About Me
I am a field and lab-based bioarchaeologist, with four field anthropological training. My research seeks to clarify structures of kinship, maternity, and stress in the past, through multimodal analyses (eg., aDNA, isotopes, histology). My work is interdisciplinary and attempts to connect the life sciences with the humanistic social sciences.
Outside of work I can be found refinishing furniture, hanging with my dog, or thrifting.
Currently, I am a Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor at NYU, in the Department of Anthropology (2024-).
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Education
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PhD, Archaeology, Brown University (2024)
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ScM, Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Brown University (2024)
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MA, Human Skeletal Biology, New York University (2017)
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BA, Anthropology, Classics, University of Florida (2015)
Recent Updates
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June 2024: My interview is featured at the opening of The Invention of Surgery is now streaming on CuriosityStream (Available via Amazon Prime Video).
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July 2023: I was interviewed for a forthcoming documentary on the origins of surgery by the production agency Autentic. Here I spoke about findings published in Kalisher et al. 2023 (PLoS One) and explained all the incredible things we could learn about both the practitioner and the patient based on the bioarchaeological context.
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April 2023: I shared snippets of my preliminary research at Brown University's "Research Matters" forum highlights graduate research at Brown, and compels students to explain why their projects are relevant to broader society.
