I am an anthropological archaeologist working in the Andes, with a focus on the Late Formative period (600 BCE–200 CE) in the Cusco region of Peru. My dissertation investigates the hypothesized emergence of several “regional polities” during the end of this period. My research asks:

• Was inequality increasing?
  
  

• If so, how was it materialized—through wealth, relational networks, and/or embodied differences?
  
  

• What factors contributed to this inequality?
  
  

• Were regional polities, or chiefdoms, beginning to form?
  
  

I address these questions through the analysis of regional survey data and two seasons of excavations that I directed at Muyumoqo, an unusually large Late Formative site in the Chit’apampa Basin.

Beyond my dissertation, my research interests include household archaeology, trade and exchange, archaeometry, digital archaeology, and GIS-based spatial analysis.