Katie Jarriel

Background

About Katie Jarriel

I teach interdisciplinary courses in the John Martinson Honors College at Purdue University that combine my background in archaeology with my interests in human-environment interaction, the human body, role-playing games, and collaboration. My research uses computational methods and geographic information systems to I assess community and maritime interaction in the Bronze Age Aegean. I am a co-founder of the Computational Archaeology and Seafaring Theory (CAST) collective of researchers. I collaborate with undergraduate researchers on a variety of projects, such as developing a video game to teach teamwork, assessing active-learning Honors classrooms, and modeling historical navigation in the Marshall Islands and Yap. Finally, I am the Director of the Honors Mentor Program, a co-curricular leadership development program in which Honors students mentor first-year students in teamwork and collaboration skills.