I was born in Jackson, Michigan, USA and grew up with a love of the outdoors, astronomy and natural history. When I was a teenager, my family moved to the Detroit suburbs and I moved to the city to complete my undergraduate work. I drove a truck for FedEx, played guitar for a reggae band, worked handyman jobs and managed an apartment building in Detroit to pay for school. I moved to Chicago in 1997 for graduate school. My wife and I have spent a lot of time in Kenya, including a 1-year stay in 2001 and many return trips.
My wife, Kristina, is a museum curator and professor who did her graduate research in Lamu. I have an 15-year old daughter, Nadya, and a 11-year old son, Thor. We now live in Oslo, Norway after living in South Korea for almost nine years.
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My full Curriculum Vitae: DKWright_CV
Education
Bachelor of Arts (summa cum laude)
Wayne State University (German and English)
Master of Arts
University of Illinois at Chicago/Field Museum (Anthropology)
Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Chicago/Field Museum (Anthropology)
Post-doctoral
2005 – 2008: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Public Service Archaeology Program)
2008 – 2010: Gila River Indian Community (Cultural Resource Management Program)
2010 – 2019: Seoul National University (Department of Archaeology and Art History)
2019 – present: University of Oslo (Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History)
Teaching
University of Illinois at Chicago
- Geography
- Physical Anthropology
- Cultural Anthropology
- Earth & Environmental Sciences
Indiana University Northwest
- Cultural Anthropology
Arizona State University
- Advised graduate students
- Archaeological Methods and Theory
- World Civilizations
- Geoarchaeology
- The Anthropocene
- Archaeology of Human Evolution
- African Archaeology
- Native North American Prehistory
- GIS
- Seoul National University in Kenya summer program
- Fordypning i arkeometri (Scientific Approaches to Archaeology)
- Archaeological field methods course
- co-teach Migrations and Mobility, Prosjektbeskrivelse i arkeologi (Project Description in Archaeology) and modules for conservation courses relating to statistics and/or site taphonomy.
Other Affiliations
- National Museums of Kenya
- University of York, Department of Archaeology
- Gila River Indian Community, Cultural Resource Management Program
- Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key State Laboratory