Interview with Phoebe R. Stubblefield, Director of the C.A. Pound Human Identification Laboratory, University of Florida

Student project manager Kylie De La Cruz ’27 interviews Dr. Phoebe R. Stubblefield, director of the C.A. Pound Human Identification Laboratory at the University of Florida and lead forensic anthropologist in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Investigation. Born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Dr. Stubblefield recognizes the importance of community participation in the investigation; with familial ties to Greenwood and the Massacre, she knows the impact of learning about one’s legacy on community healing. She considers how individuals can exercise agency over their bodies post mortem, describes the archival struggle of piecing together and tracing the individual histories of Tulsan victims, and discusses the importance of race categorization in bringing people’s remains “home” to their family. Read more