Lida Gibson and Dr. Jennifer Mack: Giving Voices to the Past

Inside Source

The fascinating field of bioarchaeology brought together Lida Gibson and Dr. Jennifer Mack for the Asylum Hill Project on the campus of University of Mississippi Medical Center. The thousands of residents of the then-named Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum we buried in an on-site cemetery, launching a huge project to identify, catalog, and study of the patients. Inside Source talked with both women about unlikely (and likely!) career paths, maximizing your unique set of skills, and the value of making and maintaining connections.