SCHOLARSHIP
Publications
and
Communications
Chapters and Articles
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
In Prep Removing the Rose-Colored Glasses from Introductory Classes. Article in preparation for
submission to Signature Magazine.
Meg Spencer, Cerisa Reynolds, Trish Rand, Carole Brown, Sarah Schwartzman-Ramsey, and Trisha Parsons
In Prep Modeling Active Learning through a Learner-Centered New Faculty Orientation. Article in
preparation for submission to The Journal of Faculty Development.
Charles, Mona C. and Cerisa R. Reynolds
In Prep Chapter 6: Worked and Unworked Faunal Bone. In Falls Creek, edited by Dawn Mulhern and
Mona C. Charles. Under review with University of Utah Press.
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2023 Names Matter. Signature Magazine 11:4-8.
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2022 When "Teaching to the Test" Is A Good Thing. Signature Magazine 10:8-10.
Reynolds, Cerisa R., editor
2021 Signature Magazine, Issue 9. Aims Community College.
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2021 Creating Space for Online Discussions that Actually Feel Like Discussions: How utilizing D2L’s
“Quizzes” feature changed my approach to teaching online. Signature Magazine 9:44-47.
Pearson, Denise and Cerisa R. Reynolds
2021 Cultivating Reflective, Scholarly, and Connected Faculty Through EDU 260. Signature
Magazine 9:33-37.
Rottini, Francie and Cerisa R. Reynolds
2021 Creating Community and Growth Through Online Peer Mentoring. Signature Magazine 9:13-
16.
Reynolds, Cerisa R., editor
2020 Signature Magazine, Issue 8. Aims Community College
Wismer, Meredith, Meg Spencer, and Cerisa R. Reynolds
2020 The Ethical Argument for Active Learning. Signature Magazine 8:28-31.
Reynolds, Cerisa R., editor
2019 Signature Magazine, Issue 7. Aims Community College
Lucero, Stephanie and Cerisa R. Reynolds
2019 Basic Needs Insecurity and the Community College Student. Signature Magazine 7:10-16.
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2018 Sedentism, Drought, and Basketmaker II Faunal Patterns. Southwestern Lore 84(4):1-28.
Reynolds, Cerisa R., editor
2018 Signature Magazine, Issue 6. Aims Community College.
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2018 On Belief and Understanding: Teaching evolution in the college classroom. Signature
Magazine 6:27-29.
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2018 3D Printers Foster Learning in the Classroom. Signature Magazine 6:29.
Reynolds, Cerisa R., editor
2017 Signature Magazine, Issue 5. Aims Community College.
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2017 Privilege and the Kinship Chart. Anthropology News website, June 12, 2017. doi:
10.1111/AN.481.
(This was their 3rd most-read "In Focus" article of 2017: http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2017/12/22/our-most-read-articles-of-2017/)
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2017 Active Learning: What do you really want your students to learn? Invited article submitted to
Aims Community College’s Signature Magazine 4:18-19.
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2015 Fighting Ancient Aliens in the Classroom: Restoring Credit to Peoples of the Past in
Introduction to Archaeology Courses. Teaching Anthropology 21(1).
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2015 Chapter 2. Faunal Analysis. In The Archaeology of the Darkmold Site, 5LP4991. La Plata County,
Colorado. A Final Report Volume 2, edited by Mona C. Charles. SHF Grant #12-01-74.
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2015 Chapter 3. Bone Tool Analysis. In The Archaeology of the Darkmold Site, 5LP4991. La Plata
County, Colorado. A Final Report Volume 2, edited by Mona C. Charles. SHF Grant #12-01-74.
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2014 Chapter 8. A Reanalysis of the North Falls Creek Rock Shelter Faunal Assemblage. In
Falls Creek Rockshelters Archaeological Assessment Project – Phase II, compiled by Carl E. Conner, pages 8.1-9.21. Dominguez Archaeological Research Group, Inc.
Reynolds, Cerisa R., Bryan Kendall, William E. Whittaker, and Thomas H. Charlton
2014 Nineteenth Century Butchery and Transport for a Market Economy: Plum Grove as a Case
Study for Commercial Transactions in the Midwestern USA. Anthropozoologica 49(1):47-61.
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2012 The Artiodactyl Index at the Origins of Agriculture in the Northern U.S. Southwest. Journal of
Contemporary Anthropology 3(1):39-59.
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2012 Durango Basketmaker II Faunal Remains: The Falls Creek Rock Shelters, Talus Village, and
Beyond. Colorado Archaeology: A Special Issue of Southwestern Lore 78(1):91-103.
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2011 Searching for Skill Identifiers through Experimental Flintknapping and a North
American Archaeological Assemblage. In Pushing the Envelope: Experimental Directions in the Archaeology of Stone Tools, edited by Grant S. McCall, pp. 19-37. Nova Science Publishers, Hauppage, NY.
Reynolds, Cerisa R. and Matthew E. Hill, Jr.
2010 Understanding the Relationship between the Bison Bone Beds at the Cody-aged Finley
Site. Current Research in the Pleistocene 27:131-134.
