Melina Seabrook is a second-year Ph.D. student at Harvard University. She studies the changing relationship between humans and animals as urban centers develop. Her main research area is Mesopotamia, specifically in Southern Iraq, but she has also worked in Kenya and Northern Iraq. She won an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Prize in 2019. Her work incorporates zooarchaeological, spatial, micromorphological and isotopic analysis which allows for observations of shifting human-animal interactions at both a macro and micro scale.