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Kristina Killgrove, PhD Research Associate Research Laboratories of Archaeology University of North Carolina 108 Alumni Building, Campus Box #3120 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA killgrove@unc.edu Printable CV (PDF) |
| General |
I recently completed a PhD in physical anthropology at the University of North Carolina, specializing in bioarchaeology of the classical world. My dissertation, Migration and Mobility in Imperial Rome, is the culmination of a three-year-long NSF and Wenner-Gren funded project to identify and understand lower-class migrants and slaves in Rome during the Empire (1st-3rd centuries AD). The full dissertation can be downloaded here or, if you'd prefer to buy an inexpensive printed copy, you can click here.
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, teaching, and blogging, 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 |
As a bioarchaeologist trained in the often disparate fields of anthropology and classics, I have a strong commitment to interdisciplinary approaches to my research, which bridges: a) biological anthropology and archaeology; b) social science and humanistic studies; and c) classics and anthropology. My methodological and theoretical perspectives are drawn heavily from anthropology, osteology, demography, historiography, philology, ecology, applied mathematics, and chemistry. More specifically, my primary research foci are bioarchaeology, palaeopathology, classical archaeology, biological distance, and stable isotope analysis. I'm interested in theorizing migration in antiquity, including transnational and diasporic approaches, and in using bioarchaeological techniques and data to understand urban development and collapse.
My dissertation research involved osteological analysis of two cemetery
populations from Rome, Italy, curated by the Soprintendenza
Speciale per i Beni
Archeologici
di Roma. Imperial Rome was the seat of
a colonial force and a significant preindustrial urban center. For
centuries, scholarship was concerned only with the radiation of Roman
culture to the provinces, and the issue of immigrants coming to Rome has
been underresearched by all but historical demographers, for whom
immigrants are little more than a statistic. Modern theoretical
discussions in anthropology, however, conceive of migration as a process
in which active agents move within and between both geographic and
cultural space. My research views migration to Rome through the lens of
transnationalism, using chemical analysis and archaeological and
osteological data to investigate individual migrants' lives and identities
and to situate them within a contextualized social field of migration. An
abstract can be found here,
along with a copy of my
research findings.
In addition to this ongoing research, since 2010 I have served as the
bioarchaeologist for the Gabii Project,
directed by Nicola
Terrenato at the University of
Michigan. Gabii was an urban area
about 20 km east of Rome, occupied continuously for 1,500 years. The
research objectives of the Gabii Project include understanding city
development and collapse in ancient Italy and informing the public about
life in urban Latium. The skeletons from Gabii are allowing me to answer
questions about health, lifestyle, diet, and status at this important
sister city to Rome.
| Dissertation Grants |
| Honors and Fellowships |
| Membership in Professional Organizations |
| Teaching and Research Experience |
Vanderbilt University
Instructor for ANTH
270 (Human Osteology), Fall 2011
Instructor for ANTH 274 (Health and Disease in
Ancient Populations), Fall
2011
| Other Professional Experience |
The Gabii
Project, Rome Italy
Bioarchaeologist, 2010-present
Nicola Terrenato, Project Director
| Publications |
Articles
-----. 2011 (submitted). Using biological distance techniques to investigate the heterogeneous population of Imperial Rome. In The Past in Motion, D. Peterson and J. Dudgeon, eds.
-----. 2010. Identifying immigrants to Imperial Rome using strontium isotope analysis. In Roman Diasporas: Archaeological Approaches to Mobility and Diversity in the Roman Empire, H. Eckardt ed., Chapter 9, pp. 157-174. JRA Supplement 78; Portsmouth, RI: JRA.
Montgomery J, J Evans, S Chenery, V Pashley, -----. 2010. "Gleaming, white and deadly": lead exposure and geographic origins in the Roman period. In Roman Diasporas: Archaeological Approaches to Mobility and Diversity in the Roman Empire, H. Eckardt ed., Chapter 11, pp. 199-226. JRA Supplement 78; Portsmouth, RI: JRA.
-----. 2010. Response (invited) to C. Bruun's "Water, oxygen isotopes and immigration to Ostia-Portus." Journal of Roman Archaeology 23:133-136.
-----. 2009. Rethinking taxonomies: skeletal variation on the North Carolina coastal plain. Southeastern Archaeology 28(1):87-100.
Musco S, A Caspio, P Catalano, W Pantano, -----. 2008. Le complexe archeologique de Casal Bertone. Les Dossiers d'Archeologie 330 (Nov/Dec):32-39.
Reports
-----. 2008. Biodistance at the Broad Reach (31CR218) site. Report to D.L. Hutchinson, Department of Anthropology, UNC Chapel Hill, 10 pp.
-----. 2007. Casal Bertone relazione. Report to P. Catalano, Anthropology Division, Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma (Italy), 7 pp.
-----, 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.
