Educación
2008-PRESENT Washington University in St Louis Arts and Sciences – St. Louis, MO
Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology
Research Focus: Reconstruction of Ancient Human Diets and Cuisine, Ancient Uses of
Plants, Mesoamerican Archaeology, Gardens, Starch-Grain Analysis
Advisors: Dr. Gayle Fritz and Dr. David Freidel
2005-2008 Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences -- New Haven, CT
Master’s Degree in Archaeological Studies
Research Focus: Early Complex Societies; Political and Ritual Economy; Ancient Maya
Archaeology
Master’s Thesis: El Guayabal: Life at a Late Preclassic Center in the El Paraiso Valley,
Honduras
Advisor: Dr. Marcello Canuto
2001-2004 University of Leicester -- Leicester, England
Bachelors of Science Degree in Archaeology
Becas y subvenciones
2012 National Science Foundation Award: Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant ($25,197)
2011-12 Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence
2011 Charles R. Jenkins Award (Lambda Alpha Society)
2010-2011 Summer research funding awarded by Washington University in St. Louis
2008-2014 Full scholarship and tuition for PhD program awarded by Washington
University in St. Louis
2006-2007 Albers Fund Grant awarded by the Peabody Museum, Yale University for
research in Honduras
2003 Leonardo da Vinci Award funded by European Union for research in Iceland
Conferencias dictadas
2013 78th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology-- April 3-7, Honolulu, HI. Integrating Macro- and Microbotanical Remains to Reconstruct Ancient Maya Plant Use in Northwestern Petén, Guatemala.
2012 XXVI Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala (26th Annual Archaeological
Symposium), July 16-20, Guatemala City, Guatemala Plantas E Animales en La Corona,
Joint Paper with Diana N. Fridberg
2012 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology – April 18-22, Memphis, TN.
Strolling through Madame Mandeville’s Garden: The Real and Imagined Landscape of 18th
Century New Orleans.
2012 Poster Session at the 17th Annual Graduate Research Symposium, Washington University in
St. Louis. Starch-Grain Analysis and Paleoethnobotany: A Microscopic Approach to
Reconstructing Ancient Diets
2010 Friday Archaeology Talk- Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis
Strolling through Madame Mandeville’s Garden: The Real and Imagined Landscape of 18th
Century New Orleans
2009 Friday Archaeology Talk-- Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis
Flotation of Samples from El Perú-Waka’, Guatemala
2007 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology -- April 25-29, Austin, TX.
El Guayabal and Las Orquideas: The El Paraiso Valley as a Regional Center in the
Preclassic Period.
Experiencia laboral
2012 Archaeological investigations and Flotation of Soil Samples from El
Perú-Waka’, Guatemala
2010-2012 Archaeological investigations and Flotation of Soil Samples from La Corona,
Guatemala
2009-2010 Analysis of Soils from Rising Sun Hotel Site, New Orleans
2009 Flotation of Soil Samples from El Perú-Waka’, Guatemala
2006-2007 Investigator at El Guayabal Site, and Staff/Student Coordinator for the Kenyon-
Honduras Study Abroad Project--El Paraiso, Honduras
2005 Investigator -- Lazaret Cave, Nice, France
2003 Investigator -- Skriðuklaustur, Iceland (medieval Augustinian monastery)
Afiliaciones profesionales
Society for American Archaeology (SAA)
Economic Botany
Lambda Alpha
Experiencia docente
Instructor (Washington University in St. Louis) Summer 2013: Introduction to Archaeology
Teaching Assistant (Washington University in St. Louis) 2009-current
Teaching Assistant (Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) 2008 (Spring)
2008-PRESENT Washington University in St Louis Arts and Sciences – St. Louis, MO
Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology
Research Focus: Reconstruction of Ancient Human Diets and Cuisine, Ancient Uses of
