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