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DANIELLE SHAWN KURIN PL Walker Bioarchaeology and Biogeochemistry Laboratory

Department of Anthropology

1002 Humanities and Social Sciences Building

University of California

Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3210

kurin@anth.ucsb.edu; (805)-893-4280; www.anth.ucsb.edu/kurinlab

RESEARCH: ANTHROPOLOGICAL BIOARCHAEOLOGY Theoretical: Biocultural impacts of social and natural disasters; heterarchical inequalities;

displacement and mobility; morbidity and selective excess mortality; ill health and social

interaction; medico-social innovation; ethnogenesis; socio-biological structure of kinship.

Methods: Mortuary archaeology; skeletal analysis; hard and soft-tissue bio-geochemistry; x-ray

fluorescence; high-powered microscopy; three-dimensional morphometrics; paleo-

radiography; grass-roots mapping; ethnobioarchaeology; ethnohistory; museology and

heritage management.

Area: Latin America; Andes; US Southeast/Midwest.

EDUCATION Ph.D. Vanderbilt University, Department of Anthropology, 2012 (December).

Dissertation title: The Bioarchaeology of Collapse: Ethnogenesis and Ethnocide in Post-

Imperial Andahuaylas, Peru (AD 900—1250).

M.A. Vanderbilt University, Department of Anthropology and Certificate in Latin American

Studies, 2008.

A.B. Bryn Mawr College, Magna cum laude, Department of Anthropology, with honors and

concentration in Hispanic Studies, 2005.

Thesis title: Multi-Ethnicity in the Eastern Valleys: A Bioarchaeological Approach to the

Study of a Prehistoric Bolivian Community.

Languages: Spanish (fluent), Quechua (highly proficient), French (reading knowledge),

Portuguese (reading knowledge).

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Assistant Professor and Director, Phillip Lee Walker Bioarchaeology and Biogeochemistry

Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Courses: human osteology; paleopathology and skeletal analysis; human variation;

directed reading/independent study; research assistant training program, 2014-present.

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Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa

Barbara. Courses: human variation, human evolution, human osteology, bioarchaeology

and forensic anthropology, skeletal biology and paleopathology, bioarchaeology of

natural and social disaster, bioarchaeological method and theory (graduate seminar),

directed reading/independent study, 2013-2014.

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Science and Letters, Universidad Nacional Jose

Maria Arguedas, Andahuaylas, Apurimac, Peru. Course: introducción a la sociología

[introduction to sociology], metodología de la investigación [research methods], 2013-

present; Assistant Professor and Academic Advisor, Course: introducción a la sociología

[introduction to sociology], 2012-2013.

Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University. Courses: human

osteology, introduction to biological anthropology, rise and fall of civilizations, origins

and evolution of human culture, ancient cities, introduction to archaeology, 2005-2008,

2010-2011.

Visiting Professor and Freshman Class Advisor, School of Educational Science, Universidad

Tecnológica de los Andes-Andahuaylas, Apurimac, Peru. Courses: historia crítica de la

cultura Peruana [critcal history of Peruvian cultura], cultura, historia, y turismo en

Apurímac [culture, history, and tourism in Apurimac], 2009-2010.

Instructor, Weekend Academy at Vanderbilt. Course: forensic anthropology, 2007.

Lab Assistant, Department of Anthropology, Bryn Mawr. Course: forensic anthropology; 2005.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

2018 (exp.) Kurin, DS. The Bioarchaeology of Disaster. Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press.

[Under contract, manuscript in progress].

2016 (exp.) Kurin, DS. Between Empires: The Bioarchaeology of Societal Collapse and

Regeneration in Ancient Peru. Series: Social Theory and Bioarchaeology (Debra

Martin, series editor). New York: Springer. [in press].

2014 Kurin, DS and DE Gomez Ch., editors. Avances de Investigaciones en los Andes

Sud-Centrales, Apurímac, Peru: Fondo Editorial del Universidad Nacional José

María Arguedas.

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters

In Review Black, V and D.S. Kurin. Investigating the nature of cranial modification in late

prehispanic Peru using contextualized mortuary analysis and 3d morphometrics.

Submitted to the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

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In Review A. Gurevitz and D.S. Kurin. “Fair sex: captives, subversives and combatants in

war-torn Peru.“ In: On the battlefield of women and children’s bodies, C

Tegtmeyer and D. Martin, editors. New York: Springer Press.

