Research & Activities:

Entered the program in 2003.

Education: BA Anthropology, The University of Arizona, 2000; MA Classics, University of Arizona, 2003.

Research Interests: My Research focuses on mortuary practices among nomadic pastoralists in Iron Age Central Asia and Mongolia; mortuary landscapes, stone monuments, commemoration and memory, and mobility. My research also engages human osteology, zooarchaeology, isotopic analysis, and the quantitative and qualitative analysis of data recovered from archaeological survey and excavation.