Director
Brendon Asher
Cenetria became the BWDM’s Museum Manager in December 2024. She holds an M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Louisville, specializing in archaeological curation. With experience at the Chucalissa Museum and Graceland, her interests include museum curation, collections management, and the curation crisis.​
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Kylie has been with the BWDM since 2021, initially as a student worker then as the Collections Specialist. Her interests include conservation and preservation, the history of the Blackwater Draw Museum, and the Miles Anthropological Collection. She earned her Bachelor of Science in History with a Minor in Anthropology from ENMU in May 2022.
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Student Employees
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Spring 2023:
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Student employees who help at the front desk include: Samantha, Ethan, and Jordan​
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Undergraduate employee, Samantha, is continuing to rehouse Miles Collection materials with new archival-quality packaging, photographing the collection, and entering catalog information into Past Perfect.
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Undergraduate employee, Ethan, is continuing to rehouse Calvin Smith (Charlie Parks) Collection materials with new archival-quality packaging and entering catalog information into our Excel database.
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Undergraduate employee, Meghan, is scanning Blackwater Draw photo slides and entering catalog information into an Excel database. Meghan is also doing her internship at the museum and is creating condition reports for various collections that the museum houses.
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Fall 2022:
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​​Student employees at both the archaeological site and museum who helped at the front desk include: Dennis, Tara, Ethan, Jonathan, Jordan, and Samantha.
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Undergraduate employee, Samantha, helped rehouse Miles Collection materials with new archival-quality packaging and entered catalog information into Past Perfect.
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Undergraduate employee, Jonathan, helped rehouse Calvin Smith Collection materials with new archival-quality packaging and entered catalog information into our Excel database.
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Undergraduate employee, Ethan, helped rehouse Calvin Smith (Charlie Parks) Collection materials with new archival-quality packaging and entered catalog information into our Excel database.
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Undergraduate employee, Meghan, scanned Blackwater Draw photo slides and entered catalog information into an Excel database.
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Meet Our Team
Our staff members, especially our students, are the heart of Blackwater Draw. It's true!
Student docents lead tours, answer questions, and bring prehistory to life for our visitors. Their coursework in the anthropology program at ENMU prepares them for a professional career in archaeology, and they bring those skills to their work at Blackwater Draw.
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Our student curation technicians aid in the protection and preservation of our collections, ensuring that best practices for collections management are followed. These students are building skills that are becoming more and more valuable to employers.
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Bottom line: our staff is dedicated to giving you a great visitor experience.
Interested in joining our university community?
Museum Manager
Cenetria
Crockett
Brendon has been with BWD since 2017. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in 2015. His dissertation addresses Clovis and Folsom land use and lithic procurement across the Central Plains. Although specializing in chipped stone studies, his interests are wide-ranging, from early peopling of the Americas through the historic period.
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