Type of professor

President's Professor

Bio summary

Professor Nelson actively engages in teaching and mentoring in every aspect of her career–as a scholar, instructor and administrator. She is involved, caring, responsive and innovative in her teaching, and she displays outstanding leadership in improving educational opportunities and instructional quality for students. Professor Nelson is vice dean of Barrett, the Honors College, a professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change and an affiliated faculty member of the Global Institute of Sustainability. She successfully combines thorough field research and archaeological analysis with deep and encompassing theoretical insights and inspires those around her to produce innovative ideas and solutions to theoretical and substantive problems.