Franklin & Marshall College

 I am an anthropological archaeologist who works primarily in Mesoamerica. My previous work has focused on ancient Maya ritual and mortuary practices in western Belize, Central America. I have carried out excavations at the sites of Cahal Pech, X-ual Canil, Minanha, and Pusilha, in a variety of public and private ritual contexts. This research has addressed the relationship between ritual belief and practice, and social organization, and includes ideas related to hierarchy, heterarchy, social memory, and collective identity formation. My additional research interests include the intensification of social complexity in the Canadian Plateau, where I ran an excavation project in a winter pithouse village on the banks of the South Thompson River.