Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2022. Dissertation: Making the Old City: Life Projects and State Heritage in Rhodes and Acre (https://doi.org/10.7275/28622575)

M.A., Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2015. Thesis: Producing the Dead Sea Scrolls: (Trans)national Heritage and the Politics of Popular Representation (https://doi.org/10.7275/6941053)

B.A., Anthropology, University of Waterloo, 2011. Thesis: Whose Spirit Sings? Twenty-Five Years of Transformation in First Nations Museum Representation

I am a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky. I do research in critical heritage studies and contemporary and historical archaeology, and teach classes in archaeology, cultural anthropology, and four-field anthropology. Intersecting with my research and teaching on decolonizing heritage work, I am the NAGPRA Archival Researcher at the William S. Webb Museum of Anthropology. This work involves researching and summarizing the vast documentary record of the museum's collections as a key component of the University of Kentucky's responsibilities under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.

My research is framed by questions about the construction of heritage as an organizing force in societies. My most recent research considers ways that residents of historic cities in Palestine/Israel and Greece construct alternative formations of ‘cultural heritage’. I worked with residents of the cities of Acre (‘Akka/Akko) and Rhodes whose sense of ‘heritage’  was configured by histories of dispossession, community relationships, and social justice work.  My previous research explored Indigenous peoples’ activism at museums in Canada and the national-colonial mobilization of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the United States and Palestine/Israel. I am developing a new research project on the politics of petro-heritage in western Canada. My interests include heritage and decolonization, the politics of the past, repatriation, and human environmental relations.

Fall 2024

ANT 351 Contemporary Archaeology (Special Topics in Archaeology)

Spring 2025

ANT 101 What makes us human? Introduction to Anthropology