Biography

I’m an archaeologist and photographer interested in landscape, the environment and how humans interact with, shape and are shaped by their physical worlds. I have a BA in Anthropology from the University of Washington and an MA in Archaeology from University College Dublin. Currently an MPhil student in Archaeological Research at Cambridge, I specialise in geoarchaeology and study prehistoric land use. My PhD examines landscape stability in the forest-steppe region of northwest Mongolia and the interactions between nomadic pastoralists and the environment over a period of about 4000 years. The aims of this work are to understand past nomadic pastoralist lifeways and how modern pasture management can be at once environmentally and culturally sustainable. Aside from archaeology, I am a photographer, a lover of the outdoors, and am an avid skier, biker and hiker.

Previous Education

University of Washington
University College Dublin
University of Cambridge