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

• Social determinants of past health and disease
• Ancient DNA of humans and their pathogens
• Bioarchaeological and paleopathological applications of ancient DNA
• Pathogen evolution and paleoepidemiology
• Specialised mortuary assemblages

Chapter in book

• Schug, G. R., & Blevins, K. E. 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. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119055280.ch16
• Roberts Charlotte, A., Davies, P., Blevins, K. E., & Stone, A. C. The origin and evolution of tuberculosis from clinical, genetic and palaeopathological perspectives. In K. A. Plomp, C. A. Roberts, S. Elton, & G. R. Bentley (Eds.), Evolving Health: Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach. Oxford University Press
• Roberts, C. A., Blevins, K. E., Filipek, K. L., & Pacheco Miranda, A. (submitted) The palaeopathology of two mycobacterial diseases still with us today. Here and now, there and then. In Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology. Routledge
• Blevins, K. E. (2024). Ancient pathogens and paleoepidemiology. In Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-323-99931-1.00202-6

Journal Article

• Blevins, K. E., McGrane, M., Mansilla Lory, J., Arroyo, S. G., & Buikstra, J. E. (2023). Structural violence and physical death at Tlatelolco: selecting the chronically malnourished for sacrifice at a Late Postclassic Mesoamerican city (1300-1521 CE). Bioarchaeology international, 7(1), https://doi.org/10.5744/bi.2022.0011
• Wissler, A., Blevins, K. E., & Buikstra, J. E. (2022). Missing data in bioarchaeology I: A review of the literature. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 179(3), 339-348. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24609
• Buikstra, J. E., DeWitte, S. N., Agarwal, S. C., Baker, B. J., Bartelink, E. J., Berger, E., …Zakrzewski, S. R. (2022). Twenty‐first century bioarchaeology: Taking stock and moving forward. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 178(S74), 54-114. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24494
• Wissler, A., Blevins, K. E., & Buikstra, J. E. (2022). Missing data in bioarchaeology II: A test of ordinal and continuous data imputation. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 179(3), https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24614
• Nieves-Colón, M. A., Blevins, K. E., Contreras-Sieck, M. Á., & Bravo López, M. (2021). Paleogenómica y bioarqueología en México
• Blevins, K. E., Crane, A. E., Lum, C., Furuta, K., Fox, K., & Stone, A. C. (2020). Evolutionary history of Mycobacterium leprae in the Pacific Islands. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 375(1812), https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0582
• Robbins Schug, G., Blevins, K. E., Cox, B., Gray, K., & Mushrif-Tripathy, V. (2013). Infection, Disease, and Biosocial Processes at the End of the Indus Civilization. PLoS ONE, 8(12), Article e84814. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0084814