Paula N. Doumani Dupuy graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 2014 after successfully defending her dissertation, titled "Bronze Age Potters in Regional Context: Long-term Development of Ceramic Technology in the Eastern Eurasian Steppe Zone". After receiving her Ph.D., Paula was selected as a Volkswagen Foundation Postdoctoral Researcher at Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel in Germany.
Paula will soon begin an appointment in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan.