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2026-27 Officers

Chair -  Anthony Farace, University of Florida                                                                                                                   

Chair-Elect - Ethan Mofidi, University of Oklahoma

Webmaster - Devin Henson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Webmaster - Gloria Church, University of Florida                                                                                   

Member-at-Large - Matthew Picarelli-Kombert, Penn State University

Member-at-Large -  Liley Bozard, University of Michigan                                                 

Member-at-Large - Lanie Kight, University of Oklahoma

Officer Bios

Anthony Farace - Chair

Tony is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at the University of Florida. His research interests focus around emergent subjectivities and the co-creation of peoples, practices, and landscapes in the Ohio-Mississippi confluence region of the Central Mississippi River Valley during the Early-Middle Mississippian periods.

Ethan Mofidi – Chair-Elect

Ethan Mofidi is a PhD student in Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. He received his BA in Medical Anthropology from the University of Washington and his MA from the University of Oklahoma. His current research is oriented around the Calf Creek horizon in the Ozarks and surrounding areas exploring themes of cultural interaction, Indigenous histories, and landscapes of meaning.

Devin Henson - Webmaster

Devin Henson is a Ph.D. student in Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He completed his B.A. in Archaeology at the College of Wooster and his M.A. in Anthropology at UNC-CH. Devin’s current research focuses on the social dynamics of change in lithic tool systems of Native communities in the Carolina Piedmont during the 15th through early 18th centuries.

Gloria Church - Webmaster

Gloria Church is a PhD student in Anthropology at the University of Florida. She received her B.A. in Anthropology at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Gloria’s research focuses on north Louisiana ceramic production as an indicator of identity and cultural affiliation of indigenous groups in the Red River Valley.

Matthew Picarelli-Kombert - Member-at-Large

Matthew Picarelli-Kombert is an Anthropology PhD student at the Pennsylvania State University. He received an MA in Anthropology from Penn State, an MA in Historical Archaeology from the University of Massachusetts Boston, and a BA in History and Anthropology from the University of Connecticut. Matthew's research focuses on how social and economic changes influence human-environmental relationships, particularly subsistence practices. His current project investigates the impacts of Emancipation on Gullah/Geechee communities along the Georgia coastline through zooarchaeological and isotopic analyses of faunal remains from enslaved and post-Emancipation contexts on Ossabaw Island, GA.

Liley Bozard - Member-at-Large

Liley Bozard is a PhD student in Anthropological Archaeology at the University of Michigan. She received her BA in Anthropology from the University of Arkansas. Liley’s research focuses on the Central Mississippi River Valley during the Late Mississippian Period and she is broadly interested in themes of identity, community making, and interaction.

Lanie Kight - Member-at-Large

Lanie Kight is an undergraduate student in Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. Her academic interests focus on ethical archaeological practice and the role of archaeology in education and public representation. She is particularly interested in archaeological research in Oklahoma, where she was born and raised.