My name is Paige Magrogan, and I am in my second year of a PhD program in Anthropology at American University in the Archaeology Track. I am interested in using biological anthropology and historical archaeology to study the biological and social history of Africans and people of African descent in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, particularly the effects of racial formation processes and enslavement on children. My other academic interests include: marronage; feminist theory; sex and gender; sexuality; parenthood, childhood, and the family; cemeteries; life course approaches to understanding health and disease; skeletal evidence of activity and lifestyle; and landscape, space, and place.

In my spare time, I am an avid reader and podcast listener, and I volunteer in the new David H. Koch Hall of Fossils – Deep Time at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. I also love spending time with my family and friends, including my golden retriever/lab mix named Scirocco.