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Recent Publications

Recent publications by the faculty and graduate students of the Department of Anthropology

Passalacqua, N.V., Bartelink, E., McQuade, W.E.P., Steadman, D., Boyd, D., Spradley, K., Sauerwein, K. and Ho, R. (2025). The Development of Standards for the Ethical Use of Human Skeletal Remains for Education, Research, and Training in Forensic Anthropology. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 

Passalacqua, N. V., Taylor, E., Konda, A., Perera, N., George, R. L., Chapman, E. N., & Rowcroft, D. (2025, May 20). Characteristics of vertebral body augmentation in human skeletal remains. Forensic Anthropology

Langley, N.R., Tersigni-Tarrant, M.A., Passalacqua, N.V., Crowder, C.M., Garvin, H.M., McQuade, W.E.P., Martinez, M.S. and Pilloud, M.A. (2025). The Future of Forensic Anthropology Practice and Education: Competencies, Certification, and Licensure. American Journal of Biological Anthropology.

Pilloud, M. A., N. V. Passalacqua, and E. J. Bartelink. (2025). Forensic Anthropology as Practiced in the United States: Qualifications, Standards, and Ethical Practice. American Journal of Biological Anthropology.

Bartelink, E. J., N. V. Passalacqua, and W. E. P. McQuade. (2025). The Development of Professional Standards in Forensic Anthropology. American Journal of Biological Anthropology

McCorriston J, Ball L, Harrower MJ, Hamilton IM, Ivory SJ, et al. (2025). South Arabia’s prehistoric monument landscape shows social resilience to climate change. PLOS ONE.

Cohen, J. H. (2025). Eating Grasshoppers: Chapulines and the women who sell them. University of Texas Press.

Guatelli‐Steinberg, D., Watson, J., Samuel, L., Showalter, E., Lerner, F., Dixon, E., Kensler, T. B., Francis, G., Maldonado, E., Kohn, L. A. and Zhao, M. Q. (2025). Revisiting Linear Enamel Hypoplasia in Cayo Santiago Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta): How a Stress Marker Relates to Environment and Maternal Lineage in a Rare Rhesus Colony With Known Life History. American Journal of Primatology.

Towle, I., O'Hara, M. C., Leece, A. B., Herries, A. I., Adjei, A., Guatelli-Steinberg, D., de Pinillos, M. M., Modesto-Mata, M., Thiebaut, A., Hernando, R. and Irish, J. D. (2025). Uniform, circular, and shallow enamel pitting in hominins: Prevalence, morphological associations, and potential taxonomic significance. Journal of Human Evolution. 

Zhao, M. Q., Novak, C. T., Gong, R., Kaur, M., Guatelli‐Steinberg, D., Kensler, T. B., Francis, G., Maldonado, E., Kohn, L. A. and Wang, Q., (2025). CSViewer for Analysts: I. Building an Integrative Database and Knowledge Model for the Cayo Santiago Rhesus Macaque Colony and Its Derived Skeletal Collections. American Journal of Primatology. 

Gurian, K. N., Guatelli‐Steinberg, D., McGraw, W. S., Rychel, J. and O'Hara, M. C. (2025). Inter‐Observer Processing and Measurement Error Are Low for 2D Dental Measurements on Shared microCT Scans. American Journal of Biological Anthropology 

Willow, A. & Abiral, B. (Eds.). (2025). Post-Carbon Futures: Imagining (and Enacting) New Worlds through Transition Studies (1st ed.). Routledge.

Willow, A. (2025). Anthropology’s Postapocalyptic Turn: New Temporalities for New Times. Anthropological Theory Commons. 

Willow, A. (2025). The World We Want: How Emotion and Futurity Constitute Climate Change Response. Nature and Culture. 

Willow, Anna. (2025). Decolonizing Alliances for the Post-Carbon Transition: Seeking Solidarity through Temporality, Emplacement, and Interaction. Settler Colonial Studies

Wright, H. M., & Piperata, B. A. (2025). Between two worlds: Challenges measuring food insecurity with a standardized scale in a multiethnic peri-urban Indigenous community in the Brazilian Amazon. Ecology of Food and Nutrition.

Rhue, S. J., Piperata, B. A., & Lopes, U. (2025). Coping with water insecurity despite access and abundance in the urban Amazon. Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development. 

McCorriston, J., Ball, L., Harrower, M. J., Hamilton, I. M., Ivory, S. J., Senn, M. J., Steimer-Herbet, T., Buffington, A. F., Al-Kathiri, ‘A. A., & Al-Mahri, ‘A. M. (2025). South Arabia’s prehistoric monument landscape shows social resilience to climate change. PLoS ONE.

Tverskoi, D., Scaggs, S. A., & Downey, S. S. (2025). A complex adaptive systems model of labour reciprocity and normative reasoning in swidden agriculture. Royal Society Open Science. 

Piperata, B. A., Fannin, S. F., Cestonaro, T., Brito-Azevedo, A. C., Tavares da Silva, V. de C., Mendonça Freire Pereira, J., & Bittencourt Tavares Oliveira, R. (2025). Biocultural determinants of mothers’ complementary feeding decisions in the urban Brazilian Amazon. American Journal of Human Biology. 

Moore, E. V., Shearer, K., Thiam, S., Ramakdawala, Z., Yin, L., & Alvelo Colon, G. (2025). #diabetictoddlers and #type1moms: Visibilizing parent–child interembodiment on TikTok. Social Science & Medicine.

Mitchel, A. (2025). Traditional foods forum: A day of Indigenous knowledge at the Society for Applied Anthropology meeting. FoodAnthropology. 

Lemmers, S. A. M., Le Luyer, M., Stoll, S. J., Hoffnagle, A. G., Ferrell, R. J., Gamble, J. A., Guatelli-Steinberg, D., Gurian, K. N., McGrath, K., O’Hara, M. C., Smith, A. D. A. C., & Dunn, E. C. (2025). Inter-rater reliability of stress signatures in exfoliated primary dentition: Improving scientific rigor and reproducibility in histological data collection. PLoS ONE. 

Rhue, S. J. (2025). The world is and has been changing, so must our anthropological training. Practicing Anthropology. 

Chabot, J & Yerkes, R. W. (2024). Early bronze age Stone tools and agricultural Innovations: Comparing canaanean blades from Tell 'Atij in Northern Mesopotamia and Ein Zippori. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology.

Moore, E. V., & Schneidermann, N. (2024). Women who pay their own brideprice: Reimagining provider masculinity through Uganda’s thriving wedding industry. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute