William W. Baden
Senior Research Analyst
Institutional Research and Analysis
Indiana Univ. - Purdue Univ. Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499
260-481-6202

Positions - Affiliations - Courses Taught - Software/Reporting - Research Areas - Publications - Papers

PhD (anthropology) 1987, University of Tennessee
MA (anthropology) 1982, University of Tennessee
BA (anthropology) 1976, Magna cum laude, University of Toledo
Associate in Arts (physics/mathematics) 1973, Miami University

IU - PU Ft. Wayne
August 2005 - Present
Senior Research Analyst (duties)
June 2002 - August 2005
Manager of Client Support, IT Services (duties)
January 1993 - May 2002
Coordinator of Academic Computing, IT Services (duties)
Visiting Assistant Professor in Anthropology, 1997-98
Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, 1993-94
September 1986 - December 1992
VAX Programmer/Consultant (duties)
January 1985 - August 1986
University of Pennsylvania
Computer Specialist, University Museum (duties)
June 1981 - June 1983
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Research Associate, Tellico Archaeological Project (duties)
Department of Anthropology
September 1977 - June 1981
Research Assistant, Tellico Archaeological Project (duties)
Department of Anthropology

Professional Affiliations
 Society for American Archaeology

Courses Taught (Undergraduate)
 - GIS Mapping in Anthropology
 - Introduction to Prehistoric Archaeology
 - Archaeology of North America
 - Archaeological Research Design
 - Introduction to Lithic Typology
 - Historical Archaeology
 - Rise and Fall of Ancient Civilizations
 - Ancient Egypt
 - Ethnographic Observation of a Classroom Environment
 - Statistics and Data Management (Nursing)
Courses Taught (Graduate)
 - Quantitative Methods in Archaeology

Authored Software/Reporting Systems
 - Daily Pre-Term Enrollment tracking (2006; SAS/SQL)
 - Campus Unit Profiles (2013; SAS/SQL)
 - Archaeological Fieldwork Simulation (1998; VAX/VMS; Pascal/DCL/HTML)
 - Room Scheduling (1997; SAS/SQL)
 - Document Delivery Processing System (1991; VAX/VMS; Pascal)


Information Technology Expertise - Blackboard, SAS, SPSS, SQL, Tableau, ArcView/ArcGIS

Anthropological Research Areas
 Emergence and Collapse of Complex Societies, Traditional 
 Agriculture, Southeastern Archaeology

Computational Research Areas
 Quantitative and Statistical Methods, 
 Computer Graphics, Mathematical Modeling, Complex Adaptive Systems, 
 Agent-Based Modeling, GIS

Publications
Baden, William W.
  2013 Systems Theory. 
  In Theory in social and cultural anthropology: an encyclopedia, 
  pp. 849-851, edited by R. Jon McGee and Richard L. Warms. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. 

  2005 Modelling Prehistoric Maize Agriculture as a Dissipative Process. 
  In Nonlinear Models for Archaeology and Anthropology: Continuing the Revolution, 
  pp. 95-122, edited by C.S. Beekman and W.W. Baden. Burlington, VT:Ashgate Publishing. 

  1987  A Dynamic Model of Stability and Change in Mississippian
  Agricultural Systems.  Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of
  Anthropology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.3019.8880. 

  1985  Evidence of changing settlement patterns in the Little Tennessee
  River valley of east Tennessee.  In Exploring Tennessee Prehistory: A
  Dedication to Alfred K. Guthe, edited by T.R. Whyte, C.C. Boyd, Jr.,
  and B.H. Riggs. The University of Tennessee, Department of
  Anthropology, Report of Investigations 42. 

  1983  Tomotley: An Eighteenth Century Cherokee Village.  Department of
  Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Report of Investigations 36
  and Tennessee Valley Authority Publications in Anthropology 35. 

  1982  Mathematical Modelling of Ceramic Assemblages.  Unpublished MA
  thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee,
  Knoxville. 

Baden, William W. and Christopher S. Beekman
  2001 Culture and Agriculture: A Comment On Sissel Schroeder, Maize Productivity 
  In The Eastern Woodlands And Great Plains Of North America. 
  American Antiquity, 66(3):505-515.

Beekman, Christopher S. and William W. Baden (eds.)
  2005 Nonlinear Models for Archaeology and Anthropology: Continuing the Revolution.
  Burlington, VT:Ashgate Publishing. 
  
Beekman, Christopher S. and William W. Baden
  2005 Continuing the Revolution. In Nonlinear Models for Archaeology and Anthropology: 
  Continuing the Revolution, pp. 1-12, edited by C.S. Beekman and W.W. Baden. Burlington, 
  VT:Ashgate Publishing. 

Blythe, Stuart, Rachelle Darabi, Barbara Simon Kirkwood, and William Baden
 2009 Exploring Options for Students at the Boundaries of the 'At Risk' Designation.
 Writing Program Administration, 33(1-2):9-23, Fall/Winter.
 
