Institute at Brown for Environment and Society

Alyssa Bolster

Anthropology

Biography

Alyssa Bolster's research focuses on diet and foodways in the pre-Hispanic Andes, specifically in response to imperialism. She use's traditional bioarchaeological analyses and archaeological chemistry to understand how indigenous communities responded to instability in their foodways, whether that be due to climate change and natural disasters, state encroachment, or changing ideologies.