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Other photos: Paris 2007; Ostia 2007; Rome 2007; Lisbon 2005; Tuscany 2004; Crete 2003; First Excavation |
Kristina Killgrove PhD Candidate Department of Anthropology University of North Carolina 108 Alumni Building, Campus Box #3120 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA killgrove@unc.edu |
| General |
I am a graduate student at the University of North Carolina pursuing my PhD in physical anthropology, specializing in bioarchaeology of the classical world. I earned my Bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia in Latin and Classical Archaeology in 1999, with a thesis project completed at Montpelier, the home of James Madison, under the direction of James Deetz. In 2002, I completed a Master's degree in Physical Anthropology at East Carolina University under the direction of Dale Hutchinson. My thesis was an analysis of population distance among the Native Americans of the North Carolina coastal plain during the Late Woodland period (800-1600 AD). In 2005, I completed a Master's degree in Classical Archaeology at UNC under the direction of Nicola Terrenato. My thesis involved a critique of the current practice of bioarchaeology by Roman archaeologists and presented suggestions for how human skeletal remains can help us answer questions about the classical world.
When I'm not busy with research, I enjoy cooking, reading, quilting, and playing racquetball and volleyball. I also do freelance editing for professors in various departments at UNC as well as for academics around the world. I grew up in Charlottesville, VA.
| Research |
My areas of interest are bioarchaeology, palaeopathology, classical
archaeology, biological distance, and stable isotope analysis. I'm
specifically interested in theorizing migration in antiquity, including
transnational and diasporic approaches, and working on integrating
bioarchaeology and transnationalism in Imperial Rome. From
February through September 2007, I completed my dissertation fieldwork in
Rome, Italy, on two collections curated by the Soprintendenza Archeologica
di Roma. This project is supervised
by Dale
Hutchinson
(UNC Anthropology) and Nicola
Terrenato (U Mich Classics), and it is
funded externally by the
National Science Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation and internally
by UNC's Center for Global
Initiatives,
Graduate School, and Research Labs of Archaeology.
An abstract follows:
Scholarship on ancient cities lacks a comprehensive approach to
understanding the experience of non-elite groups living in an urban
environment. Skeletal remains from cemeteries dating to the Roman
Imperial period (31BC - 324AD) hold the potential to change our perception
of life in the city of Rome and contribute to anthropological discussions
of worldwide urban development. By correlating demographic variability
with environmental, economic, and social stressors, this project will
challenge current thinking about how the urban environment affected
lower-class inhabitants of Rome. Environmental stress is directly
examined through palaeopathological analysis, economic stress is
investigated through dietary choice as revealed by stable carbon and
nitrogen isotope analyses, and social stress is investigated through
heterogeneity of the Roman population as revealed by strontium isotope
analysis. Through a combination of human skeletal remains, ancient texts,
and material culture, this project will investigate biological and
cultural factors of urban development that affect four subaltern groups:
the lower class, women, children, and immigrants.
Anyone who is looking for an osteology database template based on
Standards is encouraged to email me. I have created a relational database
template for Access that has tables and forms set up for a variety of
osteological data, including: inventories, pathologies, measurements,
non-metric cranial traits, and methods of estimating age, sex, and height.
| Dissertation Grants |
| Honors and Fellowships |
| Membership in Professional Organizations |
| Teaching and Research Experience |
University of North
Carolina
Instructor for ANTH
101 (General Anthropology),
Spring 2009
Instructor for ANTH
414 (Human Osteology),
Fall 2008
| Other Professional Experience |
8th
Palaeopathology Short Course, Bradford England
Participant, Summer 2008
| Publications |
Articles and Book Chapters
-----. 2009. Rethinking taxonomies: skeletal variation on the North Carolina coastal plain. Southeastern Archaeology 28(1):85-98.
Musco S, A Caspio, P Catalano, W Pantano, K Killgrove. 2008. Le complexe archéologique de Casal Bertone. Les Dossiers d'Archéologie 330 (Nov/Dec):32-39.
Reports
-----, Larsen CS. 2000. Human skeletal remains from Mission San Marcos, New Mexico. Report to D.H. Thomas, Department of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 24 pp.
Book Reviews
-----. In preparation. Review of Archaeology and Landscape in Central Italy, edited by G. Lock and A. Faustoferri. Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe.
-----. 2008. Review of Biocultural Histories in La Florida: a Bioarchaeological Perspective, by C.M. Stojanowski. Southeastern Archaeology 27(1):152-3.
-----. 2007. Review of Two Historic Cemeteries in Crawford County, Arkansas, by R.C. Mainfort and J.M. Davidson. Southeastern Archaeology 26(2):343-4.
-----. 2007. Review of Hunting for Hides, by Heather Lapham. Historical Archaeology, 41(2):204-5. [Read Online]
Online Textbook Content
-----. 2009. Chapter quizzes, summaries, and outlines for How Humans Evolved by Robert Boyd and Joan Silk. Online content for StudySpace. W.W. Norton. [Read Online]
-----. 2008. Chapter quizzes for Our Origins: Discovering Physical Anthropology by Clark Spencer Larsen. Online content for StudySpace. W.W. Norton. [Read Online]
Theses
-----. 2002. Defining relationships between Native American groups: a biodistance study of the North Carolina Coastal Plain. M.A. Thesis, Department of Anthropology, East Carolina University. [Read Online]
-----. 1999. 44OR249 - South Yard of Montpelier - "The Greasy Black Stain." B.A. Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia.
| Conference Presentations |
Killgrove K. 2009. What makes one Roman? Paper presented at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Atlanta, Georgia.
-----. 2009. Rome if you want to: immigrants in the Empire. Poster presented at the 78th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Chicago, Illinois. [Handout]
-----. 2008. Slums or suburbs? Health status of a population from Imperial Rome. Paper presented at the 77th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Columbus, Ohio. [Read Online]
-----. 2008. Transnationalism and polyethnic communities: identifying immigrants in Imperial Rome. Paper presented at the Critical Roman Archaeology Conference at the Stanford Archaeology Center. [Read Online]
-----. 2008. Bodies of work: understanding the Roman lower class. Paper presented at the 109th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in Chicago, Illinois. [Abstract]
Perry MA, -----. 2008. Embodiment and remembrance in a mortuary context. Colloquium organized at the 109th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in Chicago, Illinois. [Session]
-----. 2006. Classical bioarchaeology. Workshop chaired at the 107th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in Montreal, Canada.
-----. 2004. The face of Agamemnon: Middle Helladic graves at Mycenae. Paper presented at the 7th Annual UNC - Duke Graduate Colloquium in Classics.
-----. 2002. Defining relationships between Native American groups: a biodistance study of the North Carolina coastal plain. Poster presented at the 71st Annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
| Volunteer Service |
Graduate Student Mentor, UNC Chapel Hill, 2006-09
UNC Anthropology Department Webpage
Re-design Committee, 2006
President and Webmaster 2001-2002: Anthropology Graduate Student
Organization, East Carolina University
Treasurer and Webmaster 2001-2002: Graduate Student Advisory Council, East
Carolina University
Webmaster 1998-1999: Madison
House, University of Virginia
Boosters
1998: University of Virginia
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