Overview
Kate Bajorek is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Medieval Studies program studying human osteology and medieval archaeology. They have worked in CRM (Cultural Resource Management) since 2018 as a field technician and mortuary archaeologist, and since 2022 as a returning field school staff member with Aditu Arkeologia, an archaeological research company based in the Basque Country.
Research Focus
Kate's research focuses on the bioarchaeology of care, particularly on medicine and religion as cooperating strategies of care in the late European Middle Ages. Their dissertation will focus on interpreting the depositional and archaeothanatological histories of commingled and partially articulated human remains deposited in the Silo of Charlemagne, located in Orreaga/Roncesvalles in the Basque Country.
Publications
"Analysis of Avian Eggshell at Belle Grove Plantation." Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology 38 (2022).