Jennifer Todaro

PhD Candidate

Area of interest: Ancient Egyptian and Nubian tattoos, body modification, and adornment. Intersections of person and object and how these inform identity construction from individual to societal scales.


Jennifer Todaro earned her BA in Archaeology from Columbia University, graduating Summa Cum Laude in 2023, having presented at the 'Inked up, Marked Out' Symposium, The SAfA Annual Conference, and at the TAG Conference. She has been published in Sapient, The Columbia University Undergraduate Journal of Biological Anthropology, No. 8., 2021; and been honored with the Eric Foster Bam Endowed Scholarship, the Barbara Moss Scholarship, the Ralph and Rose Solecki Award, the Judith Lee Stronach Scholarship, the Robert Stigler Award for Archaeological Fieldwork, The Daniel H. Weiskotten Scholarship, the MacCracken Fellowship and membership in Phi Beta Kappa among awards.