Curriculum Vitae
Instructor’s Name: Jesse Todd
College Address: Brookhaven College, 3939 Valley View Lane, Farmers Branch, TX 75244
Work Phone Number: 972-860-4130
E-mail address: [email protected]
Education
B.A
M.S.
M.A.
M.A.
1971
1978
1989
2000
East Texas State University in Earth Sciences
East Texas State University in Earth Sciences
University of North Texas in English
University of Texas at Arlington in Anthropology
Teaching Experience
2005 to Present Adjunct Anthropology Instructor. I have taught Introduction to
Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology at Brookhaven College and currently teach
Introduction to Anthropology in class and online.
2009 to Present Adjunct Anthropology Instructor. I have taught and teach Introduction to
Anthropology at North Central Texas College.
2010 to Present Adjunct Geology Instructor. I have taught and teach Historical Geology
at the Southeast Campus of Tarrant County College.
1988-2005 Adjunct English Instructor. I taught first and second semester composition,
American and British Literature as well as created a film course at Brookhaven College.
1989-2005 Adjunct Geology Instructor. Tarrant County Junior College, Fort Worth,
Texas. I taught both Physical and Historical lecture and laboratory classes. Physical
Geology focuses on the processes that create and destroy land and water while Historical
Geology is the study of the physical processes in geology and how they affect life.
Publications and Papers
The following publications and presentations are those not related to work. I have over 100
publications as an archeologist from surveys and excavations.
Publications
1985a
1985b
1989
1992
Some Comments Upon the Occurrence of Fossils on Archaeological Sites. The Artifact 23(3):1-6.
A Report on a Few Rock Areas in Dona Ana County, New Mexico. The Artifact 23(4):1- 20.
Literary Archetypes in the Jicarilla Myths and Tales. The Artifact 27(4):95-100.
Comanchean Cephalopoda from Two Areas in Cooke County, Texas. Occasional Papers of the
Dallas Paleontological Society, Volume II, pp. 43-54.
1998a Conch Shell Cups and Black Drink. Caddoan Archeology 9(2):26 - 27.
1998 b Preliminary Analysis of the Hicks Number One, (41FK101), Franklin County, Texas. Prepared for
the Collin County Archeological Society.
2000
Notes on the Mollusca from Site 41DT59, Cooper Lake, Delta County, Texas. Caddoan
Archeology 11(3):33 - 37.
2001a Insect Effigy Pendants. Caddoan Archeology 11(4):25 - 28.
2001b Paleoenvironments as Determined from the Mollusca at Site 41DL189. The Record 50:55-59.
2001c Conch Shell Trumpets in the American Southwest. The Artifact 39:70-80.
2002
Chasing Grasshoppers. TCAS Benchmark 16(4):3.
2004
A Comparison of the Use of Rodents as a Food Resource between Hunter and Gatherer Sites,
Sites with Cultigens and Sites with Cultigens and Sites with Cultigens and Houses in North
Central and Northeast Texas. The Record 51:36-38.
2005a Spiro Mound Art and its Possible Mythic Origins. Oklahoma Archeology 52(2):26-35.
2005b Floral Remains from Archaeological Sites in the Upper Trinity River Basin. The Record 52:1-11.
2005c Comments on Shell Gorgets. The Record 52:15-16.
2005d Two Separate Artistic Motifs at the Craig Mound? Oklahoma Archeology 52(4):12-13.
2006a The Use of Turtles as a Food Resource in the Upper Trinity River Basin. The Record 53:1-7.
2006b The Paleoenvironment of the Bear Creek Site. The Record 54:1-11.
2007a Three Collin County Cistern Sites, A Cautionary Tale. The Record 55(2):74-81. Contributions to
the Archaeology of Collin County, Texas.
2007b A Discussion of a Few Shell Tool Types with an Emphasis on Shell Celts. Journal Houston
Archeological Society 131:1-8.
