Milan Taylor is a historical archaeologist with interests in Black geographies, queer studies, and community-based participatory research. Her project is based on various household archaeologies of Latta Place, a former plantation in Huntersville, NC. Additionally, she is trained in human and non-human animal osteoarchaeology, and has written on mourning rituals, alternative kinship structures, and autoethnography. Milan received her B.A. in Anthropology and Archaeology from Cornell University in 2024 where she completed an honors thesis as a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow. She is now a Provost Doctoral Fellow and serves as the graduate mentor for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship at Barnard College.
