Dr. Jayur Mehta specializes in the study of Indigenous societies of North America (US and Mexico), human-environment relationships, and the consequences of French and Spanish colonization in the Gulf South. He is also a Registered Professional Archaeologist and he has lead excavations in both the United States and Mexico. He is currently lead investigator for the Carson Mounds Archaeological Project (CMAP), a long-term study on the development of hierarchical and agricultural monument-building societies in the Lower Mississippi Valley, and Resilience in the Ancient Gulf South (RAGS), an interdisciplinary investigation into delta formation, hunter-gather settlement dynamics, and monumentality in the Mississippi River Delta region south of New Orleans. He also collaboratively leads the Evergreen Plantation Archaeological Survey with Dr. Alisha Gaines (Gannon Professor of English, FSU), an interdisciplinary, humanities driven approach to understanding the material culture and lived experiences of enslaved Africans and free people-of-color in French Colonial Louisiana. He has conducted numerous excavations in Mexico and advocates for the study of the Gulf Coast and its communities from a holistic perspective not bounded by nation-states and borders.