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• I am Professor of Biological Anthropology and have been at ECU since 2003. I teach courses on human osteology, bioarchaeology, and mortuary archaeology, and the history of human diseases. Most of my research focuses on 1st century B.C. - 7th century A.D. Jordan, but I supervise graduate students interested in numerous aspects of bioarchaeology. Some recent examples of MA theses that I have directed include bioarchaeological analyses a late 17th and early 18th century A.D. family cemetery in North Carolina, isotopic analysis to understand diet in ancient Petra, and paleopathological analysis of metabolic disease in 19th century Jordan.
  I have been working on archaeological projects in Jordan for 30 years and am a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Center of Research (ACOR) in Amman, Jordan. I currently am Director of the Petra North Ridge Project, which focuses on the excavation of 1st century A.D. tombs and 1st - 4th century domestic structures .