In Review Jolly, S and DS Kurin. Defensive settlements and costs to community health: a

bioarchaeological approach to reconstructing health stressors in prehistoric Peru.

Submitted to the Journal of Ethnopharmacology.

In Review Gadison, DN, BL Turner, DS Kurin, N Sharratt. Does cranial modification cause

cranial pathology? Insights from Late Intermediate Period, Peru. Submitted to the

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology.

In Review Lofaro, E, DS Kurin, DE Gomez Ch., J Kigbaum. Reconstructing paleodiet and

paleomobility using multi-isotopic analysis in Apurimac, Peru (~880-1260).

Submitted to Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.

In Press Jolly and DS Kurin. Surviving trepanation: approaching the relationship of

violence and the care of “war wounds” through a case study from prehistoric

Peru. In: The Bioarchaeology of Care, L. Tilley and D. Martin, editors. New

York: Springer

2015 Kurin, DS. “Trauma, nutrition, and malnutrition in the andean highlands during

Peru’s dark age (1000–1250 C.E.).” In The archaeology of food and warfare,

A.M. VanDerwarker and G.D. Wilson, editors. Pp. 229-257.New York: Springer.

2014 Kurin, DS. “Conflict and Ethnic Identity among the Post-Collapse Chanka of

Andahuaylas, Peru (ca. AD 1000—1400),” in Forensic and Bioarchaeological

Approaches to Interpreting Violence, DL Martin and CP Anderson, editors.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 151-173.

2014 Kurin, DS, *EM Lofaro, DE Gomez Choque, J Krigbaum. “A Bioarchaeological

and Biogeochemical Study of Warfare and Mobility in Andahuaylas, Peru (AD

11050—1250),” International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. doi10.1002/oa.2398.

2013 Kurin, DS. “Trepanation in South-Central Peru during the Early Late Intermediate

Period (ca. AD 1000—1250),” in American Journal of Physical Anthropology,

152(4):484-494.

2013 Kurin, DS. “Violencia Étnica después del Colapso Wari,” in Avances de

Investigaciones en los Andes Sud-Centrales, DS Kurin and DE Gómez Ch.,

editors. Apurímac, Peru: Fondo Editorial del Universidad Nacional José María

Arguedas, pp. 59-82.

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2013 Kurin, DS and DE Gomez Ch. “Una Introducción a las Investigaciones en los

Andes sud-centrales,” in Avances de Investigaciones en los Andes Sud-Centrales,

DS Kurin and DE Gómez Ch., editors. Apurímac, Peru: Fondo Editorial del

Universidad Nacional José María Arguedas, pp. vi—ix.

2013 Gomez Choque, DE and DS Kurin “Osteologia y estudio isotópicos en

Andahuaylas.” Revista Cientifica Arguediana. (2):14-32.

2010 Kurin, DS and DE Gomez Ch. “Aguerridos Chanca: Una Aproximación

Bioarqueológica en Andahuaylas,” in Pacha Runa, E. Mendoza, editor.

Ayacucho, Peru: Universidad San Cristóbal de Huamanga, pp. 75-99.

2008 Kurin, DS. “La Pluralidad Socio-étnica en los Valles Orientales de Bolivia: Un

Estudio Bioarqueológico de Comunidades Mortuorios Prehistóricos,” in Avances

de Investigación Arqueología Nº 5, VE Salinas, editor. Sucre, Bolivia: Centro de

Investigación Arqueológico, pp. 24-44.

Selected Reviews, Reports, and Other Publications

In Press Kurin, DS. Review of The Bioarchaeology of Space and Place in Mesoamerica,

edited by GD Wrobel. Journal of Archaeological Research.

2015 Kurin, DS. Review of The Bioarchaeology of Artificial Cranial Modification, by

V Tiesler. American Anthropologist. 117(3):1-2.

2014 Kurin, DS. Review of Mission Cemeteries, Mission Peoples: Historical and

Evolutionary Dimensions of Intracemetery Bioarchaeology in Spanish Florida, by

CJ Stojanowski. American Anthropologist. 116(2):480-481.

