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Susan D. deFrance received her Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 1993 specializing in
zooarchaeology. Subsequently she taught at the University of Montana and was a research archaeologist with the Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History and adjunct professor at Texas A&M, Corpus Christi. She returned to UF in 1998 and became Assistant Professor of Anthropology in 2001. She has conducted archaeological research in the southeastern United State, the Caribbean, and in Peru and Bolivia spanning from the earliest use of coastal resources to European colonization.