Katie Wynia is a historical archaeologist working as a research assistant for Portland State University. She received her BA in 2008 from the University of Minnesota and her MA in 2013 from Portland State University. Her recent projects are associated with archaeology, ethnohistory, and curation for National Park Service sites in Pacific Northwest. Katie has been involved with public archaeology for over 10 years, participating in outreach events and educational activities, and supervising students and volunteers in the archaeology lab at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site. She has taught at the Public Archaeology Field School since 2010. Her other research interests include identity and GIS spatial analysis.
Selected Works:
- Wilson, Douglas C., Katie A. Wynia, Amy Clearman, and Cheryl Paddock. 2020. Archaeological Overview and Assessment, Fort Vancouver National Historic Site and the Vancouver National Historic Reserve, Clark County, Washington, and Clackamas County, Oregon. Northwest Cultural Resources Institute Report No. 21. Northwest Cultural Resources Institute, Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, Vancouver.
- Deur, Douglas, Rochelle Bloom, Katie Wynia, and Jamie Hebert. 2020. The Homelands of Clear Creek: Native American Ties to Whiskeytown National Recreation Area. Portland OR: PSU Anthropology Department, Office of Applied Anthropological Research.
- Deur, Douglas, Rochelle Bloom, and Katie Wynia. 2019 The Peoples of John Day: An Ethnographic and Ethnohistoric Overview of John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. Portland OR: PSU Anthropology Department, Office of Applied Anthropological Research.
- Taber, Emily, Douglas C. Wilson, Robert Cromwell, Katie Wynia, and Alice Knowles. 2019. Printed Gastroliths: Fowl-Ingested Artifacts and Identity at Fort Vancouver’s Village. Historical Archaeology 53(1):86-102. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41636-019-00166-y