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Curriculum Vitae Zuckerman, Molly K

Molly K. ZuckermanPO Box AR

Associate Professor Mississippi State, MS 39762

Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern CulturesOffice :(662) 325.7519

Mississippi State UniversityFax : (662) 325.8690

E-mail:

Education

(2005)-2010 PhD, AnthropologyEmory University, Atlanta GA

(2005)-2009MA, AnthropologyEmory University

(2005)-2010 Graduate Certificate, Women’s StudiesEmory University

(2001)-2004BA, Anthropology and Women’s StudiesThe Pennsylvania State University,

with highest honors (summa cum laude)State College, PA

Dissertation

“Sex, Society & Syphilis: An Evolutionary, Social, and Ecological History of Syphilis in Early Modern England (c. 1494-1864).” 2010. PhD Committee: George J. Armelagos (chair), (late of) Emory University; John D. Kingston, University of Michigan; Anne L. Grauer, Loyola University of Chicago; Sharon T. Strocchia, Emory University.

Academic Positions (see also Appointments & Research and Collaborative Experience)

  • Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures (AMEC), Mississippi State University, 2016-present.
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures (AMEC), Mississippi State University, 2011-2016.
  • Faculty Research Associate, Cobb Institute of Archaeology, Mississippi State University, 2011-present.
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship in Bioarchaeology and Epidemiology, The South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology (SCIAA), University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC., 2010-11.
  • Graduate Faculty, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, 2010-present.

Grants: Extramural

  • Grant in preparation: National Science Foundation, Senior Research Proposal, Biological Anthropology. “Paleoepidemiological Characterization of the Disease Ecology and Natural History of Treponemal Disease.” PI: Molly K. Zuckerman. Budget: TBA. Revised re-submission (re-submission date: November 16th 2016).
  • Grant in preparation: National Science Foundation, Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE), Engaged Student Learning.“Improving Undergraduate Instruction in Introductory Biological Anthropology Courses.” PI: Molly K. Zuckerman; Co-PIs: Jennifer Sweeny Tookes (University of Southern Georgia), Bethany Turner (Georgia State University). Budget: TBA. Revised re-submission (re-submission date: November 10th 2016).
  • Grant in preparation: National Science Foundation, Senior Research Proposal, Archaeometry. “Construction of standardized, open-access database for archaeological cases of treponemal disease.” PI: Molly K. Zuckerman; Co-PI: TBA. Budget: TBA. New submission (re-submission date: December 1st 2016).
  • Sooner Foundation, University of Oklahoma, Research Award Program: “Oral Microbiome and Proteome Composition in Association with Chronic Infectious and Non-Communicable Diseases in Human Systems.” PI: Christina Warinner, University of Oklahoma (UO); Collaborator: Courtney Hofman, UO; Collaborator: Molly Zuckerman. Budget: $298,351. Under review (September 30th2015).
  • National Science Foundation, Major Research Instrumentation (MRI). 2016. “Acquisition of a Multi-user Focused Ion Beam-SEM for Multidisciplinary Research and Training.” PI: G. Thibadeau (MSU); Co-PIs: E. Khadiri, B. Kirkland, Y. Koshka, R. Gabitov (MSU); Senior Personnel: B. Counterman, K. Thirumalai, S. Thompson, Molly Zuckerman(MSU). Budget: $998,223. Submitted (January 14th 2016). Under review.
  • National Science Foundation, Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER). “Evidence-based experimental pathogen identification in dental calculus.” PI: Courtney Hofman, University of Oklahoma (UO); Co-PIs: Christina Warinner (UO); Molly Zuckerman. Awarded. Amount: $64,467.00Federal Award No.: 1643318. Award period: 2016-2018.
  • Funded.National Environmental Research Council, Radiocarbon Dating Grant. 2010. Title:“Pre-Columbian Syphilis in York.” PI: Andrew Chamberlain, University of Sheffield; Co-PI: Molly Zuckerman. Funded. Amount:$5,000.00).

Grants: Intramural

  • Henry Family Research Fund Research Initiation Grant, Mississippi State University. 2012. “Investigating the Biological History of Slavery on St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands”. PI: Molly Zuckerman, Funded ($5,000.00).
  • Institute for African American Research, 2011-2012 Research Awards, University of South Carolina. Recipient: William Stevens; Faculty/ Staff Mentor: MK Zuckerman. Funded ($1,500.00).*I am on the dissertation committee of this USC PhD student.
  • Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Conference Travel Grant, Emory University, 2006, 2009. Funded, competitive ($400.00).

