EXPERIENCE
Present Positions
DIRECTOR
Yale Initiative for the Study of Ancient Pyrotechnology (Y-PYRO)
Council on Archaeological Studies & Department of Anthropology, Yale University
RESEARCH SCIENTIST (FACULTY) & LECTURER
Department of Anthropology & Council on Archaeological Studies, Yale University
Initially hired as Associate Research Scientist in 2017, promoted to Research Scientist in 2019
CURATORIAL AFFILIATE
Anthropology Division, Peabody Museum of Natural History
CORE FACULTY
Council on Middle East Studies, MacMillan Center, 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 CURIE EXPERIENCED RESEARCH FELLOW
Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield — Two-year postdoctoral fellowship with the transnational Marie Curie network New Archaeological Research Network for Integrating Approaches to Ancient Material Studies (NARNIA)
2011-2013
GRADUATE FACULTY
Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota
2011
LECTURER
Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota
2001-2011
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE / FELLOW / ASSISTANT
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota — Served as the Manager and Principal Analyst of a state-of-the-art X-ray spectrometry lab; initially 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