Research Interests
- Complex societies of the Americans
- Mississippi and Colonial Southeast U.S.
- Mission Santa Catalina de Guale
I am an anthropological archaeologist whose research focuses on the early colonial and Late Mississippian periods in the American Southeast. Much of my research focuses on population aggregation and identity at Mission Santa Catalina de Guale, a 16th and 17th century Spanish mission located on St. Catherines Island, Georgia. Drawing upon practice-based approaches to the archaeology of colonialism and exploring identity through situated learning theory, I examine the persistence of social identities as diverse populations formed new communities under the pressures of missionization. In my work I use social network analysis to explore the structure of past social relationships at multiple scales.
Subject Areas:
- Identities and Inequalities
- Decolonization
- Archaeological Science: archaeological geophysics, archaeometry
- Archaeology of the Americas: Southeastern archaeology
