Ph.D. in Social Anthropology                                                                        2010 

Durham University                                                                                          Durham, England

Topic of Dissertation: “The Ontology of Difference: Nationalism, Localism and Ethnicity in a Greek Arvanite Village”

MA in Cultural Anthropology                                                                    

University of Nebraska                                                                                    Lincoln, Nebraska

Thesis topic: “The Disappearing Art of Albanian Filigree”

As a Champ Fellow (award), spent the summer of 1993, in Albania, doing fieldwork as the first Western anthropologist since 1929.

BA in  Anthropology & Archeology                                                           

University of Nebraska                                                                                    Lincoln, Nebraska