Education

• 2015 - 2019: BA in Anthropology, UNC Chapel Hill
• 2015 - 2019: BSPH in Biostatistics, Gillings School of Global Public Health
• 2019 - 2022: MA in Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University
• 2019 - 2024: Ph.D. in Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University

Interests

I am a biological anthropologist focused on researching human microbiomes for the purpose of improving human health. My doctoral research involved integrating signals from ancient human oral microbiomes with macroscopic indicators of skeletal health for the purposes of enhancing paleoepidemiological reconstructions of past health and disease dynamics. I am especially interested in how human health is interrelated with nutritional, societal, and ecological factors across space and time.

I am currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at NC State in the Theriot lab, where I am integrating multiomic datasets to investigate the relationships between gut microbiota and novelly defined proteins in patients undergoing fecal microbiome transplants (FMTs).