Candidate for Ph.D. in Anthropology (Archaeology), University of Washington

My current research interests center on evaluating exchange of chipped stone tools among marginalized agriculturalists in the American Southwest between AD 1275-1450. More broadly I am interested in understanding prehistoric economic networks and in utilizing geochemical fingerprinting techniques to find the sources of archaeological and geological materials. I am also involved with geoarchaeological investigations of Fort Clatsop, which served as Lewis and Clark's westernmost encampment between 1804-1805.

At the present I am employed as a project director for Northland Research, Inc., a cultural resources management firm located in Tempe, Arizona. My most recent publications concern lithic exchange in the Kuril Islands and micromorphological studies of soils at Fort Clatsop National Memorial in Astoria, Oregon. I also serve as an adjunct professor at Mesa Community College, where I instruct New and Old World archaeology courses. A link to the current course website is provided below.

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