Julie Hoggarth

Julie joined BVAR as a field school student in 2001. As part of BVAR she supervised various excavations at Baking Pot. She has also worked on archaeological projects in Panama, Colorado and California. She received a BA in Anthropology (Concentration in Archaeology), as well as a BA in Latin American Studies, at the University of California San Diego.

In the autumn of 2005 she started her graduate studies in Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh and in 2007 she re-joined the BVAR project to initiate a comprehensive program of settlement excavations in the epicentre and core of Baking Pot. The ambitious program aims to survey a 9 km2 core area centred on the monumental epicentre of Baking Pot and to test 20% of the intervening housemounds.

Julie's interests include household archaeology, regional interaction, trade, and the effects of the Classic period collapse on commoner populations.