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KRISTINA KILLGROVE, PHD

Curriculum Vitae

Email: killgrove@gmail.com Website: http://killgrove.org


EDUCATION
2010 PhD, Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2005 MA, Classical Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2002 MA, Anthropology, East Carolina University
1999 BA, Latin and Classical Archaeology, University of Virginia
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS & AFFILIATIONS
2018-present University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Curriculum in Archaeology – Affiliated Researcher (2019-2023)
Department of Anthropology – Teaching Assistant Professor, Adjunct (2018-2020)
2011-present Ronin Institute, Affiliated Research Scholar
2012-2018 University of West Florida, Department of Anthropology
Associate Professor of Biological Anthropology (2018)
Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology (2012-2018)
2011 Vanderbilt University, Department of Anthropology, Lecturer
2003-2011 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Anthropology
Adjunct Assistant Professor (2011), Graduate Teaching Fellow (2006-09),
Teaching Assistant (2003-05)
2008 SUNY Cortland, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Adjunct Instructor
2002-2003 Durham Technical Community College, Adjunct Anthropology Instructor
RESEARCH PROJECTS
2016-2022 Principal Investigator, Faces of Oplontis (Stage: Writing and publication)
2011-2022 Principal Investigator, Roman DNA Project (Stage: Writing and publication)
2010-2022 Bioarchaeologist, Gabii Project (Stage: Writing and publication)
2013-2018 Isotope Specialist, Medieval Population and Space: Interdisciplinary Research into the
Origin of Berlin’s First Population
RESEARCH FUNDING & FELLOWSHIPS
2019-2020 Rust Family Foundation Archaeological Grants Program ($4,650), Co-PI with Andrea N.
Acosta
2018-2019 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Post-PhD Grant ($17,600)
2018-2019 Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship ($13,300)
2017 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend ($6,000)
2017 Rust Family Foundation Archaeological Grants Program ($3,750)
2017 UWF Research Stimulus Program ($2,000) and Center for Research and Economic
Opportunity Miscellaneous Research Grant ($1,200)
2015-2017 Florida Research Fellowship Award, UWF ($20,000)
2014 UWF Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activities Award ($1,796)
2013 UWF Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activities Award ($1,994)
2011 Funding raised for Roman DNA Project through RocketHub ($12,331)
2009-2010 P.E.O. Scholar Award Fellowship ($15,000)
2008-2009 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
($6,720)
2006-2008 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (BCS-
0622452) ($11,940)
2008 UNC Chapel Hill, Smith Graduate Research Grant ($750)
2007 Research Labs of Archaeology, UNC Chapel Hill, Timothy P. Mooney Fellowship
($1,200)
2006 Center for Global Initiatives at UNC Chapel Hill, Pre-Dissertation Travel Award ($1,905)
2000-2002 Graduate Scholar Fellowship, East Carolina University ($20,000)
HONOR & AWARDS
2017 Society for American Archaeology, Excellence in Public Education Award
2016 American Anthropological Association, General Anthropology Division, New Directions
Award in Public Anthropology
2011 Manning Outstanding Dissertation Award in Anthropology, UNC Chapel Hill
2001 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society (inducted)
1995-1999 Echols Scholar, University of Virginia
PUBLICATIONS
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
In press Killgrove, K. and J.E. Buikstra. Public perceptions of palaeopathology and the future of
outreach. In: The Routledge Handbook of Palaeopathology, A. Grauer, ed., Ch. 32. Routledge.
Submitted 28 February 2022.
In press Killgrove, K. and A. Acosta. Dietary pathologies and isotope diversity in Imperial Rome
(1st-3rd centuries AD). In: Ancient Foodways: Integrative Approaches to Understanding
Subsistence and Society in the Past, D.L. Hutchinson, C.M. Scarry, B.S. Arbuckle, eds.
University Press of Florida. Expected publication in January 2023.
2022 Perry, M.A., K. Killgrove, L.A. Gregoricka, and T.L. Prowse. Towards accurate meta-
analyses in Mediterranean bioarchaeology: a critical response to Leppard et al. (JMA 33,
2020). Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, June 2022.

