M. Scott Faris joined NCPTT as a Heritage Education intern for the spring semester. Faris was born in Yakima, Washington. After graduating from high school in Tucson, Arizona, he served 20 years in the United States Army, including tours of duty in Germany and Korea.
Upon his retirement from active duty in 1998, Faris attended Northwestern State University, graduating Magna cum Laude in History in 2000. He is currently a graduate student at NSU studying History with an emphasis in Cultural Resource Management. Faris has participated in several significant undertakings in cooperation with NSU's Cultural Resource Office, including the Fort Jesup Archaeological Project and the Louisiana Army National Guard's Camp Beauregard field survey, among others. He also assisted Dr. Kevin McDonald of the University College of London with his summer archeological field school at Melrose Plantation in 2001.
He has presented papers on the Fort Jesup Archaeological Project at NSU's annual Research Day in 2000, during Louisiana Archaeology Week in 2001, and at the Society for Historical Archaeology's annual conference in 2002. Faris is married and has two grown children.