Interns
Dedicated. Passionate. Resilient.
Summer internships provide opportunities to build career pathways while working alongside professionals in the field.
Former Interns
Kate Hughes
Laboratory Analyst; 2006 Intern
Kate is interested lithic and textile technologies, Southwestern and Great Basin archaeology, and public archaeology.
Kyle Bocinsky
2012 Field Intern
Kyle is a computational archaeologist interested in human-environment interactions in the past, present, and future.
Sarah Amelia Foster
2019 Lab Intern
Sarah studies the preceramic and early agricultural periods of the northern Southwest region of the U.S.
Steve Wolverton
1997 Intern; University of North Texas
Steve Wolverton is an ethnobiologist who specializes in environmental archaeology and animal ecology.
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.
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.
Mariana Lujan Sanders
2019 Lab Intern
Mariana studies indigenous cultural continuity and change in former Spanish colonies.
Sarah Seaberg
2019 Field Intern
Sarah is a recently graduated anthropology student, interested in traditional ecological knowledge and human-environment interactions over time.
Sandra Zarzycka
2019 Field Intern
Sandra is interested in understanding human-environmental interactions within the American Southwest using geographical and geoarchaeological perspectives.
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.
Liv Winnicki
2022 Field Intern
Liv is an archaeology graduate student at Binghamton University focusing her research at Chaco Canyon.
Ritchie Sahneyah
Tobacco Clan, village of Tewa at Hopi; 2022 American Indian Initiatives Intern
Ritchie is Tobacco Clan from the village of Tewa on Hopi land.
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.
Jessica Petrie
2017 Field Intern
Anna is interested in Ancestral Puebloan archaeology, cultural resource management on public lands, and groundstone technologies.
Isabel (Izzy) Gilliam
2025 Field Intern
Izzy is a recent graduate from Colorado College’s Anthropology program. Her specific research interests include rock imagery studies, lithic analysis, and human adaptation and resilience during periods of climate change in the U.S. Southwest region.
Colleen Strawhacker
2003 Intern; 2006 Intern
Riff Denbow
2025 Field Intern
Riff is a student in Anthropology & Geologic Sciences at the University of Colorado-Boulder interested in the evolution of Indigenous agricultural cultures in the Southwest & on the Great Plains.
Catherine Elliot
2018 Lab Intern
Catherine is interested in digital archaeology, online archiving, and data curation.
Stefania Wilks
2025 Archaeobotany Intern
Stefania is a Ph.D. student at the University of Utah, where she studies what people ate and how they adapted to changes in the environment by looking at plant remains found at archaeological sites.
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.
Roy Palmer
2018 Education Intern
Roy is a graduate student in public history, focusing on Southeastern indigenous populations, and public archaeology pedagogy.
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.
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.
Laine Fischer
2024 Field Intern
Laine studies anthropology and history at the University of Rhode Island with a focus on underwater archaeology and languages.
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.
Logan Balenquah Ash
2024 Lab Intern
Logan studies chemistry at the University of California, Irvine with a focus in nuclear and radiochemistry.
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.
Radek Palonka
2005 Intern
Radoslaw (Radek) examines settlement structure and the socio-cultural changes around Sand Canyon Pueblo during the 13th Century.
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.
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.
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..
Kelsey Reese
Research Associate-LiDAR Group; 2013 Field Intern
Kelsey is a computational social scientist with extensive experience utilizing large-scale geospatial analyses with archaeological datasets.
Katherine Shaum
2014 Laboratory Intern
Katherine is a Southwestern archaeologist who has worked for the National Park Service and private CRM; she currently works for the U.S. Forest Service.
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.
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.
Christy Stewart
2017 Lab Intern
Christy is interested in ceramics, population movement, and Puebloan archaeology.
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.
Kelsey Hanson
CRM Field School Co-Director; 2021 Lister Fellow; 2016 Field Intern
Kelsey is an anthropological archaeologist whose collaborative research and applied CRM leadership focus on sociopolitical organization, technology, and human–environment interactions across the U.S. Southwest, Great Lakes, Texas, and Mexico.
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.
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.
Alexa Uberseder
2025 Laboratory Intern
Alexa is a graduate student at Eastern New Mexico University. Her research interests include food pathways and lithic technology.
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.
Jonathan Dombrosky
Environmental Archaeologist; 2021–2023 Postdoctoral Scholar; 2015 Field Intern
Jon is a zooarchaeologist broadly interested in human-environment interactions from the past to the present.
