Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant- Human Osteology ANT4525 Fall 2024
• Assisted in preparing studying aids and practical quizzes​
• Provided supplemental teaching to students in osteological analysis, especially fragment identification and bone biology.
• Worked on inventory of osteological materials, with focus on assessing minimum number of individuals (MNI)
• Engaged in outreach with high school students, encouraging them to consider anthropology and osteology through presentations about the lab and course
Field Work
UF in Peru Summer 2024 Field School
• Excavated and recovered human remains from pre-Incan sacrificial burials in Peru
• Assessed trauma and life histories of skeletal individuals recovered in the field based on observation of damage to bone and on scoring methods for estimating age and sex
• Analyzed archaeological context of burials and associated features at the site through collaborative mapping and recording of artifact and feature descriptions with other students
​Later Prehistory of West Turkana Project June 2025
• Excavated mortuary contexts from archaeological site near Lake Turkana
• Analyzed and attempted to reconstruct deposition and burial events based on position and surrounding matrices of burials in close proximity to one another
• Catalogued and stored artifacts recovered from site
• Identified human bones, cleaned them, and laid them out for osteological analysis of pathologies