Curriculum Vitae

Education

The College of William and Mary
1995 - 1999
B.S. Biology/Anthropology

At William and Mary, I focused on archaeology and wrote my undergraduate thesis on population distribution in prehistoric Virginia.

George Washington University
2000-2002
M.A. Anthropology (Development)

GWU's development anthropology program specializes in critical approaches to development policy, and my interest within the development concentration was on medical anthropology and HIV/AIDS in Thailand.

Cornell University
2003-present

Work Experience

Center for Archaeological Research
1999-2000
Field Assistant

I participated in an archaeological survey of the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station for roughly a year.

Discourse Lab
George Washington University
2000-2003
Research Assistant

I took, digitized, transcribed, and analyzed ethnographic video from classrooms in Maryland as a part of the anthropological side to GWU's Scale-Up project, working with new chemistry curricula in diverse Maryland classrooms, under Joel Kuipers.

Publications and Presentations

“Powhatan Population Distribution as an Artifact of Contact” Quarterly Bulletin of the Archeological Society of Virginia Vol. 54. No. 4, 1999

"Shyness and Illness: NGOs and AIDS Education Programs in Northern Thailand" Annual Lewis Cotlow Conference, GWU, Feburary 2002.

"Kaafee, Air, le Thansamai: Kaan Deum Kaafee nai Meuang Chiang Mai" Advanced Study of Thai Colloquium, Chiang Mai University, August 2004.

"Consumer Identity and the Anti-Starbucks: Coffee Consumption in Chiang Mai" Anthropology Graduate Student Association Brown-Bag, Cornell, October, 2004.

"Authenticity and the Tourist Mind" Hegemonic Masculinities Conference, University of Manchester, May, 2005