Reynolds, Cerisa R. and Jonathan C. Willman
2010 Advice for Prospective Graduate Students. SAA archaeological record 10(4):12-14.
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2008 An Intensive Analysis of a Sample of Faunal Remains. In Results of Limited Data Recovery
Excavation, Littleghost Site (32BE133), Benson County, North Dakota, by S. Larmore, D. Sheptow, and K. Croll, pp. 50-72. ERO Resources, Durango, CO.
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2007 Appendix I. Faunal Analysis of Vertebrate Remains from Four Sites in Southeastern
Colorado: 5LA3333, 5LA4417, 5LA5612, and 5LA6108. In Archaeological Testing at Four Sites on the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, Las Animas County, Colorado, by Amy Nelson, Mona Charles, Randy Nathan, Philip Duke, Daniel R. Bach, and Cerisa Reynolds, pp. I-1–I-31. Department of Anthropology, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado.
Newsletters
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2019 Opening message in monthly FTLC Newsletters:
February: Getting the Most Out Of Conferences
March: Making Learning Relevant
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2018 Opening message in monthly FTLC Newsletters:
April: It's that time of the semester again...
September: Honoring Your Dedication
November: Poverty, Homelessness, and Our Students
December: The Power of Drawing
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2018 What does that have to do with anthropology? Anthropology-Informed Leadership.
The AnthroObserver: University of Iowa Department of Anthropology Newsletter 2017-2018, p. 24-25. The University of Iowa Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Iowa City, Iowa.
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2017 Opening message in monthly FTLC Newsletters:
September: Making A Connection
October: Are Your Students Learning What You Think They Should Be Learning?
Reynolds, Cerisa R. and Meredith A. Wismer
2009 Excavations at Arcy-sur-Cure, France. Contributed to The AnthroObserver: University of
Iowa Department of Anthropology Newsletter 2008-2009, pp. 5, 31. The University of Iowa Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Iowa City, Iowa.
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2007 Graduate Achieves Faculty Position. Contributed to The AnthroObserver: University of Iowa
Department of Anthropology Newsletter 2006-2007, pp. 4. The University of Iowa Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Iowa City, Iowa.
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2015 Analysis of Faunal Remains from 5EP7248. Report submitted to Western Cultural
Resource Management.
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2012 Onsite Analysis of Faunal Specimens from Bone Locales 1 and 2 at Site 5EP4723, El
Paso County, Colorado. Report prepared for Western Cultural Resource Management, Inc. in July 2012.
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2012 A Complicated Past: The Taphonomy of the Lovewell Mammoth II Faunal Assemblage,
Site 14JW306. Report submitted to Dr. Steven R. Holen of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in June of 2012.
Reynolds, Cerisa
2012 Faunal Remains from the Hurdy Gurdy Bridge Site (CA-DNO-1028). Report submitted to ERO
Resources.
Reynolds, Cerisa R. and Meredith A. Wismer
2012 Faunal Remains from the 2007 and 2010 Excavations at 5JA421, North Park, Colorado.
Report for the State of Colorado, submitted to Dr. Robert Brunswig at the University of Northern Colorado and Dr. Frederíc Sellet at the University of Kansas on January 15th, 2012.
Reynolds, Cerisa R. and Meredith A. Wismer
2010 Faunal Remains from the 2008 and 2009 Excavations at 5JA421, North Park, Colorado.
Report for the State of Colorado, submitted to Dr. Robert Brunswig at the University of Northern Colorado and Dr. Frederíc Sellet at the University of Kansas on May 1st, 2010.
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2006 The Analysis of Faunal Remains from Pit 3, Levels P111, P123, and 571 at Gemeente
Nijmegen. Manuscript submitted to Dr. James G. Enloe of the University of Iowa as partial fulfillment for the course Animal Bones in Archaeology.
Zooarch
Reports
Meeting and Conference Presentations
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2023 “You Too Can Be A Scientist!” Demystifying Science and Cultivating Our Students’ Inner
Scientists in Intro to Bio Anth Courses." Poster presentation at the 2023 Rocky Mountain Biological Anthropology Association annual meeting, Estes Park, Colorado, September 30th, 2023.
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2023 “Removing the rose-colored glasses from our introductory classes.” Virtual FTLC Fridays
Faculty PD Session, Aims Community College, March 3rd, 2023.
Spencer, Meg and Cerisa R. Reynolds
2022 "ThingLink: An Engaging Tool for Teaching, Scholarship, and More." Virtual breakout session
facilitated at the 2022 TAP Into Learning Faculty Conference, Aims Community College, January 28th, 2022.
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2022 "Designing Virtual Escape Rooms." Virtual breakout session facilitated at the 2022 TAP Into
Learning Faculty Conference, Aims Community College, January 28th, 2022.
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2021 Why What You Do Matters: Reflections from a former FTLC Chair. Virtual poster presented at
the 2021 Fall Faculty Conference: Learning Partnerships, Aims Community College, September 3rd, 2021.
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2020 Decolonizing Your Curriculum. Virtual breakout session facilitated at the 2020 Fall Faculty
Conference, Aims Community College, September 4th, 2020.
