My Background
I came to anthropology at the University of Florida in 2005 through political activism and community engagement. As an undergraduate, I was fascinated with the sociopolitical plight of suburban and rural communities in Western capitalism. Though I found that I had a greater passion for the science of archaeological fieldwork, I never lost interest in viewing the world “from the margins.”
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Education
2011-2019
University of Colorado
Ph.D., Anthropology
Dissertation title: Terminal Formative Religion and Political Organization on the Coast of Oaxaca, Mexico: The Perspective from Cerro de la Virgen
Advisor: Dr. Arthur Joyce
2008-2011
University of Central Florida
M.A., Anthropology
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Thesis title: Worldview, Ideology, and Ceramic Iconography: A Study of Late Terminal Formative Graywares from the Lower Río Verde Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico
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Advisor: Dr. Sarah Barber
2003-2007
University of Florida
B.A., Anthropology