Rate My Professor Timothy McAndrews

Timothy McAndrews is a Professor of Archaeology at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, where he also chairs the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology and directs the Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center. He earned his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh in 1998 and his B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Minnesota in 1992. Throughout his career, McAndrews has focused on integrating teaching and research, offering courses that reflect his expertise, including ANT 102: Introduction to Biological Anthropology, ARC 200: World Archaeology: Origins and Development of Human Culture and Society, ARC 280: The Incas and their Ancestors: Archaeology of the Andes, ARC 340: Origins of Cities, ARC/ANT/HIS 353: Maya Civilization, ARC 402: Field Methods in Archaeology, and ARC 455: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives in Archaeology.

McAndrews' research centers on Andean archaeology and the rise of complex societies in South America. His interests include the origins of urbanism, sedentary village-based adaptations, and the organization and evolution of regional social, economic, and political institutions. He has conducted extensive settlement pattern research in the Bolivian and Peruvian Andes, investigating the emergence of the Tiwanaku civilization at high elevation, the Formative Period in the Lake Titicaca Basin, and Tiwanaku's political influence in peripheral areas such as Moquegua in Peru and Cochabamba in Bolivia. Additionally, he possesses experience in cultural resource management across Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, West Virginia, and Virginia. McAndrews has published key works such as "Regional Settlement Patterns in the Tiwanaku Valley of Bolivia" (1997), "On Toothpicking in Early Hominids" (2004), "Ceramic Analysis of a Privy at Second Fort Crawford (47Cr247) in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin," and "Análisis zooarqueológico de Pirque Alto: Aprovechamiento de recursos faunísticos durante los períodos Formativo y Tiwanaku en Cochabamba, Bolivia" (2010). He has presented his findings in both the United States and South America, led student field schools in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and organized international excursions to sites in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and England for hands-on archaeological learning.