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Curriculum Vitae

Resume
Research Interests

The overarching goal of my research is to investigate the intersections between human biology and culture, with specific attention to population-level health outcomes in vulnerable groups. I seek to understand how inequality, marginalization, and movement impact the lived experience, how they are embodied, and how they are visible in the dead. I am also interested in heterogeneity in individual frailty and risks, as well as how the nature of skeletal assemblages (the Osteological Paradox) impacts our interpretations of health and stress in the dead. My recent work focuses on the etiology of cribra orbitalia and porotic hyperostosis and population-level health outcomes in pediatrics.

 

Keyword interests: Dental morphology, biodistance, paleopathology, human osteology/skeletal biology, the Osteological Paradox, stress and frailty, migration, health, fatty liver disease, nutrition/obesity, bone mineral density, cribra orbitalia/porotic hyperostosis, biostatistics, statistical analysis, Kaplan-Meier survival analysis, hazards, and odds ratios, postmortem computed tomography

Skills

Human Osteology/Skeletal Biology

Paleopathology

Dental Morphology

Data Analysis

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Software:

STATA, R, SAS, MS Excel

Horos, MS Access

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Work​
experience​

Spring 2023-     Assistant Professor, College of Population Health,                                                       University of New Mexico

Fall 2022-2023  Research Assistant Professor, Museum                                                                           Studies, University of New Mexico

2019-2023         Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology                                                   and Anthropology, University of Mississippi

2019-present    Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of                                                                   Anthropology, University of New Mexico

2018-present    Office of Archaeological Studies 

                          Dental morphological and metric data collection,                                                         review and update of dental pathology data

2017-2019         Bioarchaeologist, Maxwell Museum, Laboratory of                                                       Human Osteology, NAGPRA Grants

2017-2019         Adjunct Faculty, University of Saint Francis

Summer 2018   Faculty Assistant, University of New Mexico

                          Chaco Culture National Historic Park

Spring 2016      Archaeologist, Office of Contract Archaeology

2015-2019         Curatorial Assistant, Maxwell Museum and BLM

Summer 2014   Maxwell Museum, Student Employee

2008-2009         Statistical Research, Inc.

Education

2019               University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

                       Ph.D. Anthropology – Bioarchaeology

                       Dissertation: Health, Stress, and Migration in the                            pre-contact Southwest United States.

                       Chair: Dr. Patricia Crown; committee: Dr. Jane                                  Buikstra, Dr. Heather Edgar, Dr. Osbjorn Pearson

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2016               University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 

                       M.S. Anthropology – Evolutionary Anthropology

                       Advisor: Dr. Heather Edgar; committee: Dr. Keith                            Hunley, Dr. Osbjorn Pearson

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2008               University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 

                       B.A. Anthropology

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