I received my PhD in 2009 in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley under the direction of Dr. Christine Hastorf, Dr. Rosemary Joyce and Dr. Steven Shackley. I am currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. My dissertation research was focused on the Taraco Peninsula, in the Lake Titicaca Basin of highland Bolivia. I focused on the Late Formative I Period (100 BC - 300 AD), examining the relationship between ceramic production/consumption and social boundaries. I employed a variety of methods, including attribute analysis, geochemistry and mineralogy to characterize variability between three sites on the Peninsula. I also developed an archaeological "communities of practice" approach, which draws on research within practice theory and situated cognition. I am continuing this research in the department of Anthropology at McMaster. I am also developing a relational database for my Taraco ceramic data and hope to integrate assemblages from the larger Southern Titicaca Basin.
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Tradition Brought to the Surface: Continuity, Innovation and Change in the Late Formative Period, Taraco Peninsula, Bolivia (with Christine Hastorf), Cambridge Archaeological Journal (2010)
Based on more than a decade of research on the Taraco Peninsula, Titicaca Basin, Bolivia,...
Communities of Pottery Production and Consumption on the Taraco Peninsula, Bolivia, 200 BC-300 AD (2009)
This dissertation examines Late Formative Period (200 BC-300 AD) communities of potting practice at the...
Aproximaciones arqueológicas al ritual en los Andes: Un análisis del espacio ritual durante el Periodo Formativo Medio en el sitio Chiripa, Bolivia, Primero congreso de arqueología de La Paz (2008)
En esta ponencia presentaré varios datos cerámicos con el fin de examinar la función de...