KITTY F. EMERY is Assistant Curator of Environmental Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida[kemery@flmnh.ufl.edu] and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Latin American Studies at University of Florida. With degrees from Trent University (B.Sc. 1986), University of Toronto (M.A. 1989), and Cornell University (MA 1992; PhD 1997), she was an Assistant Professor at SUNY Potsdam (1997-2000) and held a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Centre for Biodiversity at the Royal Ontario Museum (1998) before moving to her current position. Emery conducts environmental archaeology research at various Maya sites in Guatemala and Honduras and specializes in zooarchaeological reconstructions of Mesoamerican diet, environment, and economics. Recent research has been multidisciplinary, combining soil studies, archaeobotany, and isotopic research with zooarchaeology to investigate the economics of natural resource use in the ancient Maya world.

Her website is http://www.environmental-archaeology.com and her official work website is http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/envarch.