Postdoctoral Research Associate I study the role of animals in the foodways and economic systems of the Southeastern United States, particularly by analyzing faunal remains to center human and nonhuman agency in the development of this region’s various cultural and economic systems. My approach to the past highlights the interconnection, or entanglement, of relationships across time and space. This includes highlighting the relationship between coastal and interior communities within the colonial deerskin trade or showing potential patterns between Mississippian feasting assemblages and colonial-era faunal assemblages. I combine zooarchaeological analysis with ethnohistory to highlight Indigenous agency in colonial political economy, investigate changes and continuities to foodways and subsistence economies, and show the entanglement of social, economic, and environmental processes. As a postdoctoral researcher under the direction of Amanda Thompson, I am rehousing UGA's Zooarchaeology Comparative Collection while also analyzing internally and externally curated archaeological faunal assemblages.
