Christopher Schwartz is a postdoctoral researcher at Arizona State University, where he earned his Ph.D. in Anthropology in 2020. He is an anthropological archaeologist who works on field- and collections-based projects in the U.S. Southwest and Mexico. His research focuses on long-distance exchange and interaction between the U.S. Southwest/Mexican Northwest and Mesoamerica, how past humans interacted with animals, and archaeological applications of isotopic analyses.