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.
Interns
Dedicated. Passionate. Resilient.
Summer internships provide opportunities to build career pathways while working alongside professionals in the field.


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.

Rebecca Renteria
2022 Lab Intern
Rebecca is a Ph.D. student at the University of Arizona focusing on the intersections of archaeology, foodways, and diabetes.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Eric Gilmore
2022 Zooarchaeology intern
Eric is a graduate student at the University of North Texas with focuses in zooarchaeological research.

Liv Winnicki
2022 Field Intern
Liv is an archaeology graduate student at Binghamton University focusing her research at Chaco Canyon.

Esry Mora
2022 Dendrochronology Intern
Esry recently graduated from the University of Arizona with a focus in Anthropology, Library Information Sciences, and Dendrochronology.

Julia Coverdale (they/them/theirs)
2022 Lab Intern
Julia 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.
Former Interns

Colleen Strawhacker
Research Associate; 2003 Intern; 2006 Intern

Christy Stewart
2017 Lab Intern
Christy is interested in ceramics, population movement, and Puebloan archaeology.

Kate Hughes
Laboratory Analyst; 2006 Intern
Kate is interested lithic and textile technologies, Southwestern and Great Basin archaeology, and public archaeology.

Sarah Seaberg
2019 Field Intern
Sarah is a recently graduated anthropology student, interested in traditional ecological knowledge and human-environment interactions over time.

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.

Kyle Bocinsky
Research Associate; 2012 Field Intern
Kyle is a computational archaeologist interested in human-environment interactions in the past, present, and future.

Steve Wolverton
Research Associate; 1997 Intern
Steve Wolverton is an ethnobiologist who specializes in environmental archaeology and animal ecology.

Roy Palmer
2018 Education Intern
Roy is a graduate student in public history, focusing on Southeastern indigenous populations, and public archaeology pedagogy.

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..

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.

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.

Meadow Coldon
2018 Field Intern
Meadow is interested in textile processing, communication, and illustrated representations of material culture.

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.

Sandra Zarzycka
2019 Field Intern
Sandra is interested in understanding human-environmental interactions within the American Southwest using geographical and geoarchaeological perspectives.

Radek Palonka
Research Institute; 2005 Intern
Radoslaw examines settlement structure and the socio-cultural changes around Sand Canyon Pueblo during the 13th Century.

Rebecca Morris
2016 Lab Intern
Rebecca studies the interplay between community conformity and individuality through household archaeology and ceramic analysis.

Jeremy Grundvig
2021 Education Intern; Mission Associate;
Jeremy studies Geographic Information Sciences at the University of Arizona and is interested in spatial correlations between agriculture, trade and architecture in the ancient 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.

Sarah Oas
Research Associate; 2010 Intern
Sarah is a paleoethnobotanist interested in the relationships between foodways and processes of social transformation.

Sarah Amelia Foster
2019 Lab Intern
Sarah studies the preceramic and early agricultural periods of the northern Southwest region of the U.S.

Jessica Petrie
2017 Field Intern
Anna is interested in Ancestral Puebloan archaeology, cultural resource management on public lands, and groundstone technologies.

Bethany Wurster
2016 Lab Intern
Bethany is a graduate student at Utah State University interested in lithic tool organization, and lab and curatorial research.

Jonathan Dombrosky
2021–2022 Postdoctoral Scholar; Research Associate; 2015 Field Intern
Jon is a zooarchaeologist broadly interested in human-environment interactions from the past to the present.

Thea O’Hea
2019 Education Intern
Thea is an archaeology student at Boston University interested in the history of Puebloan ceramic artistry.

Addy Zeigen
2019 American Indian Initiatives Intern
Addy is interested in Heritage Resource Management, Collaborative Archaeology, and community engagement and outreach.

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.

Mariana Lujan Sanders
2019 Lab Intern
Mariana studies indigenous cultural continuity and change in former Spanish colonies.

Genevieve Woodhead
2017 Lab Intern
Genevieve is an archaeology graduate student studying art, symbolic imagery, and representation in the Southwest.

Allison Jordon
2016 Lab Intern
Allison is interested in lithic technologies, rock art, and prehistoric trade connections throughout the Southwest.

Sam Bomkamp
2018 Field Intern
Sam studies Southwest archaeology, museum studies, and prehistoric interactions between Paquimé and the American Southwest.

Esmeralda Ferrales
2019 Field Intern
Esmeralda is an archaeologist interested in the archaeology of death, ritual, and religion within the Southwest.

Catherine Elliot
2018 Lab Intern
Catherine is interested in digital archaeology, online archiving, and data curation.

Emily Tarantini
2018 Lab Intern
Emily is interested in archaeological collections management, museum anthropology, and repatriation.

Jessica Weinmeister
2021 Public Archaeology Intern
Jessica studies the prehistory of the Four Corners Region with an emphasis in lithic analysis.

Ella Crenshaw
2021 Public Archaeology Intern
Ella studies archaeology at the University of Oklahoma with a focus on public archaeology, outreach, and museum anthropology.

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.

Amanda Dobrov
2019 Field Intern
Amanda is interested in household archaeology, ceramic analysis, artifact digitization, and community-based archaeology.

Rebecca (Becky) 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.

Laura Brumbaugh
2018 Field Intern
Laura is interested in the material evidence of intercultural interaction and integration, as well as material and social inequality.

Katie Portman
2021 Dendrochronology Intern; 2018 Field Intern
Katie is interested in water management, community organization, and how contemporary people interact with the past.

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.