Veronica Peterson is in the doctoral program in archaeology at Harvard University. She has a B.A. with a focus in anthropology and Chinese from Vassar College in New York state, and she worked as a museum registrar in Barbara L. Voss’ historical archaeology lab at Stanford University from 2018–2019. For her doctoral research, Peterson will investigate the archaeology of U.S. immigrant Chinese communities, exploring the foodways of U.S. Chinatowns and residents’ connections to their home villages in China.