2008a A Pogo Point from Wood County, Texas. TCAS Benchmark 22(6):3).
2008b Geo-Marine’s Discovery of Quartz Core Flakes from the West Fork of the Trinity River, Tarrant
County, Texas. The Record 56(1):39. Contributions to the Archaeology of North Central Texas.
2008c An Unusual Bone Tool from Site 41DL425, Dallas County, Texas. The Record 56(1):40.
Contributions to the Archaeology of North Central Texas.
2008d Site 41DN533, An Unusual Historic Site in Denton County, Texas. The Record 56(1):42-44.
Contributions to the Archaeology of North Central Texas.
2008e Preliminary Comments on the Portrayal of Turtles on Mimbres Black-on-white Bowls. The
Artifact 46:47-55.
2009
Fishing Techniques in Eastern North Central Texas. Prehistoric American XLIII(2):32-36.
2010 Two Catlinite Pipe Fragments from the Womack Site, Lamar County, Texas. Caddo Archeology
Journal 20:139-142.
Todd, Jesse and Lance K. Trask
2008a Site 41KF134 and Dating of the East Fork of the Trinity River’s Floodplain, Kaufman County,
Texas. The Record 56(1):31-37. Contributions to the Archaeology of North Central Texas.
2008b A Caddoan Sherd from Johnson County, Texas. The Record 56(1):41. Contributions to the
Archaeology of North Central Texas.
Todd, Jesse and Robert L. Turner
2010
Clay Pipes from the Tuck Carpenter Site (41CP5). Caddo Archeology Journal 20:143-146.
Skinner, S. Alan, Jesse Todd and Antoinette Todd
2007
The Ubil Site and the White Rock Escarpment. The Record 55(1):1-47. Whole Volume.
Todd, Jesse, Lance K. Trask and K. C. Craft
2008
Storm Cellar Variability along US 412 from Hardesty to Fort Supply. Oklahoma Archeology
56(1):23-25.
Editor
2007
2008
2009
The Record 55(2). Contributions to the Archaeology of Collin County, Texas.
The Record 56(1). Contributions to the Archaeology of North Central Texas.
The Record 57(1). Contributions to Archeology.
Presentations
1995
1996
1998
1999
2000
2001
2003
2004
2005
2006
2008
What Can Be Discerned from the Freshwater Mollusca from a Disturbed Site. Paper
presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Texas Archeological Society, Nacogdoches,
November 3-5.
Some Engraved Shell Gorgets from Texas. Paper presented at the 67 th Annual Meeting of
the Texas Archeological Socity, San Antonio, October 25-27.
Information Derived from the Mollusca of the Rough Green Site (41TR162), Tarrant
County, Texas. Paper presented at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Texas Archeological
Society, Waco, October 23-25.
Shell Hoes: Toward a Definition. Paper presented at the 70 th Annual Meeting of the
Texas Archeological Society, Fort Worth, October 29-31.
A Shell Analysis of the River Legacy Park in Arlington. North Texas Conchological
Society meeting, June 18.
Archeological Uses of Shell. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Texas Shellers
Jamboree, Dallas, May 4-6.
Paleoenvironmental Analysis of Streams Using Freshwater Mussels as Indicators. Tarrant
County Archaeological Society, July 10.
Shell Distribution among Archaeological Sites within the Mimbres Valley. Paper
presented at the 13th Mogollon Archaeological Conference, Silver City, New Mexico,
September 30-October 2.
Status among Single Burials at Two Sites along the Red River. Paper presented at the 76 th
Annual Meeting of the Texas Archeological Society, Austin, October 28-30.
Archaeological Sites within the Cole Ranch Development. Paper presented at the 77 th
Annual Meeting of the Texas Archeological Society, San Angelo, October 20-22.
Unusual Archaeological Finds in Dallas. Presentation delivered at the Annual Regional
Meeting for MENSA, Dallas, Texas, November 27-30, 2008.