Department of Anthropology
114 Macbride Hall
Iowa City, IA 52242-1322
Phone: 319-335-0522
Fax: 319-335-0653
Email: anthropology at uiowa.edu
Background:
Higher Education:
BA 2004, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado (Summa cum laude)
MA 2007, University of Iowa (MA: A Sample of Basketmaker II Faunal Remains from the Darkmold Site:
An Investigation of Dietary Change and Regional Variability)
I am a doctoral candidate studying faunal remains from the Basketmaker II period, a time that marks the Early Agricultural Period in the northern U.S. Southwest. My research focuses on how the Basketmaker II diet may have varied by local environment, population density, and a number of additional natural and cultural factors. While my doctoral research focuses on the Basketmaker II diet, I have participated in zooarchaeological analyses and field projects from various historic and prehistoric sites located across Colorado, Wyoming, North Dakota, Kansas, Iowa, and France. My archaeological interests include hunter-gatherer archaeology; the shift to agricultural dependency; resource pressure and intensification; the North American Southwest; the history of archaeology and archaeologists; pseudoarchaeology and the presentation of archaeology in the popular media; ethnoarchaeology; and of course, zooarchaeology. My greater anthropological interests include the construction of gender and of the gendered body, the anthropology of violence, especially everyday violence (e.g., poverty, racism, differential spread of diseases), cannibalism, and movements of resistance.