Maggie Spivey-Faulkner is the Chair of Social Sciences at Outer Coast and a citizen of the Pee Dee Indian Nation of Beaver Creek, a state-recognized Native American group in South Carolina. She was raised on her family compound in Jamestown, Hephzibah, Georgia, an area named for her family, which constitutes thousands of citizens of the area. Maggie is a first-generation scholar, a former National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, and a fellow of The Explorers Club. She is an alumna of Harvard College, Washington University in St. Louis, and the College of the Muscogee Nation. She has previously served as a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and an assistant professor at the University of Alberta.
Maggie is an anthropological archaeologist specializing in Indigenous archaeology. Her work focuses on people who subsisted through hunting, gathering, and fishing in the southeastern United States, looking specifically at examples of peoples who defy popular negative characterizations of their cultural capacities. She is most interested in celebrating Native intellectual achievements through time. Her current projects focus on legal applications of archaeological knowledge, Native sovereignty through archaeology, Native American empiricism, and the intersections of language and archaeology.