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2020 Do Partially Completed Flashcards Help Students Learn? Poster presented at the 2020 TAP
Into Learning Faculty Conference, Aims Community College, February 28th, 2020.
Reynolds, Cerisa R. and Meg Spencer
2019 Engaging New Faculty through Active Learning at New Faculty Orientation. A 60-minute
Faculty Development Super Track session at the 2019 Teaching Professor Conference, New Orleans, June 9th, 2019.
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2018 Sedentism, Drought, and Basketmaker II Faunal Patterns. Guest speaker at the Denver
Chapter of the Colorado Archaeological Society's June Meeting. Denver Museum of Nature and Science, June 18th, 2018.
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2018 What's Anthropology Got to Do with It? An Anthropology-Informed Leadership Style. Guest
presentation at ADVANCE Talks Conference: Advocating Development, Versatility, Aspiration, Networking, Community and Education. Sponsored by the American Association for Women in Community Colleges, Rocky Mountain Chapter. Loveland, CO, April 13th, 2018.
Hill, Matthew E., Cerisa R. Reynolds, James Mayer, and John P. Laughlin
2018 A Reexamination of the Nature and Context of the Finley Paleoindian Bison Bonebeds in
Southwest Wyoming. Paper presented at the 83rd Annual Society for American Archaeology Meetings, Washington D.C., April 13th, 2018.
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2015 Teaching Inequality By Teaching Archaeology (or, Fighting Ancient Aliens). Paper presented
at the American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting in a session hosted by the Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges, November 20th, 2015.
Reynolds, Cerisa R. and Mona C. Charles
2015 Oh Deer! Basketmaker II Bone Tool Industries and Possible Resource Stress in the Durango
Area. Poster presented at the 37th Annual Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologist’s Meeting, Estes Park, CO, April 14th, 2015.
Reynolds, Cerisa R., Meredith Wismer-Lanoë, Robert Brunswig, and Frédéric Sellet
2014 Fragmentation of Late Prehistoric Faunal Remains in Northeastern Colorado.
Poster presentation at the 79th Annual Society for American Archaeology Meetings, Austin, TX, April 25th, 2014.
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2012 Faunal Use and Resource Pressure at the Origins of Agriculture in the Northern
U.S. Southwest. Poster presentation at the 77th Annual Society for American Archaeology Meetings, Memphis, TN, April 20th, 2012.
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2012 Dinner at the Darkmold Site: Grease Processing and Resource Stress at a Basketmaker II Site
in Southwestern Colorado. Poster presentation at the Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists Annual Meeting, Durango, Colorado, March 2012.
Reynolds, Cerisa R., Bryan Kendall, Thomas H. Charlton, and William E. Whittaker
2011 Midwestern Food Production for National Food Consumption: 19th Century Farming
Practices in Iowa City, Iowa. Paper presentation at the Central States Anthropological Society Meetings, April 7th 2011, Iowa City, Iowa.
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2011 Dinner at the Darkmold Site: Faunal remains from a Basketmaker II Site in
Southwestern Colorado. Poster presentation at the 76th Annual Society for American Archaeology Meeting, April 1st 2011, Sacramento, California.
Hill, Matthew E., Jr. and Cerisa R. Reynolds
2010 Reexamination of the Finley Site Faunal Assemblages. Poster presentation at the 68th
Annual Plains Anthropological Conference, October 8th 2010, Bismark, North Dakota.
Reynolds, Cerisa R., Bryan Kendall, Thomas H. Charlton, and William E. Whittaker
2010 Nineteenth Century Butchery and Transport for a Market Economy: Plum Grove as a Case
Study for Commercial Transactions in the Midwestern USA. Paper presentation at the 11th Quadrennial Conference of the International Conference for ArchaeoZoology, August 27th 2010, Paris, France.
Hill, Matthew E., Jr., Cerisa R. Reynolds, and James Mayer
2010 Reevaluation of the Site Formational History of the Finley Bison Bonebeds. Poster
presentation at the 75th Annual Society for American Archaeology Meeting, April 17th 2010, St. Louis, Missouri
Reynolds, Cerisa R., Bryan Kendall, and Thomas H. Charlton
2009 19th Century Commercial Food Production in Iowa City, Iowa. Paper presentation at
the Midwestern Archaeological Conference, October 16th 2009, Iowa City, Iowa.
Reynolds, Cerisa R., Bryan Kendall, and Thomas H. Charlton
2009 A Reevaluation of Early Commercial Food Production in Eastern Iowa. Poster presentation at
the 74th Annual Society for American Archaeology Meeting, April 23rd 2009, Atlanta, Georgia.
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2008 Searching for Skill Identifiers through Experimental Flintknapping and a North
American Archaeological Assemblage. Paper presentation at the 73rd Annual Society for American Archaeology Meeting, March 30th 2008, Vancouver, Canada.
Reynolds, Cerisa R.
2007 Time Changes Everything: What the Darkmold Site tells us about Basketmaker subsistence in
the Durango area and beyond. Poster presentation at the 72nd Annual Society for American Archaeology Meeting, April 26th 2007, Austin, Texas.