Biography
Sarah Paterno (2023-present) is an anthropology PhD student interested in subsistence strategies and landscape modifications in the Llanos de Moxos region of Bolivia. Her research is primarily centered on early context fishing and agricultural practices and how they relate to broader questions of domestication and human-animal relationships. She is also a graduate student fellow in the Mellon Graduate Program in Community-Engaged Scholarship at Tulane. Sarah received a BA in anthropology and BS in neuropsychology at Penn State University. She has worked in the stable isotope and geochemistry lab at Penn State, as well as in cultural resource management throughout Pennsylvania, and has previously worked in the Lake Titicaca Basin of the Andes and in the Beni department of Bolivia.