Chair: Dr. Karim Alizadeh

Taylor Jordan is an archaeologist studying relationships between power, myth, monumentality, identity, and relation to place in ancient complex societies. His most recent study focuses on the development of megalithic burial traditions in Ireland during the Neolithic and Bronze Age. He has worked in private-sector cultural resource management for the past five years in 12 states across the US Southeast and Midwest (GA, AL, FL, MS, LA, TN, KY, SC, NC, AR, IA, & PA).

He has been involved in social activist work with local indigenous communities including at the Mvskoke Summit in Atlanta, GA, the Native American Festival at Okmvlge Mounds Historic Site, and the Cetto Harjo study group for Mvskoke history and futurity. Previously, he participated as a research observer at the Emory Neuropsychology Lab, co-authoring a textbook chapter in Assessing Feigned Cognitive Impairment by Daniel Drane et al. His undergraduate studies included the Blount Scholars Program, an honors liberal arts minor that combines philosophy, classics, literature, and evolutionary science.