Thursday, April 3 2025, 4:30 - 5:30pm Pinnacle Room, Baldwin Hall Guest speaker Dr. Ben Steere is an Associate Professor and the Department Head of Anthropology and Sociology at Western Carolina University (WCU) in Cullowhee, North Carolina. He directed WCU’s Cherokee Studies Program from 2017-2022. His research and teaching are focused on the archaeology of the built environment in western North Carolina. In this guest lecture, Dr. Ben Steere discusses lessons learned from ongoing archival and archaeological research about ancestral Cherokee mounds and towns in western North Carolina that began as a postdoctoral research project at the University of Georgia in 2011. ben_steere_riverside_cemetery (1.77 MB) Dr. Ben Steere Western Carolina University Anthropology Department Dr. Ben Steere
