Current Role: PhD Candidate in Anthropology, Texas A&M University
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I'm a researcher, project manager, and educator with experience in many different settings. I have worked in conservation, historic preservation, museum education, and academia teaching history and archaeology to undergraduates. I’m now writing my doctoral dissertation and managing related research projects with international teams of stakeholders, scholars, and funders. These experiences have allowed me to team up with diverse groups of people and expand my personal commitment to justice, inclusivity, and accessibility in historical archaeology. What I am most passionate about is fostering creativity and communication across disciplines, and putting history and archaeology to work for us today.
I hold an M.A. in Public History from Duquesne University (2020) and a B.A. in History. At Texas A&M, my interdisciplinary research investigates how global processes of racialization, colonization, and labor shaped maritime identities in Liberia before the 1800s. I am co-director of the Kru/Krao Coast Heritage Initiative, a new community archaeology project in Sinoe County, Liberia. Our research on Kru/Krao history informs how we view race, labor, migration, and maritime professions today. My broad interests and expertise are in West African history, the Early Modern Atlantic, maritime and historical archaeology methods, conservation, and public history. |
