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Professor Katie Sampeck is a faculty member at the University of Reading, specializing in Latin American Archaeology, Culinary Archaeology, and Digital Methods in Archaeology. Her research focuses on Afro-Latin American societies, Mesoamerican food systems, and the socio-political impacts of commodities like chocolate. She collaborates with institutions such as the British Museum and Harvard University’s Hutchins Center.
- Education:
- Ph.D. in Anthropology, Tulane University, 2007
- B.A. and M.A. in Anthropology/Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 1989–1991
- Research Projects:
- Current project: 'A New Culinary Archaeology of Chocolate,' integrating biomolecular techniques and historical sources to recenter Indigenous agency in chocolate’s global history.
- Fieldwork in El Salvador’s Rio Ceniza Valley and Cherokee homelands in the U.S. Southeast.
- Affiliations:
- Secretary, Fine Cacao and Chocolate Institute
- Executive Board Member, Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology
- Key Contributions:
- Co-organized workshops on Afro-Latin American archaeology at Harvard (2017, 2019).
- Lead editor of Substance & Seduction: Ingested Commodities in Early Modern Mesoamerica (2017).
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