About Me

I am Professor of Anthropology in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University and Director of the ASU Center for Archaeology and Society. My research integrates archaeological data with theories and methods from the social sciences to investigate long-term patterns of human social networks, interaction, and social organization. This work combines large-scale data synthesis, field research in the U.S. Southwest, and computational approaches to archaeological analysis.

My research focuses primarily on agricultural societies of the U.S. Southwest, including field and laboratory projects in the Phoenix Basin of Arizona and the Cibola region of New Mexico. I am also one of the project leads on the regional-scale cyberSW project, which leverages extensive settlement and material culture databases to address questions of social connectivity and cultural change. Beyond archaeology, I am interested in data infrastructure and software development for research synthesis generally, and collaborate on projects to develop tools for streamlining data integration and analysis.  Through the Center for Archaeology and Society, I supervise undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and visiting scholars working with archaeological collections, field projects, and digital research resources housed in the Center’s Anthropology Collections Facilities.