My research is focused on the interactions between people, places, and histories that coalesced to build novel communities in the Late Mississippian (1350-1600 CE). More specifically, I am interested in how households acted as a nested locality for agents to produce understandings of social identity. My research is focused on the Southeastern United States and particularly on the Lamar Phase of Georgia. I seek to understand how understandings developed at the local level fed into broader understandings of the Mississippian world in response to dramatic social and ecological changes.