Faculty and Staff

photo of Andrea Torvinen in orange dress and blue sweater standing in front of brick wall

Andrea Torvinen, Collections Manager
Florida Museum of Natural History
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-7800, USA
E-mail: a.torvinen@ufl.edu
https://florida.academia.edu/AndreaTorvinen

Andrea is the collections manager of the Ceramic Technology Laboratory and Florida Archaeology at the Florida Museum. She is an anthropological archaeologist interested in community resilience and social identity, compositional and technological ceramic analysis, and collective action among middle-range societies. Her primary research areas are West Mexico and the U.S. Southwest but she has also engaged in fieldwork in northern Iceland and west-central Illinois. As Co-Director of the Pan-American Ceramics Project, an open-access web application of ceramic data from Canada to Argentina, she is committed to the creation of inclusive and equitable platforms for sharing archaeological data with the public.

Neill Wallis

Dr. Neill J. Wallis, Associate Curator in Archaeology
Florida Museum of Natural History
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-7800, USA
Tel: (352) 273-1920
Fax: (352) 392-3698
E-mail: nwallis@flmnh.ufl.edu
https://florida.academia.edu/NeillWallis

Neill is associate curator of Florida Archaeology and Bioarchaeology at the Florida Museum and affiliate faculty in the Department of Anthropology. He conducts archaeological research in Florida and the Southeast, focusing on the dynamics of pre-Columbian communities and social networks. His active research projects include multi-sited sourcing analyses of Swift Creek, Weeden Island, and Safety Harbor/Fort Walton pottery across northern Florida and southern Georgia, and field investigations at Woodland and Mississippian sites in north-central Florida and the Gulf coast.

Ann S. Cordell, Courtesy Research Scientist in Ceramic Technology Laboratory
Florida Museum of Natural History
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-7800, USA
E-mail: cordell@flmnh.ufl.edu
https://florida.academia.edu/AnnCordell

Ann oversaw the Ceramic Technology lab for more than 30 years, before retiring in 2017. She has studied prehistoric and historic aboriginal pottery from Florida, the southeastern U.S., and the Caribbean, with a specialization in petrographic analysis.  In her retirement, she continues to actively conduct research as a Courtesy Research Scientist in the lab.