I am an anthropological archaeologist with research interests centered on the food and foodways of early urban settlements, human-environmental interactions surrounding food production and management, and the political and economic structures that shape subsistence practices. My dissertation research investigates Early Bronze Age (3100–2500 BCE) urban locales across the Southern Levant, with a particular focus on how food provisioning strategies influenced the development, sustainability, and eventual decline of early cities. To address these questions, I apply an integrative methodological approach that includes zooarchaeology, stable isotope analysis, Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS), and SEM-based morphometrics.

My research is grounded in extensive primary fieldwork across the Southern Levant, where I have directed excavations and conducted faunal and isotopic analyses. In addition to this regional focus, I am involved in several comparative projects in Central Asia, the South Caucasus, Southwest Iran, and the United States. These secondary projects expand the application of my urban foodways framework to new temporal and cultural contexts, contributing to a broader understanding of how food systems shape and reflect social complexity across diverse archaeological landscapes.