Kimball, Larry R. and William W. Baden
  1980  Statistical Analysis of Assemblages by Activity Groups.  In
  A Preliminary Report of Probabilistic and Nonprobabilistic Archeological
  Sampling in Industrial Area II, Tellico Reservoir, Tennessee, by
  R.P.S. Davis, Jr., pp. 88-95.  Tellico Archeological Survey Report 2. 

  1980  Quantitative Model of Woodland and Mississippian Ceramic
  Assemblages for the Identification of Surface Collections.  In The
  1977 Archeological Reconnaissance and Overall Assessment of the
  Archeological Resources of the Tellico Reservoir, by L.R. Kimball, pp.
  229-449.  Tellico Archaeological Survey Report 1. 

Lozanoff, Scott, and William W. Baden
  1978  Osteobiography of Five Prehistoric Populations from Southeastern
  Michigan.  Toledo Area Aboriginal Research Bulletin, 7(1-2):73-76. 

O'Hear, M., R. Ramsey, and W. Baden
  1996  Student Perceptions: What They Tell Us About Readability
  and Interest. Journal of College Reading and Learning, 27(2):28-39.

Otani, Koichiro and William W. Baden
  2009 Healthcare Cost and Predictive Factors: High- and Low-Utilization Model Development. 
  Health Marketing Quarterly, 2(3):198-208.

Ramsey, R., M. O'Hear, and W. Baden
  1993  Student Perception of Readability and Human Interest in
  Upper-Level Composition Textbooks. Forum for Reading, 24:1-10. 

  1992  Measuring Human Interest in First-Year College Writing
  Textbooks. Reading Research and Instruction, 32(1):64-76. 

Stothers, David M., Scott Lozanoff, and William W. Baden
  1976  Middle to Late Woodland Biological Continuity Within the Western
  Basin Tradition.  Toledo Area Aboriginal Research Bulletin,
  7(1-2):1-72. 

Papers Presented

Anderson, Gregory L., and William W. Baden
  2007  Students at the Center: Still a Focus. A paper presented at the
  12th Annual National Learning Communities Conference, November 7-9, 2007, Indianapolis.
  
Baden, William W.
  2002  Quantifying Potentials within Dissipative Processes: 
  An Evaluation of Mississippian Agriculture. A paper presented at the 
  101st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, 
  November 20-24, 2002, New Orleans.

  1998  Using Simulations to Teach the Teacher as Well as the Student.
  A paper presented at The Use of Computers and Related Technologies
  for Instruction Conference, May 28, 1998, Fort Wayne.
		
  1995  The Impact of Fluctuating Agricultural Potential on Coosa's 
  Sociopolitical and Settlement Systems. A paper presented at the 
  52nd Annual Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Knoxville.
 
  1980  A Solution to the Humpty Dumpty Dilemma in Ceramic Analysis: All
  the King's Mathematicians Could Have Put Humpty Together Again. A
  paper presented at the 37th Annual Southeastern Archaeological
  Conference, New Orleans. 

Beekman, Christopher S. and William W. Baden
  2009 El Cultivo del Maíz y su Impacto Regional: Agotamiento de los Suelos en el 
  Corredor de La Venta, Jalisco. A paper presented at the Mesa de trabajo del Centro de Estudios 
  Arqueológicos, Patrones de asentamiento y actividades de subsistencia en el Occidente de México, 
  Reconocimiento a la Dra. Helen P. Pollard. September 4, 2009, Colegio de Michoacan, Michoacan, Mexico.

Boyd, C. Cliff, William W. Baden, and Donna C. Boyd
  2015 Non-Linear Systems Theory and Its Application to the Assessment of Postmortem Interval. 
  Invited paper in the symposium Application of Theory to Forensic Anthropology February 20, 2015, 
  67th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Orlando, FL.

Dibble, Harold L., Irene B. Romano, and William W. Baden
  1986  Microcomputer Applications to Museum Collections Management. A
  paper presented at the National Workshop on Microcomputers in
  Archaeology, April 23, 1986, New Orleans. 

Lozanoff, Scott, and William W. Baden 
  1978  Osteobiography of Five Prehistoric Populations from Southeastern
  Michigan. A paper presented at the 54th Annual Central States
  Anthropological Society Conference, Notre Dame. 

Rathbun, Gail, and William Baden
  2010 Meeting Retention Challenges with Hybrid Solutions. A paper presented
  at the 13th Annual Area Fort Wayne Teaching Conference, February 26, 2010, Fort Wayne, IN.
  
Romano, Irene B. and William W. Baden
  1986  Collections on the Move: An Inventory in Transition. A paper
  presented at the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums' Life After
  Inventory Workshop, April 4, 1986, Philadelphia, PA.

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