Brief Description of Education & Experience
I recently completed my Masters of the Arts in Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My research focus throughout my higher education was in Late Woodland period Southeastern Native American ceramic technologies, but I also have experience and training in historical archaeology, lithic technology, and zooarchaeology. I graduated early from the University of South Carolina with a Bachelor of Arts with distinction in Anthropology and a minor in Environmental Studies. While there, I held a position as a lab assistant cataloging lithic artifacts and conducting research on ceramics from a Late Archaic shell midden, which I turned into a senior thesis. Post-graduation I took on a position with the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology (SCIAA) as a lab assistant and field archaeologist during which I gained experience in CRM practices and participated in Phase I-III excavations. Prior to my undergraduate schooling, I volunteered on archaeological field schools with UNC. Eventually, I was hired as a TA on these field schools while at USC and continued to work on them while studying at UNC.