Clare Randolph, M.A.

Clare is a PhD student in the OBT lab at Columbia University. She received her BA in Ecology from Rice University in 2016 and her M.A. in Anthropology at Penn State in 2022. During her time at Rice, Clare
switched her focus to archaeology and attended field school in Songo Mnara where she became interested in pursuing historical ecology questions regarding past human marine resource use. Clare’s current interests are heavily influenced by her early training as a marine ecologist. She is focused on learning more about how humans have used marine resources over time, and how this use might affect the ecology of marine landscapes in the present. Specifically, Clare is researching Swahili use of coral as a building material along the east African coast and how the past harvesting of coral has affected the marine ecology of the region. Clare is an avid SCUBA diver and loves to be in the water any chance she can get. You can find her hiking,
collecting bones for her reference collection, and spending time with her dog on her days off. To contact Clare,
mail [email protected].