University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

Graduate Student, Anthropology

About

My research foci include the Iron Age western Mediterranean (Sicily) with an emphasis on the Greek/Phoenician colonial period.  My work has explored the following specific research topics: the archaeological interpretation of complex social entanglements; material culture as an indication of social transformation; the adoption of Greek feasting traditions among indigenous Iron Age Sicilian populations; the archaeological interpretation of identity transformation as examined using the theory of cultural hybridity; the formation of social middle grounds in social entanglement contexts; and compositional x-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis of pottery production and exchange.