Anyone claiming the other Yale acceptances? Feel free to PM me! I'd love the opportunity to chat.
A little about myself/my research:
- From Annapolis, MD, currently living in Baltimore
-I'm now working in CRM as a field director for a company based in Washington DC, mostly doing surveys of the national parks system and properties owned by the navy.
-Academically, my research is focused on Iron Age West Africa. I've excavated in The Gambia so far, but due to a recent coup attempt the political situation there is less than ideal, so I may be forced to change locations.
-My advisor at Yale would be Roderick McIntosh, but I'm also really interested in William Honeychurch's work in Mongolia. We both deal with highly mobile societies, often difficult to detect archaeologically, and I feel his methodology would translate well into my contexts.
-Also very interested in bioarch. I've taken a few classes, nothing too in depth though. Definitely an aspect of my skillset I'd like to shore up while at Yale. The possibility of black plague reaching sub-Saharan Africa via trans-Saharan trade routes is something that's been proposed by a few people, but never seriously investigated. Possible dissertation topic?
Other than that, feel free to ask. This goes for anyone else too if you share some of my interests or see something you'd like to talk about. Thanks!