Dr. LuAnn Wandsnider is an American professor who has served as Chair of the Anthropology Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln[1][2] since 2012.[citation needed]
Wandsnider received her Ph.D in Anthropology from the University of New Mexico in 1989.[citation needed]
Wandsnider has conducted archaeological research[2] in locations across the globe, but has recently done work in Nebraska including the Salt Creek Basin in Eastern Nebraska and the Oglala National Grassland in northwestern Nebraska.
Her primary research interests are in [citation needed] Resiliency Thinking, Mediterranean Archaeology, Time in Archaeology,[3][4] Archaeological Method and Theory, High and Central Plains Archaeology[2] and signaling Theory. [citation needed]
2014 – Asa T. Hill Memorial Award for Contributions to the Archaeology of the Great Plains (with Christopher Dore and John Swigert, for development of the first state-based cultural resource GIS), Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln, NE, 15 October 2014