She has also taught at Fordham University, Columbia University, and, for the past seven years, at Barnard College. Meredith holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University, an M.A. in the Social Sciences from the University of Chicago, and a B.A. in Art History from Swarthmore College. Her main research projects thus far have focused upon the health-related experiences of 19th-century Irish immigrants in New York City and Seneca Village, the primarily African American community that existed in what is now New York City’s Central Park. In addition to her archaeological fieldwork in New York City, she has also worked on sites in upstate New York and in the Southwest and has worked with artifacts from all of these sites.