Ann L.W. Stodder, Research Associate

PhD University of Colorado, 1990
MLIS School of Information Science, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1999
MA University of Colorado, 1984
BA University of California, Santa Cruz, 1979

Dr. Stodder is a bioarchaeologist (and sometimes librarian) who conducts research in the American Southwest and the Pacific. Her study of human remains focuses on paleopathology, especially in subadult skeletons, understanding human adaptation and life histories in the past, and on exploring the range of mortuary practices that reflect the human relationship with death and with the deceased. She has taught a variety of courses in physical anthropology, and is the author of several book chapters and journal articles.

In association with the New Guinea Research Program, she has been analyzing the extremely fragmentary remains from the 1996 excavations in the Aitape area, and interpreting these in the context of ethnohistoric and archaeologically documented mortuary practice on the North Coast of New Guinea and other areas of Melanesia. Biological affinity of the prehistoric people of Aitape is being explored through the study of the ethnohistoric remains in the Field Museum collections.

Dr. Ann Stodder