Mission Statement

The purpose of the Student Affairs Committee shall be to act in the best interests of student members, both undergraduate and graduate, of SEAC and to serve as a liaison between student members and the SEAC Executive Board. The committee's primary goal shall be to stimulate and encourage interest among student archaeologists while creating a student community within the larger SEAC organization.

To be added to the committee's listserv, please click here.

To contact the committee generally, please email SEACStudentAffairs@gmail.com

2025-26 Officers

Chair - Tara Skipton, University of Texas
Chair-Elect - Anthony Farace, University of Florida
Webmaster - Devin Henson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Member-at-Large - Ethan Mofidi, University of Oklahoma
Member-at-Large - Matthew Picarelli-Kombert, Penn State University
Member-at-Large -Delaney Horton, University of Oklahoma

Officer Bios

Tara Skipton- Chair

Tara Skipton is a PhD student at the University of Texas – Austin. She received her BA in Anthropology and Geography from the University of Florida and her MA in Anthropology from Florida State University. Tara is interested in community-based participatory research and the Black experience in New Orleans and the South at large.

Anthony Farace- Chair-Elect

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.

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. Devin’s research focuses on lithic technologies employed by Native communities engaged in societal transformation in the mid-Ohio Valley and Carolina Piedmont during the Woodland period.

Ethan Mofidi - Member-at-Large

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.

Matthew Picarelli-Kombert - Member-at-Large

Matthew Picarelli-Kombert is a PhD student at Penn State University. He got his BA in History and Anthropology at the University of Connecticut and his MA in Historical Archaeology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Matthew's research interests are focused on traditional land use practices and strategies of resource management among Indigenous communities along the Georgia coast.

Delaney Horton - Member-at-Large

Delaney Horton is a master's student at the University of Oklahoma. She completed her B.A. at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her research focuses on ceramic production and usage in southeastern Oklahoma to gain insight on possible communities of practice of ancestral Caddo ceramicists.