My research focuses on the formation of social identity in areas of cultural contact; how communities undergoing migration or aggregation consciously and subconsciously express social and ethnic identity through material culture, specifically ceramics. I am interested in the creation and maintenance of cultural identity through exchange networks, the expression of identity through material markers of economic and social value, as well as stylistic and technological choices, and the different construction of social identity on the community and household levels.

In Progress: Ph.D, Archaeology, University of Arizona

2010: M.A., Museum Studies, George Washington  University

2008: B.A. Anthropology, University of Michigan

Classical Archaeology, University of Michigan

Prehistoric US Southwest culture history, Cultural contact and ethnic identity, Social identity, Communities of practice, Ceramic technology, Migration and aggregation, Economic theory, Museum collections, Ceramic typology, Experimental archaeology

US Southwest, Northwest Mexico, Great Britain and Northeastern Europe