2013 Quispe, S, DE Gomez Ch., and DS Kurin, LC Kellett. Informe Final: Proyecto

Bioarqueológico Chanka Andahuaylas. Ministry of Culture, Peru.

2012 Gomez Ch., DE and DS Kurin. Informe Final: Proyecto Bioarqueológico

Andahuaylas. Ministry of Culture, Peru.

2011 Kurin, DS. Final Report- The Burnet Mounds: Aesthetics, Abandonment and

Community in Ancient Wayzata, Minnesota. Report Prepared for Peggy Burnet.

2010 Ochatoma, J, DS Kurin, and DE Gomez Ch. Informe Final: Proyecto

Bioarqueológico Andahuaylas. National Institute of Culture, Peru.

2008 Gomez Ch., DE and DS Kurin. “Los Chankas: Memoria e Identidad en

Andahuaylas, Perú,” in Historia los Chankas, VA Gutiérrez, editor. Lima, Peru:

Imprenta Club Social, pp. 25-26.

2007 Gomez Ch., DE and DS Kurin. La Arqueología: Preguntas y Respuestas. Fondo

Editorial, Provincial Municipality of Andahuaylas, Peru.

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2006 Kurin, DS. Las Momias del Museo Arqueológico-UMSS. Fondo editorial,

Universidad Mayor San Simón, Bolivia.

2004 Kurin, DS. Informe Final: Conservación las Momias del Museos Universitarios

Charcas. Universidad San Francisco, Bolivia.

2004 Kurin, DS. Informe Final: Estudio de las Momias del Museo Arqueológico-

UMSS. Universidad Mayor San Simón, Bolivia.

2003 Salinas Camacho, VE and DS Kurin. Las Momias del Museo Charcas: Avance. El

Correo del Sur (newspaper), October 23.

2002 Kurin, DS. NAGPRA – Repatriation Report on the Arikara Remains in the

Collection of the National Museum of Natural History. Smithsonian Institution.

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Extramural

Curtiss T. & Mary G. Brennan Foundation Grant. The Achanchi Bioarchaeology Project, (with

Lucas Kellett, University of Maine-Farmington), $4,000, 2013.

National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (BCS-1218083).

Investigating the Emergence of Cranial Modification and Violence among the Chanka of

Andahuaylas, Peru (AD 1000-1400), $8,350, 2012.

National Science Foundation Grant (0802757), Archaeometry Laboratory at the University of

Missouri Research Reactor. INAA Sourcing of Ceramics from Prehispanic Andahuaylas

(with Chris Pink, JPAC), $7,210, 2011.

Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education Doctoral Dissertation Research

Abroad Program. A Bioarchaeological Study of Identity-Based Violence in a Prehistoric

Andean Society, $26,767, 2009-2010.

J. William Fulbright IIE Fellowship, U.S. Department of State. Grant for research in Peru,

$15,500, 2009. [Declined in favor of Fulbright-Hays Fellowship].

Academic Symposium Grant. Universidad Tecnológica de los Andes, Peru, $600, 2009.

Social Impact Conference Grant. Provincial Municipality of Andahuaylas, Peru, $600, 2009.

Intramural

Social Science Research Grant Program. Lethal Conflict, Deprivation and Displacement in

Failed States: A Bioarchaeological and Biogeochemical Perspective from Ancient Peru,

$8000, 2015.

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Academic Senate Grant. Identifying Émigrés, Refugees, and Captives in War‐Torn Tribal

Territories: A Novel Archaeo‐Biogeochemical Approach, $6,800, 2015.

UC Regents’ Junior Faculty Fellowship. Investigating Chronic Deprivation and Lethal Violence

after State Collapse: A Bioarchaeological Perspective from Ancient Peru, $7500, 2015.

UC Faculty Research Assistance Program. Bioarchaeological and Biogeochemical Research and

Analysis of Ancient and Modern Human and Animal Bones, $2005, 2015.

Chicano Studies Institute. A Bioarcheological and Biogeological Analysis of Toxic Metal

Contamination in the Bones of Male and Female Miner Proto-historic Peru, $500, 2015.

Social Science Dissertation Fellowship. Vanderbilt University, $22,000, 2011-2012.

Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Dissertation Fellowship. Vanderbilt University,

$24,000 plus fees, 2011. [Declined in favor of Social Science Dissertation Fellowship].

