I am a third year Ph.D. student in the Department of Anthropology (Archaeology Track) at Stanford University. I am currently planning my dissertation research in collaboration and consultation with the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area, and I am interested in understanding identity through food, practice and ritual, as well as the inscription of memory on past landscapes. I am currently training in Paleoethnobotanical methods under the direction of Dr. Christine Hastorf and Dr. Rob Cuthrell in preparation for my field research in...
I am currently working on a PhD-project entitled "Change and dynamics in cereal cultivation in southern Scandinavia during the Iron Age". The project is performed primarily at the Environmental Archaeology Laboratory at Umeå University in Sweden in close cooperation with Horsens Museum, Moesgaard Museum and Velje Museum, all located in east central Jutland, Denmark.
The primary aim is to identify events and processes of change in cereal cultivation during the Iron Age in southern Sweden and Denmark and attempt to elucidate the possible causes...
I am in my fifth year of graduate study as a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. My dissertation research utilizes archaeological and paleoethnobotanical analyses to investigate the dynamics of religious institutionalization and the politics of kingly patronage through the medium of foodways at royal institutions--known as asramas-- during the formative phase (9th-10th centuries A.D.) of the Khmer Empire at Angkor, Cambodia. More specifically, my research seeks to examine the material dimensions of...
I am a visiting graduate student from UCLA participating in the Inter-Campus Exchange program here at Berkeley for the Fall 2014 semester. I am currently in my fourth year of study with a specialty in Andean archaeology. My work focuses on the Chincha Kingdom, a polity dating to the LIP/LH that thrived in the Chincha Valley along the south coast of Peru. Currently I’m working with a collaborative group of scholars from the Proyecto Arqueológico de Chincha (PAC) studying Chincha domestic culture and Chincha mortuary practices. I’ve worked with PAC for the last three...
