Bridgette Degnan

Bridgette Degnan is a graduate student in the Archaeology wing of the Anthropology Department at UC Santa Barbara and a Graduate Student Fellow at the Broom Center. Her research interests span Maya archaeology, economic systems, social networks, and computational archaeology. She focuses on how complex social systems in the Maya region respond and adapt to environmental instability, studying political, economic, and demographic transitions. Bridgette is also interested in human interactions within the Maya economy, including marketplaces, obsidian trade networks, and lithic production. She holds BAs in Anthropology and Economics from the University of Virginia.