Dissertation Enhancement Grant. College of Arts & Sciences, Vanderbilt, $2,000, 2011.

Conference Travel Grant. College of Arts & Sciences, Vanderbilt University, $500, 2011.

Summer Research Award. College of Arts & Sciences, Vanderbilt University, $4,000, 2008.

Summer Research Award. Center for the Americas, Vanderbilt University, $4,500, 2008.

[Declined for Arts & Sciences, Summer Research Award].

Summer Fellowship. Center for the Americas & Latin American, Vanderbilt, $2,000, 2007.

Conference Travel Grant. College of Arts & Sciences, Vanderbilt University, $1,500, 2007.

Simon Collier Research Award. Latin American Studies, Vanderbilt University, $1,600, 2006.

Conference Travel Grant. College of Arts & Sciences, Vanderbilt University, $750, 2006.

Graduate Fellowship, College of Arts & Sciences, Vanderbilt University, $21,000 plus fees

annually for five years, 2005-2011.

Hanna Holborn Gray Fellowship for Research in the Humanities and Humanistic Social

Sciences. Bryn Mawr College, $3,600, 2004.

Center for International Studies Fellowship. Bryn Mawr College, $1,700, 2003.

Bryn Mawr College – International Baccalaureate Credit Recognition; awarded eight units (one

year) of college credits, 2001.

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FIELD RESEARCH

Principal Investigator and Project Co-Director (with Enmanuel Gomez Choque). Proyecto

Bioarqueológico Andahuaylas. Apurímac, Peru, 2007-.

Senior Bioarchaeologist. Proyecto Arqueológico Taraco. Project Director: Abigail Levine,

University of California, Los Angeles. Puno, Peru, 2012-.

Co-Principal Investigator (with Lucas Kellett). Proyecto Achanchi. Apurímac, Peru, 2013-.

Ethnographic Field Assistant. Evaluating the Limits of Evolution Education. Project Director:

Michael Kohut, Vanderbilt University. Tennessee, 2011.

Field Archaeologist. Proyecto Jach’a Machaca. Project Director: John Janusek, Vanderbilt

University. Khonko, Bolivia, 2006.

Laboratory Supervisor. Reconstructing Biosocial Histories from the Peruvian Andes. Project

Director: Tiffiny Tung, Vanderbilt University. Ayacucho, Peru, 2006.

Field Archaeologist, Tuti Antiguo Project. Project Director: Steven Wernke, Vanderbilt

University. Arequipa, Peru, 2006.

Principal Investigator, Determining Ethnicity in Mummified Remains. Supervisor: Ramon

Sanzetenea, Museo Arqueológico, Universidad San Simón. Cochabamba, Bolivia, 2004.

Principal Investigator, Sucre Mummy Conservation Project. Supervisor: Edmundo Salinas,

Museo-Universidad San Fráncico Chuquisaca. Sucre, Bolivia, 2003.

Field Archaeologist, Proyecto Arqueológico Pambamarca. Directors: Sam Connell, Foothill

College and Chad Gifford, Columbia University. Cangahua, Ecuador, 2002.

Field Archaeologist, Mocollope Archaeological Project. Principal Investigators: Glenn Russell

and Tom Wake, University of California, Los Angeles. Trujillo, Peru, 1999, 2000.

Field Archaeologist. Fort Ward Archaeology Project. Alexandria, VA, 1995.

MUSEUM/COLLECTIONS EXPERIENCE

Acting Assistant Director, Andahuaylas Museum, Peru, 2009-2013.

Exhibit Curator. “Ch’alla: Nutrition and Ritual in the Pre-Contact Americas.” Bryn Mawr

College Collection, Rhys Carpenter Library Exhibition Space, Bryn Mawr, PA, 2005.

Exhibit Curator. “Testigos Callados, Revelaciones Visuales.” Museo Arqueológico, Universidad

Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba, Bolivia, 2004.

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NAGPRA Repatriation Intern. National Museum of Natural History. Supervisor: William

Billeck, Smithsonian Institution, 2002.

NAGPRA Coordinator and Museum Collections Assistant. Bryn Mawr College Collections.

Supervisor: Tamara Johnston, Bryn Mawr College, 2001-2005.

