Chris graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in anthropology,  completed a master's degree in ethnomusicology at Indiana University, and received his doctorate from Cornell in anthropology.   He has done ethnographic fieldwork with traditional musicians in Macedonia and Bulgaria,  with Maine Indian basket-makers,  and recently with Waldo County residents on their criteria for evaluating local places.   Presently he researches the historical archaeology of early Euro-and Afro-American settlement in the Central Maine back-country,  with emphasis on land-human interaction and landscape archaeology.  He lives with Susan,  his wife,  and sometimes with his grown-up children,  in the country in nearby Montville.  Chris is involved with a local land trust,   takes part in the co-counseling community,  belongs to the local synagogue,  practices shamanism,  collects mushrooms,  and has led a fifteen member balalaika orchestra playing Russian traditional music.   He loves teaching best, though.