projects

I’ve carried out archaeological, ethnohistorical, pedagogical, and CRM projects across the United States. I provide a window here into a select group of those.

latinx archaeology

Various Locations
I’m under contract with the University of Arizona Press to produce a book entitled Excavating Latinidad: Archaeologies and Material Cultures of Latinxs in the United States that weaves several of my own research projects into a Latinx Studies interpretive framework. I did the linked talk for the Columbia Center for Archaeology in November of 2020.

 

turley’s mill project

Taos, New Mexico
In January of 1847, only six months after the conquest of the Mexican far north by the United States, the Chicanx and indigenous populations of northern New Mexico’s Taos Valley rose together in rebellion, killing the territory’s American-appointed governor and destroying a substantial adobe distillery complex known as Turley’s Mill. This archaeological and ethnohistorical project centers on the ruin of Turley’s Mill, aiming to understand the cultural factors that led to its destruction by insurgents. The linked talk is one I did for Santa Cruz Archaeological Society (2021) on the subject. The Taos News covered this work in 2015.

experimental archaeology

Hayward, California
Since I began producing adobe micro-constructions in my archaeology lab, students of varied Latinx backgrounds have reported a sense of historical connection to the material and the process. I’ve come to call the bridging of adobe archaeology and Latinx high-impact pedagogy “LatinXperimental Archaeology.” The linked video shows a recent talk of mine on this work (2020). East Bay Today covered the project in 2018.

 

crm outreach

Northern California
I served as Field Director for Albion Environmental in Santa Cruz, CA prior to taking on the tenure track job at CSU-East Bay. I made numerous connections in the California CRM industry in the process and actively leveraged those contacts to connect my students to jobs in the field. I was asked to moderate this CRM panel by the UC Berkeley Archaeological Research Facility in March of 2021 with an eye toward student employment and diversity in the field.

 

indigenous foodways

South Florida
I have carried out a good deal of ethnohistoric work in relation to Seminole Indian diet at the turn of the twentieth century, publishing an article on the topic in 2021. In this video I moderate an indigenous foodways and food sovereignty panel alongside Dr. Enrique Salmon for the C.E. Smith Museum of Anthropology.