Smithsonian Archaeology Intern. Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural

History. Supervisor: J. Daniel Rogers, Smithsonian Institution, 2000-2001.

Summer Volunteer. Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Smithsonian Institution, 1990-2001.

AWARDS AND HONORS

Tri-Delta Teacher Appreciation Award. University of California Santa Barbara, 2013.

President’s Medal for Teaching and Service. José María Arguedas, University, Peru, 2012.

Resolution Granting Honorary Citizenship. Provincial Municipality of Andahuaylas, Peru, 2009.

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award. Vanderbilt University, College of A & S, 2008.

Award for Excellence in Assistant Teaching. Vanderbilt University, Anthropology Dept, 2008.

Frederica De Laguna Award for Meritorious Academic Work in Anthropology. Bryn Mawr

College, Department of Anthropology, 2005.

SERVICE TO THE FIELD

Invited Lectures

2015: LA Museum of Natural History; Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History;

University of California Los Angeles

2014: Arizona State University; University of Nevada, Las Vegas, California State University,

Channel Islands; University of Missouri St. Louis; University of Michigan, Dearborn; José

María Arguedas University (Peru); Panama Tech University, Veraguas (Panama).

Professional Affiliations

Register of Professional Archaeologists

American Anthropological Association

American Association of Physical

Anthropologists

Society for American Archaeology

Institute of Andean Studies

American Assoc of University Women

Western Bioarchaeology Group

Editorial Boards

Revista Qhelqana, 2014

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Peer Review

National Science Foundation

Ñawpa Pacha,

Andean Past

International J of Paleopathology

Journal of Coastal & Island Arch

Open Anthropology

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology

American Anthropologist

Journal of Anthropological Research

Journal of Anthropological Science

British Archaeological Reports

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Forensic Anthropology Consulting

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 2015-

Channel Island National Park, 2014-

Santa Barbara County Government, 2013-

Lompoc, California, Police Department, 2013-

Medicina Legal, Andahuaylas, Peru, 2009-

Consejo de Reparaciones de Apurímac, Peru, 2009-

Instituto Bartolomé de Las Casas, Lima and Apurímac, Peru, 2009-

Equipo Forense Especializado, Instituto de Medicina Legal, Ayacucho, Peru, 2008-

University Committee Service

UCSB: Development Committee; Club Faculty Sponsor; Archaeology Representative for the

Colloquium Committee.

Chair, University Research Steering Committee. Universidad Nacional J.M. Arguedas, 2012.

Student Facilitator, Biological Anthropology Faculty Search Committee. Department of

Anthropology, Vanderbilt University, 2011-2012.

Graduate Representative, Speakers Committee. Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt

University, 2008-2009.

Coordinator, Graduate Student Lecture Series. Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt

University, 2008-2009.

Co-President, Anthropology Graduate Students Association. Vanderbilt University, 2006-2007.

Major Representative, Department of Anthropology. Bryn Mawr College, 2004-2005.

Student Member, Anthropology Faculty Search Committee. Bryn Mawr College, 2005.

Selected Outreach

Curation of PLWalker’s papers. UCSB and Smithsonian National Anthropology Archives, 2013.

Workshop Designer and Organizer. Antropología Forense, Andahuaylas, Peru, 2010, 2012.

Non-Profit Co-Director, Centro de Investigaciones Richkari Anta Huaylla (SUNARP reg#: 2009-

00003573). Andahuaylas, Peru, 2009-.

Public Lecturer (various topics). Peru, Virginia, and Tennessee, California 2006-.

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Conference Organizing

Invited Symposium Co-Organizer. Honoring the Legacy of Brian Fagan. Society for American

Archaeology, San Fransisco, 2015.

Bioarchaeology/Biosocial Discussion Group. Vanderbilt University, 2011-2012.

“VanChiVard”—Vanderbilt, Harvard and U of Chicago working group on Andean archaeology

and ethnohistory. Vanderbilt University, 2007, 2011; group member 2008-2009.

International Simposium: Nuevos Enfoques de la Cultura Regional. Andahuaylas, Peru, 2009.

South American Discussion Group. Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt, 2007-2008.

