William Ridge, Ph.D.

William Ridge

Limited Term Faculty

Phone678-717-3488

Office locationStrickland, 208, Gainesville

Area(s) of Expertise: Archaeology, large-scale interaction, social differentiation, demography, regional analysis, network analysis, European pre-history, Hungarian Neolithic and Copper age, Greek Neolithic and Bronze age

Education

  • Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Illinois, 2023
  • MA, Anthropology, University of Illinois, 2014
  • BA, Classics, University of Arizona, 2011

Courses Taught

  • ANTH 1102
  • GEO 100
  • ANTH 229

Work Experience

  • 2024 - present Limited Term Lecturer UNG
  • 2023 - present Research Assistant, Field Museum of Natural History
  • 2022 - 2023 Graduate Assistant, Dept of Anthropology, University of Illinois

Research/Special Interests

Archaeology, large-scale interaction, social differentiation, demography, regional analysis, network analysis, European pre-history, Hungarian Neolithic and Copper age, Greek Neolithic and Bronze age

Publications

Parkinson, William A., William P. Ridge, and Attila Gyucha. Village Nucleation and Centralization in the Later Neolithic of Southeastern Europe: A Long-Term, Comparative Approach. In Communities in Transition: The Circum-Aegean Area During the 5th and 4th Millennia BC, edited by S. Dietz, F. Mavridis, Z. Tankosić, and T. Takaoğlu. Oxbow Books: Oxford. Pg. 17-26.