Rate My Professor Patrick Lubinski

Patrick Lubinski is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Museum Studies at Central Washington University, where he has been a faculty member since 2000, initially as Assistant Professor from 2000 to 2005, then Associate Professor from 2005 to 2010, and full Professor since 2010. He served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Western Wyoming Community College from 1998 to 2000. Lubinski earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1997. He currently serves as Chair of the Anthropology and Museum Studies Department for the 2024-25 academic year and is on sabbatical during 2025-2026. His teaching excellence has been recognized with the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2017, Faculty Mentor Award from SOURCE in 2007, and Excellence in Teaching Award in 2005.

Lubinski's research focuses on zooarchaeology, archaeological methods, cultural resource management, and the archaeology of western North America. He directs the Central Washington University Zooarchaeology Laboratory and leads the Wenas Creek Mammoth Project, publishing on its findings including 'The 17 Ka Wenas Creek Site in Washington State: Bone Taphonomy and Mammoth Paleontology' in PaleoAmerica (2024) and 'Bison Remains from ~14,000 14C yr BP at the Wenas Creek Mammoth Site' in PaleoAmerica (2016). Other significant publications include 'Reconstructing Paleohydrology in the Northwest Great Basin Since the Last Deglaciation Using Paisley Caves Fish Remains' in Quaternary Science Reviews (2021), 'Tui Chub (Siphateles bicolor) are Native to the Columbia River Basin in Washington State' in Northwest Science (2021), 'Blind Testing of Faunal Identification Protocols: A Case Study with North American Artiodactyl Stylohyoids' in American Antiquity (2020), and 'Identifying and Siding the Stylohyoid Bone for North American Artiodactyls' in International Journal of Osteoarchaeology (2018). His earlier work 'Fish Heads, Fish Heads: An Experiment on Differential Bone Preservation in a Salmonid Fish' appeared in Journal of Archaeological Science (1996). Lubinski has over 30 field seasons in academic and cultural resource management projects across Alaska, California, Colorado, Illinois, Ohio, Nevada, North Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming, France, and Tunisia, contributing to more than 80 archaeological reports.