Student Research Projects Directed (resulted in Thesis or Professional Paper)

Student

Year

Project

Completed

Student’s Home Institution

Angely Mondestin 2010 Haverford

Sarah Bechdel 2010 Bryn Mawr

Mariel Wenk 2010 Bryn Mawr

Rina Martinez 2011 UNSC Humanaga (Peru)

Diana Park 2012 Bryn Mawr

Stephanie Peña del Castillo 2013 UNSA Abad (Peru)

Guni Moteagudo 2013 UNSA Abad(Peru)

Kathleen Hauther 2013 Montana

Virginia Smith 2014 Kentucky

Beau Murphy 2014 New Mexico

Maricarmen Aguirre 2014 UCSB

Marco Antonio Naverro 2014 UNSC Humanaga (Peru)

Alcides Berrocal 2014 UNSC Humanaga (Peru)

Diana Ochoa 2014 CSU –Dominguez Hills

Tiffany Treadway 2015 UCSB

Kassie Sugimoto 2015 NC State

Hari Kota 2015 UCSB

Ema Angeles In Progress UCSB

Alyson Caine In Progress Durham (UK)

Ashleigh Lopes In Progress UCSB

David Ererra In Progress UNSA Abad (Peru)

Beatriz Lizaragga In Progress Universidad de Granada (Spain)

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Graduate Degree Committees

MA Committees

Student

Yr Deg.

Compl.

Chair/

Member

Valda Black (Anthopoloy, CUNY) 2014 Member

Davette Gadison (Anthropology, Georgia State) 2015 Member

Margaret Nelson (Anthropology, Northern Arizona) 2015 Member

PhD Committees

Student

Yr Deg.

Compl.

Chair/

Member

Anna Gurevitz (World Cultures, UC Merced) In Progress Member

Valda Black (Evolutionary Anth, Washington State) In Progress Member

Scotti Norman (Anthropology, Vanderbilt) In Progress Member

Sarah Jolly (Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh) In Progress Member

Christine Lee (Social Anthropology, St. Andrews) In Progress Member

Rose Campbell (Cotsen Inst. Archaeology, UCLA In Progress Member

Brittany Jackson (Costen Inst. Archaeology, UCLA) In Progress Member

Jacob Bongers (Cotsen Inst. Archaeology, UCLA) In Progress Member

Matthew Biwer (UCSB) In Progress Member

Jessica Kaplan (UCSB) In Progress Member

Erin Bournemann (UCSB) In Progress Member

PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

* = student co-authors

Papers 2015 *Ochoa, D and DS Kurin. Discerning site distribution and settlement patterns in

Andahuaylas (Apurimac), Peru. 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American

Archaeology, San Francisco, CA.

2015 *Sugimoto, K, A Ross, D.S. Kurin. Facial asymmetry: bio-indicators of stress in

post-Wari populations. 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American

Archaeology, San Francisco, CA.

2015 *Gadison, D, B Turner, K. Sugimoto, D.S. Kurin. Ethnic disparity and stress in

prehispanic Peru: a contextualized analysis of cranial pathology and facial

asymmetry. 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San

Francisco, CA.

2015 Kellett, LC, DS Kurin, *S. Jolly, *G. Monteagudo. Life at Achanchi: a high

altitude Chanka burial site from the Andahuaylas region of southern Peru. 80th

Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, CA.

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2015 Kurin, DS. Introduction: honoring the legacy of Brian Fagan. Symposium Co-

Organizer: 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San

Francisco, CA.

2014 *Black, V and DS Kurin. “A 3D Morphometric Approach to Cranial Modification

Heterogeneity in the South-central Peruvian Highlands.” Paper presented at the

79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, TX.

2014 Kurin DS and DE Gomez Choque. La estructuración de violencia social: trauma,

salud e identidad en Andahuaylas, Perú (1000-1300 d.C.). Inivited Paper. XIII

Congreso - Asociación Latinoamericano de Antropología Biologica, Santiago de

Chile.

2014 Kurin, DS. “Of Mines and Men: Wari Investment and Identity in Andahuaylas,

Peru.” Invited Paper for the session: Mummies and Mortuary Monuments: Recent

Advances in Middle Horizon Mortuary and Bio-Archaeology of the Andes,

organized by N. Sharratt and S. Baitzel for the 79th Annual Meeting of the

Society for American Archaeology, Austin, TX.

