skip to main content
Museum Studies
University of Mississippi
portrait of jesse tune with bright blue background

Jesse Tune

Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director, Center for Archaeological Research


Headshot of professor wearing glasses in front of bookcase full of books

Franny Zawadzki

Instructional Assistant Professor of Art History


Carolyn Freiwald

Carolyn Freiwald


Kathleen McGuire

Kathleen McGuire has a PhD in History from University of California Riverside with an MA focus in public history (museums, archives, and oral history), with a specialization in archives and the evolving practices of digital history. She has taught public history courses and worked in museums and archives for over a decade.


Alex Lindgren-Gibson

Alexandra Lindgren-Gibson holds an MA in History with a specialization in Public History from Arizona State, and a PhD in History from Northwestern. She debuted a Public History course in wintersession 2019 in which students collaborated to create an online exhibit sharing original research into the Neilson’s Department store archive, housed in the University of […]


Jacqueline DiBiasie-Sammons

Jacqueline DiBiasie-Sammons is an archaeologist who specializes in the study of Pompeii, Roman graffiti, and the digital humanities. She is the Field Director of the Ancient Graffiti Project, one goal of which is to make ancient graffiti accessible to the public. She regularly uses the Robinson Collection at the University Museum in teaching and research.


Aileen Ajootian

Aileen Ajootian


Jodi Skipper

Jodi Skipper has a PhD in Historical Archaeology from the University of Texas at Austin with subspecialties in Cultural Resource Management and Museum Studies; she regularly teaches courses about heritage tourism and is the organizer of two historical tours in Holly Springs, MS: the Behind the Big House tour (an alternate history focused on the […]


Kariann Fuqua

Kariann Fuqua has an MFA in Painting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and has curated many exhibitions at galleries and universities across the country as a Curator of Collections and Gallery Director. She has taught courses on exhibition design, fakes and forgeries, and archival research on provenance, and, is interested in the origins […]