[Kristina Killgrove]
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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

 

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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 academics and aspiring authors 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:
 
The urban center of Imperial Rome is an ideal setting for a multidisciplinary study of migration. Transportation infrastructure, broad citizenship categories, and dissemination of information about Rome meant there were few barriers to immigration to the capital. Previous research into migration in the Roman world has focused on the flow of colonizers into the provinces and tends to use a unidirectional, acculturation approach to interregional interaction. A better model for understanding Roman migration is diaspora, an aspect of transnationalism. Transnationalism combines an understanding of individual reasons for migration with the structure within which migration can occur. Bioarchaeology is uniquely suited to an analysis of migration because of its dual focus on the individual and the larger community and because skeletal remains can be chemically analyzed to identify individual immigrants and pinpoint their country of origin. Over 200 skeletons have been examined from two lower-class Imperial Roman cemeteries, and it is likely that both of these populations were polyethnic in nature. Rome's historical record can provide clues to the motivation of immigrants to seek a new home, osteology provides the methodological tool to examine population dynamics, and geochemistry provides a way to identify individual immigrants in the archaeological record. By combining these lines of evidence, this project is in a position to both use and refine the anthropological idea of transnationalism. The questions of migration that this project seeks to answer, particularly in regard to an urban center, are applicable to studies of migrants in the past and in the present. The bioarchaeological approach of this project will contribute data and interpretations to the study of migration as both an individual and a systemic phenomenon.
 

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

SUNY Cortland
    Instructor for ANT 229 (Introduction to Forensic Anthropology), Spring 2008

University of North Carolina
    Instructor for ANTH 414 (Human Osteology), Fall 2006
    Instructor for ANTH 116 (Bioarchaeology), Spring 2006
    Teaching assistant for ANTH 43 (Human Evolution and Adaptation), Spring 2005
    Teaching assistant for ANTH 10 (Introduction to Anthropology), Spring and Fall 2004, Fall 2005
    Teaching assistant for ANTH 48 (Human Origins), Fall 2003

Durham Technical Community College
    Instructor for ANT 220 (Cultural Anthropology), Spring 2003
    Instructor for ANT 210 (General Anthropology), Summer 2002

East Carolina University
    Teaching assistant for Human Osteology, Spring 2001
    Research assistant for Dr. Dale Hutchinson, Fall 2000 - Spring 2002

Other Professional Experience

8th Palaeopathology Short Course, Bradford England
    Participant, Summer 2008

Archeologia Funeraria e Antropologia di Campo, Rome Italy
    Seminar Participant, Spring 2007 (Languages: French and Italian)
    Henri Duday, Instructor, Universite de Bordeaux

Dental Anthropology Workshop, Lisbon Portugal
    Participant, Summer 2005
    Cidalia Duarte, Instructor, Instituto Portugues de Arqueologia

The Cecina Valley Project, Tuscany Italy
    Field archaeologist, Summer 2004
    Nicola Terrenato, Project Director

The Azoria Project, Crete Greece
    Field archaeologist and Trench supervisor, Summer 2003
    Donald Haggis, Project Director

Montpelier, Orange VA
    Fall 1998 - Spring 1999
    Archaeological lab research and field work for undergraduate thesis

Monticello Archaeology Field School, Charlottesville VA
    Field school participant, Summer 1996
    Fraser Neiman, Principal Investigator

University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA
    Spring 1996
    Crew member, excavation of Dickinson house site

Publications

Articles and Book Chapters

Reports

Textbook Content (Online)

Book Reviews

Theses

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.

-----. 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.

-----. 2008. Transnationalism and polyethnic communities: identifying immigrants in Imperial Rome. Paper presented at the Critical Roman Archaeology Conference at the Stanford Archaeology Center.

-----. 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.

-----. 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

Languages

Latin, Ancient Greek, French, German - Reading proficient
Italian - Reading, Writing, Speaking (Intermediate)