Education

2018

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

2014

M.A., Anthropology — University of Virginia

2011

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

2025–Present

Professor of Ethnic Studies — Cabrillo College

2024–25

Visiting Assistant Professor — College of Charleston

2020–24

Visiting Assistant Professor / Instructor — Agnes Scott College

2018–20

Florence Levy Kay Fellow — Brandeis University

2016

Instructor — University of Virginia

DEI & Other Employment

2016–Present

Independent DEI Consultant — iChange Collaborative

2020–22

Independent DEI Consultant — Both And Partners

2018

Archivist — Charlottesville Digital Archive Project

2017–18

Tribal Outreach Coordinator — Indigenous Ecologies Workshop, UVA

2017

Curatorial Intern — Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, UVA

2011–12

AmeriCorps VISTA — University of Miami

Grants & Funding

$15,000

NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement

$15,000

Wenner-Gren Foundation

$3,500

American Philosophical Society

$4,000

Explorers Club

~$22,000

Multiple University of Virginia internal grants

All grants funded anthropological fieldwork. All tech projects were built without any tech funding.

Languages

English (native) Spanish (conversational) Muscogee (beginner)