Studying Anthropology and Museum Studies to gain my Master of Arts Degree.

Working for the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, who will be paying for all of my tuition & 79% of my health insurance in addition to a stipend.

Worked as a research assistant with Dr. David Ezra from Tel Aviv examining the cervical vertebrae in the museum’s collection to explore the differences in skeletal changes amongst different demographics.

Helped children and young adults learn about the world around them by developing educational activities and tools. Participated in museum events to help encourage the curiosity of children about science and the natural world. It helped improve my communication skills allowing me to connect to a wider audience.

As a web production intern I aided the webmaster for the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and the Smithsonian Folkways in the day-to-day operations. Aided in the maintenance and editing of the Center’s 3 websites by using Orchard Content Management System. Also produced galleries of past Folklife Festivals held by the center and helped format blogs and album information for the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Research Project: “Publishing Humanities Arguments in a Digital World: A Case Study in Hybrid Print/Web Strategies” (UCARE team project)Worked with my team to enhance, clean, program, and analyze a comprehensive dataset on early Greek archaeology and historiography keyed to my faculty advisor Dr. Sarah Murray’s monograph The Collapse of the Mycenaean Economy: Trade, Imports, and Social Change with an eye to moving towards a revolution in the way that humanists come to consensus about particular areas of inquiry.This project was designed to investigate one possible avenue to increasing the impact of traditional humanistic monographs in an increasingly digital world, in a way that simultaneously solves some traditional problems in the intractable nature of debates in humanities research. In order to do this we designed a data-rich website that could be used in tandem with the monograph to investigate how to best encourage open debate outside of the basic step of providing digital editions of books, or the radical one of replacing books with websites.

The general purpose of this study was to contribute to our understanding of the way in which religious and ritual beliefs travel across political and cultural boundaries using a case study of the cult of Dionysus (a particularly Boeotian cult) in the border zones of Attica and Boeotia, two neighboring regions of Ancient Greece that were often at war and rarely shared political common ground.The data collection was split into archaeological and historical sources and I learnt and used Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software to map out the spread of the cult of Dionysus in Greece.