Successful PhD defence for Jose Julian Garay-Vazquez

Jose Julian Garay-Vazquez, whose PhD was supervised by Dorian Fuller and Jose Oliver, focused on the agricultural pathways of precolonial Boriken (Puerto Rico) to provide a more detailed understanding of Pan-Caribbean botanical culinary traditions.

Jose gained his BA degree from the University of Puerto Rico before coming to the Institute to undertake, firstly the MSc degree programme in Environmental Archaeology and subsequently, his PhD research.

Jose passed his PhD viva in late December and is now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Exeter on the ERC-funded interdisciplinary Last Journey project that explores Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene human adaptations and impacts across the diverse landscapes of northwest South America.

Congratulations Jose!

Links

• PhD research at UCL
• Last journey project website