Brief Description of Education & Experience
As an environmental archaeologist, my aim has always been to foster an appreciation for different cultures and to understand how different groups interact with their environment, and how changes to this environment impacted livelihoods and identities. I have previously worked in the Castro Colonies Lab at Ithaca College, analyzing historical Alsatian artifacts from Southern Texas and on the Proyecto de Azúcar de Nepeña in Peru, excavating a Late Intermediate Casma-Chumú fortification and elite burial. Most recently, I used ArcGIS to map eucalyptus clusters in the north Lake Titicaca Basin, revealing how Spanish Imperialism impeded traditional landscapes. I also identified paleoethnobotanical remains from a colonial mining site in Peru to understand the diets of marginalized laborers under Spanish rule.
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