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Contact Information

Room 288B
Department of Anthropology
607 S Mathews Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801

Office Hours

By appointment
Archaeology
Graduate instructor
Research assistant

Research Interests

Maya Archaeology; Human-animal interactions; Indigenous Sustainability; Stable isotopic analysis; Diet and nutrition study; Zooarchaeology.

Education

Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute, 2018-2019 

MA, Shandong University, 2020

BA, Shandong University, 2017

 

Grants

2025 Forest T. Baker Award for American Anthropology

2025 Whitten Summer Graduate Research Fellowship, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, UIUC

2024 Tinker Foundation Fellowship, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, UIUC

Courses Taught

2025 Fall ANTH 105 World Archaeology

Highlighted Publications

Wang, Yifan, Rachel Taylor. 2025. Chapter 7. Exploring Environment-Human-Animal Sustainable Relationships in Central Belize: Insights from Stable Isotope and Zooarchaeological Analyses. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology vol.19, pp.107-122.https://doi.org/10.62064/rrba.19.11;

Lucero, Lisa J., Rachel Taylor, Yifan Wang, Laura J. Kosakowsky. 2023 Denuded Landscapes and Exposed Neighborhoods: Results of the 2022 Valley of Peace Archaeology Project. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.62064/rrba.18.24