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Where the Faculty Came From — Degree Institutions Summarized

Derived from top-archaeology-departments-faculty.md (100 faculty across 10 U.S. archaeology departments, compiled July 2026).

100 faculty51 undergrad institutions42 doctoral institutions

Two tables: one counting professors by undergraduate institution, one by graduate (doctoral) institution. Counts are of professors, so each person appears once per table.

Table 1 — Undergraduate Institutions

62 of 100 faculty have a published undergraduate institution.

Institution	Professors
Stanford University	3
Grinnell College	2
University of California, Berkeley	2
Harvard University	2
University of Hawai'i at Hilo	2
Dartmouth College	2
Washington University in St. Louis	2
University of Texas at Austin	2
University of Sydney	2
Yale University	2
University of Michigan	1
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	1
University of Vermont	1
SUNY Buffalo	1
University of Toronto	1
Keio University	1
Boise State University	1
Boston College	1
University of Chicago	1
University of Kansas	1
New York University	1
University of Tokyo	1
University of Tennessee, Knoxville	1
University of Athens	1
Manhattanville College	1
University of Delaware	1
University of Arizona	1
University of Pennsylvania	1
UCLA	1
University of the Philippines Diliman	1
UC Santa Barbara	1
Howard University	1
Case Western Reserve University	1
Wheaton College	1
Bard College at Simon's Rock	1
Hunter College, CUNY	1
Carleton College	1
Bryn Mawr College	1
University of Notre Dame	1
Beloit College	1
Northwest University (China)	1
Loyola University Chicago	1
Washington State University (coursework only; degree institution unconfirmed)	1
Royal University of Fine Arts, Cambodia	1
Hamline University	1
Brown University	1
University of Crete	1
University of Leiden	1
Hobart and William Smith Colleges	1
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	1
Trent University	1
Not listed	38
Total	100

Among the 38 "not listed," four have a country or institution named without a degree: Triadan (Germany), Killick (South Africa), von Falkenhausen (Bonn / Peking / Kyoto), Li Min (reported Peking), plus VanValkenburgh (undergraduate study at Stanford) and Rojas (trained as an architect). Sunseri holds a B.A. and B.S. with institutions unpublished.

Table 2 — Graduate (Doctoral) Institutions

Counted by the institution granting the Ph.D. (or equivalent terminal doctorate). 90 of 100 have a doctoral institution recorded.

Institution	Professors
University of Pennsylvania	8
University of California, Berkeley	8
Harvard University	8
University of Michigan	6
University of Chicago	6
University of Arizona	5
University of New Mexico	4
University of Cambridge	3
University of Oxford	3
UCLA	2
New York University (Institute of Fine Arts)	2
University of Toronto	2
Arizona State University	2
Vanderbilt University	2
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa	2
University of Wisconsin–Madison	1
Northwestern University	1
University of Pittsburgh	1
McGill University	1
UC Santa Cruz	1
Freie Universität Berlin	1
University of Washington	1
University of Nevada, Las Vegas	1
Southern Methodist University	1
Bryn Mawr College	1
University of Cincinnati	1
Yale University	1
University of Colorado Boulder	1
Penn State University	1
University of Florida	1
Stanford University	1
University College London	1
Johns Hopkins University	1
University of Sydney	1
Columbia University	1
Brown University	1
Syracuse University (unconfirmed)	1
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	1
University of Minnesota	1
Texas A&M University	1
University of Sheffield	1
University of Leiden	1
Uncertain (Thompson — reported as Arizona State or New Mexico)	1
Not listed	9
Total	100

Master's-only institutions are excluded above. Those appearing solely at the master's level, with no doctorate in the dataset, are: University of Alabama, New Mexico State University, University of Idaho, University of Auckland, University of Oregon, Texas Tech University, Cooperstown Graduate Program, Temple University, Keio University, and University of Tokyo.

What the counts show

Doctoral training is far more concentrated than undergraduate training. The top three Ph.D. sources — Penn, Berkeley and Harvard — account for 24 of 90 recorded doctorates (27%). The top seven (adding Michigan, Chicago, Arizona, New Mexico) account for 45, exactly half. By contrast, the undergraduate table's largest single entry is 3.
Six of the seven leading Ph.D. sources are themselves on the top-ten list. New Mexico is the outlier — it supplies four Arizona faculty (Stiner, Kuhn, Mills, Ferguson), a single-department cluster rather than a field-wide pattern.
Undergraduate origins are dispersed and liberal-arts-heavy. 41 institutions contributed exactly one professor. Small colleges are well represented: Grinnell, Carleton, Beloit, Hamline, Simon's Rock, Hobart and William Smith, Manhattanville, Wheaton, Bryn Mawr, Dartmouth.
Non-U.S. doctorates are dominated by the U.K. Cambridge (3), Oxford (3), UCL (1), Sheffield (1) — eight of the eleven foreign Ph.D.s. The others are Toronto (2), McGill (1), Berlin (1), Leiden (1), Sydney (1).
Reporting gaps run the other direction from prestige. Undergraduate institution is missing for 38 faculty versus 9 missing doctorates — departments publish the Ph.D. and often nothing else.

Note on totals: the source document's summary section states 95 faculty. A row-by-row count gives 100 (Michigan 8, Berkeley 8, Harvard 8, Arizona 19, UCLA 25, Chicago 4, Penn 6, Stanford 5, Yale 7, Brown 10). The tables above use the actual row count of 100, so the "recorded" percentages here differ slightly from the source's stated 64% / 92%: undergraduate 62% and doctoral 90%.