Festschrift

This collection of essays in honor of Dr. Gregory will be published by Springer Archeology and is currently under contract.

Author Biographies

Robert Caldwell is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies and Graduate Director of Indigenous Studies at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). He received his Master of Arts degree in Heritage Resources from Northwestern State University in 2011 and his PhD in History and Geography from the University of Texas in Arlington in 2018.

Dustin Fuqua serves the National Park Service as Cultural Resource Program Manager for Cane River National Historical Park in Natchitoches Parish and manages the Museum Services program of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park & Preserve.

Emma Gruesbeck is a graduate student pursuing a dual Master’s degree in Applied Anthropology and Historic Preservation. As an undergraduate student at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, she majored in English. Her honors undergraduate thesis, “An Examination of Zora Neale Hurston’s Literary and Ethnographic Work,” was a comparative analysis of the author and ethnographer’s creative and scientific writing meant to highlight her impact on the anthropological world. Her professional interests include Cultural Resource Management, Ethnomusicology, Tourism, and Folklife Studies. 

Donald G. Hunter is the archaeological Project Manager for Coastal Environments, Inc.  He has been actively involved in cultural resources management for the past 50 years and has authored or co-authored more than 65 cultural resources reports and authored or co-authored numerous articles published in the Arkansas Archeological Research Series, Southeastern Archaeological Conference Bulletin, Journal of the Society for Industrial Archaeology, Louisiana Archaeology, Southeastern Archaeology, and Southern Studies.He  received his B.A. in anthropology with a minor in cultural geography in 1972 from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Alice Beck Kehoe (born 1934, New York City) is a feminist anthropologist and archaeologist. She has done considerable field research among Native American peoples in the upper plains of the US and Canada and has authored research volumes on Native American archaeology and Native American history. She is also the author of several general anthropology and archaeology textbooks.

Dayna Bowker Lee is Senior Ethnohistorian at Cultural Geographics Consulting, LLC. She is author of “From Captives to Kin: Indian Slavery and Changing Social Identities on the Louisiana Colonial Frontier” in Native American Adoption, Captivity, and Slavery in Changing Contexts (Springer).

Elisabeth M. Pierite Tunica-Biloxi Culture Division Cultural Specialist Elisabeth Pierite teaches Tunica and Biloxi language and culture, and actively collaborates with the Tunica-Biloxi Language Working Group. She attended Institute on Collaborative Language Research during 2016 and 2018. Growing up in the Tunica, Biloxi and Choctaw traditions, Elisabeth speaks and sings in these languages.

Donna Madere Pierite is a retired French, Spanish, Tunica and ESL teacher. Following the traditions of her grandmother and father-in-law, she is singer and storyteller. She grew up speaking French of Avoyelles Parish with her grandparents in New Orleans. She attributes her gift of languages to her mother Marria.  

Jean-Luc Pierite (Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana) is president of the North American Indian Center of Boston and a visiting scholar at MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Jean-Luc is a journalist, illustrator, graphic and video game designer, and digital fabricator to promote language documentation and revitalization.

Erin White is a cultural heritage enthusiast and part-time cemeterian. With a Master of Arts in Heritage Resources from Northwestern State University and a Master of Arts in Conservation Studies (Historic Buildings) from the University of York, she has an ardent interest in the preservation of historic built environments. Her areas of interest are cemetery preservation, dark tourism, food history, and digital heritage. She presently works in education administration in the Netherlands.