Above: Digital elevation model of the Hrazdan Gorge region in central Armenia
Positions
| University of Minnesota |
| |
Graduate Faculty (Term Appointment), Department of Anthropology — 2011-2013 |
| |
Lecturer, Geoarchaeology and Anthropology of the Middle East, Department of Anthropology — 2011 |
| |
Postdoctoral Research Associate & Lecturer, Department of Earth Sciences — 2010-2011 |
| |
Senior Research Fellow & Instructor, Department of Earth Sciences — 2008-2010 |
| |
Research Fellow & Instructor, Department of Earth Sciences — 2003-2008 |
| |
Research Assistant, Department of Earth Sciences — 2001-2003 |
Education
| Ph.D. in Anthropology, Archaeology Program, Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota — 2010 |
| |
Research: |
Bronze-Age Northern Mesopotamia, geoeconomics, obsidian exchange |
| |
Committee: |
Gilbert Tostevin, Peter S. Wells, Gilliane Monnier, and Joshua Feinberg |
| |
Dissertation: |
The Bronze-Age Obsidian Industry at Tell Mozan (Ancient Urkesh), Syria |
| |
|
Best Dissertation Award in the Social and Behavioral Sciences and Education, University of Minnesota — 2012 |
| M.S., Interdisciplinary Archaeological Studies Program, University of Minnesota — 2002 |
| |
Study focus: |
Archaic North American copper acquisition, technology, and exchange |
| |
Committee: |
George “Rip” Rapp, Guy Gibbon, and James Kakalios |
| B.A., Physics, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa — 1999 |
| |
Coursework in archaeology, sociocultural anthropology, classics, geology, and environmental studies |
| |
Independent studies in experimental archaeology; advisors: Kathryn Kamp and John Whittaker |
Note: The University of Minnesota’s Department of Earth Sciences was previously named the Department of Geology & Geophysics.
Below: Geochemical surveying of a Mycenaean kiln for metallurgical indicators
Updated: April 2013 |
