Gail has worked in social science research for more than 25 years. She is an anthropologist with specialization in archaeology (paleoethnobotany, economic specialization through material culture).
As laboratory director of multi-year, multi-site archaeological research projects in South America her responsibilities ranged from data management and artifact registration to teaching under-represented groups in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. As a licensed archaeologist in Peru, Gail developed an inventory system for artifact integration and collection maintenance that the Intituto Nacional de Cultura of Peru adopted to improve management of the artifacts curated each year from numerous research expeditions. As guest curator she developed and mounted several museum exhibits including the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, Arizona State University Museum of Anthropology, Tempe History Museum and the Casa Grande Museum of History.
Gail regularly supports the work of IRMA as a research associate, applying her detail-oriented research skills to help build systematic literature reviews and to classify, catalogue and interpret documented results across many fields within humanitarian action.
