Current institutions and personnel in dental anthropology

Christopher Aris

Department: Forensic Science

Institution: Keele University (United Kingdom)

Degree programs offered: BA/BS; MA/MS; PhD

Research interests: dental development, bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, dental pathology, dental modification, dental morphology, odontometrics, quantitative genetics, dental anatomy, proteomics, oral microbiome, life history, dental microstructure, geometric morphometrics, diagenesis

 

Erin Blankenship-Sefczek

Department: Oral Biology

Institution: Creighton University

Degree programs offered: PhD

Research interests: dental development, bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, dental pathology, dental modification, dental morphology, odontometrics, dental evolution, dental anatomy, stable isotope analysis, life history, dental microstructure

 

Samantha Blatt

Department: Anthropology

Institution: Idaho State University

Degree programs offered: BA/BS; MA/MS

Research interests: dental development, bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, dental pathology, dental modification, dental morphology, odontometrics, dental anatomy, dental calculus, oral microbiome, life history, dental microstructure

 

Julia Boughner

Department: Anatomy, Physiology, & Pharmacology

Institution: University of Saskatchewan (Canada)

Degree programs offered: BA/BS; MA/MS; PhD; DMD; DDS

Research interests: dental development, primatology, paleoanthropology, bioarchaeology, dental pathology, dental modification, dental morphology, dental evolution, genetics/genomics, dental anatomy, life history, geometric morphometrics

 

Tim Bromage

Department: Molecular Pathobiology

Institution: College of Dentistry, New York University

Degree programs offered: MA/MS; DDS; PhD (through Dept. of Anthropology)

Research interests: dental development, paleoanthropology, proteomics, life history, dental microstructure, metabolomics, inorganic trace and ultra-trace analysis, ecological stoichiometry

 

Heather Edgar

Department: Anthropology & Office of the Medical Investigator

Institution: University of New Mexico

Programs offered: BA/BS; MA/MS; PhD

Research interest: dental development, bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, dental morphology, stable isotope analysis, dental microstructure

 

Julia Gamble

Department: Anthropology

Institution: University of Manitoba (Canada)

Degree programs offered: BA/BS; MA/MS; PhD

Research interests: dental development, bioarchaeology, dental pathology, odontometrics, dental anatomy, proteomics, life history, dental microstructure, demography

 

Lesley Harrington

Department: Anthropology

Institution: University of Alberta (Canada)

Degree programs offered: BA/BS; MA/MS; PhD; DMD; DDS

Research interests: dental development, macrowear analysis, bioarchaeology, dental pathology, life history, geometric morphometrics

 

Toby Hughes

Department: Adelaide Dental School

Institution: University of Adelaide (Australia)

Degree programs offered: BA/BS; MA/MS; PhD

Research interests: dental development, forensic anthropology, dental morphology, odontometrics, dental evolution, genetics/genomics, quantitative genetics, dental anatomy, oral microbiome, biomechanics, geometric morphometrics

 

Joel Irish

Department: Biological and Environmental Sciences

Institution: Liverpool John Moores University (United Kingdom)

Degree programs offered: BA/BS; MA/MS; PhD

Research interests: dental development, macrowear analysis, paleoanthropology, bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, dental pathology, dental modification, odontometrics, dental evolution, genetics/genomics, quantitative genetics, dental anatomy, proteomics

 

Kristin Krueger

Department: Anthropology

Institution: Loyola University Chicago

Degree programs offered: BA/BS

Research interests: macrowear analysis, microwear analysis, paleoanthropology, bioarchaeology, dental evolution, dental microstructure

 

Myra Laird

Department: Basic and Translational Sciences

Institution: University of Pennsylvania

Degree programs offered: BA/BS; MA/MS; PhD; DMD

Research interests: primatology, dental morphology, dental evolution, dental anatomy, biomechanics, life history, geometric morphometrics

 

Amy Mundorff

Department: Anthropology

Institution: University of Tennessee

Degree programs offered: BA/BS; MA/MS; PhD

Research interests: dental development, forensic anthropology, dental pathology, stable isotope analysis, dental calculus, oral microbiome, life history

 

Christina Nicholas

Department: Orthodontics

Institution: University of Illinois Chicago

Degree programs offered: BA/BS; MA/MS; PhD; DMD

Research interests: dental development, paleoanthropology, dental evolution, geometric morphometrics

 

Kathleen Paul

Department: Anthropology

Institution: University of Arkansas

Degree programs offered: BA/BS; MA/MS; PhD

Research interests: dental development, paleoanthropology, bioarchaeology, dental pathology, dental modification, dental morphology, odontometrics, dental evolution, quantitative genetics, dental anatomy

Marin Pilloud

Department: Anthropology

Institution: University of Nevada, Reno

Degree programs offered: BA/BS; MA/MS; PhD

Research interests: dental development, bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, dental pathology, dental morphology, odontometrics, dental evolution, dental anatomy, dental microstructure

Tracy Prowse

Department: Anthropology

Institution: McMaster University (Canada)

Degree programs offered: BA/BS; MA/MS; PhD

Research interests: bioarchaeology, dental pathology, stable isotope analysis, dental calculus

Andrew Scherer

Department: Anthropology & Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World

Institute: Brown University

Degree programs offered: BA/BS; PhD

Research interests: macrowear analysis; bioarchaeology, dental pathology, dental modification, dental morphology, odontometrics, stable isotope analysis, dental calculus

 

Christopher Schmidt

Department: Anthropology

Institution: University of Indianapolis

Degree programs offered: BA/BS; MA/MS

Research interests: macrowear analysis, microwear analysis, paleoanthropology, bioarchaeology, odontometrics, dental evolution, dental anatomy

Stanley Serafin

Department: Anatomy

Institution: University of New South Wales (Australia)

Degree programs offered: BA/BS; MA/MS; PhD

Research interests: bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, dental pathology, dental modification, dental morphology, odontometrics, stable isotope analysis

 

Ana Maria Silva

Department: Life Sciences

Institution: University of Coimbra (Portugal)

Degree programs offered: BA/BS; MA/MS; PhD

Research interests: macrowear analysis, bioarchaeology, dental pathology, dental modification, dental morphology, odontometrics, dental calculus

María del Socorro Barraza Salcedo

Department: Odontology

Institution: Fundación Universitaria San Martín (Colombia)

Degree programs offered: PhD

Research interests: paleoanthropology, bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, dental pathology, dental morphology, odontometrics, dental evolution, dental anatomy

James Watson

Department: Anthropology & Arizona State Museum

Institution: University of Arizona

Degree programs offered: BA/BS; MA/MS; PhD

Research interests: macrowear analysis, bioarchaeology, dental pathology, dental modification

Jamie Weets

Department: Anthropology

Institution: State University of New York at Potsdam

Degree programs offered: BA/BS

Research interests: bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, dental morphology, odontometrics, biodistance analysis

Frank Williams

Department: Anthropology

Institution: Georgia State University

Degree programs offered: BA/BS; MA/MS

Research interests: dental development, macrowear analysis, microwear analysis, primatology, paleoanthropology, bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, dental pathology, dental morphology, odontometrics, dental evolution, quantitative genetics, life history