Editorial Team

Co-Editor: Spencer Seymour

Spencer focuses on medical anthropology. His research interests include the intersection of religion and medicine. Spencer's previous work has focused on medical pluralism in West Africa, Christian FBOs and medical missions in Global Health, and the role of religion, conversion, and spirituality in healing.

Co-Editor: Morgan Sampson

Email: m.sampson@ufl.edu

Morgan is an anthropologist and public archaeologist focusing on cultural resource management, climate change, and various forms of remote sensing. She is particularly interested in how humans adapt to changing environments and human relationships with water.

Archaeology Editor: Anthony Farace

Email: afarace@ufl.edu

Tony is a PhD student in his second year at the University of Florida working with Dr. Neill J. Wallis. Tony received a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Missouri- St. Louis, a M.A. in Anthropology from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and a M.S. in Archaeological Sciences from the University College London. His research focuses on Mississippian period (AD 900-1500) ceramic production, consumption, and use in the Ohio-Mississippi river confluence region. He looks to implement the use of petrographic thin-section and geochemical analysis to learn more about how crafting knowledge and learning was transmitted and negotiated in the area during the rise of large influential polities such as the Cahokia and Kincaid sites in the early Mississippian period.

Linguistics 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.

Review Editor: Lisa Matthies-Barnes

Email: lisamatthiesb@ufl.edu

Lisa is a student in the Ph.D. program at the University of Florida. Her focus is historical archaeology - specifically, the Black diaspora of the Southeastern United States. Her current research examines the presence and absence of beauty, health, and wellness products/objects in historically Black and African American sites throughout the US so as to examine the development of body image and consumer identity. Lisa is from north central Florida and earned her undergraduate degree in anthropology from the University of Florida. She also has experience in various facets of the industry, such as cultural resource management (CRM), working in multiple front-facing museum positions, lab settings, and teaching/instructing multiple academic archaeological projects in both historic and prehistoric archaeology.

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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

Nicole Kinbarovsky is a graduate of Texas State’s School of Criminal Justice and a current graduate student within UF's Anthropology Department. While earning her PhD in Cultural Anthropology, Nicole aims to integrate her fine art and professional photography background with narrative and visual ethnographic methods to explore capital punishment in the US. Currently, her work focuses on the Texas death row experience.

DEIA Editor: Siobhan Summers

Email: ssummers11@ufl.edu

Siobhan Summers is a biological anthropology Ph.D. student at the University of Florida, with a focus on forensic anthropology and skeletal morphology. She received her B.A. in Anthropology from Dickinson College, and her M.A.A. (Master of Applied Anthropology) from the University of Maryland, College Park. Under the supervision of Dr. Valerie Burke DeLeon, she studies human skeletal variation. More specifically, she studies the growth, development, and skeletal variation in ankle morphology. Siobhan is a member of the DeLeon Lab at the University of Florida and a graduate assistant at the C.A. Pound Human Identification Laboratory. She joined The New Florida Journal of Anthropology editorial team in 2020.

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: Chris Fuglestad

Email: cc.fuglestad@ufl.edu

Chris Fuglestad is a PhD. student in Linguistic Anthropology under the guidance of Drs. G. Aaron Broadwell and Abdoulaye Kane. Originally from Green Bay, Wisconsin, he holds a Master of Professional French Studies degree in International Education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also holds BA degrees in International Studies and French from the University of Oregon where he specialized in cross-cultural communication, indigenous studies, and ethnic identity. Chris has worked professionally in international higher education at the University of Oregon, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Université Laval in Quebec, and at UT Health San Antonio.

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: Chelsea Johnston

Email: cjohnston@ufl.edu

Chelsea Johnston is the Scholarly Publishing & Repository Librarian at the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida. She manages the Libraries’ open access journal publishing program on Florida Online Journals, supports the Institutional Repository at the University of Florida, and contributes to other initiatives in digital scholarship and publishing through the LibraryPress@UF. Chelsea has also worked as a Library Operations Coordinator at the University of South Florida Libraries and an Associate Acquisitions Editor at Elsevier. Her research interests include publishing, project management, digital scholarship, and partnerships in academic libraries.

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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