Editorial Team

Co-Editor in Chief: Morgan Sampson

Email: m.sampson@ufl.edu

Morgan is an archaeologist focused on the intersection of technology and archaeology, mainly in how archaeologists can use technology to better understand the sites they excavate. She uses a variety of these technologies to assist in archaeological survey, and to piece together life histories of archaeological sites through the intersection of these digital spheres, such as: GIS, Surveying, LiDAR, and and coding languages. Morgan's current projects include a survey of the town of Newnansville, FL under the direction of Dr. Ken Sassaman, and LiDAR data analysis of Ocmulgee Mound National Historical Park, GA under the direction of Dr. Whit Schroder.

Co-Editor in Chief: Spencer Seymour

Email: seymour.spencer@ufl.edu 

Spencer is a medical anthropologist with research interests that center on the intersection of religion and medicine. Spencer's previous work has focused on medical pluralism in West Africa, Christian Faith-based Organizations (FBOs) and medical missions in Global Health, and the role of religion, conversion, and spirituality in healing. His recent work focuses on the role of conversion in shaping religious identity in East Africa. He received a MA in Anthropology from the University of West Florida in 2023.

Archaeology Editor: Sydney Sills

Email: s.sills@ufl.edu

Sydney is a first-year graduate student in the terminal Anthropology MA program, focusing on Public Archaeology. She is interested in cultural resource management (CRM) archaeology, public outreach and education, Eastern North American Pre-contact cultures, and environmental archaeology. She currently works with Dr. Ken Sassaman.

Linguistic Anthropology Editor: Delin Deng

Email: ddeng@ufl.edu

Delin Deng is a PhD candidate in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Florida, under the supervision of Dr. Hélène Blondeau. Her research interests mainly lie in the intersection of sociolinguistics and second language acquisition. She specializes in the analysis of discourse markers used by non-native speakers in French and English as well as corpus linguistics. She is particularly interested in discourse analysis. She participates actively in and has presentations at various international linguistic conferences.

Biological Anthropology Editor: Maria Sellers

Email: mlocke.sellers@ufl.edu

Maria is a second-year PhD student at the University of Florida working with Dr. Gabriel Prieto and Dr. John Krigbaum. She received a B.A. in Anthropology and Biology from Vanderbilt University (2021) and an M.A. in Anthropology from the George Mason University (2023). Her research focuses on understanding the funerary practices and lived experience of the Chimú on the north coast of Peru. She seeks to understand how lived experience can be reflected in the physical form, particularly with regards to the impacts of large-scale sociopolitical change.

Cultural Anthropology Editor: Brian Khumalo

Email: b.khumalo@ufl.edu

Brian Khumalo is a PhD student in Anthropology at the University of Florida. His academic journey has taken him from Rhodes University in South Africa to Université de Lille in France. Currently his work explores everything from how cognitive processes inform human-environment interactions, offering profound insights that bridge anthropology and ecological theory, to attempting to understanding how linguistic (empirical) laws can be applied to better understand numerous biological processes.

Perspectives in Anthropology Editor: McCall Voy

Email: mvoy@ufl.edu

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Social Media Coordinator: Juliana Rubinatto Serrano

Email: julianarubinatto@ufl.edu

Juliana is a third-year PhD student at the University of Florida working with Dr. Susan deFrance and Dr. Michael Heckenberger. She received a B.A. in Anthropology from Wake Forest University (2020) and an M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Florida (2022). Her research focuses on past and present human-animal relationships in riverine and coastal regions of Brazil. She seeks to understand how fishing was incorporated into the complex subsistence systems that co-produced Brazilian environments through zooarchaeological and ethnoarchaeological research.

Co-Editor Visual Media: James Everett

Email: jweverett3@ufl.edu

James Everett is a first-year anthropology PhD student at the University of Florida, specializing in the subfield of cultural anthropology, with a geographical interest in the Caribbean, particularly the Caribbean regions of Colombia and Venezuela. His current ethnographic research explores the way in which transnational Colombo-Venezuelans use music as a form of sentimental travel. He is also interested in how racialization, class, gender, and sexuality frame the experiences of Colombo-Venezuelan migrants and their affective ties to music.

Co-Editor Visual Media: Nicole Kinbarovsky

Email: kinbarovskyn@ufl.edu

DEIA Editor: Sheridan Lea

Email: slea1@ufl.edu

Sheridan Lea is a first year Ph.D. student under the supervision of Dr. John Krigbaum and Dr. Phoebe Stubblefield. She earned her B.A. in Anthropology from Vanderbilt University and her MSc in Bioarchaeological and Forensic Anthropology from University College London. Her research interests are enslavement in the French Caribbean, bioarchaeology, stable isotope analysis, and osteology.

Managing Copyeditor: Alexa Neilson

Email: neilsonalexa@ufl.edu 

Alexa Neilson is an anthropology student with a focus in historical archaeology, at present studying household archaeology and the economic environment of the Reconstruction-era South. With interests in collections and science communication, she works in the Florida Museum’s paleontology divisions to develop archival inventories and catalogue specimens for online databases. Alexa has also led discussions at science outreach events hosted by the museum to broaden opportunities for local engagement with field research.

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Connie Mulligan

Email: cmulligan@ufl.edu 

Dr. Connie Mulligan is a professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Genetics Institute. She studies human genetic variation in order to reconstruct the evolutionary history of human populations and to investigate the genetic and sociocultural risk factors for complex diseases. She is particularly interested in the impact of stress and trauma on health, and the possibility of an epigenetic mechanism to mediate that impact. Dr. Mulligan has conducted research and collected valuable samples in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Jordan, Yemen, Mongolia, and Panamá. Dr. Mulligan received her PhD from Yale University in 1990 in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. She held postdoctoral and research scientist positions at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the National Institutes of Health before coming to the University of Florida in 2000.

Editorial and Publishing Liaison: Kat Nguyen

Email: knguyen1@ufl.edu

Library Liaison: Dr. Ginessa J. Mahar

Email: gjmahar@ufl.edu

Dr. Mahar serves as the Anthropology Librarian for the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida where she holds affiliate faculty status with the Department of Anthropology. She has long-term research interests in the technology and practices of Southeastern coastal fisher-hunter-gatherer communities of the Late Archaic and Woodland periods. Her current research explores the intersections between cosmology, ritual gatherings, feasting, and fishing technology among Woodland era communities of the North Florida Gulf Coast. Her methods include experimental archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, and allometry as well as traditional archaeological investigation and material analysis. Mahar actively participates in community outreach events to spread awareness of the vulnerability of coastal heritage in Florida by giving public talks and partnering with the Florida Public Archaeology Network.

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