Bio

Education

Doctoral student, Biocultural Anthropology, University if Kentucky.

Master of Arts, Anthropology, University of Cincinnati, June 2007
Thesis: Evidence for Interpersonal Violence or Human Sacrifice? The Case Study of Amato, Acarí Valley, Peru.

Bachelor of Science, Anthropology, Central Michigan University, May 2005

Honours program in Anthropology, University of Edinburgh, Scotland 2003

Places I Have Lived and Worked

Skeletal Recovery in Apollonia, Albania

Accolades

  • 2010 Member, Editorial Board of the Kentucky Journal of Anthropology and Sociology.
  • 2010-2011 Lyman T. Johnson Fellowship, University of Kentucky.
  • 2011-2012 Lyman T. Johnson Fellowship, University of Kentucky.
    International Who’s Who Among Business Women, November 2009.
  • Who’s Who in America, November 2009.
  • Winner of UC Graduate Poster Forum Outstanding Poster Presentation in Arts & Humanities, for poster entitled: Human Decapitation at Amato, Peru, March 2007.
  • University Graduate Scholarship, University of Cincinnati, 2005-2007.
  • UCIT Grant, University of Cincinnati, for osteology lab assistance, 2006.
  • University of Cincinnati Charles Phelps Taft Graduate Enrichment Grant for Master’s thesis research in Peru, 2006.
  • University of Cincinnati Global Studies Grant for travel to Albania, March 2006.
  • University of Cincinnati Department of Anthropology Grant, for travel to Albania, March 2006.
  • Michigan Competitive Scholarship, 2000-2004.
  • Central Michigan University Study Abroad Scholarship for a semester at University of Edinburgh, Scotland in Social (Cultural) Anthropology, 2003.
  • Central Michigan University Leslie Lieberman Scholarship in Anthropology, 2002-2003.
  • Michigan Merit Award, 2000-2001.