Patrick vinton kirch

232 Kroeber Hall

University of California

Berkeley, CA 94720

Email: kirch@berkeley.edu

Website: http://arf.berkeley.edu/projects/oal/index.html

Ph.D., Yale University, 1975

M. Phil., Yale University, 1973

B.A. (cum laude), University of Pennsylvania, 1971

Punahou Academy (Honolulu), 1968
POSITIONS, CURRENT AND PAST

2014- Chancellor's Professor Emeritus & Professor of the Graduate School, University of California, Berkeley

2006-14 The Class of 1954 Professor of Anthropology and Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley (joint appointment, endowed chair)

1994-2006 The Class of 1954 Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley (endowed chair)

2002 Professeur Invité, Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

1999-02 Director, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley

1989- Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

1989- Curator of Oceanic Archaeology, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

1998- Adjunct Professor of Geography, University of California, Berkeley

1997- Distinguished Associate in Research, Bernice P. Bishop Museum

1992-94 Director, Archaeological Research Facility, U. C. Berkeley

1984-97 Research Associate, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu

1992-98 Associate, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University

1984-88 Director, Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum, Seattle

1984-88 Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington

1987-88 Adjunct Professor, Quaternary Research Center, University of Washington

1982-84 Archaeology Division Head, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu

1975-82 Anthropologist, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu

1979-83 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Hawaii (Manoa) (various semesters)
HONORS AND AWARDS

1990 Elected to the U. S. National Academy of Sciences

1991 Elected Honorary Member, The Prehistoric Society (Great Britain)

1992 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

1996 Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

1997 John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science, National Academy of Sciences

1997-98 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford

1997 Elected Fellow, California Academy of Sciences

1998 J. I. Staley Prize, School of American Research (best book in Anthropology for Anahulu)

1998 Elected to the American Philosophical Society

2009 Elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (London)

2010 Elected Honorary Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities

2011 The Hebert E. Gregory Medal for Distinguished Service to Science in the Pacific,

Bishop Museum and Pacific Science Association

2013 Society for American Archaeology Book Award (Public Audience Category) for A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief
BIOGRAPHICAL LISTINGS

Who’s Who in America; Who's Who in the West; Who’s Who in Science and Engineering; American Men and Women of Science; Contemporary Authors; The Writer's Directory
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Anthropological Association, Society for American Archaeology, The Polynesian Society (New Zealand), The Prehistoric Society (United Kingdom), Pacific Science Association, Sigma Xi, Association for Field Archaeology, Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Society for Hawaiian Archaeology (Founding President 1980-81), New Zealand Archaeological Association

Editorial Committee, Bishop Museum Press (1980-84); Editorial Board, Archaeology in Oceania (1980-present); Editorial Board, New Directions in Archaeology, Cambridge University Press (1989-92); Editorial Board, World Archaeology (2000-present); Editorial Board, Anthropological Science (Japan); Associate Editor, Journal of Archaeological Research (Plenum Press); Section Editor for Archaeology, International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Elsevier); Editorial Board, Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology; Editorial Board, Journal of Pacific Archaeology.

2012-14 U. S. National Committee for the Pacific Science Association

2008-12 Committee on Research, American Philosophical Society

2007-13 Trustee, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2009-10 Chair, Committee on Privilege and Tenure, University of California, Berkeley

2007-10 Chair, Advisory Committee, Richard Gump Research Station, Mo’orea

2004-07 Committee on Budget and Interdepartmental Relations, University of California, Berkeley (Chair, 2006-07)

2003-06 Trustee, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto

2001-05 Member, Comité Scientifique, Ministère de la Culture, Government of French Polynesia

2004-06 Chair, Class V (Social Sciences), National Academy of Sciences

2001-04 Secretary, Class V (Social Sciences), National Academy of Sciences

1999-03 Trustee, California Academy of Sciences

1999-02 Trustee, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives

1999-01 Member, Smithsonian Council (advisory to the Secretary of the Smithsonian)

1996-99 Chair, Section 51 (Anthropology), National Academy of Sciences

1997-98 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto

1993-94 Miller Professor, Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science

1992 American Cultures Fellow, University of California, Berkeley

1989-91 Advisory Council, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (Chairman, 1991)
RESEARCH GRANTS
National Science Foundation

2015 Co-Principal Investigator, Developing 230Th/U Dating of Coral Artifacts for High-Precision Cultural Chronologies in Eastern Polynesia, NSF Archaeometry Program, $168,983 (lead institution: Berkeley Geochronology Center)

2014 Principal Investigator, Doctoral Dissertation Research: Investigating the Role of Pig and Rat in Polynesian Socio-ecosystems Via Stable Isotope Analysis, NSF Archaeology Program, $28,604

