Free Consultation

Meet The Team

The Team

David Harder M.A., R.P.A.

Principal Investigator

Adam Sackman M.A., R.P.A.

Project Manager & GIS Specialist

Samantha Fulgham M.A.

Project Archaeologist- Precision Services Lead

Justin Fitzpatrick M.A.

Project Archaeologist- Essential Services Lead

Emily Whistler M.A., R.P.A.

Project Archaeologist- Sustained Services Lead

Moira Riggs

Office Assistant/Field Technician

Katy Leonard-Doll

Field Technician

Hannah MacIntyre M.A.

Marketing Director

Sophia Bush

Field Technician

Jenny Harder

Human Resources

Brooke Cohen

Report Production Specialist

Latest Blog & Articles

Join Our Team!

If you are interested in employment with us and have a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Anthropology and have attended an archaeological field school, please email a cover letter and resume in PDF format to David Harder.

Fun fact
0
Miles Driven in 2021
Get In Touch
Quick contact
Quick links
The company
Follow us

Adam Sackman M.A., R.P.A.

Project Manager and GIS Specialist

Contact:

asackman@plateau-crm.com

Adam joined the staff of Plateau Archaeological Investigations in 2015.  As a Project Archaeologist, his responsibilities include project management, communication with clients, research, fieldwork, site investigation, monitoring, and report preparation. As Plateau’s GIS Specialist, he is responsible for our GIS database, report maps, and other graphic preparation work.

Adam has field experience in the Inland Northwest and the Northwest Coast, and research experience in the United Kingdom. His research interests include religious identities, funerary practices, and the spread of infectious diseases.  He also has technical experience in landscape analysis, architectural analysis, GIS (multiple platforms), faunal analysis, and statistical analysis (STATA).

Samantha Fulgham M.A.

Project Archaeologist- Precision Services Lead

Contact:

sfulgham@plateau-crm.com

Samantha (Sam) is from California where she obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology in 2015 from the University of California, Santa Barbara. There she focused on groundstone tool assemblages and use-ware analysis from the northern Channel Islands and the mainland coast of Santa Barbara.  Sam earned an M.A. in Anthropology at Washington State University in 2019 where her research focus was on human environmental interactions on the Pacific Northwest Coast.  She started at Plateau Archaeological Investigations in May 2018. Sam is a Project Archaeologist who manages Precision Services, specializing in large scale surveys, excavations and testing, and curation among other projects.

Justin Fitzpatrick

Project Archaeologist – Essential Services Lead

Contact:

jfitzpatrick@plateau-crm.com

Justin began working at Plateau in the winter of 2017. A native of Spokane, Washington, he obtained his B.S. in Anthropology in 2015 and his M.S. in Cultural and Environmental Resource Management in 2019 from Central Washington University. His research focused on using a zooarchaeological analysis to determine site function at a mesa site in central Washington.

When he’s not working on archaeological projects throughout the Pacific Northwest and Montana, Justin likes to hike, fish, and do woodworking.

Emily Whistler M.A., R.P.A.

Project Archaeologist – Sustained Services

Contact:

ewhistler@plateau-crm.com

Emily L. Whistler is a native of California, and an enthusiastic Washington transplant since 2015.  Emily obtained her Master of Arts in Anthropology in 2015 from California State University, Los Angeles. There she focused on the historical ecology of human- bird interactions in the Channel Islands and the mainland coast of Southern California. Emily started at Plateau Archaeological Investigations in January 2020. During her time as a Field Archaeologist at Plateau, Emily has been involved in several field projects throughout eastern Washington. She currently leads Plateau’s Sustained Services division.

Moira Riggs

Field Tech and Office Assistant

Contact:

mriggs@plateau-crm.com

Moira Riggs is a student who graduated from the University of Idaho with a B.S. in Anthropology in May 2020 and an Archaeological Technician Certificate in December 2020. She joined Plateau in 2018 as a part-time office assistant and field technician. Her responsibilities as an office assistant include background research, report preparation, and server organization. As a field technician she assists in tasks including pedestrian survey, excavations, and archaeological monitoring.

Moira’s academic interests include the Northwest Coast cultural area, lithics, ethnographic applications to archaeology, cross-cultural communication, artifact analysis, experimental archaeology, and food systems.

Katy Leonard-Doll

Field Tech

Contact:

kldoll@plateau-crm.com

Katy is from the western side of Washington where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) in 2016.  Currently, she is an Anthropology master’s student at Washington State University (WSU) here in Pullman.  Her thesis research focuses on women’s household production on the Northwest Coast by looking at Indigenous processing and production of plant resources.  Katy is currently learning how to conduct starch analysis to create a starch reference collection for the Northwest region.  Her broader archaeological research interests include community-based participatory research, archaeobotany, residue studies, gender, and Indigenous foodways revitalization.

Katy joined the team at Plateau as a field technician in April of 2021 and often works on background research for reports and assists in shovel probes and pedestrian survey in the field. At Plateau, Katy enjoys the close-knit community provided among her co-workers in the office and in the field.

Hannah MacIntyre M.A.

Marketing Director

Contact:

hmacintyre@plateau-crm.com

Hannah is a cultural anthropologist and Ph.D. candidate at WSU. Originally from north Texas, she holds a B.A in history from University of North Texas and completed her MA at WSU in 2017. Hannah started her professional career in Non-Profit community education, and subsequently taught public high school in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex prior to relocating to Washington. She is primarily interested in public anthropology and the role it plays in fostering sustainable reform to the benefit of contemporary populations.

Sophia Bush

Field Tech

Sophia is originally from Grangeville, Idaho and joined the Plateau Crew in August of 2021.  She is completing her BA in Anthropology with a minor focus on Native American Indian Studies, and will graduate in December of 2021.  Her academic interests include lithics, contemporary and historical indigenous archaeology, geography, and geology.

Free Consultation

Fill in your details and we’ll get back to you in no time.

"*" indicates required fields

Name*
This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Thank You

Thank you for your submission! We will get in touch with you shortly.