He earned his masters and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has published his previous research on the impact of conflict on social structure during the Neolithic period. His current projects including research focused on human response to changes in the environment over time, as well as the BAKOTA project, researching social change in the Middle Bronze Age of Hungary. http://anthropology.nd.edu/faculty-and-staff/faculty-by-alpha/mark-golitko/