Assistant Professor

Additional Campus Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Assistant Professor, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Recent Publications

Bishop, K. J. (2025). Integrating cross-collections research and archival study: new insights on macaws and parrots from Chaco Canyon, NM. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 78, Article 101690. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101690

Bishop, K. J. (2025). Reconstructing Context for the Macaws and Parrots of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. KIVA. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/00231940.2025.2505360

Hanson, K. E., Fladd, S. G., Oas, S. E., & Bishop, K. J. (2024). The Social Construction of Backdirt in Chaco Archaeology. Journal of Field Archaeology, 49(2), 129-139. https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2024.2307122

Bishop, K. J., Fladd, S. G., & Watson, A. S. (2023). Reassessing a Century of Excavation Data and Faunal Remains from Chaco Canyon. In S. E. Nash, & E. L. Baxter (Eds.), Pushing Boundaries in Southwestern Archaeology: Chronometry, Collections, and Contexts (pp. 278-296). (Proceedings of the Southwest Symposium). University Press of Colorado. http://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.608080.22

Bishop, K. J. (2022). Bird Behavior and Biology: The Agentive Role of Birds in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. In M. L. Smith (Ed.), The Power of Nature: Archaeology and Human-Environmental Dynamics (pp. 163-186). University Press of Colorado. http://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.608081.12

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