I am a first-generation graduate student at Syracuse University. My current research interests include socio-economic entanglements, fort communities, and frontier landscapes in the early modern North Atlantic. My ongoing dissertation research (Entangled Frontiers, Entangled Collections: Material Culture of French Fort St. Frédéric, New York) primarily focuses on an under-analyzed collection from substantive mitigation excavations in 1968. I am co-director and co-founder of Syracuse University’s Crown Point Archaeological Field-School, with these excavations supplementing my research into the meta-archaeological record. I also directed the inaugural Community Archaeology Program at Crown Point State Historic Site in 2025. My research objectives include expanding interpretation of the non-military aspects of European colonial fortifications and examining the legacy of New France in early American history. Earning my Certificate of Advanced Study in GIS & Spatial Analysis through Syracuse University’s Geography & the Environment Department, my research engages with the application of remote-sensing technologies towards the location, protection, and recognition of the material legacies of past human actions on contemporary landscapes. I completed my bachelor’s degree with honors from the University of North Georgia in 2017, where I studied history, anthropology, and public service. Prior to enrolling at Syracuse University in 2019, I worked as a historic interpreter for two-years at Washington's Newburgh Headquarters New York State Historic Site. My experience there instilled a strong belief in the importance of engaging our heritage resources with a diverse public. In 2023 & 2024, I joined ongoing archaeological excavations with the Central Region Project at Fort Amsterdam, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in coastal Ghana. This provided field-experience with larger-scale excavations and better understanding of trans-Atlantic relationships in the early modern world and their oft-contested memorialization today. I am honored to have received the 2025 Omohundro Institute-Fort Ticonderoga Fellowship, to research the archaeology of the French Basse-Terre as a comparative context to the communities at Crown Point.