Fellowships: Extramural

  • Graduate Research Fellowship, Physical Anthropology, National Science Foundation. 2006-09. Funded($130,000.00).

Fellowships: Intramural

  • Magellan Scholarship, Office of Undergraduate Research, University of South Carolina, 2011. Recipient: Claudia LaBarre; Co-Mentor: MK Zuckerman, DJ Goldstein, PhD. Project title: “Locating Cannibalism on St. Croix: Shedding Light on Cultural Practice”, Funded ($3,000.00).
  • Scholarly Inquiry and Research at Emory (SIRE) Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Laney Graduate School & College of Arts and Sciences, Emory University, 2010-2011.Funded ($20,000.00) but declined to accept postdoctoral fellowship.
  • HHMI & Emory University Teacher-Scholar Graduate Fellowship (On Recent Discoveries by Emory Researchers (ORDER)) in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Laney Graduate School & College of Arts and Sciences, Emory University,2010-2011. Funded ($7,000.00), but declined to accept postdoctoral fellowship.
  • Fellowship for International Graduate Research (FIGR): Summer Pre-Dissertation Research, Laney Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Emory University, 2006. Funded ($2,000.00).
  • Trustee Scholarship (awarded in recognition of academic merit, coverage of 50% of tuition), Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA (student, 1999-2001, English Major, traerred), 1999-2001.

Consultancy and Contracts

  • Contract submitted. “Trenching Investigations of the University of Mississippi Medical Center Cemetery within the Boundaries of the Children’s Safe Center.” PI: Anderson, DT; Co-PIs: MK Zuckerman, J Alvey (MSU). Cobb Institute of Archaeology Mississippi State University. Amount: $16,863.00. Submitted September 2016. Under review.
  • Bioarchaeological consultant, University of Mississippi Medical Center Cemetery Project (UMMC – CP). 2013. Cemetery clearance project. Contract PIs: Herrmann, NP; Co-PIs: Anderson DT, Zuckerman, MK(Award #016426-001: $138,600.00; additional services: $12,625.00. Total: $151,225.00).
  • Bioarchaeological consultant, with Nicholas Herrmann, for recovery of two prehistoric Native American burials exposed during an excavation-based field school in Natchez, MS, organized by John O’Hare (retired from MSU) and VincasSteponaitis (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) in May 2012 (no fee charged).
  • Bioarchaeological consultant, emergency salvage excavation of two prehistoric Native American burials recovered from the Sandy Point National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, St. Croix, USVI. August 2012 (no fee charged).
  • Bioarchaeological consultant, Gale Cemetery Project. 2012. Assisted with recovery of two burials exposed during private construction near Jackson, MS. September 2012. Contract PI: Herrmann, NP; Co-PIs: Anderson, DT, MK Zuckerman. (Contract: $3,000.00).

Scholarly Awards & Distinctions

  • Early promotion to Associate Professor, MSU, 2016.
  • College of Arts & Sciences Teachingin the Social & BehavioralSciencesAward, MSU, 2014.
  • Biological Anthropology Section Student Prize, Biological Anthropology Section, American Anthropological Association, 2009.
  • Charles R. Jenkins Distinguished Achievement Award, Lambda Alpha National Anthropology Honors Society, 2008, 2009.
  • Graduate Research Symposium, 2nd place, Department of Anthropology, Emory University, 2008.
  • Phi Beta Kappa (Lambda of Pennsylvania Chapter), Pennsylvania State University, 2004.
  • State Finalist, Pennsylvania, Rhodes Scholarship Competition, 2004.
  • Nominated for the Rhodes, Marshall, and Mitchell Scholarships, Pennsylvania State University, 2004.
  • Ralph Dorn Hetzel Memorial Award,2004, the highest undergraduate award given by Pennsylvania State University, is awarded “in recognition of outstanding undergraduate academic achievement, responsible leadership, and promise of public spirited service in the future.”
  • The Evan Pugh Scholar Award-Senior, 2004, awarded to students in the upper 0.5% of the senior class, Pennsylvania State University.
  • Lambda Alpha National Anthropology Honors Society (Zeta of Pennsylvania & Beta of Georgia), Pennsylvania State University and Emory University.
  • Dean's List, Pennsylvania State University, 2001-4.
  • Dean’s List, Westminster College, New Wilmington PA, 2000-1.

