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David Ingleman, Ph.D.

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Department(s)
Anthropology

Biography

David Ingleman is an historical anthropologist and archaeologist with diverse research and teaching foci. His methods include vertebrate osteology and archival research. Topically and theoretically, he is interested in sovereignty, disability, memory, practice, and multispecies anthropology. He has done fieldwork in North America, the Caribbean, and Polynesia. He is also an award-winning instructor who has taught introductory and advanced anthropology courses on zooarchaeology, human osteology, world archaeology, historical archaeology laboratory methods, North American archaeology, and anthropological pedagogy. In addition to his academic interests, he has documented hundreds of sites as a Cultural Resource Management archaeologist in a dozen US states, facilitated eco-heritage tourism programs as a US Peace Corps volunteer in Jamaica, co-wrote and directed a community-based documentary film about oral histories that connect Jamaica to Sierra Leone, and helped to bring home the remains of US servicemen as a contractor for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. His current projects include a zooarchaeological reanalysis of the faunal remains excavated from the Pueblo Grande de Nevada, also known as the Lost City site.

Education

  • 2025: Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of Anthropology

Research Interests

  • Zooarchaeology, multispecies anthropology, history of anthropology, ethnohistory