How It Works
The employee database and its API Plugin are tools that can be used in conjunction with one another to display information about employees in campus departments. This page will walk you through using the Employee Database block on your page to display employee information.
Instructions
- Create the "Employee Database" block and add it to your site.
- Go to "Add Content" > "Blocks" > "Row Blocks" and select the "Employee Database" Block.
- and retrieve the numerical codes to enter into the Block.
- Select the "School" or "College" you are looking for.
- Select the "Department" you are looking for.
- Select the "Type" of employee you are looking for.
- Select the "Tag" associated with that employee Note: Some departments don't use tags, the query will revert to "Type" if this is the case.
- Take note of the numerical values of the School/College, Department, Type and Tag produced by the API.
- Back in Cascade, edit the "Employee Database" block you created. Enter the information generated from the API into the appropriate fields.
- Submit your changes.
- Publish your changes. NB: the Employee Database block does not display fully in Cascade, but only on the live site. Cascade will only display the numerical values retrieved from the API.
Breakdown of the API codes.
- School ID: Each school within the database is referenced by a unique ID.
- Department ID: In combination with the school ID, this identifies your department within the Faculty Database.
- ID(s): Each person in the system is associated with a personnel "type" (Professor, Adjunct, Staff, etc.), and you can filter by these IDs.
- Tag ID(s): Some departments choose to further categorize by research area or specialty with tags.
The section below is an example of what you should see after attaching the employee database block.
Kelly Dixon
Professor
Contact
- Office
- Social Sciences 235 and Social Sciences SS 244 (laboratory)
- kelly.dixon@mso.umt.edu
- Office Hours
Please contact me to make an appointment.
- Website
Personal Summary
Kelly J. Dixon is an archaeologist and Professor at the 妖姬直播’s Department of Anthropology. She specializes in archaeologies of adaptation, boomtowns, colonization, colonialism, extractive industries, human-environment interactions, landscape transformations, and marginalized populations. Living and working in the North American West for 20 years, Dixon’s research includes case studies from this region that underscore the international connections this region has with the rest of the world and that engage audiences of non-specialists. Dr. Dixon is dedicated to developing student-oriented interdisciplinary archaeological research and serves as a mentor to Ph.D., M.A., and Undergraduate 妖姬直播. While at UM, Dixon has been engaged in partnerships with federal, tribal, state, and local government agencies, as well as various stakeholders, communities, and other universities, to integrate research and education so the next generation of archaeologists is prepared to responsibly and respectfully preserve and protect past and present cultural heritage.
Education
PhD, University of Nevada
Courses Taught
Anthropology 252 Archaeological Wonders of the World
Anthropology 455 Artifact Analysis
Anthropology 395 Archaeology and Anthropology of Olduvai Gorge
Anthropology 466 Archaeological Survey
Anthropology 456 Historical Archaeology (Archaeology of the "Modern World")
Anthropology 487/495 Anthropological Field Experience
Anthropology 495 Landscape Archaeology
Anthropology 467 Archaeological Field Schools (Landscape Archaeology, Missoula Historic Underground, Fort Missoula, Coloma "Ghost" Town)
Anthropology 503 Graduate Seminar in Cultural Resource Interpretation
Anthropology 551 Graduate Seminar in Historical Archaeology (Archaeology of the "Modern World")
Anthropology 601 Proposal Preparation and Research Design
Selected Publications
In Press (2020) "Repercussions of Rapid Colonization: Archaeological Insights from the North American West." In Handbook of Global Historical Archaeology, edited by Charles Orser, Jr., Pedro Funari, et al., Routledge, London.
In Press (2020) "From the Land: Apsáalooke Perspectives on Landscape, co-authored with Aaron Brien." In Archaeologies of Landscape and Place in the American West, edited by Carolyn White and Emily Dale, University of Florida Press.
2019 "Beyond the Shelf: Anthropological Collections at the 妖姬直播," co-authored by C. Riley Augé, Michael Black Wolf, Emerson Bull Chief, Kelly J. Dixon, Virgil Edwards, Gerald Grey, Conrad Fisher, Teanna Limpy, Katie MacDonald, Ira Matt, John Murray, Abby Ogle, Sadie Peone, Alvin Windy Boy, and Darrell “Curly” Youpee. In New Life for Old Collections, edited by Rebecca Allen and Benjamin Ford, University of Nebraska Press.
2019 "Landscapes of Change: Culture, Nature, and the Archaeological Heritage of Transcontinental Railroads in the North American West." In Chinese Railroad Workers in North America (an overview of Stanford University’s Chinese Railroad Workers in North America project), edited by Gordon Chang, Shelley Fisher-Fishkin, and Roland Hsu, Stanford University Press.
