Dr. Jade Luiz is assistant professor of anthropology at Metropolitan State University of Denver. She received her Ph.D. from Boston University where she specialized in historical archaeology, nineteenth-century urbanism, gender, and archaeology of the senses. Her research delves into the history of nineteenth-century prostitution, with her dissertation work focusing on an archaeological collection from a North End brothel on Endicott Street. As a result of this research, she has contributed to several publications and has recently published a book on this collection with Routledge titled Archaeology of a Nineteenth-century Brothel in Boston, MA: Erotic Facades. In June 2023, Dr. Luiz began directing an archaeological field school for MSU Denver investigating the historic sex district of Central City, Colorado.

Not a Pro, but very interested. Has visited many sites from Yucatan to Uzbekistan. Now retired from the corporate world, and keeping busy managing her own business.

Melissa Logan holds a graduate degree in Anthropology from the University of Colorado, and was the organic residue analyst for PaleoResearch Institute in Golden, Colorado for five years.  Presently, she is pursuing her research independently and writing manuscripts.  Ms. Logan’s interests include Mesoamerican archaeology with an emphasis on West Mexico, gender and power, development of complex societies, political systems, art and material culture, and paleo-nutrition. Publications, manuscripts, and presented papers authored or coauthored by her address gender and power in ceramic effigies from Late Formative West Mexico, as well as the application of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) for organic residue analysis. Ms. Logan most recently contributed a chapter to the edited volume “Dressing the Part: Power, Dress, Gender, and Representation in the Pre-Columbian Americas edited by Sarah E.M. Scher and Billie J.A. Follensbee, which was published by the University Press of Florida in 2017.  Ms. Logan has been on the board of directors for the Denver Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America since 2008. Her professional memberships also include the Register of Professional Archaeologists and the Society for American Archaeology.

Dennis Murphy is a long time member of the AIA and an avid “avocational archeologist”. He is focused on the study of ancient water systems, primarily in Southern Turkey, and has presented the results of his work at AIA annual meetings and international conferences. He holds a Liberal Arts Degree from the University of Calif. At Long Beach and is an active member of several European Archaeological Societies (Frontinus Gesellshaft & Deutsche Wasserhistorische Gesellschaft) through which he publishes the results of his studies. When not researching ancient water systems he is engaged in the aerospace industry and is currently a consultant on the NASA Orion Mars Exploration Spacecraft program.