HENDY lab in the Department of Anthropology at Penn State

is co-directed by Rebecca Bliege Bird and Douglas W Bird. Our lab works closely with the Capriles Environmental Archaeology Lab, the Ecology and Health Lab, and the Spatial Archaeology Lab. Current lab members are working on projects.

About Us

Post-doctoral, PhD, and undergraduate students in our lab are involved in designing studies related to our current projects and developing new programs of research to address questions about the social and ecological context that shape and are shaped by human use of natural resources. Prospective graduate students may apply through the Anthropology or Ecology programs, depending on their background and interests.


Rebecca Bliege Bird

Douglas W Bird

Dani Buffa

Jenny Chen

Kaley Joyce Tucker

Join the team

We're actively recruiting graduate students interested in landscape ecology and ethnoarchaeology!