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2021 Killgrove, K. Osteology of the Imperial tombs from Gabii and Osteology of the two infants
from Area A. In: A Cemetery and Quarry from Imperial Gabii, L.M. Banducci and A. Gallone,
eds. University of Michigan Press. DOI: 10.3998/mpub.11885571.
2021 Halcrow, S., A. Aranui, S. Halmhofer, A. Heppner, N. Johnson, K. Killgrove, G. Robbins
Schug. Moving beyond Weiss and Springer’s Repatriation and Erasing the Past: Indigenous
values, relationships, and research. International Journal of Cultural Property 28(2): 211-220.
DOI: 10.1017/S0940739121000229.
2021 Clarke, J.R., I. Van der Graaff, G. Di Maio, A. Lagi De Caro, M.L. Thomas, J.L. Muslin,
A. Pecci, and K. Killgrove. Oplontis: The ancient landscape, the structures, and their
relationship with the resources of the Vesuvian region. In: Extra Moenia: Abitare il Territorio
della Regione Vesuviana, A. Coralini, ed., pp. 103-114.
2021 Zechini, M.E., K. Killgrove, C. Melisch, B. Turner, B. Schaefer. Diachronic changes in
diet in Medieval Berlin: Comparison of dietary isotopes from pre- and post-Black Death
adults. Accepted by Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 38. DOI:
10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103064.
2021 Voas, M., K. Killgrove, R. Tykot, Z. Nyárádi, A. Gonciar, J. Bethard. Childhood in the
Carpathians: An isotopic analysis of childhood diet and weaning in an ethnically Hungarian
medieval Transylvanian village. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 38. DOI:
10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103046.
2021 Ledger, M.L., I. Micarelli, D. Ward, T.L. Prowse, M. Carroll, K. Killgrove, C. Rice, T.
Franconi, M.A. Tafuri, G. Manzi, P.D. Mitchell. Gastrointestinal infection in Italy during
the Roman and Longobard periods: a palaeoparasitological analysis of sediment from
skeletal remains and sewer drains. International Journal of Paleopathology 33:61-71.
2021 Killgrove, K. A century of civilization, intelligence, and white nationalism. In: A Most
Interesting Problem: Darwin's Descent at 150 Years, J. DeSilva, ed. Princeton University Press,
Ch. 5, pp. 103-124.
2020 Robbins Schug, G., K. Killgrove, A. Atkin, and K. Barron. 3D dead: Ethical considerations
in digital human osteology. Bioarchaeology International 4 (3-4), 217-230. DOI:
10.5744/bi.2020.3008.
2020 Killgrove, K. Non-adult burials from Gabii: the osteological evidence. In: Elite Burial
Practices and Processes of Urbanization at Gabii, Italy: The Non-Adult Tombs from Area D of the
Gabii Project Excavations, M. Mogetta, ed. Journal of Roman Archaeology, Suppl. 108, 47-50.
2019 Acosta, A.N., K. Killgrove, V. Moses, B. Turner. Nourishing urban development: a
palaeodietary study of Archaic Gabii (6th-5th c BC). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
27. DOI 10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101962.
2018 Killgrove, K. Bioarchaeology in the Roman Empire (Revised). Encyclopedia of Global
Archaeology, 2nd edition, C. Smith, ed., Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-30018-
0_946.
2018 Killgrove, K. Bioarchaeology and the media: anthropology scicomm in a post-truth
landscape. In: Bioarchaeologists Speak Out: Deep Time Perspectives on Contemporary Issues, J.
Buikstra, ed., pp. 305-324. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-93012-1.

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2018 Killgrove, K. Using skeletal remains as a proxy for Roman lifestyles: the potential and
problems with osteological reconstructions of health, diet, and stature in Imperial Rome.
In: Routledge Handbook of Diet and Nutrition in the Roman World, C. Holleran and P.
Erdkamp, eds., pp. 245-258. Routledge.
2018 Halcrow, S., K. Killgrove, G. Robbins Schug, M. Knapp, D. Huffer, B. Arriaza, W.
Jungers, J. Gunter. A critical evaluation of skeletal and developmental abnormalities in the
Atacama preterm baby and issues of forensic and bioarchaeological research ethics.
Response to Bhattacharya et al. “Whole-genome sequencing of Atacama skeleton shows
novel mutations linked with dysplasia” in Genome Research. International Journal of
Paleopathology 22: 97-100. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpp.2018.06.007.
2018 Killgrove, K. and R. Tykot. Diet and collapse: a stable isotope study of Imperial-era Gabii
(1st-3rd c AD). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 19: 1041-1049. DOI:
10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.05.054.
2017 Melisch, C.M., I. Garlisch, B. Jungklaus, K. Killgrove, M. Nagy, N. Powers, J. Rothe, B.
Teßmann, M. Tichomirowa, K. White. 2017. Auf der Suche nach den ersten Berlinern.
Das internationale Forschungsproject "Medieval Space and Population." Mitteilungen der
Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte, Bd. 37, 51-64.
2017 Melisch, C., I. Garlisch, J. Rothe, M. Tichomirowa, K. Killgrove, and N. Powers.
Medieval space and population: Internationale Forscher auf der Suche nach den ersten
Berlinern. In: Archäologie in Berlin und Brandenburg 2015, Landesdenkmalamt
Berlin, pp. 102-108.
2017 Killgrove, K. Imperialism and physiological stress in Rome and its environs (1st-3rd
centuries AD). In: Colonized Bodies, Worlds Transformed: Toward a Global Bioarchaeology of
Contact and Colonialism, H. Klaus and M. Murphy, eds., Ch. 9, pp. 247-277. University
Press of Florida.
2016 Killgrove, K. and J. Montgomery. All roads lead to Rome: Exploring human migration to
the Eternal City through biochemistry of skeletons from two Imperial-era cemeteries (1st-
3rd c AD). PLOS One. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147585.
2015 Meyers Emery, K. and K. Killgrove. Bones, bodies, and blogs: Outreach and engagement
in bioarchaeology. Internet Archaeology 39. DOI: 10.11141/ia.39.5.
2014 Killgrove, K. Bioarchaeology in the Roman Empire. In: Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology,
C. Smith, ed., Springer, pp. 876-882. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2.
2013 Killgrove, K. Bioarchaeology. In: Oxford Bibliographies Online – Anthropology, J.L. Jackson,
Jr., ed. Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199766567-0121.
2013 Killgrove, K. Biohistory of the Roman Republic: the potential of isotope analysis of human
skeletal remains. Post-Classical Archaeologies 3: 41-62.
2013 Killgrove, K. and R.H. Tykot. Food for Rome: a stable isotope investigation of diet in the
Imperial period (1st-3rd centuries AD). Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 32(1): 28-38.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2012.08.002.

