I am an Anthropology and Classics double major with a minor in Museum Studies from Cedar Park, Texas. I am planning on pursuing a PhD in History. When I am not in the lab, you can find me at Texas A&M's Historical Society meetings, watching Netflix, knitting, or painting.
I began working in the Shipwrecks of the Americas Lab in the Anthropology building as an artifact documenter in the Fall of 2017 as a freshman. Later that same semester, the Anthropology Department's Graduate-Undergraduate Mentor Program started up and I decided to join under the supervision of Carolyn Kennedy, who I was already documenting for. With her and Dr. Kevin Crisman, I tracked the spread of cholera throughout the United States in 1832 via steamboats and gave a presentation over it at the 2019 Society of Historical Archaeology Conference.
These connections led to another graduate student, Julia Herbst, asking if I would join her on the City Place Schooner Project in Toronto in Summer 2018. In the summer of 2019, I went to Fort Ticonderoga in New York to help graduate student Dan Bishop in his survey of Lake Champlain.
Starting that same summer, I began working at the Conservation Research Lab on our RELLIS campus. I've mainly worked on the conservation, documentation, and shipping of the CSS Georgia, a Confederate ironclad warship. I'm still working out there, even during the school year!
With most of my research experience being historical nautical archaeology related, I decided to take quite a turn for my senior year and work on a project that is closer to what I hope to do in graduate school one day. I'm currently working under the supervision of Dr. Christoph Konrad and Dr. Deborah Carlson on analyzing Roman imperial numismatics (coins) depicting women related to the emperor. I hope to identify trends that are maintained or changed based on dynasties to inform upon how imperial women were used as propaganda in the Principate Period of the Roman Empire.