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Kayeleigh Sharp

Kayeleigh Sharp

Adjunct Faculty

Education:

  • BA, Archaeology/Anthropology, Spanish min., 2005 (Metropolitan State University of Denver)
  • MA, Archaeology/Anthropology, 2009 (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)
  • PhD, Archaeology/Anthropology, 2019 (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale) 

Courses Taught: 

  • Cultural Anthropology
  • World Cultures
  • Introductory Anthropology: 4-Field Approach
  • Anthropology of Latino/a/x Cultures
  • Archaeological Field Methods 

Research Interests:

  • ancient South America
  • Latino/a/x cultures in Latin American and the U.S.
  • complex societies
  • social inequality
  • anthropology of death
  • preindustrial technology and engineering
  • archaeometry, GIS and spatial analysis,
  • applied Fuzzy logic and computational methods
  • 3D modeling
  • virtual anthropology/archaeology