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2010 Killgrove, K. 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. Journal of Roman Archaeology supplement 78, Chapter 9, pp. 157-174.
2010 Montgomery, J., J. Evans, S. Chenery, K. Killgrove, and V. Pashley. “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. Journal of Roman Archaeology supplement 78, Chapter 11, pp. 199-226.
2010 Killgrove, K. Response to C. Bruun’s “Water, oxygen isotopes and immigration to Ostia-
Portus.” Journal of Roman Archaeology 23: 133-136.
2009 Killgrove, K. Rethinking taxonomies: skeletal variation on the North Carolina coastal
plain. Southeastern Archaeology 28(1): 87-100.
2008 Musco, S., P. Catalano, A. Caspio, W. Pantano, and K. Killgrove. Le complexe
archéologique de Casal Bertone. Les Dossiers d’Archéologie 330 (Nov/Dec): 32-39.
TECHNICAL REPORTS
2021 Killgrove, K. Oplontis Skeletal Project 2020-2021: Risultati dell’analisi del DNA,
Relazione scientifica (Febbraio 2021). Report to Giuseppe Scarpati, Parco Archeologico di
Pompei, 4 pp.
2019 Killgrove, K. and A. Acosta. Migration and gens formation in Latium Vetus (8th century
BC). Report to Anna De Santis, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Roma, 24 pp.
2018 Killgrove, K. Oplontis Skeletal Project 2017-2018: Risultati dello Scavo e Analisi.
Relazione scientific preliminare (Dicembre 2018). Report to Giuseppe Scarpati, Parco
Archeologico di Pompei, 15 pp.
2015 Killgrove, K. Osteological Report on the Area D Skeletons from Gabii. Report to Nicola
Terrenato, Department of Classical Studies, University of Michigan, 8 pp.
2012 Killgrove, K. Osteological Report on the Gabii “Lead Family.” Report to Nicola Terrenato,
Department of Classical Studies, University of Michigan, 5 pp.
2011 Killgrove, K. Gabii Osteological Report, 2009-2010. Report to Nicola Terrenato,
Department of Classical Studies, University of Michigan, 23 pp.
2008 Killgrove, K. Biodistance at the Broad Reach (31CR218) site. Report to Dale L.
Hutchinson, Department of Anthropology, UNC Chapel Hill, 10 pp.
2007 Killgrove, K. Casal Bertone relazione. Report to Paola Catalano, Anthropology Division,
Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma (Italy), 7 pp.
2000 Killgrove, K. and C.S. Larsen. Human skeletal remains from Mission San Marcos, New
Mexico. Report to David Hurst Thomas, Department of Anthropology, American Museum
of Natural History, New York, 24 pp.
BOOK REVIEWS
2018 Killgrove, K. Review of New Developments in the Bioarchaeology of Care, edited by L. Tilley
and A. Schrenk. American Antiquity 83(2):360-1. DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2018.4.
2017 Killgrove, K. Review of edited volume, Academics Going Public: How to Write and Speak
Beyond Academe. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement 21(2):291-221.

