Wendy St. Jean is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Political Science at Purdue University Calumet. Her specialization in 18th and 19th-century Southeastern Native Americans began during her graduate school career at the University of Virginia. After a trip to South Carolina to find out more about the Southern Indians and discovering Nairne's Muskhogean Journals (1708), Wendy delved into her expansive and in-depth research into the Chickasaw tribe.