Professional Information
I am a museum professional and freelance archaeological illustrator with a BA in Archaeology specializing in illustration, cartography, lithics, and artifact analysis. I currently live in London working at the Royal Museums Greenwich as well as pursuing an MA in Artefact Studies with University College London's Institute of Archaeology. I have many interdisciplinary interests, such as ancient city-state economics, lithic artifacts, Maya Hieroglyphic Script, geology, Salish Sea Basketry, pre-contact American Indigenous life, Medieval Alchemy, and the role of biogeography & landscapes in a culture.
Work Experience
Royal Museums Greenwich - Visitor & Retail Assistant
2019 - present
As a visitor assistant, I got the chance to work in nearly every aspect of the National Maritime Museum and Queens House buildings; providing general customer service to visitors of both museums, giving short presentations on various stories told by the collections at the museum, guiding tours, ringing up customer's purchases, restocking shelves, announcing the events and closing of the museum during the appropriate times.
Equinox Research Consulting International - Archaeologist
Jul. 2018 - Sept. 2018
At ERCI, I worked with a team of archaeologists on a variety of projects, often performing shovel testing during the preliminary stages of construction or maintenance of a site. Duties included digging 1 x .5 meter holes, sifting through soil for any cultural material, and recording data such as stratigraphy, artefacts found, or notable changes in the difficulty of the digging and compiling it into a report. I also monitored excavations conducted on constructions sites by contracted workers, where I collected cultural material encountered as well as took notes, pictures, and samples from trenches dug for pipe installation etc.
Western Washington University - Professional Note Taker
Jan. 2017 - Mar. 2018
As a professional note taker for the Disability Resource Center with WWU, I attended every class as scheduled to take notes on lecture materials, labs, as well as any book chapter notes or other course material notes for numerous anthropology and environmental studies classes. These notes were then supplied to students who otherwise due to physical or mental disabilities could not take notes. The position is facilitated through the Disability Resource Center at Western Washington University.
Skills
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ArcGISPro and QGIS
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Adobe Suite: Illustrator and Photoshop CS4 and CS5
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PastPerfect archiving software
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Microsoft Office Suite
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Typing Speed: 58 wpm
Volunteering
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Hovander House: 2017- 2018 As a volunteer Historical Docent at the Hovander House, I provided tours and educational information to visitors about the history of the Hovander Family, their homestead, and the Pioneer-era artifacts on the property. Also assisted in curating displays of various artifacts from the Hovander collection.
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Roeder Home in Bellingham, WA. Duties included reorganizing and rehousing artifacts within the houses as well as researching local archives for information to include in display cases and other exhibits, creating educational maps of Roeder Family businesses from the early 20th century, as well as curating museum displays
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Classics Club: 2014-2016 Participated as a Member and Club Leader of the WWU Classics Club; Lead weekly meetings with fellow leaders of the club as well as peers interested in the Classical era of Mediterranean Antiquities; usually discussed literature, history, plays, and art from the Greek and Roman culture areas & pop culture Classics references.
Academic Career
University College London - Master of Arts: Artefact Studies
2018 - present
Conducted research on Iron Age English artefacts, Maya grindstone techniques in Jade Carved Artefacts, concentrated on technological feats of ancient cultures, cataloguing assemblages, analysis of lithic tool manufacture, object illustration, conservation techniques in archaeology, curation and collections management, and Maya Architecture/Archaeology.
Western Washington University - Bachelor of Arts: Anthropology
2014 - 2018 {Archaeology Concentration}
Participated in research of Coast Salish lithic assemblages, object illustration, archiving in PastPerfect software, creating maps in ArcGISPro, taking publication-level photographs of artifacts, editing with Photoshop / Illustrator, applied multi-disciplinary topics of ecogastronomy geography and nutrition to archaeology, studied many aspects of Coast Salish, Mayan, Greek and Mississippian cultures.
Internships & Placements
Cama Beach State Park - Archivist and Digitizer
Jun. 2018 - Sept. 2018
Undertook an internship with Washington State Parks in their historical artifacts collection at Cama Beach State Park, where I completed an independent project photographing, describing, and digitizing the photos and paper artifacts (as well as a few 3-D artifacts) that were significant to the history of the park and Camano Island. I also curated the Visitor Center display at the conclusion of the project.
Field Work
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Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance project; spent 1 month in the 2019 field season excavating the Baking Pot site and illustrating various artefacts and glyphs from the site.
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Hatfield Earthworks: spent 2 weeks in the field in Wiltshire, England on a project facilitated by the University of Reading Archaeology department as well as the heritage preservation trust English Heritage. Assisted in excavating at two sites within the Hatfield Earthworks; Marden Henge and Cattez Brazen.
Languages
English
Conversational Spanish
Conversational Norwegian
WWU Archaeology Lab - Intern
Apr. 2017 - Aug. 2017
For 5 months, I took part in a placement with Western Washington University's Anthropology Department Archaeology Lab conducting research and learning the various aspects of museological studies. Duties included utilizing Past Perfect archival software to accession artefacts as well as edit and organize information on assemblages within the collection, illustrate lithic flakes for the comparative education collections, and completing numerous rehousing projects.