Textbook Content (Online)
-----. 2010. Chapter quizzes, learning objectives, and metacontent for Our Origins, 2nd Ed. by Clark Spencer Larsen. Online content for StudySpace. W.W. Norton. [Read Online]
-----. 2009. Chapter quizzes and metacontent for Essentials of Physical Anthropology: Discovering Our Origins by Clark Spencer Larsen. Online content for StudySpace. W.W. Norton. [Read Online]
-----. 2009. Chapter quizzes, summaries, and outlines for How Humans Evolved, 5th ed., 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]
Book Reviews
-----. 2010. Review (invited) of Iron Age and Roman Burials in Champagne, by I.M. Stead, J.-L. Flouest, and V. Rigby. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 20(6):e1-2.
-----. 2010. Consultant for Bones: Dead People DO Tell Tales by Sara Latta (nonfiction forensic anthropology book for grade schoolers). Enslow Publishers.
-----. 2009. Review of Archaeology and Landscape in Central Italy, edited by G. Lock and A. Faustoferri. Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe 9(2):20-1.
-----. 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]
Theses
-----. 2005. Bioarchaeology in the Roman world. M.A. Thesis, Department of Classics, University of North Carolina. [Download PDF]
-----. 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. [Download PDF]
-----. 1999. 44OR249 - South Yard of Montpelier - "The Greasy Black Stain." B.A. Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia.
| Invited Talks |
Killgrove K. 2011. One empire, multiple stories: Lives of foreigners in Imperial Rome. Presented at Seton Hall University, South Orange NJ (15 March 2011), sponsored by the Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Social Work.
Killgrove K. 2010-2011. Rome if you want to: how skeletons reveal immigrants in the Empire.
-----. 2010. Who's who in Rome? Finding and understanding immigrants in Imperial Rome. Presented at Duke University, Durham, NC (14 September), sponsored by the North Carolina chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Department of Classical Studies at Duke.
-----. 2010. Demography, diet, and disease: implications of immigration to Imperial Rome. Presented at the symposium Sex, Death, and Bones: Paleodemography and Gender Differentials in the Mediterranean World, in Athens, Greece (15 March), sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.
| Conference Presentations |
Killgrove K., R. Tykot, J. Montgomery. 2011. Foreign women in Imperial Rome: the isotopic evidence. Paper to be presented in the session "Women on the move: the scientific and archaeological evidence for female mobility in the past," at the 17th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, September 14-18, in Oslo, Norway.
-----. 2011. Unsanitary urbanism? Rethinking pathology in Imperial Rome. Paper presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, April 12-13, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
-----, J. Montgomery, R. Tykot. 2011. Dietary differences between immigrants and locals in Imperial Rome. Poster presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Americal Association of Physical Anthropologists, April 12-16, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
-----. 2010. All roads lead to Rome: an Old World perspective on human circulation. Paper presented at the 109th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 17-21, in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Montgomery, J., J. Evans, S. Chenery, V. Pashley, -----, J. Beaumont. 2010. "Gleaming, white and deadly": the use of lead to track human exposure and geographic origins in the Roman period in Britain. Paper presented at the 4th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology, September 7-11, in Copenhagen, Denmark.
-----. 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 M.A., -----. 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.
| Public Service/New Media/Interviews |
2007 to present - Powered by Osteons blog
7 April 2011 - Interview given to S. Pappas of LiveScience for "'Gay caveman story overblown, archaeologists say". Quoted in pieces by M.E. Williams at Salon.com and M. Hartmann at Jezebel.com.
10 April 2011 - Interview given to P. Gast of CNN for "Scientists speak out to discredit 'gay caveman' media reports".
25 May 2011 - "The Bones of Martyrs?", featured article at Past Horizons.
26 May 2011 - "The Skull with the Mona Lisa Smile," featured article at Past Horizons. Quoted in pieces carried by LiveScience and CBS News.
27 June 2011 - Interview given to S. Pappas of LiveScience for "Could Shakespeare's bones tell us if he smoked pot?"
29 June 2011 - Interviewed on The Bob Rivers Show (KJR-FM, Seattle) about what can be learned from Shakespeare's bones
18 July 2011 - Interview given to R. Lorenzi of Discovery News for "Iceman's 'Girlfriend' Found"
| Professional and Volunteer Service |
Manuscript reviewer, Journal
of Roman Archaeology; Enslow
Publishers; American
School of Classical Studies at Athens Monographs
Grant proposal reviewer, Collaborative
Incentive Research Grant - CUNY
Graduate Student Mentor, UNC Chapel Hill, 2006-09
UNC Anthropology Department Webpage
Re-design Committee, 2006
President 2001-2002: Anthropology Graduate Student
Organization, East Carolina University
Treasurer 2001-2002: Graduate Student Advisory Council, East
Carolina University
Webmaster 1998-1999: Madison
House, University of Virginia
Cavs
in
the Classroom
1998: University of Virginia
| Languages |
Latin, Ancient Greek, French, German - Reading proficient
Italian - Reading, Writing, Speaking (Intermediate)
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