Houston, Texas, United States
I am a recent archaeological anthropologist PhD graduate from Rice University. My research interests/specialties focus on the history and archaeology of Sub-Saharan Africa, with particular emphasis on Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa. Topical interests include the origins and development of urbanism and similar complex social formations, issues of mobility and authority, and ceramic and lithic studies. I have been involved in numerous archaeological research projects in the Americas and Africa, as either assistant or project leader in the field, and contributed to the final analysis and writeup after fieldwork. I have also taught university-level classes related to archaeology/anthropology and Africa at Rice University and University of Houston, Clear Lake.
(Fall 2014 semester) Instructor for Anth 4532: World Prehistory and Archaeology
co-Principal Investigator and Field Director for the Gannata Mariam Archaeological Research Project (NSF Award: 1144600, "Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Archaeological Investigations at Genta Mariam"), part of the larger “Solomonic Encounters” project (Dr. Tania Tribe, SOAS, project coordinator)
Instructor for Anth 3533/5533: Peoples of Africa
Instructor for Anth 205: Introduction to Archaeology. Taught as a condensed summer course.
Assisted with the Rice University Archaeological Field School, Songo Mnara, Tanzania (Dr. Jeffrey Fleisher, Rice University, and Dr. Stephanie Wynne-Jones, Bristol University, Co-PIs)