Plants, Mesoamerican Archaeology, Gardens, Starch-Grain Analysis
Advisors: Dr. Gayle Fritz and Dr. David Freidel
2005-2008 Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences -- New Haven, CT
Master’s Degree in Archaeological Studies
Research Focus: Early Complex Societies; Political and Ritual Economy; Ancient Maya
Archaeology
Master’s Thesis: El Guayabal: Life at a Late Preclassic Center in the El Paraiso Valley,
Honduras
Advisor: Dr. Marcello Canuto
2001-2004 University of Leicester -- Leicester, England
Bachelors of Science Degree in Archaeology
Becas y subvenciones
2012 National Science Foundation Award: Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant ($25,197)
2011-12 Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence
2011 Charles R. Jenkins Award (Lambda Alpha Society)
2010-2011 Summer research funding awarded by Washington University in St. Louis
2008-2014 Full scholarship and tuition for PhD program awarded by Washington
University in St. Louis
2006-2007 Albers Fund Grant awarded by the Peabody Museum, Yale University for
research in Honduras
2003 Leonardo da Vinci Award funded by European Union for research in Iceland
Conferencias dictadas
2013 78th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology-- April 3-7, Honolulu, HI. Integrating Macro- and Microbotanical Remains to Reconstruct Ancient Maya Plant Use in Northwestern Petén, Guatemala.
2012 XXVI Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala (26th Annual Archaeological
Symposium), July 16-20, Guatemala City, Guatemala Plantas E Animales en La Corona,
Joint Paper with Diana N. Fridberg
2012 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology – April 18-22, Memphis, TN.
Strolling through Madame Mandeville’s Garden: The Real and Imagined Landscape of 18th
Century New Orleans.
2012 Poster Session at the 17th Annual Graduate Research Symposium, Washington University in
St. Louis. Starch-Grain Analysis and Paleoethnobotany: A Microscopic Approach to
Reconstructing Ancient Diets
2010 Friday Archaeology Talk- Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis
Strolling through Madame Mandeville’s Garden: The Real and Imagined Landscape of 18th
Century New Orleans
2009 Friday Archaeology Talk-- Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis
Flotation of Samples from El Perú-Waka’, Guatemala
2007 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology -- April 25-29, Austin, TX.
El Guayabal and Las Orquideas: The El Paraiso Valley as a Regional Center in the
Preclassic Period.
Experiencia laboral
2012 Archaeological investigations and Flotation of Soil Samples from El
Perú-Waka’, Guatemala
2010-2012 Archaeological investigations and Flotation of Soil Samples from La Corona,
Guatemala
2009-2010 Analysis of Soils from Rising Sun Hotel Site, New Orleans
2009 Flotation of Soil Samples from El Perú-Waka’, Guatemala
2006-2007 Investigator at El Guayabal Site, and Staff/Student Coordinator for the Kenyon-
Honduras Study Abroad Project--El Paraiso, Honduras
2005 Investigator -- Lazaret Cave, Nice, France
2003 Investigator -- Skriðuklaustur, Iceland (medieval Augustinian monastery)
Afiliaciones profesionales
Society for American Archaeology (SAA)
Economic Botany
Lambda Alpha
Experiencia docente
Instructor (Washington University in St. Louis) Summer 2013: Introduction to Archaeology
Teaching Assistant (Washington University in St. Louis) 2009-current
- Brave New Crops (Prof. Glenn Stone)
- Archaeological Fantasies and Hoaxes (Profs. Gayle Fritz and David Freidel)
- Introduction to Archaeology (Professor Darla Dale)
- People and Plants: Paleoethnobotany and Ethnobotany (Professor Gayle Fritz)
- Introduction to Environmental Studies (Dr. Joshua Lockyer)
- Culture and Environment (Dr. Matthew Fry)
- World Archaeology (Dr. John Kelly)
Teaching Assistant (Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) 2008 (Spring)
- Course: Hoaxes and Fantasies in Archaeology (Professor William Honeychurch)
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