Graduate Students
Graduate Student
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.
Historical Archaeology of the Early Modern Philippines & the Roman Mediterranean, Piracy and Raiding, Interregional Maritime Trade, Filipino & Iberian/Basque Shipbuilding, Maritime & Underwater Archaeology, Community-based Archaeology, Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
Archaeology of Bronze Age China, Zooarchaeology; Economic history; Settlement Archaeology
Spanish colonialism during the early modern period
Late Neolithic - Early Bronze Age China
Cultural heritage, digital archaeology, landscape, architecture, reuse, memory, and gender studies within ancient Greece and Rome
Mesoamerican interregional trade networks, merchants, feasting, sociopolitical organization in complex societies, and the Zoque civilization.
Inca Empire, Andes, landscape studies, environmental humanities, built environment, architecture, materiality, sacredness, sensory experiences, sound studies, colonialism in the Americas, cross-cultural exchanges.
Pottery of Central America
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.
California Archaeology, Historic Archaeology, Mexican Rancho Period, Contemporary Archeology
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
Interactions between nomadic and settled population groups in Egypt and Sudan in the Bronze Age, with metal mining and working in the Eastern Desert of Egypt and the Sudan
Andean archaeology, Mesoamerican archaeology, historical archaeology
History and civilization of early China, especially the political and cultural transformations in late Bronze Age and early Iron Age.
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
Areas of interests are headhunting, warfare, and cultural change and stagnation in ancient Gaul and Scythia because of Greco-Roman interaction and conquest.
Interdisciplinary study of early China through archaeology, history, philology, and linguistics within the broader framework of global antiquity; memory and knowledge traditions; formation and fluidity of both textual and material remains; quantitative thinking in archaeology.