2025

• Tara Skipton, University of Texas at Austin, “Black Environmental Persistence in New Orleans’ Plantation Country.” 

2024

• Mikayla Fletcher,  Tulane University, "Ritual Landscapes of the Lower Mississippi Valley: The Marksville Archaeological Project."

2023

• Autumn Melby, University of Pennsylvania, Cahokia's Collapse in the Countryside: Investigating the Everyday Life of Rural Households in the Late Mississippian American Bottom

2022

• Hannah Hoover, University of Michigan, Yamassee Towns and Settler Emplacement in Colonial South Carolina

2021

• Michelle Pigot, Tulane University, Refining the Chronology of the Late Mississippian Period in the Upper Catawba River Valley of Western North Carolina

2020

• Gracie Riehm, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Archaeology of the Natchez Polity in the Lower Mississippi Valley