About Me

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Photo: Me emerging from the forest on the Sunshine Coast of BC, unintentionally looking cool while trying to get my boot out of the vine it was trapped in. Photo taken by Kenzie.

Me:

  • My current areas of research are in historical landscape archaeology of conspiritual communities, as well as the use of pseudoarchaeology by historic and contemporary far-right individuals and groups.
  • I also have a background in bioarchaeology, meaning I’m an archaeologist with special skills and knowledge in the analysis of human skeletal remains.
  • I’m a First Generation (FirstGen) university student!
  • I’m from Steveston, B.C., which is just outside of Vancouver.
  • I currently live in British Columbia.
Me in a field somewhere in southern Ontario
Me in a field somewhere in southern Ontario

My Education:

  • Kwantlen Polytechnic University (2004 – 2007) – Associate of Arts, Criminology
  • University of British Columbia (2007 – 2009, transferred)
  • University of Alberta (2009 – 2012) – Bachelor of Arts, Anthropology and Native Studies
  • University of Toronto (2016-2017) – Master of Arts, Anthropology
    • Thesis – “The Glass Beads of Sexwamin”
  • University of Alberta (2020 – current) – Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD)
    • Research topics include: Brother XII, historical landscape archaeology, pseudoarchaeology, conspirituality

Awards:

  • 2024 – 2025: Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship
  • 2023 – 2024: Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship
  • 2022 – 2023: Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship
  • 2021 – 2022: Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship

My Work:

  • 2020 – Current, Graduate Research Assistant, University of Alberta
  • 2022, 2023 – (July, Volunteer), excavation assistant for Solene Mallet Gauthier’s PhD fieldwork in Saskatchewan
  • 2022 – Teaching Assistant (Intro to Anthropology), University of Alberta
  • 2018 – 2020, Archaeologist/Bioarchaeologist (BC)
  • 2017 – (Volunteer) Collections Technician, Canadian Museum of Nature
  • 2017 – 2018 – Archaeologist/Bioarchaeologist (ON)
  • 2017 – Teaching Assistant (Intro Biological Anthropology/Archaeology), University of Toronto: Mississagua
  • 2015 – 2017 – Archaeologist/Bioarchaeologist/field school supervisor, shishalh Archaeological Research Project
  • 2015 – 2017 – (Volunteer), Let’s Talk Science
  • 2015 – 2016 – Archaeologist/Bioarchaeologist, (ON)
  • 2013 – 2015, 2019 – Archaeologist/Bioarchaeologist (BC)
  • 2011 – 2013 – Archaeologist/Bioarchaeologist (AB)
  • 2010 – (Young Canada Works) Collections Technician, Steveston Museum
  • 2009 – 2010 – (Volunteer) Collections Technician, Physical Anthropology Laboratory, University of Alberta
  • 2009 – 2010 – (Volunteer) Collections Technician, Dr. Pamela Willoughby’s palaeoanthropological laboratory, University of Alberta
  • 2008 – (Young Canada Works) Collections Technician, Richmond Museum
  • 2008 – (Field School) – excavation of a Roman necropolis, Menorca, Spain
  • 2007 – 2009 – Research Assistant, Laboratory of Archaeology, University of British Columbia
  • 2007 – (Volunteer) Transcriber, Yuille Forensic Psychology Laboratory, University of British Columbia

And between/during all of these archaeology-related jobs, I spent 9 years working in retail (from 2004 – 2013). I had to pay for school somehow!

If you want to learn more about my research, check out my Conferences/Publications/Presentations page!