Graduate Students

Pat Trader

M.A. Anthropology, University of Missouri-Columbia  
B.A. Anthropology, University of Missouri-Columbia   

contact:

Program for Archaeological Research
1020A Export Street
Lexington, KY 40506
Tel.:(859) 257-1944
Fax: (859) 323-1968
email: pdtrad2@uky.edu

Profile

I am a first year Ph.D. student in the Geography program. I am interested in Physical Geography, primarily Geomorphology. Specifically, I am interested in landscape development, soil development, and fluvial geomorphology. Over the past year, I have become interested in karst landscapes following an extensive archaeological study in Warren County, Kentucky.

When I am not a graduate student in Geography, I work as a staff archaeologist at the Program for Archaeological Research. As an archaeologist my major research interests pertain primarily to the archaeology of eastern North America and the North American Mid-Continent. My primary geographical areas of interest include the Southeast and Midwest. For the past 15 years, I have been working in the Ohio River Valley. Currently, my research interests focus on settlement patterns in the Ohio River Valley, particularly tracking Middle Woodland to Late Woodland (ca. 200 B.C. to A.D. 1000) cultural change, and examining human relationships with their environment and landscape, through the disciplines of geomorphology and geoarchaeology.  

My wife Judy and I live in Paris with our sons Tyler (19) and John (17), as well as two dogs and four cats. In my spare time (what little there is!), I belong to a reenactment group that commemorates the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803-1806) through educational outreach and living history.