Associate Professor, Anthropology; Associate Curator, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
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Office Information:
3010 School of Education
phone: 734.764.7571
hours: Tuesdays 12-2pm or by appointment via email.
Archaeology;
Anthropology
About
I study the influences of ecological, demographic, and social factors on Holocene hunter-gatherers’ behaviors and broader cultural change through time. My current field projects in farthest southern South America--Patagonia--combine archaeological data with evolutionary modeling to address questions at the intersection of human behavioral ecology and cultural transmission theory. My current lab-based projects are designed to test and develop models of cultural transmission and technological evolution, and I was recently awarded a fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2022-2023) to train in engineering and explore the the effects of wind on hunter-gatherers' livelihoods and technologies. Please visit my home and Academia.edu pages for more information.
Research Areas(s)
- human ecology
- hunter-gatherers
- stone technologies and their evolution
- adaptations to marginal environments and climate change
- Patagonia
