Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Kevin Pierce Wright

Tribal Liaison, Repatriation
Department / Division
Education

Ph.D.(ABD), University of Oklahoma 

M.A., Anthropology, University of Alabama 

B.A., Anthropology and Classical Studies, Wake Forest University 

Research Interests
  • Southeastern North America and Great Plains Archaeology
  • Indigenous Archaeology, Community Engagement, Foodways, and Indigenous Languages
  • Chemical Characterization (XRF and LAICPMS), Archival Research, and Ethnohistory 
Publications

Wright, Kevin Pierce., Blair, Elliot. H., Thompson, Ian., and Dussubieux, Laure. 2024. Objects of coalescence: Using LA-ICP-MS to study ceramics recovered from an eighteenth-century Choctaw village. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 55, 104468.