Specialty: Ceramic analysis, archeometry, geoarchaeology, environmental archaeology, Latin America, East Asia Educational background: Ph.D. in Anthropology (Archaeology) with a minor in Materials Science from the University of Arizona Current work affiliation: University of Missouri, Department of Anthropology and Research Reactor Center I have worked extensively in East Asia and Latin America investigating the pre-ceramic to ceramic period transitions. I have been studying this covering the late Pleistocene to Holocene. I reconstruct human behaviors examining ceramic production processes with archaeometric techniques, geochronology, depositional and archaeological context, and environmental variability and change. I collaborate with archaeologists and scientists with distinct expertise in fields and at labs.