Expertise
Specialty & Interests: Biological Anthropology
I am a biological (physical) anthropologist, with a broad background in teaching and research. My primary area of expertise is skeletal biology, both human and non-human primate. I have worked on a multitude of research projects including: age and sex determination from the human skeleton, regression models for stature estimation in paleoanthropological contexts, paleopathology, biodistance and morphometrics.
More recently, I published several papers with a colleague on using transition analysis and the Bayesian approach to age estimation. I am also working on fluctuating asymmetry in the human cranium using three-dimensional morphometrics in Imperial Roman individuals from central and southern Italy and biological distance analyses among several temporally and geographically distinct populations from Italy.