Postdoctoral Researcher
Research
My current research focuses on chemical and use-wear analysis to investigate global itineraries of glass beads and vessel fragments in southeastern Africa. I am particularly interested in how glass technologies were developed, transferred, and adapted in societies, and how this relates to different scales of exchange, cross-craft interaction, and the mutability of glass in sociocultural contexts.
Biography
I am an archaeological scientist specialising in the chemical analysis of vitreous materials, with a focus on Late Antique and Islamic glass from North Africa and Eurasia. I received a BA in Geography from the University of North Texas (USA) and then moved to the UK in 2019 to obtain my MSc in Archaeological Science at UCL. I recently submitted my PhD at UCL, with a thesis on the typological and chemical analysis of 4th – 11th century glass from North Africa.
Entangled Project 