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2017 Killgrove, K. Review of The Bioarchaeology of Classical Kamarina: Life and Death in Greek
Sicily, by C.L. Sulosky Weaver. American Journal of Archaeology 121(3). DOI:
10.3764/ajaonline1213.Killgrove.
2015 Killgrove, K. Review of The Body in History: Europe from the Palaeolithic to the Future, edited
by J. Robb and O.J.T. Harris. American Anthropologist 117(4):866.
2013 Killgrove, K. Review of Breathing New Life into the Evidence of Death: Contemporary Approaches
to Bioarchaeology, edited by A. Baadsgaard, A.T. Boutin, and J.E. Buikstra. Historical
Archaeology 47(2): 143-4.
2012 Killgrove, K. Review of Violence, Ritual and the Wari Empire: A Social Bioarchaeology of
Imperialism in the Ancient Andes, by T. Tung. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 149(4):
640-1. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22172.
2011 Killgrove, K. Review of Living Through the Dead: Burial and Commemoration in the Classical
World, edited by M. Carroll and J. Rempel. Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
2010 Killgrove, K. Review of Iron Age and Roman Burials in Champagne, edited by I.M. Stead, J.-
L. Flouest, and V. Rigby. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 20(6): e1-2. DOI:
10.1002/oa.1160.
2009 Killgrove, K. 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. DOI:
10.1111/j.1556-5823.2010.00011.x.
2008 Killgrove, K. Review of Biocultural Histories in La Florida: a Bioarchaeological Perspective, by
C.M. Stojanowski. Southeastern Archaeology 27(1): 152-3.
2007 Killgrove, K. Review of Two Historic Cemeteries in Crawford County, Arkansas, by R.C.
Mainfort and J.M. Davidson. Southeastern Archaeology 26(2): 343-4.
2007 Killgrove, K. Review of Hunting for Hides, by H. Lapham. Historical Archaeology, 41(2): 204-
5.
TEXTBOOK CONTENT
2015 Killgrove, K. Human Osteology Laboratory Workbook. Lulu Press, 60pp.
2013 Killgrove, K. Chapter quizzes and interactive questions for Our Origins, 3rd Ed., by C.S.
Larsen. Online content for StudySpace and SmartWork. W.W. Norton.
2012 Killgrove, K. Chapter quizzes, outlines, and concept questions for Essentials of Physical
Anthropology: Discovering Our Origins, 2nd Ed., by C.S. Larsen. Online content for
StudySpace. W.W. Norton.
2011 Killgrove, K. Chapter quizzes, summaries, outlines, and learning objectives for How
Humans Evolved, 6th Ed., by R. Boyd and J. Silk. Online content for StudySpace. W.W.
Norton.
2010 Killgrove, K. Chapter quizzes and learning objectives for Our Origins, 2nd Ed., by C.S.
Larsen. Online content for StudySpace. W.W. Norton.
2009 Killgrove, K. Chapter quizzes and metacontent for Essentials of Physical Anthropology:
Discovering Our Origins by C.S. Larsen. Online content for StudySpace. W.W. Norton.

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2009 Killgrove, K. Chapter quizzes, summaries, and outlines for How Humans Evolved, 5th Ed., by
R. Boyd and J. Silk. Online content for StudySpace. W.W. Norton.
2008 Killgrove, K. Chapter quizzes for Our Origins: Discovering Physical Anthropology by C.S.
Larsen. Online content for StudySpace. W.W. Norton.
ANTHOLOGIES, NEWSLETTERS & MAGAZINES
2019 Bondura, V., C. Darwent, S. Halmhofer, A. Heppner, K. Killgrove, H. Pageau, J. Smith,
K. Supernant, H. Walder. Take back the SAA: Member-led organizing and action in the
wake of #SAA2019. The SAA Archaeological Record.
2019 Killgrove, K. Situating Roman bioarchaeology between anthropology and classics. General
Anthropology 26(1): 1,10-12.
2019 Killgrove, K. What are anthropologists reading, watching, and listening to this summer?
Anthropology News website, July 2. DOI: AN.10.1111/AN.1203
2017 Killgrove, K. Funding needs in classical bioarchaeology. Society for Classical Studies
Newsletter, June.
2014 Killgrove, K. Teaching public engagement in anthropology. In: Blogging Archaeology, D.
Rocks-Macqueen and C. Webster, eds., Landward Research Ltd., pp. 36-43.
2014 Killgrove, K. Lead poisoning in Rome: the skeletal evidence. In: The Open Laboratory 2013
Anthology: The Best of Science Writing on the Web, S. Huler, ed. Creatavist.
2014 Meyers Emery, K. and K. Killgrove. Blogging bioarchaeology. Society for Archaeological
Sciences Bulletin, 37(1): 23-5.
THESES
2010 Killgrove, K. Migration and Mobility in Imperial Rome. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of
Anthropology, University of North Carolina.
2005 Killgrove, K. Bioarchaeology in the Roman World. M.A. Thesis, Department of Classics,
University of North Carolina.
2002 Killgrove, K. Defining Relationships between Native American Groups: a Biodistance Study of the
North Carolina Coastal Plain. M.A. Thesis, Department of Anthropology, East Carolina
University.
1999 Killgrove, K. 44OR249 – South Yard of Montpelier – “The Greasy Black Stain.” B.A. Thesis,
Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia.

SCHOLARLY/PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL OUTREACH


Writing Forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove (May 2015-Jan 2020). 325 articles; 9.2 million page views;
6.5 million visitors.
mentalfloss.com (2016-2018). 17 articles.
Science Uncovered (2013-2014). Anthropology and Archaeology Expert/Author for the “Ask
a Scientist” column. Focus Publishing, UK. Featured in all issues (1-11).
PoweredByOsteons.org (2007-2019). 913 posts; 2,800 page views/week on average.

