AHS is delighted to welcome Dr. Beth Scaffidi to the faculty. Dr. Scaffidi received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Vanderbilt University in 2018 with a dissertation funded by the prestigious Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Most recently, she was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Archaeological Chemistry Laboratory of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change (Arizona State University). Dr. Scaffidi’s research is focused on health, dietary, and residential history across lifetimes and within and between populations in prehistoric Peru. Her research is a strong fit for our department, where there are emphases on the prehistory of the Americas and geospatial technologies. She uses biological anthropology as the base for her work with human skeletal remains, adding in a strong methodological current in biogeochemistry as well as spatial analyses. Dr. Scaffidi joins us this fall and will begin her teaching in Spring 2021 with ANTH 179 (Bioarchaeology) and a topics class on plagues and disease in prehistory.
