Michael Kolb

Professor of Sociology/Anthropology

Sociology and Anthropology

Bio

I am a Professor of Anthropology and co-director of the Laboratory of Anthropology. I served as Director of the Center for Faculty Excellence from 2015-2017. I am also a Presidential Teaching Professor Emeritus at Northern Illinois University, where I spent 20 years as a faculty member and served as Associate Vice Provost.

Degree

PhD in Anthropology

University of California - Los Angeles

Other in Archaeology

Cambridge University

MA in Anthropology

University of Wisconsin

BS in Biology

St. John's University

Published Works

Kolb, J. M., Conte, J. P., Curtis, V., Hayden, J. (2023). Household Labor Practices and Dryland Agroforestry in Upland Kula, Maui Island. Journal of Field Archaeology, https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2023.2263698
Kolb, M., Weaton, G. (2023). The Water Supply Infrastructure of Early Denver. Journal of Urban History, https://doi.org/10.1177/00961442231197438
Kolb, J. M., Balco, M. W. (2021). Indigenous Urbanism in Iron Age Western Sicily.. (pp 281-295). McDonald Institute. https://doi.org/ 10.17863/CAM.76145
Vacca, K., Kolb, M. (2021). Status and Gender in Hawaiian House Complexes.. Hawaiian Archaeology, 157-63. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351985981_Status_and_Gender_in_Hawaiian_House_Complexes?_sg%5B0%5D=TWIWH4nlPf8XaYG6zvPM679v4LTHeOcSoj8mBL3G1iVl11fCknM2cI-COxmXy3EdSMT6q0RlXW6OC7dZKAFXXP3IZbFY_7OAsEQy2Sxx.tLD3RtM2jrvqmV8NAkmIYcu3P3iAc3IHKNqplyPYovmctDuVh_ms5XZXczMenl-Mqh-U6G07Szv20CNE1zyxLA.
Kolb, J. M., Vecchio, P., Giglio, R. (2021). The Salemi Survey Project: the longue durée of interior western Sicily 1500 BC–AD 1500.. (pp 137–146). Oxbow. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv24q4z4h.20
Balco, M. W., Kolb, J. M., Kolb, J. M. (2020). A pixilated landscape survey in the forest: Merging space, time, and context at Monte Bonifato, Sicily.. , 33(4), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102515.
Kolb, M. (2020). Making Sense of Monuments: Narrative of Time, Movement, and Scale.. (). Routledge. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/article/abs/making-sense-of-monuments-narratives-of-time-movement-and-scale-michael-j-kolb-2020-routledge-london-xx-228-pp-16000-hardcover-isbn-9780138371101-4895-paperback-isbn-9781032085012-4895-ebook-isbn-9780429427756/84E43EB76760E1959129EDA63F16071B
Kolb, M., Kirk, S., Balco, W. (2019). Labor mobilization and medieval castle construction at Salemi, Western Sicily.. (pp 114-137). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315109794-6
Drennan, M., Kolb, M. (2019). Pharaonic power and architectural labor investment at the Karnak Temple Complex, Egypt.. (pp 56-74). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315109794-3

Research Interests

My archaeological research interests include complex societies, monumental architecture, and the archaeology of power and ritual. I have an active research programs in Colorado, Hawai'i, and Italy. I have published a book on my research entitled: Making Sense of Monuments (2020).

Other recent publications include: Status and Gender in Hawaiian House Complexes (2021); The Salemi Survey Project: The long-durée of interior western Sicily 1500 BC – AD 1500 (2021); A pixelated landscape survey in the forest: Merging space, time, and context at Monte Bonifato, Sicily (2020); Labor mobilization and medieval castle construction at Salemi, Western Sicily (2019): Pharonic power and architectural labor investment at the Karnak Temple Complex, Egypt (2019).

Teaching Interests

I teach a variety of courses in archaeology.

Additional Information

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael-J-Kolb