The Historical Genomics Lab is interested in the histories of our Ancestors, and how their stories are written into our DNA. More specifically, we use ancient DNA and population genetic methods to understand the population history of colonial period North America using a community-based epistemological framework. These methods are then interpreted alongside archaeological and other bio-molecular techniques to understand lived experience, ancestry, and relationships on the early colonial American frontier.

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We work collaboratively with other scientists and institutions, such as the Smithsonian Institution, University of Tennessee, and Fairfield Foundation, in the telling of these stories. Our research projects have been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Geographic, amongst others.

 

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