
Dr. Rachel Hensler
- Email: rhensler@csuchico.edu
- Phone: 530-898-4360
Curriculum Vitae: Rachel Hensler (PDF)
Contact Information
Phone: (530) 898-4360
Email: rhensler@csuchico.edu
Office: Plumas 119B
Education
Ph.D., 2018 University of Kentucky
M.A., 2014, University of Kentucky
B.A., 2008, Oglethorpe University
Research Interests
Rachel Hensler is one of our Archaeology lecturers in the Anthropology Department, and supervises interns and student assistants in archaeological curation. She has field experience in Northern California, the Great Basin, and throughout the Southeastern United States.
She earned her Ph.D. in 2018 from the University of Kentucky where she studied the interaction between Native American groups during the Spanish Colonization of the Southeastern United States, using pottery as a material manifestation of changing interaction. Research interests include material manifestations of culture contact; European/Euro-America and Native American contact; archaeology of the Southeastern United States; archaeological curation; ceramic analysis, cultural resource management.
Selected Publications
Hensler, Rachel and Victoria G. Dekle
2017: Introduction: Recent Approaches to Pottery and Society in the Southeast. Southeastern Archaeology Vol. 36(2)89-94.
Hensler, Rachel and Victoria G. Dekle (Guest Editors)
2017: Special Edition: Recent Approaches to Pottery and Society in the Southeast. Southeastern Archaeology Vol. 36(2).
Courses Taught
ANTH 112 Introduction to Archaeology
ANTH 425 Historical Archaeology