Paulina Przystupa (She/They/No pronouns)

Paulina F. Przystupa is a Filipine-Polish descent person, born in Canada and raised in the United States. Paulina studied at the University of Washington (Seattle, WA, USA) where she earned a B.A. (2012) majoring in History and Anthropology. She earned her MA (2014) and PhD (2025) at the University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM, USA), also in anthropology, solidifying her research program to study socialization and assimilation at children’s institutions in the late 19th and early 20th century in the United States. Paulina has field experience in Australia, New Mexico, Washington, and Alaska and has worked in the private sector both in the United States and abroad. Paulina also develops the Alexandria Archive Institute / Open Context's Data Literacy Program and works in pedagogy-focused digital archaeology to understand the dynamic ways people learn and teach in the past and in modern archaeology. In addition, Paulina explores the relationship between popular culture, specifically comic books, and how they portray archaeology as a discipline as a way for us to explore the public's understanding of what archaeologists do and what they've discovered.