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Teaching Instructor, “Twitter for Scientists” at #SciFund University (online, Fall 2016)
Profiles Twitter – @DrKillgrove (17.5K followers)
KEYNOTE TALKS
2019 Food & Foreigners in Rome and Beyond.
Keynote speaker, Food & Drink in the Ancient World, Rutgers University (June 1).
2019 The Evolution of Public Scholarship in Anthropology.
Keynote speaker, Anthropology Graduate Student Association's 13th Annual Symposium,
Indiana University (March 1).
2018 Life and death in Ancient Italy: How skeletons help reconstruct past health. / Food and foreigners in
Rome and beyond: Using stable isotopes and skeletons to understand the Roman Empire.
Keynote speaker, 2018 Richard Frucht Memorial Lecture Series, University of Alberta,
Edmonton (12-16 March).
INVITED PUBLIC TALKS
2020-21 Applying biological anthropology and chemistry to ancient Roman skeletons and Death comes to
Oplontis. Miami Dade College STEMversations speaker series. December 9 and March 19.
2019-21 Death comes to Oplontis: Victims of Mt. Vesuvius reveal life in 79 AD.
University of Mississippi, Departments of Classics & Anthropology (October 2021).
Niagara Peninsula AIA Society (January 2021). Tampa Bay AIA Society (February 2021).
Washington, D.C. AIA Society (April 2021). Central Missouri AIA Society (November
2020). University of Washington, Department of Classics (November 2019). University of
British Columbia, Department of Classics (October 2019).
2019 What date did Mt. Vesuvius actually erupt, and why does it matter?
Getty Villa Symposium, “From the Ashes: New Discoveries from Herculaneum and the Bay
of Naples” (October 20).
2019 Reading past lives: How archaeologists understand the stories written in bone.
Guest speaker, J. James Woods Lecture Series in the Sciences and Mathematics (2 April),
sponsored by Butler University.
2018 Invitation to an ancient dinner / Death comes to Oplontis.
Guest speaker, Machin Family Ancient Studies Initiative Lecture Series, University of
North Florida (4-5 Oct).
2018 Outreach, engagement, and advocacy: The importance of reaching the public through media.
Presented as part of the Society for American Archaeology’s Online Seminar series (7
March).
2018 Death comes to Oplontis: Victims of Vesuvius reveal life in 79 AD.
Presented at the University of West Florida, sponsored by the Pensacola Archaeological
Society (9 January). / Presented at the Archaeology Museum at the University of South
Alabama (22 February).

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2017 Bodies and bones of Imperial Rome. Presented at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh PA (16
November), sponsored by the Department of Classics.
2016 Diet and health in Imperial Rome: The view from skeletons and isotopes. Presented at University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (28 October), sponsored by the Kelsey Museum, Department of
Classics, and Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology.
2016 Anthropology, outreach, and the media: best practices for writing for the general public. Workshop
presented at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (28 October), sponsored by the
Department of Anthropology.
2016 Rome if you want to: How skeletons reveal immigrants in the Empire. Presented at Michigan State
University, East Lansing, MI (27 October), sponsored by the Central Michigan chapter of
the Archaeological Institute of America.
2016 Diet and health in Imperial Rome: The view from skeletons and isotopes. Presented at San Diego
State University, San Diego, CA (5 May), sponsored by the Department of Anthropology,
SDSU.
2015 The curious case of the lead burrito: Adventures in Roman bioarchaeology. Presented as part of
Pecha Kucha Night Pensacola, Vol. III (17 October) sponsored by the Florida Public
Archaeology Network.
2015 Civic corpses: a bioarchaeological analysis of Imperial Gabii (Italy). Presented at Columbia
University, New York NY (12 March), sponsored by the Society of Fellows.
2015 Living and dying at Gabii: A bioarchaeological look at the Roman suburbs (10th c BC to 3rd c AD).
Presented at the Northwest Florida Public Library, Pensacola FL (10 February), sponsored
by the Pensacola Archaeological Society.
2014 Bodies and bones of Imperial Rome. Presented at Ohio University, Athens OH (1 October),
sponsored by the Anthropology, Classics, and World Religions Departments.
2014 Diet and health in Imperial Rome: The view from skeletons and isotopes. Presented at Trinity
University, San Antonio TX (12 May), sponsored by the Southwest Texas Society of the
Archaeological Institute of America.
2014 In search of the founders of Berlin. Presented at the Florida Public Archaeology Network’s
Beyond Our Backyard series, Pensacola FL (13 March).
2013 Food and foreigners in Rome and beyond. Presented at the Florida Public Archaeology
Network’s Beyond Our Backyard series, Pensacola FL (28 March). Presented at the
University of South Alabama, Mobile AL (7 March), sponsored by the Gulf Coast Society
of the Archaeological Institute of America.
2012 Invitation to an ancient dinner: Fish sauce, dormice, leaded wine, and other Roman refreshments.
Presented at the Archaeology Café series, Pensacola FL (17 September), sponsored by the
Florida Public Archaeology Network and PBS NOVA.
2012 Approaching Roman history through science and skeletons. Presented at Washington & Lee
University, Lexington VA (7 May 2012), sponsored by the Department of History.
2011 Scientia plebsque romana: redefining our understanding of the Imperial population. Presented at
Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN (9 December 2011), sponsored by the Department of
Classical Studies.

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2011 Synthesizing skeletons and science in the heart of the Roman Empire. Presented at Middle
Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro TN (9 November 2011), sponsored by the
Department of Sociology & Anthropology.
2011 Rome if you want to: how skeletons reveal immigrants in the Empire. Presented at Davidson
College, Davidson NC (26 January 2011), sponsored by the Departments of
Anthropology, Chemistry, and Classics, the Central Carolinas chapter of the
Archaeological Institute of America, and the McGaw Lecture Fund.
2010 Who’s who in Rome? Finding and understanding migrants in Imperial Rome. Presented at Duke
University, Durham NC (14 September), sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies
and the NC chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America.

PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (* = STUDENT AUTHOR)


2020 Killgrove, K., A.N. Acosta*, R.H. Tykot. Skeletons from Oplontis Reveal Dietary Differences in
the Bay of Naples (79 AD). Paper presented at the 121st Annual Meeting of the
Archaeological Institute of America in Washington, D.C. (Jan 4).
2020 Acosta*, A.N., K. Killgrove, S. Carson*. The People of Oplontis B: An Osteological Study of
Age, Sex, and Familial Relationships. Paper presented at the 121st Annual Meeting of the
Archaeological Institute of America in Washington, D.C. (Jan 4).
2019 Killgrove, K. Bioarchaeology of Republican Italy. Paper presented at The Roman Republic in
the Long Fourth Century conference, Princeton University (May 16-18).
2019 Maxwell*, A., K. Killgrove, R.H. Tykot. The Langobards in Italy? A look at migration in
Vicenza using oxygen stable isotope analysis. Poster presented at the 84th Annual Meeting of
the Society for American Archaeology in Albuquerque, NM.
2018 Voas*, M., K. Killgrove, J. Bethard, R. Tykot, A. Gonciar, Z. Nyaradi. Milk and honey:
isotopic reconstruction of infant weaning in Medieval Transylvania. Poster presented at the 87th
Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Austin, TX.
2018 Holmstrom*, J., K. Killgrove, B. Schaefer*, B. Turner. Who settled Berlin? Understanding
migration through oxygen and strontium isotopes. Poster presented at the 87th Annual Meeting
of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Austin, TX.
2018 Zechini*, M., K. Killgrove, C. Melisch, N. Powers, B. Jungklaus. Diet and disease in
Medieval Berlin: dental pathology data from the Medieval cemetery of Petriplatz. Poster presented
at the 87th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in
Austin, TX.
2017 Killgrove, K. Vita e morte a Roma: bioarcheologia di dieta e le malattie nella capitale imperiale.
Paper presented at the Festival del Mondo Antico, Rimini, Italy.
2017 Zechini*, M., J. Holmstrom*, K. Patterson*, and K. Killgrove. What’s inside that bone?
Using x-ray and 3D scanning technology to recreate internal aspects of pathological bone. Poster
presented at the 44th annual North American meeting of the Paleopathology Association in
New Orleans, Louisiana.
2017 Acosta*, A., K. Killgrove, B. Turner, and B. Schaefer*. In cibum veritas: Palaeodietary
analysis of skeletons from 5th century BC, Italy. Poster presented at the 86th Annual Meeting of
the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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2017 Zechini*, M., K. Killgrove, J. Holmstrom*, B. Schaefer*, and B. Turner. Bread and
porridge in Early Berlin: A palaeodietary analysis of the Medieval cemetery at Petriplatz, Germany.
Poster presented at the 86th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical
Anthropologists in New Orleans, Louisiana.
2017 Killgrove, K., and A. Acosta*. Dietary pathologies and isotope diversity in Imperial Rome (1st-
3rd centuries AD). Paper presented at Ancient Foodways: Integrative Approaches to
Understanding Subsistence and Society in the Past, sponsored by the Department of
Anthropology at UNC Chapel Hill.
2016 Killgrove, K. and K. Meyers Emery. Bring out yer dead: Engaging the public in bioarchaeology.
Abstract accepted for Executive Session “Bioarchaeologists Speak Out: Challenging the
Pundits with Evidence and New Discoveries from the Past,” organized by Jane Buikstra and
Debra Martin. Paper presented at the 115th annual American Anthropological Association
conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
2016 Holmstrom*, J., M. Zechini*, and K. Killgrove. Personalizing Petriplatz: isotopic analysis of a
Medieval Berlin population. Paper presented at the Midwest Medieval History Conference in
Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
2016 Tung, T., E. Nelson, K. Killgrove, and J. Velez Vazquez*. Osteochondritis dissecans,
osteoarthritis, and enthesopathies: physical activity and microtraumas among a post-Wari population
from the Peruvian Andes. Poster presented at the 85th Annual Meeting of the American
Association of Physical Anthropologists in Atlanta, Georgia.
2016 Zechini*, M., M. Voas*, J. Holmstrom*, and K. Killgrove. Digitizing “Roger”: Creating a
Recommended Osteology Guide for eReaders [ROGeR]. Poster presented at the 85th Annual
Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Atlanta, Georgia.
2016 Crane-Kramer, G., and K. Killgrove. Paleopathology of feasts and famines: foregrounding the
interaction between humans and their environment. Podium session organized for the 43rd
Annual North American Meeting of the Paleopathology Association in Atlanta, Georgia.
2016 Killgrove, K. Bioarchaeology, outreach, and the media. Seminar presentation in workshop
“Using the media to your advantage in palaeopathology,” organized by Piers Mitchell at the
43rd Annual North American Meeting of the Paleopathology Association in Atlanta,
Georgia.
2015 Melisch, C., P. Rauxloh, N. Powers, I. Garlisch, J. Rothe, K. Killgrove, and M.
Tichomirova. Who were the first Berliners and where did they come from? Paper presented at the
20th Annual Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies in Vienna, Austria.
2015 Killgrove, K. and M.E. Zechini*. Giving 3D scanning a porpoise: Digitizing the
zooarchaeological type collection at the University of West Florida. Poster presented at the 80th
Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in San Francisco, California.
2015 Killgrove, K. and A.N. Acosta*. Twerking, limericks, and 3D printing: Shaking up human
osteology assignments. Poster presented at the 84th Annual Meeting of the American
Association of Physical Anthropologists in St. Louis, Missouri.
2014 Killgrove, K. and S.E. Bond. Communities of foreigners in Roman cemeteries (1st-3rd c AD).
Paper presented at the 79th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in
Austin, Texas.