Publications

1First authorship shared: these two authors contributed equally to this work.

2Author is an undergraduate student advised/co-advised by Zuckerman.

3Author is an undergraduate student mentored by Zuckerman

Zuckerman, MK, and S Zoll3.N.d.Translating between biology and society: Sex, gender, syphilis, and immunology. In preparation for December 2016 submission to Social Science and Medicine.

Zuckerman, MK, and M Davenport2. n.d. Overall health and the pathophysiology of treponemal disease. In preparation for December 2016 submission to the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

Ramazani, CM2, MK Zuckerman, DR Hunt, T Amgalantugs, and B Frohlich. N.d.Death in the Gobi: A Case Study of Skeletal Trauma from the Hets Mountain Cave, Mongolia. In preparation for December 2016 submission to the International Journal of Ostearchaeology.

Zuckerman, MK. N.d. Book review, Disease and discrimination: Poverty and pestilence in colonial Atlantic America Dale L. Hutchinson University Press of Florida. Mississippi Archaeology. Invited submission, in preparation.

Zuckerman, MK. N.d.Recovering the Lived Body from Bodies of Evidence: Interrogation of Diagnostic Criteria and Parameters for Disease Ecology, and Reconstruction of Life Histories and Immunological Status of Individuals with Syphilis in North American Anatomical Collections. In Bodies of Evidence in Bioarchaeological Analysis: New Ways of Knowing Anatomical and Skeletal Collections. Ed. Stone, P. Springer. (text under contract). In preparation for December 1st submission.

Zuckerman, MK, M Davenport2, P Banks2, and RJ King3. N.d.Disability, disease, trauma, and stigma: did chronic infection with syphilis influence experiences of trauma and recidivistic trauma in post-medieval London? In: Injury Recidivism and Violence: Perspectives from Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology. Eds. Tegtmeyer, C and DL Martin. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. Submitted, under review.

Turner, BL, MK Zuckerman, JL Sweeney, and GJ Armelagos. N.d.Teaching the Anthropology of Food: Biocultural and Evolutionary Perspectives. Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem Based Learning. Undergoing revision for re-submission.

Belanich, JR2, HW Jordan, NP Herrmann,DS Miller, JP Rosch, and MK Zuckerman. N.d.The reconstruction and analysis of oral microbiomes using dental calculus from an historic asylum population in Jackson, MS. PLoS ONE.To be submitted September 23rd 2016.

Kamnikar, KR12, MK Zuckerman1, NP Herrmann, JD Franklin. N.d. Interpreting functional impairment in the Mississippian Period.International Journal of Ostearchaeology. Submitted September 9th 2016. Under review.

Zuckerman, MK., and JJ Crandall. 2016.Reconstructing Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in Relation to Health, Disease, and Medical Treatment in Bioarchaeology. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. Undergoing revision for re-submission.

Zuckerman, MK.2018. Biocultural model/ approaches. In: The International Encyclopedia of Biological Anthropology. Ed. W Trevathan. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. Invited submission; Accepted.

Zuckerman, MK.2018. Treponemal disease. In: The International Encyclopedia of Biological Anthropology. Ed. W Trevathan. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. Invited submission; Accepted.

Zuckerman, MK. 2016. "The ‘Poxed’ and ‘the Pure’: a Bioarchaeological Investigation of Communityand Marginalization Relative to Infection with Acquired Syphilis in 17th to 19th Century, London." In: The Bioarchaeology of Community. Becker, S. and S. Juengst, Eds.Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association.In press.

Zuckerman, MK and PJ Banks2. 2017. Potential applications of public health tools to bioarchaeological datasets: The “Dirty War Index” and the biological costs of armed conflict for children. In: On the Battlefield of Women and Children’s Bodies. Eds. DL Martin and C Tegtmeyer. London: Springer. In press.

Zuckerman, MK. 2016. Book review, Sanitation, Latrines, and Intestinal Parasites in Past Populations, Piers D. Mitchell. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. Bulletin of the History of Medicine.In press. Invited submission.

