Graduate Students
Graduate Student
Migration and burial practice, East Greece, Cyprus, and Egypt in the Archaic period, ceramics
Art and archaeology of the Roman provinces, archaeological photographs, cultural heritage, classical reception
- Early medieval Iceland and the Iron and Viking Ages in northern Europe/Scandinavia
- Posthumanist and new materialist archaeological theory
- Material ecocriticism and embodiment
- Old Norse language, mythology, and Norse architecture
- Digital humanities and GIS
Exploring the possibilities of comparative research in the archipelago of the Spanish East Indies and the “vertical archipelago” of the Viceroyalty of Peru during the early modern period.
Zooarchaeology; Diet and inequality; Multispecies interactions; Iron Age and Late Antique Mediterranean
Pacific Archaeology (Hawaiʻi),gender, sexuality, paleoenvironment, paleoethnobotany, microartifact analysis, queer theory, post colonial theory, indigenous theory.
Spanish colonialism during the early modern period
Pre-Columbian Andean archaeology, trade and exchange in pre-Columbian societies, subsistence economies in pre-Columbian societies, development of craft specialization, paleoethnobotany, and archaeometry.
Late Neolithic - Early Bronze Age China
Andean archaeology, Inka architecture, imperial presencing, spatial theory, urbanism
Mesoamerican interregional trade networks, merchants, feasting, sociopolitical organization in complex societies, and the Zoque civilization.
Inca Empire, Andes, landscape studies, environmental humanities, built environment, past sensory experiences, sound studies, performances, Indigenous ways of knowing, spatial history, construction of history, colonialism in the Americas, cross-cultural exchanges
Pottery of Central America
Sensory Archaeology; Egyptian archaeology; GIS, 3D-imaging, RTI and Photogrammetry; oils, incense, and unguents; ethnoarchaeology
Egyptology
Archaeology of western Mexico, specifically examining the rise of social differentiation in early classic Mesoamerican sites, and the development of household and political organization in prehispanic Mesoamerica.
Urbanism and landscape in the Mediterranean during the Hellenistic & Roman period. Topography of ancient sites. Applied photogrammetry and 3D modeling. Archaeological reconstruction of architectural sites. Religious syncretism and multi-culturalism in the Ancient World. Anthropological Ethnography. Public & Community-led archaeology.
Architectural Construction Technologies, Inca Archaeology, Andean Archaeology, Colonial Andes, Archaeology of Colonialism in the Americas, Adobe/ Mudbrick, Place-Making, Temporality, Geoarchaeology.
Highland Archaeology, Himalayas Studies, Archaeology of Medieval North India, Gender and Masculine Subjectivity, Landscape and Space, Embodiment, Iconography, Figurine Studies, Human-Animal Studies, Multispecies Ecology.
Pre-Hispanic Andean archaeology, Inca archaeology, environmental archaeology, borderlands and interregional exchange, wak'as, landscape archaeology
archaeology of East Asia, sound studies, materiality, state formation, music archaeology, prehistoric archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, ethnomusicology, archaeological theory
The study of ancient Egyptian peripheral populations and their contribution to the Egyptian economy.
Andean archaeology, Mesoamerican archaeology, historical archaeology
The transitioning period from the late Neolithic to the early Bronze Age in China, which is a critical period to understand the emergence of civilization.
zooarchaeology, geoarchaeology, Austronesian, East and Southeast Asia
History and civilization of early China, especially the political and cultural transformations in late Bronze Age and early Iron Age.
Areas of interests are headhunting, warfare, and cultural change and stagnation in ancient Gaul and Scythia because of Greco-Roman interaction and conquest.