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Kathryn Baustian

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Office: Bolton 253
Tel. (518) 580-5419
E-mail:  kbaustia@skidmore.edu
On Sabbatical Fall 2024 & Spring 2025

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Nevada Las Vegas, 2015
• M.A., Anthropology, University of Nevada Las Vegas, 2010
• B.A.,  Anthropology, Criminal Justice, Hamline University, 2005

REGIONAL Interests

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

• Human Osteology in Bioarchaeological and Forensic Anthropology contexts: violence and trauma, disease processes, environmental and social effects on health, social organization and marginalization, power and status, biological markers of kinship (biodistance), mortuary treatments.  

I am a biocultural bioarchaeologist, meaning my identity as a scholar is couched squarely between the archaeology and biological subdisciplines of anthropology and that I use aspects of culture to interpret data. I approach the study of the human experience through an understanding of the human skeletal system within different contexts in the past, mostly in the prehistoric American Southwest. My scholarship contributes to broader conversations about the human experience as it pertains to violence as a behavioral strategy, gender roles in the past, power structures and inequality, migration and kinship, and mortuary rituals and identity.

I am also engaged in bioarchaeological research projects that investigate what life was like in the Bronze Age Near East, specifically the southern coast of the Arabian Gulf, and historic New Orleans, Louisiana, at the Cypress Grove Cemetery #1. Lastly, I have interests in forensic science and serve as a forensic anthropology consultant to medico-legal agencies upon request.

COURSES

• Anthropology of the Human Past (AN 102, AN 102H)
• Archaeology of the American Southwest (AN 208)
• You Are What You Eat: Food and Culture (AN 222)
• Forensic Anthropology: Bones, Bodies, and Trauma (AN 232)    
• Origins and Evolution of Violence (AN 237)
• Human Osteology (AN 304)
• Bioarchaeology (AN 305)
• Evolution of the Human Diet (AN 306)

SELECTED SCHOLARSHIP

Articles

• 2025  Baustian, KM and Roth, BJ. Positions of Power: Situational Flexibility in Mimbres Society. American Antiquity. Published online 2025:1-16. doi:10.1017/aaq.2024.43.
• 2024  Anderson, CP, Harrod, RP, and Baustian, KM. The Land of Opportunity: Bioarchaeological Perspectives of Women鈥檚 Lives in the Industrial Expansion of the Western United States (1850-1915). International Journal of Historical Archaeology 28:1081-1106, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-024-00744-8 published June 20, 2024.
• 2020  Baustian, KM, and Roth, BJ.  Situational Power in Cooperative Communities: Indicators from Bioarchaeology in the Mimbres Region of Southwest New Mexico.  American Anthropologist 122(4):891-940, Vital Topics edited by SK Becker and SL Juengst.
• 2018  Baustian, KM.  Violence and Social Structure in the Mimbres Region of Southwest New Mexico: Interpretations from Bioarchaeological Data.  KIVA: Journal of Southwest Archaeology and History.
• 2015  Roth, BJ, and Baustian, KM.  Kin Groups and Social Power at the Harris Site, Southwestern New Mexico.  American Antiquity  80(3):451-471.
• 2013  Potts, DT, Martin, DL, Baustian, KM, and Osterholtz, AJ.  Neonates, Infant Mortality, and the Pre-Islamic Arabian Amuletic Tradition at Tell Abraq.  Liwa 5(9):3-14.
• 2012  Baustian, KM, Harrod, RP, Osterholtz, AJ, and Martin, DL.  Battered and Abused: Analysis of Trauma at Grasshopper Pueblo (AD 1275-1400).  International Journal of Paleopathology 2(2-3):102-111.

Edited Volume

• 2014  Osterholtz, AJ, Baustian, KM, and Martin, DL (Eds.).  Commingled and Disarticulated Human Remains: Working Towards Improved Theory, Method, and Data.   Springer Press.    

Book Chapters

• 2019  Martin, DL, Baustian, KM, and Osterholtz, AJ.  The Tomb at Tell Abraq: Demographic Structure and Mortuary Complexity.  In Life and Death in Ancient Arabia: Mortuary and Bioarchaeological Perspectives, edited by L. Gregorika.  University Press of Florida.
• 2016  Baustian, KM, and Anderson, CP.  Linking Health and Marriage Practices among Commingled Assemblages: A Case Study from Bronze Age Tell Abraq, UAE.  In Theoretical Approaches to the Analysis of Commingled Human Remains, edited by A. Osterholtz.  Springer Press.
• 2014  Baustian, KM.  Interpreting Skeletal Trauma and Violence at Grasshopper Pueblo (AD 1275-1400).  In Bioarchaeological and Forensic Perspectives on Violence: How Violent Death is Interpreted from Skeletal Remains, edited by DL Martin and CP Anderson.  Cambridge University Press.
• 2014  Crandall, JJ, Harrod, RP, Anderson, CP, and Baustian, KM.   Interpreting Gunshot Trauma as Context Clue: A Case Study from Historic North Las Vegas, Nevada.  In Bioarchaeological and Forensic Perspectives on Violence: How Violent Death is Interpreted from Skeletal Remains, edited by DL Martin and CP Anderson.  Cambridge University Press.
• 2014  Osterholtz, AJ, Baustian, KM, and Martin, DL.  Introduction.  In Commingled and Disarticulated Human Remains: Working Towards Improved Theory, Method, and Data, edited by AJ Osterholtz, KM Baustian, and DL Martin.  Springer Press.
• 2014  Osterholtz, AJ, Baustian, KM, Martin, DL, and Potts, DT.  Commingled Human Skeletal Assemblages: Integrative Techniques in Determination of the MNI/MNE.  In Commingled and Disarticulated Human Remains: Working Towards Improved Theory, Method, and Data, edited by AJ Osterholtz, KM Baustian, and DL Martin.  Springer Press.
• 2014  Baustian, KM, Osterholtz, AJ, and Cook, DC.  Taking Analyses of Commingled Remains into the Future:  Challenges and Prospects.  In  Commingled and Disarticulated Human Remains: Working Towards Improved Theory, Method, and Data, edited by AJ Osterholtz, KM Baustian, and DL Martin.  Springer Press.

SELECTED GRANTS AND HONORS

• 2018  Carryl B. Martin Research Grant, Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society
• 2014  President鈥檚 UNLV Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• 2013  New Mexico Archaeological Council Grant
• 2013  Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society Grant
• 2012  (November) Visiting Scientist, Forensic Anthropology Unit, New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
• 2005  Phi Beta Kappa, Hamline University