Zuckerman, MK.2016.Mercury in the midst of Mars and Venus: Reconstructing gender and socioeconomic status in the context of mercury treatments for acquired syphilis in 17th to 19th century England using portable X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry. In Agarwal, S and J Wesp, Exploring Sex and Gender in Bioarchaeology. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press. In press.

Zuckerman, MK. 2016. Forum: Comment #6 on Ubelaker, D. The Dynamic Interface of Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology.Intersecciones en Antropologia.Invited submission, In press.

Zuckerman, MK. 2016. More Harm than Healing?Mercury Treatments for Syphilis in 17th to 19th Century London.Open Archaeology2: 42-55.Invited submission, special themed issue.

Zuckerman MK, and DL Martin. 2016. Introduction: The development of biocultural perspectives in Anthropology. In New Directions in Biocultural Anthropology.Eds. MK Zuckerman and DL Martin. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. P. 7-26.

Zuckerman MK, and KN Harper. 2016. Paleoepidemiological approaches to ancient disease. In New Directions in Biocultural Anthropology.Eds. MK Zuckerman and DL Martin. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. P. 317-335.

Zuckerman, MK, J Belanich2, and GJ Armelagos. 2016. The Second Epidemiologic Transition and the Hygiene Hypothesis: Using Evidence of Ancient Health to Inform Practice in Clinical Medicine and Public Health. In New Directions in Biocultural Anthropology.Eds. MK Zuckerman and DL Martin. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. P. 363-379.

Martin, DL, and MK Zuckerman. 2016. Concluding thoughts: a bright future for students trained in using a biocultural perspective. In New Directions in Biocultural Anthropology. Eds. MK Zuckerman and DL Martin. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. P. 493-498.

Zuckerman, MK., KN Harper, GJ Armelagos.2015.Adapt or die: three case studies in which the failure to adopt advances from other fields has compromised paleopathology. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology26(3): 375-383.

Zuckerman, MK., K Kamnikar2, and S Mathena2. 2014. Recovering the ‘Body Politic’: A Relational Ethics of Meaning for Bioarchaeology. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 24(3):1-9.

Zuckerman, MK., EM Garofalo, B Frohlich, and DJ Ortner. 2014. Anemia or scurvy: A pilot study on differential diagnosis of porous and hyperostotic lesions using differential cranial vault thickness in subadult humans. International Journal of Paleopathology 5: 27-33.

Zuckerman, MK., KN Harper, R Barrett, GJ Armelagos. 2014. The evolution of disease:

anthropological perspectives on epidemiologic transitions. Global Health Action7: 23303.

Zuckerman, MK. 2014. Introduction: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Second

Epidemiologic Transition. In Are Modern Environments Bad for Human Health? Revisiting the Second Epidemiologic Transition. MK Zuckerman (Ed). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. p. 1-15.

Zuckerman, MKand GJ Armelagos.2014. The Hygiene Hypothesis and the Second Epidemiologic Transition. In Are Modern Environments Bad for Human Health? Revisiting the Second Epidemiologic Transition. MK Zuckerman (Ed). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.p. 291-311.

Harper, KN, MK Zuckerman, GJ Armelagos. 2014. Syphilis: Then and Now. The Scientist.

February 2014.

Crandall, JJ, and MK Zuckerman. 2013. Comments on the Bioarchaeology of Sex and

Gender. Anthropology News. April 2013.

Harper, KN, MK Zuckerman, BL Turner, and GJ Armelagos.2013. Primates, pathogens, and

evolution: A context for understanding emerging disease. InBrinkworth, J., and K. Pechenkina, (Eds.) (Harper et al. 2013). New York: Springer Publishing. 389-409.

Harper, KN, Zuckerman, MK and GJ Armelagos. 2013. Correspondence: A Possible (But not Probable?) Case of Treponemal Disease.International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 23(5): 626-627.

Turner, BL1, MK Zuckerman1, EM Garofalo, JD Kingston, GJ Armelagos, DR Hunt, T Amgalantugs, and B Frohlich. 2012. Diet and Death in Times of War: isotopic and osteological analysis of mummified human remains from Southern Mongolia, AD 1327-1651. Journal of Archaeological Science 39(10): 3125–3140.

Zuckerman, MK1, BL Turner1, and GJ Armelagos. 2012. Evolutionary Thought and the Rise of the Biocultural Approach in Paleopathology. In Grauer, AL., (Ed.) A Companion to Paleopathology. New York: Wiley-Blackwell. p. 34-58.