2013 Co-Principal Investigator, Collaborative Project: Coupled Natural-Human Systems Program, Socio-Ecosystem Dynamics of Human-Natural Networks on Model Islands, ICER-1313830, $1,300,000 (lead institution: Santa Fe Institute)

2013 Principal Investigator, Doctoral Dissertation Research: Transition from Chiefdom to Archaic State in Kaupo, Maui, Hawaiian Islands, NSF Archaeology program, $30,188

2010 Principal Investigator, Collaborative Project, Vulnerability and Resilience in Island Socioecosystems, Archaeology Program, BCS-1030049. $209,874 UCB, total project $359,431.

2007 Principal Investigator, Households, Specialization, and Social Production in Society Islands Chiefdoms, Archaeology Program, BCS-0725173, $226,840.

2006 Principal Investigator, Collaborative Project, Long-Term Dynamics of Population Growth, Agricultural Intensification, and Sociopolitical Change: Hawaii as a Model System. Human Social Dynamics Program, BCS-0624238, $270,023 UCB, total project $747,034.

2006 Co-Principal Investigator, A Precise Chronology for Polynesian Monumental Architecture via Th-230 Coral Dating. Archaeometry Program, BCS-0542222, $149,658.

2001 Principal Investigator, Human Ecodynamics in the Hawaiian Ecosystem, 1200 to 200 Years Before the Present, Biocomplexity in the Environment Program, BCS-0119819, $1,399,940.

1998 Principal Investigator, The Dynamics of Economic and Sociopolitical Structures in Late Prehistoric Hawai’i: An Emergent ‘Archaic’ State, Phase II, SBR-9805754, $137,135

1997 Senior Research Associate, Landscape-Level Paleoecological Reconstructions for Kaua’i, Ecology Program, $238,650. (D. Burney, P.I.)

1996 Principal Investigator, The Dynamics of Economic and Sociopolitical Structures in Late Prehistoric Hawai'i: An Emergent ‘Archaic’ State, SBR-9600693, $96,711

1991 Principal Investigator, Anthropogenic Environmental Change, Agricultural Intensification, and Socio-Political Evolution in Polynesia, BNS-9020750, $116,389

1989 Principal Investigator, Lapita, Island Colonization and Oceanic Cultural Origins, Phase IIA, BNS-89-96182, $48,200

1988 Principal Investigator, Lapita, Island Colonization, and Oceanic Cultural Origins, Phase II, BNS-88-03668, $94,663

1987 Principal Investigator, Lapita, Island Colonization, and Oceanic Cultural Origins, BNS 86-15147, $59,920

1982 Principal Investigator, The Historical Transformation of Hawaiian Society and Economy, BNS-82-05621, $82,555

1978 Research Associate, Interdisciplinary Investigation of the Prehistory of the Southeastern Solomon and Santa Cruz Islands, BNS-76-17672, $169,585

1977 Principal Investigator, Specialized Laboratory Studies in Conjunction with West Polynesian Ethnoarchaeology Project, BNS-76-04782, A01, $14,979

1976 Principal Investigator, Ethnoarchaeological Investigations of Prehistoric Agriculture and Settlement Patterns in West Polynesia, BNS-76-04782, $32,583

1974 Dissertation Improvement Grant, Ethnoarchaeological Investigation of Futuna and 'Uvea, West Polynesia, GS-40294, $4,900

1996 Principal Investigator, Prehistoric Land Use and Settlement Patterns in Southeast Maui, Hawai'i, Grant 5692-96, $18,765

1989 Principal Investigator, Inter-disciplinary Investigation of Human-Induced Environmental Change in Central Polynesia, Grant 4001-89, $27,000

1986 Principal Investigator, Archaeological Investigations in the Mussau Islands, Papua New Guinea, Grant 33046-86, $22,500

2004 Principal Investigator, Archaeological Investigations in the Mangareva Islands, French Polynesia, $24,500

1998 Principal Investigator, Household Archaeology and Prehistoric Social Transformation in Central Eastern Polynesia, $14,340

1986 Principal Investigator, Development of the Lapita Cultural Complex, $6,211

2010 France-Berkeley Fund, Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, Paris, Paleo- and Neo-Ecology of French Polynesia: International Conference, $10,000 (joint with Eric Conte)

2003 France-Berkeley Fund, Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, Paris, Long-term Demographic Evolution in French Polynesia: An Interdisciplinary Approach, $10,000 (joint with Jean-Louis Rallu)

