter)
2007-2009Archaeology Graduate Student Representative on the Anthropology Department Executive Committee at the CUNY Graduate Center
2005– 2009Northern Science & Education Center Graduate Senior Research Fellow – CUNY Graduate Center
March 2008Excavator, Washington Square Renovation, New York City – Joan Geismer, Ph.D., LLC.
Summer 2007Graduate Assistant in Mývatn region of Northern Iceland – NSF Grant – Human and Social Dimensions of Global Change – director Dr. Astrid Ogilvie (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Reasearch (INSTAAR), University of Colorado at Boulder)
Summer 04-06Excavator/Project Zooarchaeologist, Archaeological Institute of Iceland (FSI), Skálholt Project, Arnessysla, Iceland, director Dr. Gavin Lucas (University of Iceland)
Summer 2003Excavator, University of Tromsø – Multi-room house project, Finnmark, Norway, director Dr. Bjørnar Olsen (University of Tromsø)
Summer 2002Excavator, NABO (North Atlantic Biocultural Organization) – Iceland Field School, Northern Iceland, directors Dr. Thomas McGovern (CUNY) and Dr. OrriVesteinsson (University of Iceland)
Summer 2002Excavator, Brooklyn College – New Utrecht Dig, Brooklyn NY, director Dr. Arthur Bankoff (Brooklyn College)
January 2001Excavator, University of Bristol – Balembouche Field School, St Lucia.directors Dr. Mark Horton and Dr. Dan Hicks (University of Bristol)
Book Chapters
2007Perdikaris, S. Hambrecht, G. Brewington S. and McGovern, T.H. Across the Fish Event Horizon: a Comparative Approach. In The Role of Fish in Ancient Time.ed. HeidemarieHusterPlogmann. Rahden, Westphalia: Verlag Marie Leidorf. Pages 51-62.
Articles in Refereed Journals
2011Perdikaris, S., Hambrecht, G., Harrison, R. Three Decades in the Cold and Wet: a Career in Northern Archaeology. ArchaeologicaIslandicaVOL
2009Hambrecht, George and Arendt, Beatrix (editors). Early Modern Archaeologies of the North Atlantic.A Special Issue of JONA (Journal of the North Atlantic.
2009 Hambrecht, George and Arendt, Beatrix. Introduction, Early Modern Archaeology in the far North Atlantic. In Early Modern Archaeologies of the North Atlantic, eds George Hambrecht and Beatrix Arendt. A Special Issue of JONA (Journal of the North Atlantic).VOL
2009Hambrecht, George. Historical Zooarchaeology in Iceland. In Early Modern Archaeologies of the North Atlantic, eds. George Hambrecht and Beatrix Arendt.A Special Issue of JONA (Journal of the North Atlantic).VOL
2007George Hambrecht. The Bishop’s Cows. Stanford Journal of Archaeology
2006George Hambrecht - The Bishop’s Beef. Improved Cattle at Early Modern Skálholt, Iceland.ArchaeologicaIslandica 5. Pages 82-94.
In reviewMichelle Hegmon, JetteArneborg, Andrew J. Dugmore, George Hambrecht, Scott Ingram, Keith Kintigh, Thomas H. McGovern, Margaret C. Nelson, Matthew A. Peeples, Ian Simpson, Katherine Spielmann, Richard Streeter, Orri Vésteinsson. The Human Experience of Social Change and Continuity: The Southwest and North Atlantic in “Interesting Times” ca. 1300. Climates of Change: The Shifting Environments of ArchaeologyProceedings of the 44th Annual Chacmool Conference Edited by Sheila Lacey, Cara Tremain, and Madeleine Sawyer Published by the University of Calgary.
In reviewHambrecht, G., Mainland, I., Bond, J., Perdikaris, S., McGovern, T.H. (editors). Zooarchaeology in the North Atlantic, from Prehistory to World Systems. JONA (Journal of the North Atlantic).
In reviewHambrecht, G., Hicks, M., Feeley, F., Harrison, R. Metrical Analysis of Icelandic Faunal Assemblages from Settlement through the Early Modern Period. In Zooarchaeology in the North Atlantic, from Prehistory to World Systems, eds. Hambrecht, G., Mainland, I., Bond, J., Perdikaris, S., McGovern, T.H.. JONA (Journal of the North Atlantic).
In reviewPerdikarisHambrecht, George. The Caves of Barbuda. Caribbean Connections – a publication of the Field Research Center, Antigua.
