Job title:
Ph.D. Student
Department:
Department of Anthropology
Bio/CV:
Emily “Milly” McKenzie is an archaeology Ph.D. candidate in Berkeley’s Department of Anthropology. Her research centers around wetland plant management, subsistence practice, and environmental change in the Andean past. She is trained as a paleoethnobotanist and works in the Circum-Titicaca Basin, where she studies the management of lakeshore plants such as totora (Schoenoplectus californicus) and their role in forming resilient subsistence systems during the Formative Period (1500 BCE - 500 CE).
Milly’s other academic interests include biophilic iconography, domestication, archaeological ethics, and scientific illustration. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and holds a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Alabama.
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