Rory Walsh has successfully defended her dissertation, entitled “Ceramic Specialization and Exchange in Complex Societies: A Compositional Analysis of Pottery from Mahan and Baekje.” Her doctoral committee included Gyoung-Ah Lee, Madonna Moss and Stephen Dueppen from the Department of Anthropology, and Jeff Hanes from History.

Dr. Walsh will be continuing her work as part of the KSPS Laboratory in her new role as Postdoctoral Research Associate this coming academic year. She will be expanding her research to new sites, writing journal articles, and working on publishing her dissertation as a monograph.