| Biographical Information | Matthew is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology whose work focuses on the precolonial southeastern United States. His dissertation project examines everyday life in the Natchez Bluffs region of the Lower Mississippi Valley and considers how ideas of home and belonging to a community are tied to material and landscape-scale spatial relationships. His project is connected to other work focused on paleoethnobotany, Indigenous archaeology, and landscape archaeology. He is currently a Board Member of the Penn Museum Graduate Advisory Council, a Penn Museum Graduate Guide, and a curatorial assistant for the Penn Museum’s Native North American Exhibition. |
