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Hannah Alfieri, University of Florida

  • History & Geology double-major, anthropology minor

  • Anticipated graduation in Spring 2026

  • Mapping Freedom Research — “‘My Duty to Provide’: An Analysis of Government-Funded Geologic Research in Mississippi, 1858-1866”

Marali Benitez, University of Houston - Downtown

  • Applied Statistics major, Data Science minor

  • Anticipated graduation in Fall 2026

  • Mapping Freedom Research — “Silencing Voices: Voter Disenfranchisement in Mississippi During the Reconstruction Era”

Jaylynn Sierra Conner​, University of Mississippi

  • Journalism major (multimedia news reporting emphasis), minor in English Language, Literature & Letters

  • Anticipated graduation in Spring 2026

  • Mapping Freedom Research — “Diversity in Desertion: How Desertion Differed in Mississippi”

Nathan Cowley, The University of Texas at Arlington

  • History major, African American Studies minor

  • Anticipated graduation in Spring 2026

  • Mapping Freedom Research — “Mississippi Education in the Post-Civil War Era”

Alessandra Maria Diaz, Columbia University in the City of New York

  • History major

  • Anticipated graduation in Spring 2028

  • Mapping Freedom Research — “Foundations for a Future: Civil War and Reconstruction African American Populations and Homelessness”

James Durr, Mississippi State University

  • English major, Creative Writing minor

  • Anticipated graduation in Fall 2025

  • Mapping Freedom Research — “Higher Education and the Civil War: An Overview of Higher Education and Their Struggles in Surviving the War”

Aidan Kells, University of Northern Georgia

  • History major, Anthropology & Political Science double-minor

  • Anticipated graduation in Spring 2026

  • Mapping Freedom Research — “The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands in Mississippi”

Jayson Kunkel, Grinnell College

  • Double-major in computer science, concentration in digital studies, and anthropology

  • Anticipated graduation in Spring 2026

  • Mapping Freedom Research — “Swept Away: The Mississippi River Flood of 1874”

Audrey Nell, George Washington University

  • History & Environmental Studies double-major, geography minor

  • Anticipated graduation in Spring 2026

  • Mapping Freedom Research — “Rotting from the Inside: The Role of the Conscription in the Downfall of the Confederacy”

Hayden Wright, Mississippi State University

  • Computer Science major, Human & Visual Computing concentration

  • Anticipated graduation in Fall 2025

  • Mapping Freedom Research — “Hysteria Without Rebellion: The Causes and Effects of Hysteria Around Slave Insurrections in Confederate Mississippi”