About Doug Boyd
Douglas K. Boyd is a senior archeologist with Cox|McLain Environmental Consulting in Austin. He has been doing archeology, mostly in Texas, for 48 years (gasp!). He has a MA degree from Texas A&M University, and for the last 34 years has served as a project archeologist, project manager, or principal investigator on numerous cultural resources management projects. He has published many CRM reports, academic book and journal articles, popular magazine articles, and a variety of public outreach products (posters, brochures, and internet exhibits). Most of Boyd’s recent CRM work has focused on historical archeology.
About Maria Franklin
Maria Franklin earned her PhD at UC Berkeley and teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a historical archaeologist whose research interests include Black history and public archaeology. She has published on a range of topics in archaeology including Southern foodways, gender and clothing practices, British colonialism and slavery, and racism and African American health after emancipation.
About Kevin Hanselka
Kevin Hanselka is an archeologist at the Texas Department of Transportation, archaeobotanist, and independent researcher with degrees from Texas State University (B.A., 1996), UTSA (M.A., 2000), and Washington University in St. Louis (Ph.D., 2011). He is on the Archaeobotany Team for the Ancient Southwest Texas Project (Lower Pecos Canyonlands), and is Principal Investigator on the 2019 Texas Archeological Society’s Annual Field School (Palo Duro Canyon State Park). At TxDOT he manages cultural resources on highway projects across the State, particularly north-central and western Texas. He presently lives in Allen with his wife Heather, daughter Sabrina, and black lab Ace.
