CONTACT INFORMATION

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CURRENT EMPLOYMENT

2008 Interpretation Park Guide (GS-0090-04) and staff librarian, Lava Beds National Monument, Tulelake, CA.
• Developed and presented formal interpretive programs
• Provided visitor services and roving visitor contacts
• Reviewed and edited publications and interpretive materials
• Handled government and cooperating organization funds
• Performed technical support for library and oral history projects
• Inventoried, catalogued, and maintained the reference library.

PAST EMPLOYMENT

2008 Interpretation intern (Student Conservation Association) and interim librarian, Lava Beds National Monument, Tulelake, CA.
• Provided support for park education programs
• Providing visitor services and roving visitor contacts
• Handled government and cooperating organization funds
• Inventoried, catalogued, and maintained the reference library.

2007 Living history interpretation intern (Student Conservation Association) and assistant librarian, Scotty’s Castle, Death Valley National Park, Death Valley, CA.
• Developed and presented living history interpretive programs
• Provided visitor services handling government funds
• Handled government and cooperating organization funds
• Inventoried, catalogued, and maintained the reference library.

EDUCATION

In 2008 Graduate assistant in anthropology with a concentration in Mesoamerican linguistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, under the supervision of Drs. Pierre Colas and Sergio Romero.

2003-2007 B.A. in Anthropology, Minor in History, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS. Graduated cum laude.

RESEARCH AND FIELDWORK

2006 Demographic study of St. Peter’s Cemetery, Oxford, MS. Conducted under Dr. Gabriel Wrobel, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology.

2006 Research on ritual significance and use of caves in the Maya area, including cave modification and architectural cave modeling. Conducted with Dr. Edward Sisson, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, under supervision of Dr. John Samonds, Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College.

2005 Fieldwork in bioarchaeology at Caves Branch Rockshelter, Caves Branch, Belize, under the supervision of Dr. Gabriel Wrobel, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, and Dr. Jaime Awe, Director of the Institute of Archaeology, Belize.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

2008 Associate member, National Speleological Society

2006-present Member, Lambda Alpha Anthropological Honors Society (Gamma Chapter)

2005-2007 Member, Southeastern Archaeological Conference

PAPERS GIVEN

2006 “Women, Men, and the Civil War: A Preliminary Demographic Study.” Presented at 63rd Annual Southeastern Archaeological Conference Meetings, Little Rock Arkansas.

LANGUAGES

English (native language); French (conversational ability, read and write with dictionary); Spanish (conversational ability, read and write with dictionary); Mayan Glyphs (read with dictionary)

OTHER SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Extensive experience with Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop. Some programming ability in HTML and Visual BASIC.

Experience with clerical work, especially filing and computer installation (hardware and software).

Six years of musical training, including theory, history, performance (piano, voice, and saxophone), and ethnomusicology.

Basic ability with identification and sexing of human osteological remains.

Some professional media experience, serving as opinion columnist for the Daily Mississippian, Oxford, MS, and disk jockey for Rebel Radio, Oxford, MS.

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