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

2025–26

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.

Awards, Fellowships, and Honors

2018

Honorable Mention, Richard Guy Wilson Prize for Excellence in the Study of Buildings, Landscapes, and Places — UVA School of Architecture

2018

Best Dissertation Chapter, Graduate Student Award — UVA Department of Anthropology

2017

Public Humanities Fellow, South Atlantic Humanities seminar "Americas and/as Catastrophe" — Virginia Foundation for the Humanities

2017

Best Graduate Instructor, Graduate Student Award — UVA Department of Anthropology

2013

Commemorative plaque honoring the Galilee Cemetery Survey — City of Sarasota

2010, 2011

Student Paper Award — Florida Anthropological Society

2010

Undergraduate Student Paper Award — Time Sifters Archaeological Society

Selected Invited Talks

2026

"Watsonville Reads: Native American and Indigenous Studies" — Friends of the Watsonville Public Library

2023

"Indigenous Knowledge and Understanding the Past" — Florida State University

2021

"The Long (and Nonlinear) Mississippian: Deep Time, Indigenous Diplomacies, and Care within the Wounds of Empire" — Rice University, Department of Anthropology

2021

"Rethinking Archaeology through Community-Based Research and Indigenous Knowledge" — New College of Florida, Department of Anthropology

2019

"Sweetgum Archaeology: Presence, Care, and the Unfinished Histories of Mound Landscapes in the Native South" — UMass Boston, Department of Anthropology

Professional Development & Training

2026

Accessibility Tools for Equitable Instructional Design — Cabrillo College

2026

"Using AI as Creative" Workshop — Multiverse School

2025

Strengthening Native American Education and Community Partnerships — Cabrillo College

2021

Decolonial Pedagogies Workshop — Agnes Scott College

2020

Suicide Prevention Best Practices for Students

2015

Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology — Smithsonian Institution

Selected Service

2025–26

Member, Leadership Committee, Native American Studies and Student Support Committee — Cabrillo College

2025

Co-Organizer, Building Alliances in Indigenous Education conference — Cabrillo College

2025

Zine Production, Transgender Day of Remembrance; produced The Ripper on Campus

2021–24

Advisory Board Member, NEH Public Humanities Exhibition planning proposal on Middle Georgia ceramics and decolonizing exhibitions

2021–24

Member, Land Acknowledgement Working Group — Agnes Scott College

2018–20

Founding Chair, Native American and Indigenous Studies Colloquia Series — Brandeis University

Various

Peer Reviewer — American Anthropologist, American Antiquity, Southeastern Archaeology, Genealogy; National Science Foundation

Languages

English (native) Spanish (conversational) Mvskoke (Muskogee) (beginner)