I am an archaeologist and a PhD candidate in the SUNY Binghamton University Department of Anthropology, where I work on southwestern archaeology and specifically on Chaco Canyon outliers.
I am currently writing my dissertation about our recent archaeological testing at the Aztec North great house of Aztec Ruins National Monument. Our fieldwork in the summer of 2016 investigated the chronology and construction of this previously unexcavated great house, and my dissertation examines these questions as well as Aztec North's place within the cultural landscape of Aztec Ruins and the Chacoan world. Visit my page about Aztec North to read more about the project.
My other field experience also includes a summer as a field intern at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, working on the Dillard Site, a Basketmaker III site. I also spent a summer excavating a great kiva at the Point Site in Farmington with the Totah Field School. Before making my way to the Southwest, I participated in the University of Connecticut's field school at sites on Mashantucket Pequot tribal land.
Prior to becoming an archaeologist, I got my law degree at Vanderbilt University and practiced law for about a decade. I spent part of that time as a big-firm litigator in Hartford, CT, specializing in product liability law, and part of it drafting intellectual property contracts and licenses at a large firm in Silicon Valley. I also published a much-cited law review article on the legal issues surrounding art looted during World War II. After going into archaeology, that interest in cultural property law has also developed, sparking additional research on legal and ethical issues surrounding NAGPRA, heritage and the repatriation of material culture and art. I am currently a student member of the SAA Committee on Repatriation.
I am currently writing my dissertation about our recent archaeological testing at the Aztec North great house of Aztec Ruins National Monument. Our fieldwork in the summer of 2016 investigated the chronology and construction of this previously unexcavated great house, and my dissertation examines these questions as well as Aztec North's place within the cultural landscape of Aztec Ruins and the Chacoan world. Visit my page about Aztec North to read more about the project.
My other field experience also includes a summer as a field intern at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, working on the Dillard Site, a Basketmaker III site. I also spent a summer excavating a great kiva at the Point Site in Farmington with the Totah Field School. Before making my way to the Southwest, I participated in the University of Connecticut's field school at sites on Mashantucket Pequot tribal land.
Prior to becoming an archaeologist, I got my law degree at Vanderbilt University and practiced law for about a decade. I spent part of that time as a big-firm litigator in Hartford, CT, specializing in product liability law, and part of it drafting intellectual property contracts and licenses at a large firm in Silicon Valley. I also published a much-cited law review article on the legal issues surrounding art looted during World War II. After going into archaeology, that interest in cultural property law has also developed, sparking additional research on legal and ethical issues surrounding NAGPRA, heritage and the repatriation of material culture and art. I am currently a student member of the SAA Committee on Repatriation.
