June
Colleges of Letters & Sciences Magazine published a Featured Article about my research! Check it out!
April
Won Second Place in the UC Davis Grad Slam Competition!
Watch my performance here!
March
Selected as a Grad Slam Semi-Finalist.
February
Awarded the Far Western Foundation Research Grant.
November
Co-authored a publication with Dr. Tammy Bounasera looking at health and immune proteins in dental enamel. Check it out here!
October
Co-authored a publication with my advisor, Jelmer Eerkens, on stable isotope and proteomic insights into a Bronze Age site in Iran. Check it out here!
May
Awarded a Sacramento Archaeology Society scholarship!
Awarded the Society of Historical Archaeology Dissertation Research and Travel Scholarship!
April
Selected as a 2024-2025 Graduate Student Fellow for the UC Davis Professors for the Future Program!
March
Podium talk at the 58th Society of California Archaeology conference discussing heavy metal exposure and stable isotopes from individuals living in Historic San Francisco.
January
Co-organized and co-chaired a symposium at the 57th Annual Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology in Oakland, CA.
September
Became the Director of the Anthropology Museum Education Outreach Program. Check out more here!
August
Volunteered for four weeks in Germany working on a humanitarian effort to recover a fallen soldier from WWII.
July
Got in some excavation time with PAR Environmental working on prehistoric sites in California!
May
Passed my qualifying exams and advanced to Candidacy!
Awarded a Sacramento Archaeology Society scholarship!
April
Podium talk on industrial heavy metal exposure in Historic San Francisco at the 92nd American Association of Biological Anthropologist conference in Reno, NV.
March
Podium talk at the 57th Society of California Archaeology conference discussing weaning patterns among EuroAmerican immigrants who were buried in San Francisco as an effect of changes in women's labor.
Awarded the Rodman-Mitani Travel Grant to attend the 2023 AABA's in Reno, NV.
October
Presented novel research about weaning patterns in historic San Francisco at the Western Bioarchaeology Group conference in Riverside, CA.
June
Awarded the University of California, Davis Evolutionary Anthropology Summer Research Grant!
March
Awarded a Sacramento Archaeology Scholarship!
Presented my poster on industrial heavy metal exposure in Historic San Francisco at the 91st American Association of Biological Anthropologist conference in Denver, CO.
Awarded the Christy Turner II & Cambridge University Press Poster Prize from the Dental Anthropology Association!
February
Invited Podium talk at the 56th Society of California Archaeology conference discussing heavy metal exposure in Mission Period Ohlone. I want to thank the the Ohlone MLD for their enthusiasm, cooperation, and support of these analyses.
October
Proud to announce I was elected the Communications Officer for the Dental Anthropology Association!
June
Awarded the University of California, Davis Evolutionary Anthropology Summer Research Grant!