2018 "Comment" on "Archaeology of Precarious Lives: Chinese Railroad Workers in North America, by Barbara L. Voss." Current Anthropology 59(3): 302-303.
2017 “Contact Period Artifacts at Bridge River Housepit 54," co-authored with Mary Bobbitt, C. Riley Augé, and T.A. Foor. In The Last House at Bridge River: The Archaeology of an Aboriginal Household in British Columbia during the Fur Trade Period, edited by Anna Marie Prentiss, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
2017 “Rock Hearths and Rural Wood Camps in JÄ«n ShÄ聛n/GÄ聛m Saan 金山: National Register of Historic Places Evaluations of 19th-century Chinese Logging Operations at Heavenly Ski Resort in the Lake Tahoe Basin.” In Historical Archaeology of the American West, University of Nebraska Press, edited by Margaret Purser and Mark Warner, chapter co-authored with Carrie Smith.
2016 "Landscapes of Change: Culture, Nature, and the Archaeological Heritage of Railroads in the American West," in 北ç¾沤å聧沤å·¥ä¸沤广东侨乡社会 [The North America Chinese Laborers and Guangdong Qiaoxiang Society, Proceedings], Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.
2015 “Inscribed in Stone: Historic Inscriptions and the Cultural Heritage of Railroad Workers,” co-authored with Timothy Rostov Urbaniak, Historical Archaeology 49(1):100-109.
2014 "Historical Archaeologies in the American West." Journal of Archaeological Research 22(3):177-228. In 2017, the Journal of Archaeological Research highlighted this paper as one of 10 articles published in the last 25 years that exemplify the journal’s high-impact mission to effectively draw in readers with various backgrounds to facilitate dialogue across many fields.
2012 “'Verily the Road was Built with Chinaman's Bones': Archaeology of Chinese Line Camps in Montana." International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 16(4):666-695, co-authored with Christopher Merritt and Gary Weisz.
2012 An Archaeology of Desperation: Exploring the Donner Party’s Alder Creek Camp. (editor and contributing author to three chapters, Julie M. Schablitsky and Shannon A. Novak, co-editors), University of Oklahoma Press, Norman. Winner of the Society for Historical Archaeology's James Deetz Book Award.
2012 "'A Place of Recreation of Our Own': Archaeology of the Boston Saloon." In The Materiality of Freedom: Archaeologies of Post-Emancipation Life, edited by Jodi Barnes, University of South Caroline Press, Columbia, pp. 115-135.
2011 “Coloma Mining District: Gold Mining and Community in Western Montana’s Garnet Range. Co-authored with Marta A. Timmons, Industrial Archeology 37(1 and 2): 61-78.
2011 “The Signature of Starvation: A Comparison of Bone Processing at a Chinese Encampment in Montana and the Donner Party Camp in California.” Historical Archaeology 45(2):97-112. Co-authored with M. Ellis, C. Merritt, and S. Novak.
2010 “’Men, Women, Children Starving’: Archaeology of the Donner Family Camp.” American Antiquity, 75(3):627-656. Co-authored with S. Novak, G. Robbins, J. Schablitsky, G. R. Scott, and G. Tasa.
2007 “The Donner Party: An Archaeological Perspective on a Tragedy in the Sierras.” Historical Methods, 40(4):179-181.
2007 “When Fancy Gets The Upper Hand of Fact: Historical Archaeology and Popular Culture in the American West.” SAA Archaeological Record, 7(3):19-25.
2006 “Sidling Up to the Archaeology of Western Saloons: Historical Archaeology Takes on the Wild of the West.” World Archaeology, 38(4):576-585.
2006 “Saloons in the Wild West and Taverns in Ancient Mesopotamia: Explorations Along the Timeline of Public Drinking.” In Between Dirt and Discussion: Methods and Methodology in Historical Archaeology, edited by Steven Archer and Kevin Bartoy, pp. 61-79. Springer [Academic] Press, New York and London.
2006 “Archaeology of the Boston Saloon.” African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter, June 2006.
2006 “Survival of Biological Evidence on Artifacts: Applying Forensic Techniques at the Boston Saloon.” Historical Archaeology 40(3):20-30.
2006 “Forensic Technology and the Historical Archaeologist.” Historical Archaeology 40(3):1-7. Co-authored with Julie Schablitsky and Mark Leney.
2005 Boomtown Saloons: Archaeology and History in Virginia City, Nevada. University of Nevada Press, Reno.