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2014 Bond, S.E. and K. Killgrove. Mapping ethnicity and community in Imperial-era Roman
cemeteries. Paper presented at the 115th annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of
America in Chicago, Illinois.
2012 Killgrove, K. Embodying the Empire: Reading bones to understand Roman health. Paper
presented at the conference Crossing Boundaries: Ancient History Explores Its Future,
sponsored by Columbia and Cambridge Universities, in Cambridge, England.
2012 Killgrove, K. Heterogeneity of health in Imperial Rome: Case studies from Gabii, Casal Bertone, and
Castellaccio Europarco. Paper presented at the conference Nutrition and Wellness in the
Roman World: The Evidence from Human Bones, sponsored by the American Academy at
Rome.
2012 Killgrove, K. Biohistory of the Roman Republic: a pilot study. Poster presented at the
Archaeological Sciences of the Americas Symposium in Nashville, Tennessee.
2012 Killgrove, K. Etched in bone: Uncovering information about immigrants to Rome. Paper
presented at the conference Moving Romans: Urbanisation, Migration, and Labour in the
Roman Principate, sponsored by the University of Leiden Institute of History, in Leiden,
Netherlands.
2012 Killgrove, K. Palaeopathology and urban decline at Imperial Gabii (Italy). Poster presented at
the 81st Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in
Portland, Oregon.
2012 Killgrove, K. Differential diagnosis of an unusual lower leg pathology in an Imperial Roman.
Poster presented at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Paleopathology Association in
Portland, Oregon.
2011 Killgrove, K., R.H. Tykot, and J. Montgomery. Foreign women in Imperial Rome: the isotopic
evidence. Paper presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the European Association of
Archaeologists in Oslo, Norway.
2011 Killgrove, K. Unsanitary urbanism? Rethinking pathology in Imperial Rome. Paper presented at
the 38th Annual Meeting of the Paleopathology Association in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
2011 Killgrove, K., J. Montgomery, and R.H. Tykot. Dietary differences between immigrants and
locals in Imperial Rome. Poster presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the American
Association of Physical Anthropologists in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
2010 Killgrove, K. All roads lead to Rome: an Old World perspective on human circulation. Paper
presented at the 109th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in
New Orleans, Louisiana.
2010 Montgomery, J., J. Evans, S. Chenery, K. Killgrove, and Vanessa Pashley. “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
in Copenhagen, Denmark.
2010 Killgrove, K. Demography, diet, and disease: implications of immigration to Imperial Rome. Paper
presented at the conference Sex, Death, and Bones: Paleodemography and Gender
Differentials in the Mediterranean World at the American School of Classical Studies in
Athens, Greece, sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.

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2009 Killgrove, K. What makes one Roman? Paper presented at the 74th Annual Meeting of the
Society for American Archaeology in Atlanta, Georgia.
2009 Killgrove, K. 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 Killgrove, K. 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 Killgrove, K. Transnationalism and polyethnic communities: identifying immigrants in Imperial
Rome. Paper presented at the Critical Roman Archaeology Conference at the Stanford
Archaeology Center in Stanford, California.
2008 Killgrove, K. Bodies of work: understanding the Roman lower class. Paper presented at the 109th
Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in Chicago, Illinois.
2008 Perry, M.A. and K. Killgrove. Embodiment and remembrance in a mortuary context. Colloquium
organized at the 109th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in
Chicago, Illinois.
2006 Killgrove, K. Classical bioarchaeology. Workshop chaired at the 107th Annual Meeting of the
Archaeological Institute of America in Montreal, Canada.
2004 Killgrove, K. The face of Agamemnon: Middle Helladic graves at Mycenae. Paper presented at
the 7th Annual UNC - Duke Graduate Colloquium in Classics in Chapel Hill, North
Carolina.
2002 Killgrove, K. 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 in Buffalo, New York.
GRADUATE STUDENT ADVISING
M.A. Advisor and Committee Chair
• Completed:
o Allison Hawley (2013-15). Thesis: “Where the children lie: a demographic and spatial
analysis of two Santa Rosa County Cemeteries.”
o Mariana Zechini (2014-17). Thesis: “Beneath Berlin: Interpreting dietary responses to
the Black Death in Medieval Berlin through stable isotope analysis.”
o Andrea Acosta (2014-17). Thesis: “Origins of Archaic period Gabii: A biochemical
study of skeletons from the 6th to 5th centuries BC, Italy.”
o Evan Springer (2015-17). Thesis: “Examining the Link between Academic Misconduct,
Liminality, and Strain among College Students.”
o Maddeline Voas (2015-17). Thesis: “An Examination of Weaning and Childhood
Palaeodiet in Bögöz, Transylvania, Using Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope
Analysis.”
o Jane Holmstrom (2015-18). Thesis: “Moving to Medieval Berlin: Understanding
Migration Using Skeletons and Historical Records.”
• Research Grant Funding & Awards to Students:
o National Geographic Emerging Explorers Grant – $3,961 to Mariana Zechini (2017)

