Biography
Baylee (she/her) is a third year PhD student in anthropological archaeology. Her research focuses on the archaeology of Western Kentucky and surrounding areas, exploring the ways in which the historical practices and ethics of care and archaeology can be unsettled and reimagined through Indigenous Archaeology methodologies, concepts of time, the beyond-human world, and legacy collections.
Research Interests
Practices and Ethics of Care; Native American and Indigenous Studies; Settler Colonial Studies; Collaborative Methodologies; Time and Chronology Construction; Beyond-Human and Multispecies Ethnography; Legacy Collections and Collections-based Research; Museums and Archives; Kentucky Archaeology; North American Midwest and Southeast
Education
PhD Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Present)
BA Anthropology, University of Kentucky (2021)
Additional Campus Affiliations
Ethos of Care Graduate Mentoring Steering Committee
Learning Environments in Anthropology Disciplines (LEAD) Graduate Mentor