Overview
Dr. Crystal Dozier is an anthropological archaeologist with over a decade of experience. Dr. Dozier received her PhD and MA from Texas A&M University and her BA from the University of Chicago. Her work contends with political economy and social identity in the past, especially as embodied through foodways and cooking technologies. Dr. Dozier’s research explores nutrition, fermentation technology, feasting, and ancient diets using macro and micro-botanical techniques. Her work has garnered wide attention, as featured by Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic, Archaeology Magazine, and more. She directs the Archaeology of Food Laboratory, which provides resources for students to develop their own research projects. Dr. Dozier also serves as the Chair for the Department of Anthropology and City Archaeologist for the city of Wichita.
Information
Archaeology of food, Feasting, Experimental Archaeology, Pre-Columbian Fermentation Technology, Gendered Archaeology, Mircro-botanical Analyses, Economic Anthropology, Reflective Teaching Methods in Anthropology
Dozier, Crystal A. and Douglas J. Kressly*, eds
2025 Special Issue: Report for the 20219-2022 Archaeological Investigations at the Boxed Springs Site (41UR30). Caddo Archeology Journal 35: 5-64. Open Access Online
Dozier, Crystal A., Síofra T. Lynch*, Zoe A. Blair*, and Savannah A. Gann*
2025 Visual Representation of Gender in Archaeology Magazine (1948-2020). Public Archaeology, 1-12. DOI: 10.1080/14655187.2025.2471162
Dozier, Crystal A. and Arland L. Wallace*
2024 Experimental Recreation of a Pumpkin (Cucurbita spp.) Leather Mat. EXARC Journal 2024(4). https://exarc.net/ark:/88735/10768
Dozier, Crystal A. and Grace E. Tsai
2022 Experimental Recreation of 16th Century Wine: Palynological and Enological Characteristics. Archaeology of Food and Foodways 1(1): 16-33. DOI: 10.1558/aff.17752
Dozier, Crystal A., Angelina G. Perrotti, and Elayne V. Howard*
2021 Effects of Acetolysis on Starch Granules. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 36. 102818. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.102818
Dozier, Crystal A., Doyong Kim, and David H. Russell
2020 Chemical Evidence in Leon Plain pottery from the Toyah phase (1300-1650 CE) in the American Southern Plains. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 32: 102450. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102450
Sonderman, Elanor M., Crystal A. Dozier, and Morgan F. Smith
2019 Analysis of a coprolite from Conejo Shelter, Texas: Potential ritualistic Viperous snake consumption. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 25: 85-93. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.03.032
Dozier, Crystal A.
2019 Evidence for Feasting in the Southern Plains: Maintenance and Reinforcement of the Toyah Social Field, 1250-1650 AD. Plains Anthropologist 64(251): 275-299. DOI: 10.1080/00320447.2018.1502963
Dozier, Crystal A.
2017 The Origins of Entrepreneurship and the Market Process: An Archaeological Assessment of Competitive Feasting, Trade, and Social Cooperation. In Interdisciplinary Studies of the Market Order: New Applications of Market Process Theory, P. Boettke, V. Storr, and C. Coyne, eds. Pp 113-137. London: Rowman and Littlefield International Ltd.
Dozier, Crystal A.
2017 Teaching Anthropological Concepts of Race in Higher Education: Insights and Challenges at a Predominately White Institution. Teaching Anthropology 7(1): 15-33. DOI: 10.22582/ta.v7i1.458
*student co-authors
2023 Retention Fellow, Fairmount College, Wichita State University
2022 Young Faculty Scholar Award, Wichita State University
2019 Tilford Diversity Fellow, Office of Academic Affairs, Wichita State University
Temporary Chair, Department of Anthropology (2024-present)
Kansas Antiquities Commission, Kansas Historical Society (2024-present)
City Archaeologist, City of Wichita, Kansas (2019-present)
Graduate Coordinator, Department of Anthropology (2019-2024)
First Generation Coordinating Council, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Representative (2019-2022)
Curriculum Committee, Society for American Archaeology (chair: 2020-2023; member 2015-2020)