Expertise
I have a broad background in biological anthropology with primary research interests in human skeletal variation, dental anthropology, health in the past, and public attitudes towards science and pseudoscience. My research has included archaeological fieldwork in the Southwest U.S., France, Egypt, South Africa, Caribbean, and Thailand. I am the Co-Director of Bioarchaeology on a field school excavating the Iron Age cemetery at the site of Promtin Tai in central Thailand. Most recently my research has involved multiple studies of intentional dental modification and the methods we used to study it, including tooth filing in the Southwest U.S., dental inlay in Peru, and the criteria used to identify intentional tooth removal.