
Specialization:
- Culture Contact
- Identity
- Ethnogenesis
- Coalescence
Education:
B.A. University of Vermont (2013)
M.A. Monmouth University (2017)
Bio:
I am a North American archaeologist, interested in culture contact, specifically identity construction and maintenance, as well as ethnogenesis and coalescence.
Research:
My research interests include Native American Studies, Culture Contact, Household Archaeology, Social Organization, Political Economy, Historical Archaeology, Colonialism, Northeastern United States, Southeastern and Eastern United States, and Mission Archaeology.
Projects:
My M.A. research focused primarily on the agency and identity of inhabitants of a late 17th c. Mohawk village and the effects of coalescence and ethnogenesis.
Publications:
2018 A Problematic Mississippian Pipe from the William Vaux Collection. MidContinental Journal of Archaeology. (coauthored with Richard Veit)