2014 *Jolly, S and DS Kurin. “Evaluating a Reputation for Violence: Paleopathological

Evidence for Interpersonal Violence in Ancient Peru.” Poster presented at the 83rd

Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists,

Calgary, Canada.

2013 Kurin, DS. “Technical Innovation in the Wake of Wari Collapse: Trepanation

Experimentation in Andahuaylas, Peru.” Paper presented at the 78th Annual

Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Honolulu, HI.

2013 *Lofaro, EM and DS Kurin. “Inequality in the Aftermath of State Collapse: Diet

and Violence in Andahuaylas, Peru (ca. AD 1000—1250).” Paper presented at

the Archaeology of Food and Warfare Conference, University of California, Santa

Barbara, CA.

2013 Kurin, DS. “Una Evaluación de Cirugía Craneana en Apurímac.” Paper presented

at the Simposio Internacional de Investigación, Jose Maria Arguedas University,

Andahuaylas, Peru.

2012 Kurin, DS and DE Gomez Ch. “The Bioarchaeology of Collapse: A Case Study

from the South-Central Peruvian Andes.” Paper presented at the 77th Annual

Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, TN.

2012 *Gabbard, A and DS Kurin. “Dental Health and Dietary Changes Following Wari

Collapse: A Study of the Chanka of Andahuaylas, Peru.” Paper presented at the

77th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, TN.

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2012 Kurin, DS. “Violence in Ancient Post-Imperial Peru.” Paper presented at the

Interdisciplinary Conference on Global Research and Study Abroad: Mid-

Tennessee Region, Nashville, TN.

2011 Kurin, DS and DE Gomez Ch. “Between a Rock and A Hard Place: Cave Burials

Violence among the Chanka of Post-Imperial Peru (AD 1000-1400).” Paper

presented at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,

Sacramento, CA.

2011 Pink, CM and DS Kurin. “Beyond the Grave: Continuity among Chanka

Populations in Andahuaylas Province, Peru.” Paper presented at the 76th Annual

Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento, CA.

2009 Kurin, DS and DE Gomez Ch. “Aguerridos Chanka: A Bioarchaeological Study

of Group Violence in Peruvian Prehistory.” Paper presented at the 74th Annual

Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology Atlanta, GA.

2009 Kurin, DS. “Nuevos Aportes sobre la Cultura Chanka.” Paper presented at the

Simposio Internacional: Enfoques de la Cultura Regional, Andahuaylas, Peru.

2008 Kurin, DS. “Los Chankas: Leyenda, Identidad, y el Futuro Arqueo-turístico de

Andahuaylas.” Paper presented at the I Foro Panel por el Desarrollo de la

Provincia de Andahuaylas, Peru.

2008 Kurin, DS and DE Gomez Ch. “Forging LIP Chankas Social Memory and Identity

in Andahuaylas Peru: A Bioarchaeological Approach.” Paper presented at the

73th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, CAN.

2007 Kurin, DS. “Indigenismo Judío: La Negociación y Manipulación de la Identidad

Judío durante el siglo XVII en el Perú.” Paper presented at the Latin American

Jewish Studies Association Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2007 Gomez Ch., DE and DS Kurin. “Reconocimiento de los Sitios Arqueológicos de

San Antonio de Cachi, Andahuaylas, Apurímac, Perú.” Paper presented at the

XV Congreso Peruano del Hombre Andina y Amazónica, Arequipa, Peru.

2004 Kurin, DS. “Las Momias de Santo Domingo.” Paper presented at the Journadas

Arqueologicas Conference, Sucre, Bolivia.

2004 Kurin, DS. “Momias pre-Incaicos de los Valles de Bolivia.” Paper presented at

the Journadas Arqueologicas Conference, Sucre, Bolivia.

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Conference Posters

* = student co-authors

2014 *Black, V and DS Kurin. “3D Morphometric Approaches to Cranial Modification

in Peru: Multivariate Methods.” Poster presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of

the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Calgary, Canada.

2014 *K Hauther, DS Kurin, and A McKeown. “Dental Metrics and Group Affinity in

Prehispanic Peru.” Poster presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the American

Association of Physical Anthropologists, Calgary, Canada.

2014 *Gurevitz, A and DS Kurin. “Sexing Commingled Remains to Evaluate Mortuary

Organization: A Case Study from South-central Peru.” Poster presented at the 79th

Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, TX.

