Staff profile

Education

(2016-2021) Ph.D. in Anthropology, Arizona State University, USA

(2014-2015) M.Sc. in Paleopathology with distinction (first class), Durham University, UK

(2010-2014) B.S. in Biological Anthropology (summa cum laude), minor in chemistry, Appalachian State University, North Carolina, USA

• Bioarchaeological and paleopathological applications of ancient DNA
• Specialised mortuary assemblages
• Pathogen evolution and paleoepidemiology
• Ancient DNA of humans and their pathogens

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Chapter in book

• Roberts, Charlotte A., Blevins, Kelly E. Filipek, Kori L. & Pacheco Miranda, Aryel (Accepted). (submitted) The palaeopathology of two mycobacterial diseases still with us today. Here and now, there and then. In Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology. Routledge.
• Roberts Charlotte A. Davies, Peter Blevins, Kelly E. & Stone, Anne C. (2022). The origin and evolution of tuberculosis from clinical, genetic and palaeopathological perspectives. In Evolving Health: Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach. Plomp, Kimberly A., Roberts, Charlotte A., Elton, Sarah & Bentley, Gilian R. Oxford University Press.
• Schug, Gwen Robbins & Blevins, Kelly Elaine (2016). The Center Cannot Hold: A Bioarchaeological Perspective on Environmental Crisis in the Second Millennium BCE, South Asia. In A Companion to South Asia in the Past. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 255–273.

Journal Article

• Blevins, Kelly E. McGrane, Madeline Mansilla Lory, Josefina Guilliem Arroyo Salvador & Buikstra, Jane E. (Submitted). (submitted) Structural violence and physical death at Tlatelolco: selecting the chronically malnourished for sacrifice at a Late Postclassic Mesoamerican city (1300-1521 CE. International Journal of Bioarchaeology
• Wissler, Amanda, Blevins, Kelly E. & Buikstra, Jane E. (2022). Missing data in bioarchaeology II: A test of ordinal and continuous data imputation. American Journal of Biological Anthropology 179(3): 349.
• Wissler, Amanda, Blevins, Kelly E. & Buikstra, Jane E. (2022). Missing data in bioarchaeology I: A review of the literature. American Journal of Biological Anthropology 179(3): 339-348.
• Buikstra, Jane E., DeWitte, Sharon N., Agarwal, Sabrina C., Baker, Brenda J., Bartelink, Eric J., Berger, Elizabeth, Blevins, Kelly E., Bolhofner, Katelyn, Boutin, Alexis T., Brickley, Megan B., Buzon, Michele R., de la Cova, Carlina, Goldstein, Lynne, Gowland, Rebecca, Grauer, Anne L., Gregoricka, Lesley A., Halcrow, Siân E., Hall, Sarah A., Hillson, Simon, Kakaliouras, Ann M., Klaus, Haagen D., Knudson, Kelly J., Knüsel, Christopher J., Larsen, Clark Spencer, Martin, Debra L., Milner, George R., Novak, Mario, Nystrom, Kenneth C., Pacheco‐Forés, Sofía I., Prowse, Tracy L., Robbins Schug, Gwen, Roberts, Charlotte A., Rothwell, Jessica E., Santos, Ana Luisa, Stojanowski, Christopher, Stone, Anne C., Stull, Kyra E., Temple, Daniel H., Torres, Christina M., Toyne, J. Marla, Tung, Tiffiny A., Ullinger, Jaime, Wiltschke‐Schrotta, Karin & Zakrzewski, Sonia R. (2022). Twenty‐first century bioarchaeology: Taking stock and moving forward. American Journal of Biological Anthropology
• Nieves-Colón, María A., Blevins, Kelly E., Contreras-Sieck, Miguel Ángel & Bravo López, Miriam (2021). Paleogenómica y bioarqueología en México. Cuicuilco. Revista de ciencias antropológicas 28(81): 187–223.
• Blevins, Kelly E., Crane, Adele E., Lum, Christopher, Furuta, Kanako, Fox, Keolu & Stone, Anne C. (2020). Evolutionary history of Mycobacterium leprae in the Pacific Islands. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 375(1812): 20190582.
• Robbins Schug, Gwen, Blevins, K. Elaine, Cox, Brett, Gray, Kelsey & Mushrif-Tripathy, V. (2013). Infection, Disease, and Biosocial Processes at the End of the Indus Civilization. PLoS ONE 8(12): e84814.