Curriculum Vitae
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Ph.D., Anthropology — University of Virginia
Advisor: Jeffrey Hantman. Dissertation: Sweetgum's Amber: Animate Mound Landscapes and the Nonlinear Longue Durée in the Native South
M.A., Anthropology — University of Virginia
B.A., Anthropology / Gender Studies — New College of Florida
Honors Thesis: An Anthropology of Remembering: Queer Theory, Collaborative Archaeology, and the Apalachee Past
Academic Positions
Professor of Ethnic Studies — Cabrillo College
Visiting Assistant Professor — College of Charleston
Visiting Assistant Professor / Instructor — Agnes Scott College
Florence Levy Kay Fellow — Brandeis University
Instructor — University of Virginia
DEI & Other Employment
Independent DEI Consultant — iChange Collaborative
Independent DEI Consultant — Both And Partners
Archivist — Charlottesville Digital Archive Project
Tribal Outreach Coordinator — Indigenous Ecologies Workshop, UVA
Curatorial Intern — Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, UVA
AmeriCorps VISTA — University of Miami
Grants & Funding
NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement
Wenner-Gren Foundation
American Philosophical Society
Explorers Club
Multiple University of Virginia internal grants
All grants funded anthropological fieldwork. All tech projects were built without any tech funding.
Awards, Fellowships, and Honors
Honorable Mention, Richard Guy Wilson Prize for Excellence in the Study of Buildings, Landscapes, and Places — UVA School of Architecture
Best Dissertation Chapter, Graduate Student Award — UVA Department of Anthropology
Public Humanities Fellow, South Atlantic Humanities seminar "Americas and/as Catastrophe" — Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
Best Graduate Instructor, Graduate Student Award — UVA Department of Anthropology
Commemorative plaque honoring the Galilee Cemetery Survey — City of Sarasota
Student Paper Award — Florida Anthropological Society
Undergraduate Student Paper Award — Time Sifters Archaeological Society
Selected Invited Talks
"Watsonville Reads: Native American and Indigenous Studies" — Friends of the Watsonville Public Library
"Indigenous Knowledge and Understanding the Past" — Florida State University
"The Long (and Nonlinear) Mississippian: Deep Time, Indigenous Diplomacies, and Care within the Wounds of Empire" — Rice University, Department of Anthropology
"Rethinking Archaeology through Community-Based Research and Indigenous Knowledge" — New College of Florida, Department of Anthropology
"Sweetgum Archaeology: Presence, Care, and the Unfinished Histories of Mound Landscapes in the Native South" — UMass Boston, Department of Anthropology
Professional Development & Training
Accessibility Tools for Equitable Instructional Design — Cabrillo College
"Using AI as Creative" Workshop — Multiverse School
Strengthening Native American Education and Community Partnerships — Cabrillo College
Decolonial Pedagogies Workshop — Agnes Scott College
Suicide Prevention Best Practices for Students
Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology — Smithsonian Institution
Selected Service
Member, Leadership Committee, Native American Studies and Student Support Committee — Cabrillo College
Co-Organizer, Building Alliances in Indigenous Education conference — Cabrillo College
Zine Production, Transgender Day of Remembrance; produced The Ripper on Campus
Advisory Board Member, NEH Public Humanities Exhibition planning proposal on Middle Georgia ceramics and decolonizing exhibitions
Member, Land Acknowledgement Working Group — Agnes Scott College
Founding Chair, Native American and Indigenous Studies Colloquia Series — Brandeis University
Peer Reviewer — American Anthropologist, American Antiquity, Southeastern Archaeology, Genealogy; National Science Foundation