EXPERIENCE

Present Positions

DIRECTOR

Yale Initiative for the Study of Ancient Pyrotechnology (Y-PYRO)

RESEARCH FACULTY & LECTURER (SECONDARY APPOINTMENT)

Department of Anthropology, Yale University • Principal Investigator (PI) of the Yale University Archaeological Laboratories

Hired as Associate Research Scientist in 2017, promoted to Research Scientist in 2019 and Senior Research Scientist in 2025

Please note that Yale reserves the term Research Professor as a title exclusively for emeritus tenured ladder faculty who wish to continue applying for research grants. Consequently, the ranks for research faculty members at Yale are Associate Research Scientist, Research Scientist, and Senior Research Scientist, which are roughly equivalent to the ranks of Assistant Research Professor, Associate Research Professor, and Research Professor, respectively, at other institutions.

CURATORIAL AFFILIATE

Anthropology Division, Peabody Museum of Natural History

FACULTY

Council on Archaeological Studies & Council on Middle East Studies, Yale University

CO-EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

Past Positions

2017-2018

SENIOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota

2016

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (TEMPORARY)

Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota

2015-2016

RESEARCH FELLOW

Department of Anthropology, Harvard University

2015-2016

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE

Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota

2014

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Institute for Rock Magnetism, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota

2014

VISITING RESEARCHER

The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, University of Tübingen

2012-2014

MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE EXPERIENCED RESEARCH FELLOW

Department of Archaeology, Archaeology and Archaeological Science Research School, University of Sheffield

2011-2013

GRADUATE FACULTY (ADVISING)

Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota

2011

LECTURER

Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota

2001-2011

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE / SENIOR FELLOW / FELLOW / ASSISTANT

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota — Hired as a half-time Research Assistant in 2001; promoted to a full-time Research Fellow in 2003, Senior Research Fellow in 2008, and Research Associate in 2010