I am a biological anthropologist whose research primarily focuses on theorizing migration in antiquity and on understanding urban development and collapse through the analysis of human skeletal remains. My current focus is on learning more about the daily lives of the lower classes in Imperial Rome through osteological and biochemical analysis, but I have also worked on questions of population interaction in the southeastern U.S.
I recently enjoyed teaching Human Osteology and Health and Disease in Ancient Populations at Vanderbilt University and have taught Bioarchaeology, Human Osteology, and General Anthropology at UNC Chapel Hill, Forensic Anthropology at SUNY Cortland, and Cultural and General Anthropology at Durham Technical Community College.
My educational background includes degrees in Latin (BA, University of Virginia), Classical Archaeology (BA, University of Virginia; MA, UNC Chapel Hill), and Anthropology (MA, East Carolina University; PhD, UNC Chapel Hill). I have a strong commitment to interdisciplinary work, as my research and teaching bridge the sometimes large divide between classics and anthropology.
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(Header image: Allegory of Death, mosaic from Pompeii, 1st century AD, at the Museo Archeologica Nazionale, Naples, Italy)
