Elauna Hicks is from Murfreesboro Tennessee where she earned her B.S. in Anthropology with minors in Forensic Anthropology and Honors at Middle Tennessee State University in 2025.

Her focus is forensic anthropology and research interests include structural violence, human osteology, and identification of missing individuals with the Mississippi Repository for Missing and Unidentified Persons. Her end goal is becoming board certified at the master’s level by the American Board of Forensic Anthropologists.

Madisen James graduated Magna Cum Laude from Troy University in May 2025 with her B.S. in Anthropology, dual minoring in Forensics and Social Sciences.

In the summer before graduate school, she held a NAGPRA internship at the Alabama Department of Archives and History. Pursuing her M.A. in the Forensic Anthropology track, Madisen is interested in the medicolegal applications for returning missing and murdered individuals to their families.

Coming from a military family based out of Louisville, KY, Madisen is passionate about traveling which led to her attending the Vada Volaterrana Archaeological Field School in Italy during her undergraduate years.

Noah is originally from Murfreesboro, TN. He graduated with a major in Anthropology and a minor in GIS.

After graduating he spent a summer doing underwater archaeology in the Gulf of Mexico before working as an archaeological technician for various companies. He is focusing on bio-archaeology. His research interests include the relationship between labor-rights and skeletal trauma, osteology, and historical archaeology.

Nicolette grew up in western Pennsylvania and graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2025, obtaining a B.A. in Anthropology – Archaeology track, with a minor in Religious Studies and a certificate in Cultural Competencies.

She studies forensic anthropology, and her interests involve work on missing and unidentified people, with a focus on missing children. Other research interests include child abuse, the usage of minimally invasive forensic techniques, and the relationship communities build with their local forensic anthropologist.

Remi Sheibley is from Bridgewater, Massachusetts.

She received her B.A. in Sociology with minors in Forensic Science and Anthropology from Quinnipiac University in 2025. During her undergraduate studies, she conducted research on commingled assemblages in the United Arab Emirates and Hungary.

She currently studies bioarchaeology and her research interests include commingled skeletal assemblages, disaster archaeology, structural violence, and trauma analysis.

Katie Kling is originally from Portland, Oregon, but has relocated to Kansas City, Kansas.

She received her B.A. in Anthropology with minors in Forensic Science and Greek and Roman Studies from Baylor University in 2025. During her time at Baylor, Katie became involved with the San Giuliano Archaeological Research Project (SGARP) in the Parco Regionale Marturanum, located in central Italy. Most recently, in the 2025 season, she contributed to the ongoing survey of over 600 rock-cut Etruscan tombs located in the park.

Katie's subfield focus is archaeology, and her broader research interests include Central Italy and the Mediterranean, the Etruscans, funerary and mortuary archaeology, landscape archaeology, and the application of GIS in archaeological research.

Jack Green is from Oxford, Mississippi and holds a B.A. in Anthropology with a minor in Religious Studies from Washington University in St. Louis.

His undergraduate and post -graduate work has included analyzing archaeological plant remains, overhauling archaeological collections, modeling radiocarbon data, presenting on southeastern iconography, and working as an archaeological field technician. Jack's research area is broadly southeastern archaeology with a focus on the late pre-contact Mississippi River Valley.

The various aspects of inquiry he focuses on are mound studies; Indigenous archaeology; landscapes; memory; foodways; and historical approaches to precontact archaeological interpretation. Methodologically he is interested in remote sensing technologies, ceramic analysis, GIS applications, and statistical analysis of radiocarbon data

Lauren is from Frisco, Texas and graduated with her B.A. in anthropology from the University of Oklahoma in December of 2024.

As an undergrad, she performed excavations throughout the plains and interned at the Oklahoma Archaeological Survey doing artifact analysis. After graduation, Lauren worked as a culture resource management field technician in Oklahoma. Her research interests include southeastern archaeology with a focus on ceramics as well as public outreach and working directly with descendent communities.

My name is Maureen White, I grew up in Panama City, Florida and attended the University of Florida for my BA in Anthropology. I worked in cultural resource management for two years before moving to Starkville to study bioarchaeology and landscape archaeology. I'm specifically interested in where people buried their dead in relation to their monuments and the use of heavy metals in mortuary contexts.

I am from Madison, Mississippi, and did my undergrad here at Mississippi State. I came out of my undergraduate experience in the spring of 2022 with a B.A. in anthropology and history. I am interested in Archeology and more specifically the period of time between initial European contact to the end of the colonial period in Mississippi and the Southern United States. I would like to be able to study more about how contact between European and Native Americans influenced both societies.