Interns
Dedicated. Passionate. Resilient.
Summer internships provide opportunities to build career pathways while working alongside professionals in the field.
Logan Balenquah Ash
2024 Lab Intern
Logan studies chemistry at the University of California, Irvine with a focus in nuclear and radiochemistry.
Autumn Rose
2024 Outreach Intern
Autumn is a Ph.D. student at the University of Florida with interests in zooarchaeology, biocultural conservation, public outreach, and community-engaged archaeology.
Alexandria Roubideaux
2024 Lab Intern
Alexandria is pursuing an associate’s degree in art history at Pueblo Community College with plans to transfer with a focus on curation, collection management, and museum studies.
Kaeleen Stauffer
2024 Archaeology Field Intern
Kaeleen Stauffer recently graduated from Western Colorado University with a B.A. in both Anthropology and English. She is interested in pursuing a lifelong career in archaeology.
Laine Fischer
2024 Field Intern
Laine studies anthropology and history at the University of Rhode Island with a focus on underwater archaeology and languages.
Former Interns
Summer Brown
2023 Field Intern
Summer studied Anthropology and Coastal Environmental Science at Flagler College. Rooted in a multidisciplinary approach, her research interests include ceramic technologies, Southwestern archaeology, human-environment interactions, landscape and identity, African diaspora, and cultural heritage at risk.
Tara Beresh
2016 Lab Intern
Tara is a Technical Specialist at UNM’s Office of Contract Archaeology interested in perishable material culture and provenience analysis.
Wes Bernardini
2001 Lister Fellow; 1994 Field Intern
Wes’s research focuses on how inferences of human behavior are based on estimates of the scale of that behavior, including specifying the number of people and the amount of labor involved in particular activities.
Catherine (Catt) Gagnon
2022 Education Intern
Catt is pursuing her Masters in Applied Anthropology at the University of Maryland College Park, with a focus on Historical Archaeology specifically researching Chamber Pots in the late 18th – mid 19th centuries.
Eric Gilmore
2022 Zooarchaeology intern
Eric is a graduate student at the University of North Texas with focuses in zooarchaeological research.
Sarah Amelia Foster
2019 Lab Intern
Sarah studies the preceramic and early agricultural periods of the northern Southwest region of the U.S.
Radek Palonka
Research Institute; 2005 Intern
Radoslaw (Radek) examines settlement structure and the socio-cultural changes around Sand Canyon Pueblo during the 13th Century.
Addy Zeigen
2019 American Indian Initiatives Intern
Addy is interested in Heritage Resource Management, Collaborative Archaeology, and community engagement and outreach.
Johnna Oliver
2022 Lab Intern
Johnna recently graduated from the University of Arizona with a Bachelor’s in Sciences in Archaeology with a double minor. She is working on expanding her knowledge to apply to her future career in Cultural Resource Management.
Kelsey Hanson
2016 Field Intern; 2021 Lister Fellow
Kelsey studies prehistoric uses of both natural and constructed landscapes and the multiscalar nature of social and ritual practice.
Esry Mora
2022 Dendrochronology Intern
Esry recently graduated from the University of Arizona with a focus in Anthropology, Library Information Sciences, and Dendrochronology.
Sarah Seaberg
2019 Field Intern
Sarah is a recently graduated anthropology student, interested in traditional ecological knowledge and human-environment interactions over time.
Kelsey Hoppes
2021 Public Archaeology Intern
Kelsey is a Ph.D. graduate student from the University of Colorado at Boulder pursuing collaborative archaeology, hybridizations of material culture, ceramic technologies, resettlement patterns, and trade networks on the Great Plains..
Julia Coverdale
2022 Lab Intern
Julia (they/them/theirs) is an undergraduate studying Anthropology and History at Kansas State University. They are interested in corrugated pottery and its connection to identity, as well as queer archaeology in the Southwest.
Allison Jordon
2016 Lab Intern
Allison is interested in lithic technologies, rock art, and prehistoric trade connections throughout the Southwest.
William Koehler
2023 Laboratory Intern
William (he/him/his) recently graduated from Beloit College with a B.A. in anthropology and classical civilization, with areas of study including public archaeology, bioarchaeology, and the archaeology of ritual and religion.
Kelsey Reese
Research Associate; 2013 Field Intern
Kelsey is currently a Postdoctoral Teaching Scholar in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame and a Research Associate at the Santa Fe Institute.
Sandra Zarzycka
2019 Field Intern
Sandra is interested in understanding human-environmental interactions within the American Southwest using geographical and geoarchaeological perspectives.
Zion Palacios
2023 Field Intern
Zion was conferred baccalaureates in Anthropology and History with minor degrees in Archaeology, Forensic Science, and German from New Mexico State University. His interests are in museum anthropology and ritual prehistory in the American Southwest and Peruvian Andes.
Amanda Dobrov
2019 Field Intern
Amanda is interested in household archaeology, ceramic analysis, artifact digitization, and community-based archaeology.
Jessica Petrie
2017 Field Intern
Anna is interested in Ancestral Puebloan archaeology, cultural resource management on public lands, and groundstone technologies.
Colleen Strawhacker
Research Associate; 2003 Intern; 2006 Intern
Delancey Griffin
2024 American Indian Initiatives Intern
Delancey is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and an undergraduate studying archaeology at Columbia University with a focus on Indigenous archaeology, repatriation, and community-based approaches.
Roy Palmer
2018 Education Intern
Roy is a graduate student in public history, focusing on Southeastern indigenous populations, and public archaeology pedagogy.
Elizabeth (Liz) M. Perry
President & CEO; 1995 Education Intern
Liz is the President and CEO of Crow Canyon. She joined the Board in 2016 and was hired as CEO in January 2018. Liz works closely with the Board to oversee finances, programming, and long-term strategic planning.
Annie Kane
2024 Education Intern
Annie studies anthropology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and is passionate about Southwestern Archaeology, Museum Education, and Community Anthropology. She hopes to make anthropology accessible to all through science communication and interdisciplinary learning.
Laura Brumbaugh
2018 Field Intern
Laura is interested in the material evidence of intercultural interaction and integration, as well as material and social inequality.
Lilly Domenici
2022 Lab Intern
Lilly graduated from the University of New Mexico with a major in archaeology and minor in earth and planetary sciences. She is pursing a master’s in public archaeology at the University of New Mexico, with a focus on items of personal adornment within the southwest.
Christy Stewart
2017 Lab Intern
Christy is interested in ceramics, population movement, and Puebloan archaeology.
Katie Portman
2021 Dendrochronology Intern; 2018 Field Intern
Katie is interested in water management, community organization, and how contemporary people interact with the past.
Jonathan Dombrosky
Environmental Archaeologist; 2021–2023 Postdoctoral Scholar; Research Associate; 2015 Field Intern
Jon is a zooarchaeologist broadly interested in human-environment interactions from the past to the present.
Kyle Bocinsky
Research Associate; 2012 Field Intern
Kyle is a computational archaeologist interested in human-environment interactions in the past, present, and future.
Stephen Uzzle
2023 Dendrochronology Intern
Stephen is a graduate student at the University of Arizona with a focus on applied archaeology and dendroarchaeology in the U.S. Southwest.
Thea O’Hea
2019 Education Intern
Thea is an archaeology student at Boston University interested in the history of Puebloan ceramic artistry.
Sam Bomkamp
2018 Field Intern
Sam studies Southwest archaeology, museum studies, and prehistoric interactions between Paquimé and the American Southwest.
Scott Ortman
Research Associate; 1993 Field Intern
Scott works on the initial formation of Ancestral Pueblo society, its transformation into the Rio Grande pueblos, and the practical value of archaeological findings for society today.
Ritchie Sahneyah
2022 American Indian Initiatives Intern
Ritchie is an undergraduate studying Anthropology at Pima Community College and is interested in studying Ethnoarchaeology focusing in the Southwest Region.
Jessica Weinmeister
2021 Public Archaeology Intern
Jessica studies the prehistory of the Four Corners Region with an emphasis in lithic analysis.
Ahna Lee Feldstein
2023 Zooarchaeology Intern
Ahna Lee Feldstein (she/her/they/theirs) is pursuing a Master’s degree in Archaeology at Boston University with a focus on Zooarchaeology and paleoethnobotany.
Meadow Coldon
2018 Field Intern
Meadow is interested in textile processing, communication, and illustrated representations of material culture.
Erina Gruner
Desert Archaeology, Inc.; 2010 Lab Intern
Katie Kemp
2022 Lab/Field Archaeology Intern
Katie is a graduate student at the University of Montana, Missoula in the Cultural Heritage master’s program. Her thesis research focuses on ground stone food processing activities of Pueblo II sites in Southwestern Colorado.
Carly L. Rusch
2024 Field Intern
Carly is pursuing a M.A. in Culture Resource Management through Adams State University. She is interested in experimental archaeology, public archaeology/outreach as well as ceramic and lithic analysis. She hopes to research power relations through analyzing artifact assemblages.
Julia R. Frost
2024 Field Intern
Julia studies Anthropology and Art Engineering at Ohio State University and is interested in public education, experimental archaeology, and paleoethnobotany.
Clarice Speight McKee
2023 Laboratory Intern
Clarice studies archaeology at the University of Rochester, with a focus on the emergence of complex political structures, and the impact they have on cross-cultural contact.
