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My research is based in the northern Andes between Ecuador and southwestern Colombia as well as in the U.S. Southwest. I study the development of late Pre-Columbian Barbacoan identity and complexity as well as the transitional colonial experiences faced under the Inkas and subsequently the Spanish. I am a Director and Founder of Proyecto Arqueológico Cochasquí-Mojanda. Lately I have researched late Pre-Columbian to early Spanish Colonial transformations of Andean notions of difference, particularly disability and gender. Within my professional work in New Mexico, I study the “non-Pueblo” world – understanding Pre-Columbian cultural developments of hunter-gatherer societies, their interregional relationships with Pueblo societies, and the subsequent impacts of the colonial Spanish, Mexican, and American governments on the Apache, particularly the Mescalero and Chiricahua societies. I am an archaeological anthropologist that actively incorporates ethnohistory into my research.