PhD in Interdepartmental Program in Mediterranean Art & Archaeology
About
Lorraine received a BA in Classics with a Minor in Anthropology at the University of Washington. Her senior honors thesis focused on the role of food artifacts in cultural exchange and contact between the Greeks, Romans, and Trans-Jordanian peoples during the late Hellenistic and early Roman Empire in the city of Gerasa (now Jerash, Jordan). Her main research interests include food studies; archaeobotany; zooarchaeology; the Greek and Roman imperial periods; post-contact theoretical framework, particularly as seen in the archaeology of the Americas; and culture contact and exchange in the process of identity formation.
Lorraine has participated in the Balu’a Regional Archaeology Project in Jordan, (2019) and the Issei at Barneston Project in Washington State (2020). She also has experience working in cultural resource management and archaeological consultation through her work with Cultural Resource Consultants in Seattle, Washington.
