Assistant Professor
Anthropology and Heritage Studies
As an anthropological bioarchaeologist, I explore what drove major human dietary and residential change, as recorded in skeletal biogeochemistry—what pushes and pulls us to move, and how do those journeys shape individual and community outcomes? I use isotopic and geospatial analyses in field and laboratory settings to document diet, residence, health, and violence-related trauma relative to past movement networks. My study contexts are characterized by conflict, climate stress, ‘collapse’, and contact—throughout South America and the Southeast. As a former prosecutor, I aim to highlight examples of cooperation from our shared human past to inform today’s problems.
