How do the things that we make and use either every day or on special occasions encode our beliefs or cultural values. Humans have always had this creative impulse to make things. We make shelter. We make tools. We make bodily adornment.And we make things of spiritual importance. As an archaeologist, my job is to determine how we should look at these things and how we can learn from ancestral ways of making, especially related to beliefs, politics or values. In other words, how do we as modern observers lea ...

When I joined this company, I had no idea, no concept that this is where I would be. It was a depth of recession and I didn't, you know, I was almost very fortunate to have received an offer at that point at the lowest level in this company as an associate marketing analyst in in FedEx in the international business in 1991. I didn't know where Memphis really was. I didn't know a single person in the city.I found myself in a place where I really loved it and the cultural values of this company and my persona ...