Intern

Seb graduated magna cum laude from Yale in 2024 with a B.A. in archaeological studies, with honors in the major. While he has conducted archaeological fieldwork in a wide variety of cultural and ecological contexts (including in Belize, Ecuador, Malawi and Spain), his fundamental interest lies in using methods from archaeometry and the natural sciences to tell stories that have been marginalized or erased, regardless of where or when.

His work at Yale included electron microscopy and stable isotope analysis of Middle and Later Stone Age material from Southern Africa, as well as a survey of African burial grounds in colonial New York and research into marronage in the seventeenth century Caribbean.

His undergraduate thesis, “Chains of Currency: Manilla Money Bracelets, Early Modern Africa and the Ties That Bind”, used XRF data to analyze a collection of metal bracelets from the Yale University Art Gallery, to explore their role as a currency in the transatlantic slave trade. The essay received Yale’s Michael D. Coe prize for outstanding senior thesis in archaeology, and has since been peer-reviewed and published (Wang Gaouette and Frahm 2024). Seb plans to pursue further study in archaeology, and is currently applying to graduate school.