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Career

· Research Coordinator, College of Information Studies (INFO), University of Maryland2023–
· Master's degree, Gaming, Entertainment and Media Analytics, University of Maryland2023–2025
· Undergraduate Research Assistant, College of Information Studies (UMD iSchool), University of Maryland2022–2023
· Office Support Assistant, Hirschel Savitcz Parker & Hollman2019–2019
· Information Science, Information Technology, 3.555, University of Maryland2019–2023
· 3.93, Quince Orchard High School2015–2019

Publications (123)

Drivers and trajectories of land cover change in East Africa: human and environmental interactions from 6000 years ago to present
2018
173
cited
The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology
2013
167
cited
When Did the Swahili Become Maritime?
American Anthropologist · 2015
157
cited
The ‘moving frontier’ and the transition to food production in Kenya
2004
105
cited
Possibilities for a postcolonial archaeology in sub-Saharan Africa: indigenous and usable pasts
2011
103
cited
Anthropological contributions to historical ecology: 50 questions, infinite prospects
PLoS ONE · 2017
98
cited
Archaeological approaches to East Africa’s changing seascapes
2004
85
cited
Archaeology in the age of the Anthropocene: A critical assessment of its scope and societal contributions
2015
83
cited
Mapping past human land use using archaeological data: A new classification for global land use synthesis and data harmonization
PLoS ONE · 2021
75
cited
Historical Ecologies of Pastoralist Overgrazing in Kenya: Long-Term Perspectives on Cause and Effect
Human Ecology · 2019
54
cited
The Use and Abuse of Ethnography in the Study of the Southern African Iron Age
1994
51
cited
Past perspectives for the future: foundations for sustainable development in East Africa
2014
50
cited
Viral News on Social Media
2019
48
cited
Integrating stakeholders’ perspectives and spatial modelling to develop scenarios of future land use and land cover change in northern Tanzania
PLoS ONE · 2021
47
cited
Environmental Narratives and the History of Soil Erosion in Kondoa District, Tanzania: An Archaeological Perspective*
2009
46
cited
Mapping the Elephants of the 19th Century East African Ivory Trade with a Multi-Isotope Approach
PLoS ONE · 2016
45
cited
New Dates for Kansyore and Urewe Wares from Northern Nyanza, Kenya
2006
41
cited
Middle Holocene fishing strategies in East Africa: zooarchaeological analysis of Pundo, a Kansyore shell midden in northern Nyanza (Kenya)
2010
36
cited
Conservation through Biocultural Heritage—Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa
Land · 2019
35
cited
Tswana architecture and responses to colonialism
1997
35
cited
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