Rate My Professor Madeleine McLeester

Currently, McLeester directs a collaborative archaeological field project with the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, in addition to projects in Michigan and Maine. Her scholarship has been supported by awards such as the Goodman Fund from Dartmouth College's Anthropology Department in 2021, the Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant in 2017, and the NSF-funded Spatial Archaeometry Research Collaboration Award in 2019. Key publications include the 2025 article 'Archaeological evidence of intensive indigenous agriculture in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, USA' in Science, the co-edited volume Finding Fields: The Archaeology of Agricultural Landscapes published in 2024 by the Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, 'Enduring Legacies of Agriculture: Long-term Vegetation Impacts of Ancestral Menominee Agriculture, Wisconsin, USA' in Ethnobiology Letters in 2023, and 'Paleoclimate of the Little Ice Age to the Present in the Kankakee Valley of Illinois and Indiana, USA Based on 18O/16O Isotope Ratios of Freshwater Shells' in Environmental Archaeology in 2020. She has also co-authored works such as 'Finding Fields: Locating Archaeological Agricultural Landscapes using Historical Aerial Photography' in American Antiquity in 2021. McLeester's contributions challenge long-standing assumptions about Indigenous agricultural systems and their environmental impacts.