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 Floyd Mansberger,
Director of Fever River Research, received his bachelor's degree from the
University of Illinois (1977, in Anthropology) and his master's degree from
Illinois State University (1981, in History). Over the past 20 years, Mansberger has participated in a variety of cultural resource management
projects such as archaeological and architectural surveys, archaeological
excavations, and archival research as well as preparing historic structure
reports for historic buildings. Mansberger has published articles on his
research in such journals as Illinois Archaeology, Transactions of the
Pioneer America Society, Historic Illinois, Wisconsin
Archaeologist, Agricultural History, Journal of the Illinois
Geographical Society, and Western Illinois Regional Studies.
Additionally, Mansberger has contributed a chapter within the University of
Illinois Press book entitled French Colonial Archaeology: The Illinois
Country and the Western Great Lakes. Mansberger has been recognized for his
expertise in his field and presently sits on the State of Illinois' Historic
Sites Advisory Council. Mansberger can be contacted at
fmansberger@comcast.net.
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 Christopher
L. Stratton, Research Historian, Archaeologist
and Architectural Historian, began his career with Fever River Research in 1993. A graduate of
Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, he received a bachelor's degree (1993) in
History. Stratton has a strong knowledge of vernacular architectural
history, material culture studies, political history, and American studies in
general. Prior to graduation, he participated in a study-abroad program,
spending a year in Athens, Greece, where he developed an interest in Byzantine
Studies. Christopher lives in Waterloo, Illinois, with his wife and their two
children. Stratton can be contacted email at
stratton@htc.net.
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 James
R. Yingst, is a part-time Research Associate in Archaeology with Fever
River Research. Yingst received his
bachelor's degree from Eastern New Mexico University (in Anthropology) and a
master's degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (in
Anthropology). He is presently working towards the completion of a post master’s
degree in Anthropology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Yingst
has a broad range of knowledge and experience in anthropology, however the
archaeology of the Midwest and the Southwest United States has been the focus of
his research. He has published articles on various aspects of prehistoric and
historic archaeology of the Midwest in journals such as the Magazine of the
Midwest Open-Air Museums Coordinating Council and Historic Illinois.
During his career Yingst has served as Staff Archaeologist with the Division of
Preservation Services of the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield,
Illinois, and as a Visiting Research Associate with the Resource Investigation
Program of the Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign. He also served as Regional Archaeologist and Director of the
State Archaeology Region 5 Center based at the Neville Public Museum of Brown
County, Wisconsin, where he was responsible for six counties in northeastern
Wisconsin. Yingst is also, currently, both the president and chief archaeologist
of the contract archaeology firm, N.E.W. Archaeological Research, Casco,
Wisconsin. In addition to his primary research in Wisconsin, Yingst works in
collaboration with Fever River Research conducting archaeological investigations
in Illinois.
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 Ruth
Jorgensen, Field and Laboratory Technician, received her bachelor's
degree in Parks and Recreation from Southern Illinois University in
Carbondale, Illinois. In addition to her interest in
archaeology, she is also a volunteer with the Illinois State Museum
and a member of L.O.E.S.S. which promotes earth sciences such as
geology, anthropology, and paleontology, among others. Ruth
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 Bill
Flescher
received his bachelor’s degree (in Sociology/Anthropology) from Illinois State
University in 1984. During his undergraduate years, Bill worked as an assistant
archaeologist for the Midwestern Archaeological Research Center (MARC), and cut
his teeth on both historic archaeology and historic research. During the 1980s,
Bill worked for both the MARC and Resource Investigation Program (RIP; now
Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program). While at RIP, Bill
worked throughout the State of Illinois, and it was during this time that he
also learned a great deal about the prehistory of the state, working at sites
such as Tree Row, Rockford Airport, and Sister Creeks. During his years at
MARC, Bill also worked at Hutsonville, the Drake Site, and the Gaylord Building (in
Lockport). Throughout these years, Bill also had a strong interest in
photography, and brought his photographic skills to many an archaeological
project. During the late 1980s, Bill studied electronics, his other
obsession, at Parkland College and worked a while in the custom design of computers and flight
trainers. Through the 1990s, he rejoined the ITARP (formerly RIP) program and
continued with the district archaeology program, but also became refocused on
computerized mapping. As the senior cartographer at ITARP, he set up their
mapping program, GIS program, and mastered the use of a total station transit.
In the late 1990s Bill decided that his field time in archaeology was getting
shorter, and he wanted to participate in field projects. It was at that time
that he joined the Fever River Research team. He worked full time with Fever
River Research doing fieldwork for 1 1/2 years, and then opted for an
electronics job with the University of Illinois. Today, although he works full
time in the Life Sciences Electronics Shop at the University, he also conducts
large scale photography for Fever River Research on an as-needed basis. |
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