C.G Tuner II/Cambridge University Press Poster Competition
We are excited to announce the 2025 C.G. Turner II & Cambridge University Press Poster Competition!
The Turner/CUP Poster Prize is awarded annually to the best student poster submitted to the DAA. The winner is awarded $100 in Cambridge University Press books. If you are a faculty member or advisor, please share this opportunity with your students! If you are a student member, please consider submitting your work to the competition!
Submissions are due by March 10, 2025. Please email Dr. Erin Blankenship-Sefczek (ErinBlankenship-Sefczek@creighton.edu) with your submissions.
Additional details are provided in the attached advertisement.
2024 CONTEST NOW OPEN!
Previous winners:
2024
Molly Militello (University of Arkansas) with their poster “The Role of the Patterning Cascade Model in Human Premolar Variation”.
Emily Smith (University of Nevada, Reno) with their poster “A closer look at the perinatal and infantile environment: A case study of deciduous microdental structures.”
Kenneth G. Tremblay (University of Central Florida) with their poster “Dental mapping: A potential GIS application for identifying congenitally missing teeth.”
2023
Julianne Stamer (prizewinner) with co-author B.J. Baker, “Oral Disease at Al-Qinifav, Sudan: Reassessing the Saso and Kondo (2019) Method”.
Emily Moes (prizewinner) with co-author H. Edgar, “Sex Differences in the Relationship between Fluctuating Asymmetry in Deciduous Teeth and Environmental Temperature during Gestation”.
2022
Dori E. Kenessey (prizewinner) with co-authors Leah E. Auchter, Marin A. Pilloud, “Identifying candidate SNPs shaping dental morphological trait expression”
Tisa N. Loewen (prizewinner) with co-author G. Richard Scott, “Pictures?! Comparing observer error for dental morphology from direct observations and photographs using ASUDAS”
Diana Malarchik (prizewinner) and co-authors Jelmer W. Eerkens, Austin Cole, and Tom Ostrander, “Examining Heavy Metal Exposure in Two Historic San Francisco Cemeteries”
2021
E. Susan Daly (prizewinner) with co-author G.T. Schwartz, “Dietary Correlates of Mandibular Premolar Form in Haplorrhine Primates”
Kaita Gurian (prizewinner) with co-authors S. Holt, L. Oldershaw, M. Hubbe, and D. Guatelli-Steinberg, “What Accentuated Striae in Tooth Enamel Reveal About Physiological Stress Differences in Two Ohio Populations of Disparate Socioeonimic Status.”
Tatiana Vlemincq-Mendieta (prizewinner), “Characterization of the Inhabitants of South America using Nonmetric Dental Data”
2019
Luke Fannin (prizewinner), with co-authors D. Guatelli-Steinberg, E. Geissler, P. Constantino, and W.S. McGraw “Frequency of Enamel Chipping in Tai Forest Cercopithecids: Implications for Dietary Reconstruction in the Fossil Record”
Jennifer Nelson (prizewinner), with co-authors L. Harrington, E. holland, and H.F.V. Cardoso “Do Teeth Forming in Different Early Life Periods Show Differential Discrepancy with Known Age?”
Nina Maaranen (prizewinner), with co-authors S.R. Zakrzewski and H. Schutkowksi “Hyskos in Egypt—Utilizing Biodistance Methods to Interpret Archaeological adn Textural Evidence from Tell el-Dab’a”
2018
Emma Lagan (prizewinner), with co-authors D.E. Ehrlich, S.S. Pesce, "Dentine Without Borders: An Improved Dental Macrowear Scoring Method with Cross-Cultural Adaptation"
Jessica Droke (prizewinner), with co-authors C.W. Schmidt, F. L'Engle-Williams, W.M. Karriger, F.H. Smith, G. Becam, M. de Lumley: "Regional Variability in Diet Between Northern and Mediterranean Neandertals: Evidence from Dental Microwear Texture Analysis"
Keegan Selig (prizewinner), with co-authors S. Lopez-Torres, A. Hartstone-Rose, A.M. Burrows, and M.T. Silcox: "Differential Enamel Thickness n the Anterior Dentition as a Signal for Gouging Behavior"
2017:
Katie Faillace: “The applicability of dental wear in age estimation for a modern American population.”
Rebecca Whiting: “Differences in the non-masticatory dental wear of two medieval assemblages from the 4th cataract, Sudan.”
Donovan Adams: “Sex estimation from dental crown and cervical metrics in a contemporary Japanese sample.”