Dr. Ben Schoville

Associate Professor

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Biography

Ben Schoville is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Purdue University, a member of the College of Liberal Arts AI Research Initiative. His research focuses on technological innovations that enabled human survival during the Late Pleistocene, utilizing field excavations, experimental archaeology, and emerging quantitative methods. He collaborates with Indigenous communities, employing community-led approaches to explore long-term human-environment interactions. Schoville directs the North Kuruman Palaeoarchaeology Project, which concentrates on Early Middle Stone Age archaeological sites in the southern Kalahari Basin. His work combines high-resolution archaeological data and paleoenvironmental records to understand how human populations adapted to water scarcity in arid environments over the past million years.

Research Interests

Requirements for Purdue University

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.5
TOEFL
Listening
Required:22
Reading
Required:22
Writing
Required:22
Speaking
Required:22
Total
Required:100
IELTS
Listening
Required:7
Reading
Required:7
Writing
Required:7
Speaking
Required:7
Overall
Required:7.5
Duolingo
Overall Score
Required:135
Overall
Required:135
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in CS or related field Foundational concepts of computer science Data structures Computer architecture Operating systems Mathematics through differential equations Linear and matrix algebra
Application Checklist
  • Official Transcripts
  • Academic Statement of Purpose
  • Personal History Statement
  • Resume
  • Three Letters of Recommendation
  • CS Supplementary Form
Specialization Notes

GRE is not required.