I am a computational social scientist with extensive experience utilizing large-scale geospatial analyses with archaeological datasets. My research explores the complexities of community development, occupation, and resiliency of subsistence-farmers during periods of sustained climate change in ecologically marginal spaces. I specialize in Ancestral Pueblo archaeology of the northern U.S. Southwest from AD 450–1300, and my experience includes a decade of fieldwork in the Four Corners region, with several years of directing pedestrian survey on the Mesa Verde North Escarpment in southwestern Colorado.

I hold a Ph.D. and M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Notre Dame, an M.A. in Anthropology from Washington State University, and a B.A. in Political Science and Anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

I am currently working as an Environmental Professional 2 in the Environmental Stewardship Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory while maintaining research affiliations with the Santa Fe Institute, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, and the Research Institute at Crow Canyon.

I am also a strong advocate for the production and dissemination of free and open source research, and work to increase accessibility to powerful computational tools by writing and releasing the code I have used in all of my publications.

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Environmental Professional 2
EPC-CS: Environmental Stewardship Group
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545

Research Associate
Santa Fe Institute
1399 Hyde Park Road
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501

Research Associate
Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
23390 County Road K
Cortez, Colorado 81321

Research Associate
The Research Institute at Crow Canyon
23390 County Road K
Cortez, Colorado 81321