updated September 2020 Grace M. V. Ward Campus Box 114, One Brookings Drive Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130 (313) 212-5393/
[email protected] Education Ph.D. Washington University in St. Louis (expected May 2023) Anthropology (Archaeology) Advisor: Dr. Tristram R. Kidder M.A. Washington University in St. Louis 2018 Anthropology (Archaeology) Advisor: Dr. Gayle J. Fritz B.A. Bryn Mawr College 2014 Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology magna cum laude and departmental honors University of Edinburgh, U.K., semester abroad 2013 Research interests: paleoethnobotany; human-forest relationships; agrobiodiversity; archaeology of the American South; Indigenous land use in the Americas. Awards and Fellowships Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: The Relationship between Foraging Strategy and Social Complexity. National Science Foundation Award No. 1953636 2019 Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation 2018-present Richard Evans Schultes Research Award, Society for Economic Botany 2019 Robert W. Sussman Graduate Research Award, Dept. of Anthropology, Washington U. 2019 George R. Throop Endowment Research Award 2018 Mid-Atlantic Rowing Conference Academic All-Conference Team 2014 Travel funding, Dept. of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College 2012 Conference Papers 2020 Ward, G.M.V. The Food Forests of Mississippi: Investigating Poverty Point-era Land Use at Jaketown. Paper presented at the joint meetings of the Mississippi Archaeology Association and the Louisiana Archaeological Society, Natchez, MS 2019 Ward, G.M.V. People and Plants at Jaketown: A Case Study of Poverty Point-era Landscape Management. Paper presented at the 76th Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Jackson, MS 2019 Ward, G. M. V. People and Plants at Jaketown: The Regional Paleoethnobotany of the Lower Mississippi Valley.