Gina Palefsky

Gina Palefsky is a Ph.D. candidate advised by Dr. Christina Torres-Rouff. Before beginning graduate studies at UC Merced, Palefsky earned a B.A. in Anthropology at UC Berkeley. Her research investigates food as a locus of community cohesion and social identity during a dynamic period of long-distance interaction and immigration in Metal Age central Thailand (c. 1100 BCE – CE 500). Palefsky’s research interests include bioarchaeology, mortuary archaeology, anthropology of food, archaeological applications of stable and radiogenic isotopic analyses, and prehistoric Southeast Asia.