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Jane E. Buikstra

Jane Buikstra (PhD U of Chicago, 1972), Regents’ Professor and Founding Director, Center for Bioarchaeological Research, Arizona State University, member, National Academy of Sciences & American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Past-president: American Association of Biological Anthropologists, American Anthropological Association, Paleopathology Association. President: Center for American Archeology. Awards: Pomerance Award, Scientific Contributions to Archaeology, Archaeological Institute of America; T. Dale Stewart Award, American Academy of Forensic Sciences; Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award, AAPA; Eve Cockburn Award, PPA, Honorary DSc, Durham University; Lloyd Cotsen Prize for Lifetime Achievement in World Archaeology; University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Lucy Wharton Drexel Medal, Gorjanovic-Kramberger Medal in Anthropology, Croatian Society of Anthropology; Ales Hrdlicka Medal, Czech Anthropological Society, Lifetime Achievement Award, Shanghai Archaeological Forum; Midwest Archaeological Conference, Distinguished Career Award. Dr. Buikstra defined bioarchaeology (1977) as an international field that enriches archaeological knowledge of past peoples. Her research encompasses bioarchaeology, paleopathology, forensic anthropology and paleodemography, spanning North America, the west-central Andes, Mayan Mesoamerica, and the Mediterranean. She has published more than 20 books and 200 articles and has mentored more than 60 doctoral students and is currently investigating the evolutionary history of ancient tuberculosis in the Americas via archaeologically-recovered pathogen DNA, and is Project Director for the Phaleron Bioarchaeological Project in Athens, Greece.