Arianna Garvin

Arianna Garvin received her B.A. in Anthropology and Biology from the University of Virginia in 2017 and her M.A. in Anthropology from the University of California, San Diego in 2020. She is a current graduate student in the UCSD Anthropology program, working under Dr. Paul Goldstein and Dr. Jade d’Alpoim Guedes. Garvin is American and Peruvian and has used archaeobotanical approaches in Perú to explore food-related practices in contexts of diaspora, or the migration or translocation of people to new regions. Her M.A. work focused on the ancient Tiwanaku (ca. A.D. 500-1100) and the role of homeland foods throughout state expansion (A.D. 600- 1100). For her dissertation project, Garvin plans to combine climate modeling and archaeobotanical and geoarchaeological methods to explore human adaptations to El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events at the site of Puerto Malabrigo in the Chicama Valley, Perú. She believes studying ancient socio-ecological systems is important to understanding modern and future cultural responses to ENSO happenings and the climate crisis.