Preferred pronouns: she/her

Anna Catherine is from San Antonio, Texas and received her BA from Baylor University in 2020. It was at Baylor, in 2017, that she began working on the San Giuliano Archaeological Research Project, a diachronic excavation and survey effort interested in the Etruscan and medieval phases of the Parco Regionale Marturanum in central Italy. Over the last several years, Anna Catherine has served as SGARP’s Total Station Director and as a Trench Area Supervisor – but her most recent role during the 2025 season was as Tomb Survey Coordinator.

Anna Catherine also completed her MA at Florida State University and specialized in remote sensing satellite archaeology. Motivated by the limitations of Mediterranean fieldwork during Covid-19. Anna Catherine wrote her MA thesis on upland mining evidence in southwest Sardinia and ground-truthed her results in 2023, confirming her band-ratioing techniques and research conclusions.

Anna Catherine is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Mediterranean Archaeology, and her active research is centered on discerning labor exploitation and social status within the 600+ rock-cut Etruscan tombs of San Giuliano through intensive landscape survey, mapping and computational statistics.

Chairs: Dr. Alex Bentley & Dr. Stephen Collins-Elliot

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) – Society for American Archaeology (SAA) – Anthropology Graduate Student Association (AGSA)