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.
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.
Addy Zeigen
2019 American Indian Initiatives Intern
Addy is interested in Heritage Resource Management, Collaborative Archaeology, and community engagement and outreach.
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.
Sarah Oas
2010 Intern
Sarah is a paleoethnobotanist interested in the relationships between foodways and processes of social transformation.
Lydia Evans
2025 Zooarchaeology Intern
Lydia is a Ph.D. student in Anthropology at the University of Illinois, focusing on social zooarchaeology, human-canid relationships, and anti-colonial methods.
Allison Jordon
2016 Lab Intern
Allison is interested in lithic technologies, rock art, and prehistoric trade connections throughout the Southwest.
Amanda Dobrov
2019 Field Intern
Amanda is interested in household archaeology, ceramic analysis, artifact digitization, and community-based archaeology.
Sam Bomkamp
2018 Field Intern
Sam studies Southwest archaeology, museum studies, and prehistoric interactions between Paquimé and the American Southwest.
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.
Jessica Weinmeister
2021 Public Archaeology Intern
Jessica studies the prehistory of the Four Corners Region with an emphasis in lithic analysis.
Scott Ortman
Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder
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.
Meadow Coldon
2018 Field Intern
Meadow is interested in textile processing, communication, and illustrated representations of material culture.
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.
Clancy Gonzales
2025 Field Intern
Clancy is an archaeology master’s student at Utah State University whose research interests include lithics and subsistence strategies in the U.S. Southwest and Great Basin.
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.
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.
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.
Thea O’Hea
2019 Education Intern
Thea is an archaeology student at Boston University interested in the history of Puebloan ceramic artistry.
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.
Ivan Clow
2024 Lab Intern
Ivan studies at Hampshire College with a focus on Bioarcheology and Indigenous Studies.
Eric Gilmore
2022 Zooarchaeology intern
Eric is a graduate student at the University of North Texas with focuses in zooarchaeological research.
Genevieve Woodhead
2017 Lab Intern
Genevieve is an archaeology graduate student studying art, symbolic imagery, and representation in the Southwest.
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.
Erina Gruner
Desert Archaeology, Inc.; 2010 Lab Intern
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bethany Wurster
2016 Lab Intern
Bethany is a graduate student at Utah State University interested in lithic tool organization, and lab and curatorial research.
Kalitta Iron
2025 Education Intern
Kalitta (Diné) is currently studying anthropology and preparing to transfer to Northern Arizona University (NAU) in Fall 2025. At NAU, she plans to complete her degree with a focus on cultural anthropology, biological anthropology, archaeology, and Indigenous studies.
Katie Portman
2021 Dendrochronology Intern; 2018 Field Intern
Katie is interested in water management, community organization, and how contemporary people interact with the past.
Rebecca Morris
2016 Lab Intern
Rebecca studies the interplay between community conformity and individuality through household archaeology and ceramic analysis.
Esry Mora
2022 Dendrochronology Intern
Esry recently graduated from the University of Arizona with a focus in Anthropology, Library Information Sciences, and Dendrochronology.
Esmeralda Ferrales
2019 Field Intern
Esmeralda is an archaeologist interested in the archaeology of death, ritual, and religion within the Southwest.
Tyrien Fixico
2023 Field Intern
Tyrien is interested in drawing comparisons between modern and ancient Pueblo peoples to develop meaningful insight for contemporary communities.
Madison Drew
2025 Field Intern
Madison is a Ph.D. student in archaeology at the University of New Mexico with a focus on prehistoric Southwest ornamentation, ritual practice, and ritual paraphernalia.
Emily Reed
2025 Archaeobotany Intern
Emily is a recent graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with a focus on human-environment interaction, archaeobotany, and climate resilience strategies through time.
Laney Brink
2025 Laboratory Intern
Laney is interested in the intersections of chemistry and cultural heritage, focusing on how scientific analyses of ancient materials can help uncover the stories behind artifacts.
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.
Laura Brumbaugh
2018 Field Intern
Laura is interested in the material evidence of intercultural interaction and integration, as well as material and social inequality.
Ella Crenshaw
2021 Public Archaeology Intern
Ella studies archaeology at the University of Oklahoma with a focus on public archaeology, outreach, and museum anthropology.
Emily Tarantini
2018 Lab Intern
Emily is interested in archaeological collections management, museum anthropology, and repatriation.
