Associate Director
I am an anthropological archaeologist. My research examines food as a long-term, historically constituted human-environment relation, a socially and culturally situated dynamic whose effects are seen in environmental management practices—with local and regional-scale outcomes. Set in the Quijos region, a mountain cloud forest environment at the juncture of the Andes and the Amazon in Eastern Ecuador, my current project investigates pre-Columbian forest management and human-mediated ecological dynamics linked to agricultural and food practices.
In my role as Associate Director of the Prentice Institute, I lead initiatives related to internationalization and community partnerships with the goal of creating Work Integrated Learning opportunities for our students and fostering research collaborations locally and internationally.
Suite L1184 (Library Information Network Centre)
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9 - 4 PM
The Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy is located on traditional Blackfoot Confederacy territory. We honour the Blackfoot people and their traditional ways of knowing in caring for this land, as well as all Indigenous Peoples who have helped shape and continue to strengthen our community.