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o Outstanding Graduate Student in Anthropology – Andrea Acosta (2016); Mariana
Zechini (2017)
o UWF Graduate Student Research Grant – $350 to Andrea Acosta (2015); $800 to
Mariana Zechini (2015)
o UWF Graduate Student Association Research Award – $250 to Mariana Zechini
(2015)
M.A. Committee Member
UWF – Colin Bean (2013-14; Archaeology); Amanda Lawson Cullen (2012-14; Cultural); Christina
Estep Ebenal (2013-14; Cultural); Shevan Wilkin (2013-16; Biological); Andy Hudson (2015-17;
Biological); Kathryn Patterson (2015-present; Biological); Kandiss Campbell (2018-present;
Biological).
Other Institutions – Lara Frame (East Carolina University; 2009-10; Biological)
Ph.D. Committee Member
Other Institutions – Ashley Maxwell (University of South Florida; 2015-2019; Anthropology);
Elizabeth Wakefield (University of South Carolina; 2016-; Anthropology); Andrea Acosta
(University of South Carolina; 2018-; Anthropology)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND MEMBERSHIPS
Professional Register of Professional Archaeologists #4560 (2017-present)
Memberships Board of Directors – Registrar (2020-21)
and Roles American Association of Biological Anthropologists
Member, Program Committee (2020-21)
Member, Committee on Media & Communication (2019-21)
Member, Ad-Hoc Working Group on New Media (2012-13)
Archaeological Institute of America
Chair, Media and Public Engagement Committee (2019-20)
Paleopathology Association
Associate Editor of Newsletter, Annotated Social Media (2016-18)
Society for American Archaeology
Chair, Media Relations Committee (2017-19)
Member, Program Committee (2017-18)
Member, Task Force on Website Re-Design (2018)

Advisory SAPIENS.org
Boards Member, Advisory Board (2017-19)

Article reviewer American Journal of Physical Anthropology (10), Archaeological and Anthropological
Sciences, Archaeometry, Data in Brief, Earth-Science Reviews, Environmental Archaeology,
Etruscan and Italic Studies (3), Florida Anthropologist, Forensic Anthropology, Hesperia,
Historical Archaeology (2), Human Ecology, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology
(11), International Journal of Paleopathology (6), Journal of Anthropological Archaeology,
Journal of Archaeological Science (4), Journal of Archaeological Science Reports (9),
Journal of Field Archaeology, Journal of Roman Archaeology, Journal of Open Archaeology
Data, Lancet Infectious Diseases, Medical Humanities, Nature Scientific Reports, Online
Journal in Public Anthropology, Open Archaeology, PLOS One (12), Quaternary

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International, Science and Technology of Archaeological Research (2), Tennessee
Archaeology, World Archaeology

Monograph reviewer American School of Classical Studies at Athens Monographs, Ashgate Press,
Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Equinox Press, Left Coast Press, Palgrave
Macmillan, Princeton University Press, Routledge, Rowman & Littlefield, SAGE
Publications, SAR Press, Springer Press, University of Central Florida OER,
University of Toronto Press

Grant reviewer Austrian Science Fund (2); Canada Research Chairs Program; Collaborative
Research Incentive Grant (CUNY); Graduate Women in Science National
Fellowship Committee; National Center of Science and Technology Evaluation
(Kazakhstan); National Geographic Society (Committee for Research and
Exploration, Emerging Explorers Program); NSF Doctoral Dissertation
Improvement Grant (Archaeology Program); NSF Senior Research Grant
(Archaeology Program) (2); Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
(Canada) (2); Swiss National Science Foundation; University of Wisconsin
Milwaukee Research Growth Initiative Program

Extramural Guest Appalachian State University; University of Wyoming; Sonoma State


Lecturer in Courses University; University of Georgia; Michigan State University; Center for
Hellenic Studies, Princeton University; Purdue University (2); Middle
Tennessee State University; DePaul University; Carleton University (Canada);
University of Alberta (Canada); B.T. Washington High (Pensacola FL); Avalon
Middle School (Pensacola FL); Centennial High (Roswell GA); Stratford STEM
Magnet High (Nashville TN); Mission Elementary (Oceanside CA); Russell Middle
School (Winder, GA); Lake Travis Elementary School (Austin, TX); Morris Grove
Elementary School (Chapel Hill, NC); Washington & Lee University (Lexington,
VA); Tulane University (New Orleans, LA); University of Colorado (Boulder,
CO)

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