I am a broadly-trained archaeologist and ecological anthropologist interested in how people interact with their environments: particularly how we use, manage, and control natural resources. I have worked with museum collections and conducted fieldwork in the United States, Guatemala, Kosovo, Montenegro, and The Gambia to explore human adaptation to a variety of ecological circumstances. My work particularly focuses on how human demography, economics, politics, and culture have shaped the relationships we have with our environments and how these relationships could change in the future.