Zuckerman, MK., KN Harper, GJ Armelagos. 2012. Response to Cole and Waldron’s “Letter to

the Editor: Syphilis Revisited.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 149(1): 51-53.

Armelagos, GJ,MK Zuckerman, and KN Harper.2012. The Science Behind Pre-Columbian

Syphilis Finds in Europe: Research by Documentary.Evolutionary Anthropology. 21(2): 50-57.

Zuckerman, MK. 2012. The Bioarchaeology of Disease.SAA Archaeological Record 12(2): 41-44. (Special Edition: New Directions in Bioarchaeology; Invited submission to the edition, cover story).

KN Harper1, MK Zuckerman1, ML Harper, JD Kingston, and GJ Armelagos. 2011. The Origin and Antiquity of Syphilis Revisited: An Appraisal of Old World Pre-Columbian Evidence for Treponemal Infection. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology.146(S53): 99-133.

Zuckerman, MK and GJ Armelagos. 2011. The Origins of Biocultural Dimensions in Bioarchaeology. InAgarwal, SC and B Glencross (Eds.) Social Bioarchaeology. New York: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers. pp. 15-44.

Harper, KN and MK Zuckerman.2010. Comments from group that supplied sequence data (Comment on “Syphilis at the Crossroad of Phylogenetics and Paleopathology”). PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases4(1): e575.

Zuckerman, MK. 2010. Medicine and Medical Anthropology: An Integrated Perspective on the

Social Determinants of Health Disparities.Current Anthropology (Section: Current Applications) 51:457–457.

Zuckerman, MK. 2010. Anthropology of Race: Moving Beyond ‘Race-as-Bad-Biology’: Towards a Synthetic Understanding of the Embodiment of Social Inequality. Current Anthropology (Section: Anthropological Currents) 51(2): 160.

Zuckerman, MK. 2010. Science Communications: Bugs and the Body: Microbes, Conceptions of Self, and the Human Microbiome Project in the Popular Press. Current Anthropology (Section: Anthropological Currents) 51(1): 3.

Zuckerman, MK. 2010. Medical Anthropology: Violence, Mental Health, and Human Rights in Transcultural Contexts. Current Anthropology (Section: Current Applications): 51(1): 5.

Zuckerman, MK and GJ Armelagos. 2010. L.S. Penrose and the Study of Race. In Banik, SD (Ed.).Research in Physical Anthropology: Essays in Honor of Professor L. S. Penrose. Mérida, Yucatán: Unasletrasindustria editorial. pp. 11-37.

Zuckerman, MK,2009. Nutritional Anthropology and Archaeobotany: Seeing a Forest from the Teeth:Ancient Diet through Analysis of Dental Calculus. Current Anthropology (Section: Anthropological Currents). 50(6): 756.

Zuckerman, MK. 2009. Consumer Studies:Beauty Trumps All: ConsumerStigmatization in Retail Contexts. Current Anthropology (Section: Anthropological Currents). 50(4): 411.

Zuckerman, MK. 2009. Historical Bioarchaeology: Isotopes and Hearsay: Solving the Sinking of the Mary Rose? Current Anthropology (Section: Anthropological Currents). 50(5): 587-588.

Frohlich, B, MK Zuckerman, T Amgalantugs, D Hunt, AS Wilson, M Thomas, MTP Gilbert, R Chambers, HM Coyle, B Falkowski, E Garofalo and E Batchatar. 2008. Human Mummified Remains from the Gobi Desert: Current Progress in Reconstruction and Evaluation. In P. Atoche, C Rodriguez, and MA Ramirez (eds.) Mummies and Science: World Mummies Research. Lanzarote. Santa Cruz de Tenerife. pp 17-26.

Ortner, DJ, EM Garofalo, and MK Zuckerman. 2006. The EB IA Burials of BÂB EDH-DHRA, Jordan: Bioarchaeological Evidence of Metabolic Disease. In Faerman, M et al.(Eds.) Faces from the Past: Papers in honor of Patricia Smith. BAR International Series 1603. Oxford, UK: Archaeopress. pp 181-194.

Books

Zuckerman, MK, Ed. 2014. Modern Environments and Human Health: Revisiting the Second Epidemiological Transition. Hoboken, NJ:Wiley-Blackwell.