2003 Committee on Research. U. C. Berkeley, Archaeological Investigations in the Mangareva Islands, French Polynesia. $5,000

2001 Ministère de la Culture, Gouvernment de Polynésie Francaise, Tahiti, Prospections Archeologiques aux îles Gambier (Mangareva) Polynésie Francaise. CFP 500,000 ($50,000)

1999 France-Berkeley Fund, Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, Paris, Prehistoric Polynesian Voyaging and Island Colonization: New Archaeological Perspectives, $9,750 (joint with Eric Conte)

1997 Pacific Rim Research Program, University of California (Office of the President), Human Colonization and Interaction Spheres in Ancient Polynesia: A Multi-Institutional Research Program, $29,800

1996 Archaeological Research Facility, Berkeley, Stahl Fund, Excavation of Prehistoric Households in Kahikinui, Maui, Hawaiian Islands, $2,700

1995 Archaeological Research Facility, Berkeley, Stahl Fund, Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in Kahikinui District, Maui, $5,000

1992 Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Radiocarbon Calibration of Human-Induced Avian Extinctions in Central Polynesia, $17,432

1989 Government of American Samoa, Archaeological Investigation of the To'aga Site, Ofu Island, $21,090

1989 Committee on Research, U C Berkeley, Human-Induced Environmental Change in Central Polynesia, $4,687

1987 Government of American Samoa, Archaeological Investigations in the Manu'a Islands, $11,000

1985 Government of American Samoa, Archaeological Survey of the Manu'a Islands, $9,500

2000 Principal Investigator, National Endowment for the Arts, $20,000. Grant No. 00-4400-6059, Title: Increasing Access to the Latin American Textiles. (Grant to P. A. Hearst Museum for Rehousing of the Textile Collection)

1999 Principal Investigator, National Endowment for the Humanities, Rehousing of the Textile and Basketry Collections, P. A. Hearst Museum. $700,000

1999 Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation, Improvement of Storage and Access to Native American Basket Collection, $155,000 (BCS-9707621)

1992 Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation, Undergraduate Laboratory Instrumentation Program, Undergraduate Archaeological Laboratory Development, $42,000

1991 National Museum of Prehistory, Republic of China (Taiwan), Conceptual Design for the Oceanic Gallery, $14,900

1988 Principal Investigator, National Endowment for the Humanities, Educational Programming for the Washington State Centennial Exhibit at the Burke Museum, $321,000

1988 Principal Investigator, Institute of Museum Services, General Operating Support for the Burke Museum, Washington, $75,000

1987 Principal Investigator, Washington State Centennial Commission, Centennial Exhibition on Native Peoples of Washington State, $500,000

1987 Principal Investigator, Institute of Museum Services, General Operating Support for the Burke Museum, Washington, $75,000

1987 Principal Investigator, M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust, Visual Image Computer Information System for the Burke Museum Northwest Coast Ethnographic Collection, $160,000

1986 Principal Investigator, Washington State Centennial Commission, Conceptual Design for Centennial Exhibition on Native Peoples of Washington State, $55,500

1986 Principal Investigator, National Endowment for the Arts, Publication of Burke Museum Monograph on Northwest Coast Art, $40,000

1985 Principal Investigator, Institute of Museum Services, General Operating Support for the Burke Museum, Washington, $75,000

1985 Principal Investigator, Institute of Museum Services, Conservation Assessment of the Ethnographic Collections, Burke Museum, $2,260

1984 Principal Investigator, Institute of Museum Services, General Operating Support for the Burke Museum, Washington, $50,000

1982 Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation, Collection Facility Grant for Renovation of the Pacific Archaeological Collection, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, $32,014

1982 Principal Humanities Scholar, Hawaii Committee for the Humanities, Grant in Support of PBS documentary film, "The Navigators," $35,000

1981-82 Chief Consultant, “The Navigators,” 1 hour PBS documentary concerning prehistoric voyaging and navigation in the Pacific.

1993-94 Consultant, “Voyages of Rediscovery,” 1 hour PBS documentary on Polynesian archaeology and voyaging.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL (CRM) CONTRACTS

1973-84: Directed 25 cultural resource management (CRM) projects (totaling $960,722) for archaeological survey and excavations in the Hawaiian Islands and Micronesia, through the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu. Projects included major surveys and salvage excavations at Kalahuipua'a and Waimea-Kawaihae (Hawai'i), and at Kawela (Moloka'i). 2007-08, 2010: Consultant for Pacific Legacy, Inc. on CRM survey and mitigation at Auwahi, Maui.

