Robbie Ethridge is McMullan Associate Professor of Southern Studies and associate professor of anthropology at the University of Mississippi. She is author of Light on the Path: The Anthropology and History of the Southeastern Indians (Alabama, 2006), Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World (UNCP, 2003), and coeditor of The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760 (Mississippi, 2002).