2014 *Wilkin, S, *ET Rauscher, and DS Kurin. “A Bioarchaeological Analysis of

Domestic Violence in Post-Imperial Peru.” Poster presented at the 79th Annual

Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, TX.

2014 *Rauscher, ET, *S Wilkin, and DS Kurin. “Trepanation and Cranial Trauma in

the Ancient Andes.” Poster presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society

for American Archaeology, Austin, TX.

2014 *Carroll, J and DS Kurin. “Occupational Markers and Artifacts: The

Osteobiography of a Weaver from Ancient Highland Peru.” Poster presented at

the 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical

Anthropologists, Calgary, Canada.

2014 *Kirkpatrick, L and DS Kurin. “Evaluating a Hillfort using Bioarchaeology.”

Poster presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of

Physical Anthropologists, Calgary, Canada.

2013 Kurin, DS. “Warfare and Mobility and Diet in the Peruvian Highlands.” Poster

presented at the Western Bioarchaeology Group (WeBIG) Meeting at the

University of California, Berkeley, CA.

2013 *Sugimoto, K and DS Kurin. “Dental Morphology and Ethnic Identity in

Andahuaylas.” Paper presented at the 78th Annual Meeting of the Society for

Amer. Archaeology, Honolulu, HI.

2013 *Lofaro, EM and DS Kurin. “Chanka Mobility and Diet in the Central Highlands

of Peru.” Poster presented at the 82st Annual Meeting of the American

Association of Physical Anthropologists, Knoxville, TN.

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2012 *Lofaro, EM and DS Kurin. “Carbon Isotopes as a Proxy for Diet in the

Andahuaylas Region of Peru, AD 880—1270.” Poster presented at the

Archaeological Sciences of the Americas Symposium, Vanderbilt University,

Nashville, TN.

2012 Kurin, DS. “Conflict and Ethnic Identity among the Post-Collapse Chanka of

Andahuaylas, Peru (AD 1000-1400).” Invited poster for the session:

Bioarchaeology and Forensic Case Studies of Violence: Reconstructing Context

and Meaning, organized by CP Anderson and DL Martin for the 81st Annual

Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Portland, OR.

2012 *Green, KA and DS Kurin. “You Don’t Have a Leg to Stand On: A Case Study of

Femo-tibial Fusion from a Cave in Andahuaylas Province, Peru.” Poster presented

at the 81st Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical

Anthropologists, Portland, OR.

2012 *Wright, KE and DS Kurin. “A Possible Case of Cancer in the Late Prehispanic

Peruvian Andes.” Poster presented at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for

American Archaeology, Memphis, TN.

2012 *Lofaro, EM and DS Kurin. “Isotopic Analyses of Chanka Mobility.” Poster

presented at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,

Memphis, TN.

2012 *Delay, K, *A Schneider, and DS Kurin. “Mummy Dearest: Post-Mortem

Mortuary Alteration in Andahuaylas, Peru (AD 1000-1400).” Poster presented at

the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, TN.

2011 *Kelly, J, L DeSantis, DS Kurin, and T Tung. “Diet and Climate During and

After the Fall of the Wari Empire in Ancient Peru.” Poster presented at the

Vanderbilt Center for Science Outreach Congress, Nashville, TN.

2011 Kurin, DS. “A Cut Above the Rest: Trepanation Among the post-Imperial Chanka

of Ancient Peru.” Poster presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the American

Association of Physical Anthropologists, Minneapolis, MN.

2011 Kurin, DS and *A Gabbard. “A Bioarchaeological Comparison of Cranial

Modification and Health in Ancient Highland Peru.” Poster presented at the 76th

Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento, CA.

2010 *Mondestin, A and DS Kurin. “A Bioarchaeological Assessment of Health and

Trauma in Post-Imperial Peru.” Poster presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the

American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Albuquerque, NM.

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2009 Kurin, DS. “Resting in War and Peace: A Bioarchaeological Approach to Group

Violence in Peruvian Prehistory.” Poster presented at the 78th Annual Meeting of

the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Chicago, IL.

2006 Kurin, DS. “Multi-ethnicity in the Eastern Valleys: A Bioarchaeological

Approach to the Study of a Prehistoric Bolivian Community.” Poster presented at

the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, PR.