In reviewHambrecht, George. A Zooarchaeology of Modernity in Iceland. In Archaeologies of Modernity in Iceland, editor Gavin Lucas. A Special Issue of the International Journal of Historical Archaeology, Amsterdam, Springer Netherlands.
In pressHambrecht, George. Hunting Fishing and Gathering. In The Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Medieval World, ed. Pam Crabtree. New York: The Schlager Group.
Refereed Conference Proceedings
2012McGovern, T.H., SimunArge, JetteArneborg, PhilippaAscough, Andrew Casely, Mike Church, Gordon Cook, Andrew Dugmore, RagnarEdvardsson, ArniEinarsson, Adolf Fridriksson, George Hambrecht, Ramona Harrison, UnnsteinnIngason, SifJohannesdottir, Christian Keller, Ian Lawson, Gavin Lucas, Christian Koch Madsen, Anthony Newton, Astrid Ogilvie, Sophia Perdikaris, Howell Roberts, Ian Simpson, KonradSmiarowski, Amanda Thomson, and OrriVesteinsson, Vikings in the International Polar Year 2007-09: Still Bloodthirsty but also Ecodynamic and Educational, in: SvavarSigmundsson, Anton Holt, Gisli Sigurdsson, GudmundurOlafsson and OrriVesteinsson (eds) Viking Settlements and Viking Society, Papers from the Proceedings of the 16th Viking Congress. U Iceland Press, Reykjavik pp 290- 309
In pressHambrecht, George and Look, Cory. Highland House on Barbuda – a multi-use 18th century Caribbean Manor House. Proceedings of the 2009 International Association of Caribbean Archaeology (IACA) Conference.
Monographs, Reports and Extension Publications– please go to for digital copies
2012Historical Sites Reconnaissance, Barbuda, Survey Report
2012Report on the Faunal Assemblage from Neðri As, Iceland – NORSEC Laboratory Report
2011Highland House, Barbuda, Antigua-Barbuda, Excavation Report
2010Codrington Castle, Barbuda, Antigua-Barbuda, Excavation Report
2009Highland House, Barbuda, Antigua-Barbuda, Survey Report
2009Report on the Faunal Materials Recovered from Hofstaðir, Iceland – 2007 Season – NORSEC Laboratory Report
2006 Preliminary Report of the Archaeofauna at Skálholt, Iceland – NORSEC Laboratory Report #33
2006City Hall Park of New York City Zooarchaeology Report
2005Preliminary Report of an Analysis of Faunal Remains from
an 18th century midden at Skálholt, Iceland – NORSEC Laboratory Report
2004Preliminary Report of the Animal Bones from Skálholt, Iceland, 2002 Season – NORSEC Laboratory Report #22
PROFESSIONAL PAPERS
2011North Atlantic Biocultural Conference (NABO) Edinburgh UK – The Potential for Environmental Archaeological prospecting for Antiguan/Barbudan Historical Archaeology
2011The International Association of Caribbean Archaeology Conference (IACA) Fort de France, Martinique – Post-Columbian Archaeology in the Barbuda Historical Archaeology Project
2011The Seventh International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences, (ICASS VII), Akureyri Iceland - Climatic Hazards and Social Transformations in the North Atlantic Region and the U.S. Southwest, 900 to 1500 CE
2011Resilience Alliance 2011 conference, Phoenix AZ - Vulnerability in the Early Modern World - Historical Archaeology in Iceland and Barbuda
2011Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Conference, Sacramento, CA, Session Organizer - Long Term Human Ecodynamics on the Island of Barbuda, West Indies
2009Global Long-term Human Ecodynamics Conference, Eagle Hill Foundation, Maine – Ecodynamics of Modernity Session – Can we find signatures of the Modern World in the Zooarchaeology of the North Atlantic?
