John Verano
Professor - Anthropology
School of Liberal Arts
http://www.johnverano.com/Verano/Welcome.html
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Core Faculty
Region
- South America
Additional Info
Recently-Taught Latin American-Related Courses:
- ANTH 3730: Principles of Forensic Anthropology
- ANTH 3745: Bioarcheology of Mummies
- ANTH 3750: Bones, Bodies, and Disease
Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years:
8
Research
Peru; Physical Anthropology; Bioarchaeology; Paleopathpology; Forensic Anthropology
Degrees
- B.A., Stanford University, Anthropology, 1977
- M.A., University of California-Los Angeles, Anthropology, 1980
- Ph.D., University of California-Los Angeles, Anthropology, 1987
Academic Experience
Academic Experience
- Professor, Tulane University, 2009-
- Associate Professor, Tulane University, 2000-2009
- Visiting Professor, Yale University, 2000
- Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 1994-2000
- Assistant Professor, George Washington University, 1992-1994
Distinctions
- Carol Lavin Bernick Faculty Grant Program for fieldwork in Peru, Summer 2017
- COR Faculty International Travel Grant / Bernick Faculty Fund of Tulane: travel to 9th World Congress on Mummy Studies, Lima Peru., August 2016
- Lurcy Grant to help support my field project in Peru, Summer 1012
- CELT Fund for Faculty-Student Scholarly and Artistic Engagement Grant. Center for Engaged Learning and Teaching, Tulane University, 2011
- Tulane Research Enhancement Fund Grant, Program 1, Phase II (Fieldwork in Peru), 2007
- Fellowship in Pre-Columbian Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC, 2006-2007
- Summer Faculty Research Fellowships, Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2011, 2012
- National Geographic Society Research Grants, 2000-2001, 2005-2006
- Fulbright Lecturer, Peru, 1989, 1996
- Performance Award, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 1993
Languages
- Spanish
- Italian
Overseas Experience
- Peru
- Chile
- Mexico
Selected Publications
- 2017. “Exostosis en el conducto auditivo externo y las importantes contribuciones de Duccio Bonavia a su studio.” Revista Histórica (Instituto Histórica del Perú), Homenaje especial a Duccio Bonavia Berber. Editor, Elmo Leon Canales. Vol XLVII
- 2017. “Chapter 8. Bioarchaeology of the Huaca Prieta Remains,” and “Appendix 10: Human Skeletal Remains from Various Excavations.” With Anne Titelbaum. Where the Land Meets the Sea: Fourteen Millennia of Human Prehistory on the North Coast of Peru. Editor
- 2017. “La bioarqueología de la Guerra.” Arqueología Mexicana. 24(143): 36-42.
- 2016. “Differential Diagnosis: Trepanation.” International Journal of Paleopathology. 14:1-9.
- 2016. Holes in the Head, The Art and Archaeology of Trepanation in Ancient Peru. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology Number 38.