Archaeology
Madison is a second-year PhD student whose research focuses on early hominin fire use and site formation in the lower and middle Pleistocene. She is particularly interested in discovering how hominin behavior was driven by small scale landscape shifts and identifying what kinds of ecological, geographic, and/or geological features enticed hominins to return to specific locations on the landscape. Madison has completed three field seasons in the Turkana Basin in northern Kenya with the Koobi Fora Research and Training Program. She earned her bachelor’s degree in anthropology and a minor in Arabic from Franklin and Marshall College.