My interests in Material Culture and Materiality are grouped generally into four topics (in no particular order):

• Combining "scientific" materials analyses and interpretive anthropological material culture approaches to produce nuanced archaeological understandings of materials. In doing so, I provide materially-situated examples that can be used to interrogate the traditional academic divisions between scienceand humanities-based research questions and methodologies.

greene farm ice houe, 1782-present, Warwick, RI

• Materials use, transformation, and recirculation.

recirculating materials / tourist trap, Tunis

• Transformations in archaeological practice (past, present, and future) in response to technologies and media.

• Modern material culture and the archaeology of popular culture.

reconstructed trojan horse w/ "no smoking" sign on leg, Cannakale

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