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

• 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

Related Experience

• Chair, Senior Fellows Committee (advisory board), Pre-Colombian Studies, Dumbarton Oaks Library and Collections, Washington D.C., 2017-2019
• Senior Fellows Committee (advisory board), Pre- Colombian Studies, Dumbarton Oaks Library and Collections, Washington D.C., 2014-2017
• Co-director of Excavation and Lab Director, Platform III, Pyramids of Moche, northern Peru, 2012
• Conducted osteological analysis of human skeletal remains from site of Marcajirca, Callejón de Conchucos, Department of Ancash, Peru, 2011
• Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, San Diego Museum of Man, 2009-

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.

Recently-Taught Latin American-Related Courses:

• ANTH 3730: Principles of Forensic Anthropology
• ANTH 3745: Bioarcheology of Mummies
• ANTH 3750: Bones, Bodies, and Disease