1988 Mussau Islands: Papua New Guinea, 2 mo

1986 Mussau Islands: Papua New Guinea, 2 mo

1985 Mussau Islands: Papua New Guinea, 2 mo

1978 Tikopia and Vanikoro: Eastern Solomon Islands, 6 mo

1977 Tikopia, Vanikoro, Nendö: Eastern Solomon Islands, 5 mo

1971 Anuta, Eastern Solomon Islands; and, Kolombangara, Western Solomons, 4 mo

1968 Loyalty Islands: New Caledonia, 2 mo

1980 Arno Atoll: Marshall Islands, 1 mo

1978 Palau, Yap: Western Micronesia, 1 mo
Polynesia

2014 Mangareva Islands, French Polynesia, 1 month

2013 Kaupō, Maui, Hawai'i, 3 weeks

2012 Maupiti and Mangareva Islands, French Polynesia, 7 weeks

2011 Maui, Hawai'i, 3 weeks

2011 Mo'orea and Maupiti Islands, French Polynesia, 5 weeks

2010 Maui, Hawai‘i: 1 month

2009 Kohala, Hawai’i, 5 weeks

2008 Mo’orea, French Polynesia, 1 mo

2008 Kohala, Hawai’i, 1 mo

2007 Mo’orea, French Polynesia, 2 weeks

2007 Kohala, Hawai’i, 1 mo

2006 Nu’u: Maui, Hawaiian Islands, 2 weeks

2006 French Polynesia (Mo’orea): 2 weeks

2005 Nu’u: Maui, Hawaiian Islands, 2 weeks

2005 Mangareva (Gambier Is.), French Polynesia, 1 mo

2004 Kahikinui: Maui, Hawaiian Islands, 1 mo

2003 Mangareva (Gambier Is.), French Polynesia, 1 mo

2003 Kahikinui: Maui, Hawaiian Islands, 2 mo

2002 Kahikinui: Maui, Hawaiian Islands, 2 mo

2001 Mangareva (Gambier Is.), French Polynesia, 1 mo

2001 Kahikinui: Maui, Hawaiian Islands, 2 weeks

2001 French Polynesia (Mo’orea), 2 weeks

2000 Kalaupapa: Moloka’i Hawaiian Islands, 3 weeks

2000 French Polynesia (Mo’orea), 2 weeks

1999 Kahikinui: Maui, Hawaiian Islands, 3 mo

1998 Kahikinui: Maui, Hawaiian Islands, 2 weeks

1998 French Polynesia (Raiatea, Tahiti, Marquesas), 1 mo

1997 Kaua’i, Hawaiian Islands, 1 week

1997 Kahikinui: Maui, Hawaiian Islands, 2.5 mo

1996 Rapanui (Easter Is.), 2 weeks

1996 Kahikinui: Maui, Hawaiian Islands, 2 mo

1995 Kahikinui: Maui, Hawaiian Islands, 1 mo

1993 Hawaiian Islands, 1 mo

1991 Mangaia: Cook Islands, 3 mo

1989 Mangaia: Cook Islands, 1 mo

1989 Ofu, Manu'a Islands: Samoa, 1 mo

1987 Manu'a Islands: Samoa, 1 mo

1986 Manu'a Islands: Samoa, 1 mo

1982 Anahulu Valley: O'ahu, Hawaiian Islands, 4 mo

1976 Niuatoputapu and Vava'u: Tonga, 7 mo

1975 Kalahuipua'a: Hawai'i, Hawaiian Islands, 3 mo

1974 Futuna and 'Uvea: Territoire des îles Wallis et Futuna, 6 mo

1973 Kalahuipua'a: Hawai'i, Hawaiian Islands, 3 mo

1972 South Kohala and North Kona: Hawai'i, Hawaiian Islands, 3 mo

1970 Halawa Valley: Moloka'i, Hawaiian Islands, 3 mo

1969 Halawa Valley: Moloka'i, Hawaiian Islands, 3 mo

1967 Bellows Dune Site, Waimanalo: O'ahu, Hawaiian Islands, 1 mo

1966 Kahikinui District: Maui, Hawaiian Islands, 3 mo

1965 Ka'u and Kona Districts: Hawai'i, Hawaiian Islands, 3 mo

French

Neo-Melanesian Pidgin (Tok Pisin)

Dana Lepofsky

Marshall Weisler

Julie Endicott (Taomia)

Pia Anderson

Sidsel Millerstrom

Scarlett Chiu

Jennifer Kahn

James Coil

Cindy Van Gilder

Lisa Holm

Kathleen Kawelu

Mark McCoy

James Flexner

Alex Baer

Jillian Swift

Kirsten Vacca


Bibliography of

PATRICK VINTON KIRCH

I. BOOKS
2015 Unearthing the Polynesian Past: Adventures and Explorations of an Island Archaeologist. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. [xix + 371 pp., 71 figs., 8 maps]

