Kristen Gremillion - Education

Education

Kristen Gremillion began her college education at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1976 majoring in anthropology. However, in 1979, she transferred to the University of New Orleans in Louisiana where she graduated cum laude in 1980, receiving a B.A. in anthropology. Then, in 1985, Kristen received an M.A. in anthropology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, writing her thesis on Aboriginal Use of Plant Foods and European Contact in the North Carolina Piedmont. In 1989, she received her Ph.D. in anthropology, also from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; her dissertation title was Late Prehistoric and Historic Period Paleoethnobotany of the North Carolina Piedmont. Employment While in the process of completing her M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology, Kristen Gremillion was self-employed as an archaeobotanical consultant. Once completing her degrees, in 1990 she became a visiting lecturer for East Carolina University’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology. From 1991 till 1997, Gremillion was an Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University in the Department of Anthropology. Then in 1997, she shifted from assistant professor to associate professor in the Department of Anthropology where she has still continues to work in the present. In 1999, Gremillion was granted an adjunct appointment in the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at the same university.