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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

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