2009The International Association for Caribbean Archaeology Conference (IACA) Antigua –The Highland House, Barbuda, Survey
2008Society of American Archaeology (SAA) Conference, Vancouver BC, Session Organizer - Cod, Cattle, Commodities and Survival in the Scandinavian North Atlantic
2008Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) New York City Conference - Trespassing, Israelites and the Queen’s Chain – Rumor, Folklore and Archaeology in the Caribbean
2007Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA) Annual Conference, Williamsburg VA - The Bishop’s Cows – an improved faunal landscape in 17th century Iceland
2006Council for Northeastern Historical Archaeology (CNEHA) Conference, Westchester NY – The Zooarchaeology of City Hall Park, New York City
2006North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO) Conference – Laval University, Quebec City – Home on the Hagi – paper in session - Economic Decision Making in the Context of Instability
2006International Council on Archaeozoology (ICAZ) Conference, Mexico City DF Session organizer - Cattle and Cod
2006Cultures of Contact Conference – Stanford University – The Bishop’s Beef – Early Modern Elite Formation in Iceland
2006Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) Conference – University of Colorado, Boulder - Getting it Almost Right: Climate Fluctuation, Grazing Management, and Soil Erosion in Medieval Northern Iceland.
2006Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA) Conference, Sacramento CA - Session organizer -Cultural Dynamics in the North Atlantic
2005Arctic Conference – UC Davis, Davis CA - Inland Cod and Pagan Burials-Coastal Connections and Social Scale in 9th-11th century Northern Iceland
2005Association of Environmental Archaeology (AEA) Annual Conference– Winchester UK – The Landscapes circum-Landnám Project in Iceland
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Grant Review Activity
2012External Review board NSF Office of Polar Programs Arctic Social Sciences Program.
Grants under review
Under ReviewNational Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs Grant - Comparative Island Ecodynamics in the North Atlantic Project – Principal Investigator – DrThomas McGovern (CUNY Graduate Center) Co-PI’s – DrAndrew Dugmore (University of Edinburgh), DrGeorge Hambrecht (Human Ecodynamics Research Center at CUNY Graduate Center), DrOrriVesteinsson, (University of Iceland) – proposed budget $1,364,769.
Under ReviewNational Geographic Exploratory Grant - "Excavation of the fishing station
at Gufuskalar, Snaefellsnes, Iceland" – Principal Investigator – DrGeorge Hambrecht (Human Ecodynamics Research Center at CUNY Graduate Center), proposed budget $20,000
Under ReviewNational Science FoundationCoupled Natural and Human Systems Program Grant – Environmental Archaeological Prospecting for post-Columbian landscape and soils management on the islands of Antigua and Barbuda, Leeward Islands. Principal Investigator, DrSophia Perdikaris (Human Ecodynamics Research Center at CUNY Graduate Center), Co-PI DrGeorge Hambrecht (Human Ecodynamics Research Center at CUNY Graduate Center), proposed budget $250,000.
Awarded
2011-2016Steering Committee – National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs Science, Engineering, & Education Research Coordination Network grant no1140106- Global Long-term Human Ecodynamics Research Coordination Network: Assessing Sustainability on the Millennial Scale - Principal Investigator - Dr Sophia Perdikaris (Human Ecodynamics Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center)
2010-2011grantee – National Science Foundation Workshop Grant - Resilience and Vulnerability to Climate Change: A Collaboration between NABO and LTVTP – Principal Investigator – Dr. Margaret Nelson (Arizona State University).
2010-2012grantee – National Science Foundation REU Grant, Islands of Change – Principal Investigator – Dr. Sophia Perdikaris (Brooklyn College + CUNY Graduate Center).
2007-2011grantee - National Science Foundation International Polar Year grant - Long-term Human Ecodynamics in the Norse North Atlantic – Principal Investigator – Dr Thomas McGovern (Hunter College + CUNY Graduate Center)
2005-2009GAA – Graduate Research Fellowship – CUNY Graduate Center
2007-2008SigurðurVigfússon Student Travel Fellowship for Icelandic Research
2006-2008grantee - NSF HSD Grant – Human and Social Dimensions of Global Change – Principal Investigator – Dr. Astrid Ogilvie (INSTAAR, University of Colorado at Boulder)
2004-2006grantee – Icelandic Government Millennium Fund – Skálholt Project – Principal Investigators – Dr. OrriVesteinsson, Dr. Gavin Lucas (University of Iceland) Mjöll Snæsdóttir (Institute of Archaeology, Iceland)
2001-2006grantee - Leverhulme Trust (UK) grant “Landscapes circa Landnám” – Principal Investigator – Dr. Kevin Edwards (University of Aberdeen, UK)
2004-2005GTF – Graduate Teaching Fellowship - CUNY Graduate Center
2001-2003 grantee -NY City Parks Dept City Hall Park Analysis Project – Principal Investigators Dr. Thomas McGovern, Dr. Arthur Bankoff, Dr. Neil Smith (CUNY)