Ivan Clow
2024 Lab Intern
Ivan studies at Hampshire College with a focus on Bioarcheology and Indigenous Studies.
Emerson McDaniel
American Indian Initiatives Intern
Emerson (they/them/theirs) graduated from the University of New Mexico in 2021, and since then has been focusing on building a career at the intersection of archaeology, linguistics, and uplifting Indigenous voices.
Chelsea Betts
2024 Zooarchaeology Intern
Chelsea studies anthropology at the University of Connecticut with a focus on zooarchaeology. Her research interests include the relationship between feasting and spirituality, and the use of faunal materials to create clothing.
Andres Orozco
2021 Public Archaeology Intern
Andres received his B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Arizona with a focus on the archaeology of the prehispanic Southwest.
Bethany Wurster
2016 Lab Intern
Bethany is a graduate student at Utah State University interested in lithic tool organization, and lab and curatorial research.
Esmeralda Ferrales
2019 Field Intern
Esmeralda is an archaeologist interested in the archaeology of death, ritual, and religion within the Southwest.
Kate Hughes
Laboratory Analyst; 2006 Intern
Kate is interested lithic and textile technologies, Southwestern and Great Basin archaeology, and public archaeology.
Rebecca Hammond
Educator and American Indian Outreach Manager; 1991 Lab Intern
Becky is an experienced educator, founding member of the Native American Advisory Group, and a talented beader.
Mariana Lujan Sanders
2019 Lab Intern
Mariana studies indigenous cultural continuity and change in former Spanish colonies.
Liv Winnicki
2022 Field Intern
Liv is an archaeology graduate student at Binghamton University focusing her research at Chaco Canyon.
Tyrien Fixico
2023 Field Intern
Tyrien is interested in drawing comparisons between modern and ancient Pueblo peoples to develop meaningful insight for contemporary communities.
Rebecca Morris
2016 Lab Intern
Rebecca studies the interplay between community conformity and individuality through household archaeology and ceramic analysis.
Jeremy Grundvig
Mission Associate; 2021 Education Intern
Jeremy supports the Center’s education and research initiatives and is interested in bridging Indigenous knowledge with spatial relationships between agriculture, trade, and architecture in the ancient Southwest.
Connor Ball
2022 Field Intern
Connor studies anthropology at the University of Colorado-Boulder with a focus on Southwest archaeology, lithic analysis, and community archaeology.
Genevieve Woodhead
2017 Lab Intern
Genevieve is an archaeology graduate student studying art, symbolic imagery, and representation in the Southwest.
Michelle Turner
2020–2021 Postdoctoral Scholar; 2013 Field Intern
Michelle is an archaeologist who studies the relationships between Chaco Canyon and its outliers through architecture, ceramics, and other material culture.
Catherine Elliot
2018 Lab Intern
Catherine is interested in digital archaeology, online archiving, and data curation.
Nick Long
2023 Laboratory Intern
Nick (He/Him, They/Them) is a grad student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham obtaining a Master’s degree in Cultural Heritage Studies. Some research interests include Historic Archaeology, Collections Management, NAGPRA, and Community Archaeology.
Steve Wolverton
Research Associate; 1997 Intern; University of North Texas
Steve Wolverton is an ethnobiologist who specializes in environmental archaeology and animal ecology.
Rebecca Renteria
American Indian Initiatives (AII) Outreach Coordinator; 2023 AII Intern; 2022 Lab Intern
Rebecca (she/her) is a Ph.D. student in Arid Lands Resource Sciences at the University of Arizona with a focus on archaeology, K–12 culturally relevant curriculum development, school gardens, and community health.
Ella Crenshaw
2021 Public Archaeology Intern
Ella studies archaeology at the University of Oklahoma with a focus on public archaeology, outreach, and museum anthropology.
Janelle Scarritt
2022 Archaeology Field Intern
Janelle studied anthropology at San Francisco State University and is collecting experience to apply towards a graduate degree and career in archaeology.
R. J. (Reuven) Sinensky
Laboratory Manager; 2011 Archaeobotany Intern
Reuven’s (he/him) research explores the sophisticated foodways and rich culinary histories of farmers Indigenous to what is now the southwestern United States.
Jonah Bullen
2024 Lab Intern
Jonah graduated from the University of Tennessee in 2023 and is interested in studying foodways and human-environment interactions using paleoethnobotanical methods alongside theoretical paradigms such as political ecology and the multi-species turn.
Sarah Oas
Research Associate; 2010 Intern
Sarah is a paleoethnobotanist interested in the relationships between foodways and processes of social transformation.
Emily Tarantini
2018 Lab Intern
Emily is interested in archaeological collections management, museum anthropology, and repatriation.