Ms. Goldstein earned a B.A. from Middle Tennessee State University in 2012, majoring in both history and anthropology. She earned her M.A. in anthropology from the University of South Carolina in 2014. Her academic work has focused on Mississippian peoples in the prehistoric Southeastern United States. While in school she worked on extensive data recovery projects on Mississippian mound sites in Tennessee and Georgia. In graduate school she had the opportunity serve as Field Director and later Lab Director for one of these projects. Since completing her M.A., Ms. Goldstein has been working as an archaeologist in cultural resource management, gaining skills in site identification, recordation, and reporting. Over the last two years she has worked on cultural resource surveys in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. She joined WSA as a Project Archaeologist in April 2016