Dr. Tony Boudreaux is an archaeologist whose research has focused on late pre-Contact and Contact period Native American societies of the southeastern United States, especially complex societies of the Mississippian and Late Woodland periods. His research has explored what public and domestic architectural differences can tell us about ancient communities, how social groups interacted to…

Dr. Jesse R. Goliath is an assistant professor of Biological Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures. He is an expert in Forensic Anthropology with extensive forensic casework experience from city, state, and federal agencies. He is the Founding Director of the Mississippi Repository for Missing and Unidentified Persons Project and serves as a consulting…

Beginning from his years as an undergraduate at Mississippi State University, Jimmy Hardin has participated widely in archaeological fieldwork, both in the southeastern and southwestern United States and at numerous sites in Cyprus, Israel and Jordan. He has been involved with the Lahav Research Project's work at Tel Halif in Israel since 1986 and is a member of the Project's Phase III Field…

Dr. Anna Osterholtz is a bioarchaeologist focused on the relationship between the living and the dead, particularly in relation to group identity formation and its negotiation through mortuary practices. My research spans diverse geographical contexts, including the Americas (American Southwest), Europe (Cyprus, Croatia, Romania), and the Middle East (UAE), where I engage in excavation and…

The research in our laboratory focuses on applying mass spectrometry, ion mobility spectrometry, and infrared ion spectroscopy to learn fundamental properties of various types of ions and clusters. These properties include ionization, clustering, and dissociation. We are especially interested in molecular systems with high societal importance, thus our research focuses on three application…

Dr. Molly Zuckerman is a professor in the Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures. She explores the biosocial determinants of health inequalities and disease experiences of past populations within social bioarchaeology, focusing on considerations of social identity. Recently, her research interests have extended to pandemic infectious disease, relative to social inequality…