Rebecca Harkness

About Rebecca Harkness

Rebecca Harkness graduated from Arizona State University Barrett, the Honors College with a BA in Anthropology and a Minor in History. After undergrad, she taught English in Tokyo for two years before returning to complete her MA in Anthropology with an archaeological focus at Northern Arizona University. Her main research is in the US Southwest, specifically the Mogollon region in eastern Arizona and western/southwestern New Mexico. Her PhD work focuses on the interactions of local and migrant potters in the late 13th-15th centuries. She specializes in ceramic analysis, legacy collections research, and 3D modeling of objects. During her time as a graduate student in the department, she has worked with the Arizona State Museum Repository and BARA to rehouse field school collections and teach undergraduates about the process of collections care and readying collections for in perpetuity curation. She additionally has taught students in the field, classrooms, and lab spaces.