Zuckerman, MK, and DL Martin. Eds. 2016. New Directions in Biocultural Anthropology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.

Editorial Experience, Periodical

  • Audited Anthropology 696I: Seminar in Anthropological Publishing (small, intensive seminar), taught by Dr. Mark Aldenderfer, Editor of Current Anthropology. Engaged in intensive, direct involvement in all stages of the peer-review process for submissions to Current Anthropology, including critical evaluation of manuscripts submitted to the journal and the associated reviews and revisions; direct participation in editorial decisions as to the acceptance or rejection of manuscripts and in the selection of reviewers. 2008-09.

Appointments & Research and Collaborative Experience

  • Participating consortium faculty member, Asylum Hill Research Consortium, University of Mississippi Medical Center. Working group chair: Ralph Didlake, MD FACS, Director, Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, University of Mississippi Medical Center.
  • Director, Bioarchaeological excavations at the Aklis Site, St. Croix. Associated with an archaeological field methods excavation-based field school (AN 3510 ARCHY Field Meth: EXCAV), offered by Mississippi State University, 06/-07/2014 & 06/-07/2016, Sandy Point National Wildlife Refuge, Frederiksted, St. Croix, United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
  • Research Associate (Bioarchaeology, Trace Elements, Stable Isotope & Paleopathology), Summer Field Course in Anthropological Field Methods, United States Virgin Islands, Salt River Bay National Historic Park, St. Croix, May 7-June 4, 2011. Project Co-Director: Dr. David Goldstein, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology , University of South Carolina.
  • Project Co-Director, Summer Field Course in Anthropological Field Methods, United States Virgin Islands, Salt River Bay National Historic Park, St. Croix, May 7-June 4, 2011. Project Co-Director: Dr. David Goldstein, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology , University of South Carolina.
  • Co-Principal Investigator, Isotopic Dietary and Provenience Reconstructions & Paleoparasitological Analyses, for “The Mongolian Mummy Project”, a joint collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), Washington DC, and the Institute of Archaeology, the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (See Zuckerman et al. 2008; Turner, et al., 2012). 2005-present.
  • Student Researcher, Sexually Transmitted Infections Branch of the National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, at the Centers for Disease Control, (CDC), Atlanta GA. Assisted with treponemal aDNA extraction and concentration for an advanced graduate student, Kristin Harper’s, dissertation research (resulting publication: Harper, KN, et al. 2008. On the Origin of the Treponematoses: A Phylogenetic Approach. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 1:e148.). 2005-06.
  • Visiting Researcher, Division of Physical Anthropology, NMNH. Developed preliminary method for differential diagnosis of metabolic diseases in juvenile skeletal remains via analysis of CT scan images (See Zuckerman et al. 2007 and Garofalo et al. 2007).2005-06.
  • Contract Osteologist, Division of Physical Anthropology, NMNH. Inventoried (full osteological analysis) and analyzed (pathologies, growth patterns, skeletal stress indicators) skeletal material from the Bâbedh-Dhrâ' site, Jordan, for inclusion into the Museum’s permanent research collection and analysis (consequent publication: Ortner, DJ and Frohlich, B. 2008. The early Bronze Age I tombs and burials of Bâbedh-Dhrâ', Jordan. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press). 2005.
  • Volunteer, Division of Physical Anthropology, NMNH. (Activities: see entry for Contract Osteologist above). 2004-05.
  • Field School Participant, North Orkney Population History Project Field School, Northern Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK. Performed archaeological excavations and was trained in anthropological and historical demography by Dr. James Wood, in ethnographic interviews by Dr. Patricia Johnson, and in GIS and GPS analysis of archaeological sites, Pennsylvania State University. 2004.
  • Provided research assistance (osteological cataloguing of human and non-human primate remains) for Dr. Alan Walker, Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University. 2003.
  • Research Assistant, for Dr. Steven Beckerman, Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University. Ethnological data collection via primary and secondary sources on marital practices of foraging societies. 2002-04,
  • Research Assistant, Morphometric Research Laboratory for Craniofacial Morphology ( Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University. Lab director: Dr. Joan T. Richtsmeier. Assisted research on craniosynostosis and craniofacial dysmorphology in juveniles via analysis of MRI and CT scan images. Trained in cranial morphometrics and Euclidean Distance Matrix Analysis. 2001-03.

Teaching Experience: Courses Taught