Archaeologist

MSc., Zooarchaeology, University of York, 2023
B.A., Anthropology, Arizona State University, 2020
B.A., Religious Studies, Arizona State University, 2020

Kelsi obtained B.A.s in Anthropology and Religious Studies, with a focus on Global Themes, and a minor in Geologic Sciences from Arizona State University. While in school, Kelsi attended the HOMER Symposium Field School where she learned data recovery methods excavating Paleolithic cave shelters in South Africa and Malawi.

In 2022, while earning her MSc. in Zooarchaeology at the University of York, she volunteered in the Baker and Brothwell Collection where she assisted with the curation and cataloguing of the largest academic animal bone pathology collection. The collection is used to better understand how animal bone pathologies develop and serves as a comparative reference collection.

Kelsi has lived and worked in the Pacific Northwest since 2024, with experience in Washington, Oregon, and Arizona. Her field work has included pedestrian survey, shovel probing, test excavations, construction monitoring, and data entry. She started working with WillametteCRA as a full-time staff member in the fall of 2026.

Kelsi is a member of the International Council for Archaeozoology and of the Association for Washington Archaeology. Her research interests include zooarcheology, geoarchaeology, environmental restoration, and scientific data management and collection.