I completed my B.A. in Anthropology at the University of Victoria in 2010 and followed with my MA in Anthropology, also at UVic, in 2014. Since then, I worked for the Provincial Government of B.C. while simultaneously working as a Sessional instructor at UVic. It was there that I had the opportunity to develop my teaching experience, narrow my interests, and to determine that I was ready to pursue a PhD.

My interest is in bioarchaeology and I am fascinated by what we can learn about individuals and past populations from their bones. My Masters research focused on the use of a medical technique known as the 2D:4D ratio to determine sex from archaeological hand stencils. Since my MA, I have focused my teaching on infectious disease in past populations, and death and burial customs. My doctoral research will investigate the nexus of disease and nutritional deficiency through the identification of skeletal markers. I am particularly interested in the skeletal expression of malaria, and the overlap with anemia.