Faculty & Staff

Biography

Despite the admonitions of his mother and any sense of financial responsibility, Ben Hoksbergen resolved himself in 1983 at the wise age of eight to pursue a career in archaeology. Never once deviating from that path, Hoksbergen has braved dust storms in Jordan, cottonmouths in the Louisiana swamps, the Ohio Militia, tropical diseases, errant bombs, muggings, dry counties, and periodic homelessness in his relentless pursuit of ancient people’s trash. Through luck and a cosmic sense of humor, Hoksbergen now finds himself the Center Archaeologist and Cultural Resource Manager of Marshall Space Flight Center and Lecturer at UAH. His hobbies include creative cussing, wine-making, kayaking, hiking, mountain biking, hobby farming, flint knapping, defying ancient evils, annoying his kids, and trying to keep up with his wife who is the real brains of the operation.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

• M.A., Anthropology, Iowa State University, 2004
• B.A., World History, Calvin College, 1997

Honors & Awards

• 2014 Army Environmental Award for Cultural Resources Management Team
• 2012 Research Grant, Alabama Archaeological Society
• 2012 Industry Award – Public Sector, American Cultural Resources Association

Affiliations

• Alabama Archaeological Society
• Southeastern Archaeological Conference
• Archaeological Conservancy

Recent Publications

• Johnson 2017 Alabama’s Prehistoric Indians and Artifacts. Borgo Publishing, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. (Contributing author)

• Hoksbergen and Hogan 2013 The Affair at Indian Creek Ford: The Archaeology of a Small Civil War Battle. The Huntsville Historical Review 37(1): 23-68.

• Little, Johnson, and Hoksbergen 2012 The Widows Creek Phase: A Terminal Woodland Manifestation in the Tennessee Valley of North Alabama. Journal of Alabama Archaeology 58(1,2): 64-77.