Honored to have been recognized by UTK for extraordinary teaching! This is bittersweet, since I won't be teaching next year, but I look forward to ending the year with some of my favorite topics — tobacco and colonialism, then Moundbuilders and Pseudoarch Bingo next week!

📸 Britt Cole Photography

When you're only in the field for a long weekend and don't want to buy your usual food...

Thrilled to have been chosen as a 2025-2026 Graduate Fellow at the Denbo Center for Humanities and the Arts!

Finally warm and well enough to get some yard work done. Trimmed back the rosemary A BUNCH to dehydrate and make room for other plants later this spring.

Samwise, loyal friend and true hero of our household, loves the chilly weather and cozy fire

It's #fieldworkfriday! Over the summer of 2024, I worked with the Overfield Tavern Museum in Troy, Ohio to run a field school through UTK.

The Overfield Tavern is the oldest building in Troy. When it was built, it also served as the town courthouse and a communal gathering space.

#archaeology

We grew sweet potatoes for the first time this year! Here's hoping the curing stage goes well 🤞

#gardening

The cold weather in Tennessee today has me reminiscing about mountaintops in Maine

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It's #FieldworkFriday! To celebrate, here is the cat who kept visiting the Overfield Tavern during our field school this summer. The students named him Plumbbob and he has excellent whiskers.

Hi! I am Elizabeth, a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. I study trade and exchange in the 17th century Atlantic. When I'm not working on my diss, you can catch me hiking, baking, or in this spot reading.

Last read: The Will of the Many by James Islington