Faculty Profile

Visiting Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Tom Raper Hall 208
bmmccray@iu.edu

Anthropology of borderlands; trade and exchange; digital archaeology; GIS; South American archaeology; archaeology of Appalachia and the Ohio valley

Experiential learning, alternative ways of knowing, online teaching practices, public archaeology

2020 Dillehay, Tom D., Brian M. McCray, and Patricia J. Netherly. “The Pacific Coast and Andean Highlands / Amazonia”. In Rethinking the Andes – Amazonia Divide: A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration. Edited by Adrian J. Pearce, David G. Beresford-Jones and Paul Heggarty. UCL Press.
2017 McCray, Brian M. “Límites e Interfaces de Chachapoyas en la Región Rodriguez de Mendoza.” Boletín de Arqueología PUCP 23:187–206.
2013 DeSantis, Larisa R. G., Jessica R. Scott, Blaine W. Schubert, Shelly L. Donohue, Brian M. McCray, Courtney A. Van Stolk, Amanda A. Winburn, Michael A. Greshko, y Mackie C. O’Hara. “Direct Comparisons of 2D and 3D Dental Microwear Proxies in Extant Herbivorous and Carnivorous Mammals.” PLoS ONE 8(8).

2023 “Scale, Interaction, and Society: Constituting social boundaries in the northern Peruvian Andes.” Paper presented with Rebecca Bria at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Portland, OR.
2022 “Unstable boundaries: The archaeology of centripetal events in a montaña borderland.” Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
2021 “Vassals or friendly confederates: Disjuncture and Identity Imposition in the Late Horizon Northeastern Andean Montaña.” Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Online.
2019 “To Wear or to Trade: Analyzing bone pendant artifacts from the Peruvian Montaña.” Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM.
2018 “Tracing Interaction Networks in a Mosaic of Politico-Geographical Regions at the Site of Wimba, Amazonas, Peru” Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.