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I earned my B.A. in Classics at Denison University in 2013 and an M.A. in Classics, with a Classical Archaeology emphasis, from the University of Arizona in 2017. Prior to arriving in Columbia, I taught Latin at Washington Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Classical Archaeology program at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Department of Classics, Archaeology, and Religion and a graduate researcher with the Archaeometry Lab Group at MURR.

I excavated in Romania and Israel and in 2012 and 2014, respectively. But since 2016 I have been working in Arcadia, Greece as a member of the Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project, as an excavator, topographer, and supervisor. My M.A. thesis focused on the horde of Late Bronze Age kylikes recovered from the site's mountaintop ash altar of Zeus.

My dissertation's title is “Aegean pottery in the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean: a new technological look at its reception and imitation”. Using instrument-based geochemical and mineralogical techniques, my research broadly looks to identify varied technological signatures and link these to artisans of different cultural and geographic backgrounds. The aim of my dissertation is to contribute to our understanding of how Aegean crafts and craftspeople participated in different zones of interaction in the Eastern Mediterranean during the terminal phase of the Late Bronze Age.