1. Rhiannon N. Peshniak
5 Russo Road
Hopewell Junction, NY 12533
peshniak@oswego.edu
(845) 430-4132
Current Positions
2014 One to One Aide at Hawthorne Country Day School. Hawthorne, NY.
Education
2014 Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree in History and Anthropology. State University of
New York, College at Oswego. GPA: 3.93.
2012 Field Leader and student at Summer Bioarchaeology Field School at University of
Massachusetts at Amherst.
Grants and Awards
2014 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence.
2014 Norman E. Whitten Outstanding Senior Award.
2013 Student Scholarly and Creative Activity Grant. Analysis of Historic Artifact
Assemblage from Potential Site of Original Historic LeRay Mansion at Fort
Drum.
2012 Student Scholarly and Creative Activity Grant. Analysis of the Curvature of the
Iliac Crest and Other Sexual Dimorphic Features Found in Subadult Pelvic
Material in the Scheuer Collection.
2012 Lambda Alpha National Anthropology Honor Society.
2012 Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society.
2010-2014 President’s List. State University of New York, College at Oswego.
2010-2014 Presidential Scholar. State University of New York, College at Oswego.
Jobs and Volunteer Experience
2014 Clinician at Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes. Bedford Hills, NY.

2. 2013-2014 Research Assistant for Dr. Gwen Kay of the SUNY Oswego History Department.
Oswego, NY.
2012-2014 Writing Tutor at SUNY Oswego Center for Learning Services. Oswego, NY.
2012-2014 History and Anthropology Tutor at SUNY Oswego Center for Learning Services.
Oswego, NY.
2012-2013 Research and Lab Assistant for Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act Project at SUNY Oswego Archaeology Lab. Oswego, NY.
2011-2012 Oswego Admissions Representative/Tour Guide. SUNY Oswego Admissions
Office. Oswego, NY.
2011 Intern. Fort Ontario State Historic Site. Oswego, NY.
2009 Volunteer. Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum. Poughkeepsie, NY.
2007-2008 Volunteer Camp Counselor. Crosswind’s Equestrian Center. Lagrange, NY.
Academic and Department Service
2013 Teaching Assistant. ANT 230: Introduction to Archaeology.
2012-Present President. SUNY Oswego Anthropology Club.
2011 Vice President. SUNY Oswego Anthropology Club.
2010 Member. SUNY Oswego Anthropology Club.
Conferences and Presentations
2014 A Metric Assessment of Iliac Crest Curvature as a Method for Subadult Sex
Determination. American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Poster
Session. Calgary, Alberta Canada.
2014 Digging Up the Truth: An Archaeological Investigation and Comparison
Debunking Manhattan’s Most Notorious Slum, the Five Points. SUNY Oswego
Quest Symposium. Talk. Oswego, New York.
2013 Creating Learning Connections Across the Campus Community. Training
Association for College Tutors. Group Presentation. Dryden, New York.
2013 Analysis of Iliac Crest Curvature as a Method for Subadult Sex Determination.
American Anthropological Association Annual Seminar, Student Poster Session.
Chicago, Illinois.

3. 2012 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Review Committee.
Washington D.C.
2012 Women and American Home Front Propaganda during World War II. Third Annual Jan
Kochanowski/SUNY Oswego Student Conference on Cultural Studies. Kielce, Poland.
2012 Writing Center’s Tutoring Process: What Tutees and Instructors Need to Know.
SUNY Oswego Quest Conference. Panel Presentation. Oswego, New York.
2011 American Anthropological Association Annual Seminar. Montreal, Canada.