| Areas of Interest |
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Andes; Classical world; general North American prehistoric archaeology |
| What have you been doing since you’ve graduated? |
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In 2009 I started the cultural resources management division at a small family-owned environmental firm in Texas, Cox|McLain Environmental Consulting. Over the next decade I built the program into one of the largest in the south-central US and became an owner of Cox|McLain. In late 2021 we sold the firm to the Canadian engineering firm Stantec, where I am now a regional principal. It seems like a good fit thus far and for a giant company Stantec seems extraordinarily nice (probably because they’re Canadian, I guess). |
| How did your experience in the program shape your professional and personal life? |
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I loved the purely archaeological focus of the program; I chose it because at the time it was the only freestanding archaeology department in the US. |
| What interactions with members of the Archaeology faculty did you value most during your time in the program? |
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Hard to even know where to begin… so many great memories of late night dinners and wide-ranging discussions with Mughal, pragmatic mentoring from Goldberg and McAnany, phenomenal teaching tips from Runnels, inappropriate but ultimately good-hearted comments from Beaudry, jousting with Hammond, etc etc etc. |
