Greetings!
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at James Madison University. My research foci include bioarchaeology, paleoepidemiology, and paleopathology. My research uses data collected from skeletal samples to explore how factors such as socioeconomic status, developmental stress, sex, and age intersected to affect frailty and risks of mortality in the past. My work examines the bioarchaeological evidence for the developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) hypothesis and demonstrates the potential for intersectional perspectives to inform our understanding of life and death in the past.
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I deeply appreciate the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Carolina for their support as I prepared my dissertation. Following a competitive review process, I was selected to be a Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Fellow for the 2018-2019 academic year. The fellowship supports dissertation research and completion in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
I am delighted to have been selected as one of the 13 Breakthrough Graduate Scholars recognized by the Office of the Vice President for Research for the 2018-2019 academic year. The Breakthrough family of awards honors the best and brightest graduate student and faculty researchers throughout the University of South Carolina system.
I was recently invited to be a guest speaker at the Governor's School of North Carolina (West). Governor's School is a 6-week summer residential program for intellectually gifted high school students, and allows students to explore recent ideas and concepts in fields such as Natural Science, Mathematics, Social Science, and Art.