2014 Kua'āina Kahiko: Life and Land in Ancient Kahikinui, Maui. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. [xxiv + 310 pp., 77 figs., 3 maps, 6 tables]

2012 A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief: The Island Civilization of Ancient Hawai'i. Berkeley: University of California Press. [xvii + 346 pp., 8 color plates, 17 figs., 4 maps]

2010 How Chiefs Became Kings: Divine Kingship and the Rise of Archaic States in Ancient Hawai‘i. Berkeley: University of California Press. [xii + 273 pp., figs. and tables]

2002 L’Expédition Archéologique d’Edward W. Gifford et Richard Shutler, Jr. en Nouvelle-Calédonie au Cours de l’Année 1952. Edward W. Gifford and Richard Shutler Jr’s Archaeological Expedition to New Caledonia in 1952. (with C. Sand) Les Cahiers de l’Archéologie en Nouvelle-Calédonie, Volume 13. Noumea: Service des Musées de du Patrimoine de Nouvelle-Calédonie. [192 pp., 144 figs.; dual French and English text]

2001 Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia: An Essay in Historical Anthropology. (with Roger Green) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [xvii + 375 pp., 35 figs., 40 tables]. Issued in cloth and paper editions.

2000 On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands Before European Contact. Berkeley: University of California Press [xxii + 424 pp., 15 maps, 162 figs., 13 tables]. Paperback edition published 2002.

1997 The Lapita Peoples: Ancestors of the Oceanic World. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers [xxv + 353 pp., 20 plates, 24 figs., 9 maps, 7 tables]. Issued in cloth and paper editions.

1996 Legacy of the Landscape: An Illustrated Guide to Hawaiian Archaeological Sites. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press [xiv + 130 pp., 90 duotone plates]. (with Therese Babineau, photographer). Issued in cloth and paper editions.

1994 The Wet and the Dry: Irrigation and Agricultural Intensification in Polynesia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press [xxii + 385 pp., 113 figs., 15 tables].

1992 Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii. Volume 2. The Archaeology of History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [xiv + 201 pp., 113 figs., 22 tables] (Awarded the J. I. Staley Prize in 1998)

1985 Feathered Gods and Fishhooks: An Introduction to Hawaiian Archaeology and Prehistory. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. [x + 349 pp., 245 figs., 8 tables] First paperback edition, 1997.

1984 The Evolution of the Polynesian Chiefdoms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [xii + 314 pp., 94 figs., 22 tables]. First paperback edition, 1989; reprinted 1990, 1996.

1975 Cultural Adaptation and Ecology in Western Polynesia: An Ethnoarchaeological Study. Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University. New Haven. (Published on microfilm by University Microfilms, Ann Arbor.)

2007 P. V. Kirch and J.-L. Rallu, editors. The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies: Archaeological and Demographic Perspectives. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. [xvi + 390 pp., 70 figs., tables]

2002 Editor (with E. Conte), Eastern Polynesia, Special Issue of Asian Perspectives, Vol. 41, No. 2. University of Hawaii Press.

1997 Editor (with T. L. Hunt), Historical Ecology in the Pacific Islands: Prehistoric Environmental and Landscape Change. New Haven: Yale University Press. [xv + 331 pp., figs. and tables]

1997 Editor (with M. I. Weisler and E. Casella), Towards a Prehistory of the Koné Region, New Caledonia: A Reanalysis of the Pioneering Archaeological Excavations of E. W. Gifford, Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers, Vol. 82, Special Edition. Berkeley. [vi + 153 pp., 11 figs., 60 tables]

1997 Editor, Na Mea Kahiko o Kahikinui: Studies in the Archaeology of Kahikinui, Maui, Hawaiian Islands. Oceanic Archaeological Laboratory, Special Publication No. 1. Berkeley: Archaeological Research Facility. (xiv + 81 pp., 38 figs., 7 tables)

1988 Editor (with T. L. Hunt), Archaeology of the Lapita Cultural Complex: A Critical Review. Burke Museum Research Report No. 5. Seattle. [v + 181 pp., 22 figs.]

1986 Editor, Island Societies: Archaeological Approaches to Evolution and Transformation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [x + 96 pp.]

1983 Editor (with J. Clark), Archaeological Investigations of the Mudlane-Waimea-Kawaihae Road Corridor, Island of Hawai'i: An Interdisciplinary Study of an Environmental Transect. Department of Anthropology Report 83-1. Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum. [vi + 532 pp.]