Kira earned a B.S. in Anthropology with honors from the University of South Dakota. Her undergraduate thesis was focused on reconstructing childhood health and frailty based on Maya skeletal remains from the Yucatan peninsula. Her research interests include the bioarchaeology of nonadults, specifically how stress and disease impact the developing skeleton, and dental/isotopic analyses.

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. 

Jesse graduated from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2017 and began his masters in the fall of 2022. Growing up in a CRM firm in Memphis, he has over a dozen years of experience in the public sector and has excavated and surveyed across the Southeastern United States, as well as in the Levant, Morocco, and the Caribbean. His current interests include Southeastern and Caribbean Archaeology, Geographic Information Systems, Geoarchaeology and Site Formation Processes. He is working with his advisor, Dr. Shane Miller, on a spatial analysis of ceramic artifacts to assess the integrity of a critically endangered coastal site on St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands.

Jack graduated from University of Richmond in 2020 with a major in Anthropology and minors in Archaeology and Art History. After graduation he spent two years working as a Research Technician with the Museum of the North at the University of Fairbanks Alaska. His research interests include Public Archaeology and the use of photogrammetry and digital spaces to improve access to archaeology.

Daniel is a Mississippi State alum, receiving his B.A in Anthropology a minor in History there in 2023. He has worked at the Butler Mound excavation, as well as volunteering hours at the Old World Bone Lab under Dr. Anna Osterholtz. His interests are at the junction of bioarchaeology, medical history, and nuclear chemistry. 

My name is Bailey Stephenson and I'm from Eupora, MS. I got my bachelor's degree in Anthropology here at Mississippi State and now I am pursuing my master's in applied Anthropology. I'm interested in Mediterranean and household archaeology. 

Sarajane Smith-Escudero received her bachelor’s degree in Honors Anthropology and Latino Studies from the University of Notre Dame in 2023. Sarajane is currently a Graduate Fellow of the National Science Foundation, completing research on missing persons of Mississippi utilizing perspectives of structural violence, necropolitics, and intersectionality. She has done bioarchaeological work on commingled remains from sites in present-day U.A.E., Hungary, Jordan, and Israel, and forensic work in Texas, Mississippi, and in Oklahoma on the Tulsa Race Massacre. Research interests include structural violence and marginalization, geospatial forensic analysis, bone biology, and entheseal changes.

My name is Morgan Scallorn, a graduate student study focused on Cultural Anthropology with topics based in historical anthropology, archival materials, oral history, and curation collections. Originally, I am from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, but I received my Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of South Alabama in 2023. I hope to work in collaboration with living communities with goals such as restoration and/or preservation of the peoples, cultures, and ways of life.