Education
2003-2010 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Anthropology, PhD
2002-2005 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Classical Archaeology, MA
2000-2002 East Carolina University, Anthropology, MA
1995-1999 University of Virginia, Latin and Classical Archaeology, BA
Academic Appointments
2011 Vanderbilt University, Lecturer
2011- Research Laboratories of Archaeology at UNC, Research Associate
2003-2011 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Adjunct Assistant Professor (2011); Graduate Teaching Fellow (2006-09); Teaching Assistant (2003-05)
2008 SUNY Cortland, Adjunct Instructor
2002-2003 Durham Technical Community College, Adjunct Instructor
2000-2002 East Carolina University, Research Assistant
1996-1997 University of Virginia, Saturday Enrichment Program (Grades K-5), Teaching Assistant
Honors and Fellowships
2011 Manning Outstanding Dissertation Award in Anthropology, UNC Chapel Hill
2009-2010 P.E.O. Scholar Award Fellowship ($15,000 plus tuition)
2000-2002 Graduate Scholar Fellowship, East Carolina University ($20,000 plus tuition)
2001 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society (inducted)
1995-1999 Echols Scholar, University of Virginia
Research Grants and Fundraising
2011 Fundraising for the Roman DNA Project through RocketHub ($12,331)
2008-2009 Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant ($6,720)
2006-2009 NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (BCS-0622452) ($11,940)
2008 Smith Graduate Research Grant, UNC ($750)
2007-2008 Timothy P. Mooney Fellowship, Research Labs of Archaeology, UNC ($1,200)
2006-2007 Pre-Dissertation Travel Award, Center for Global Initiatives, UNC ($1,905)
Travel Grants
Summer 2010 Gabii Project – Rome, Italy ($1,347 & food, lodging)
Spring 2010 Max Planck Inst. for Demographic Research – Athens, Greece ($948 & lodging)
Summer 2008 Graduate Student Opportunity Fund, UNC – Bradford, England ($1,000)
Summer 2005 Graduate Student Opportunity Fund, UNC – Lisbon, Portugal ($700)
Summer 2005 GPSF Research Travel Award, UNC – Rome, Italy ($245)
Summer 2004 Department of Classics, UNC – Tuscany, Italy ($1,600 & food, lodging)
Summer 2003 Department of Classics, UNC – Crete, Greece ($1,700 & food, lodging)
Spring 2002 Graduate Student Advisory Council, ECU – AAPA Conference ($110)
Fall 1998 Small Research/Travel Grant, UVa – BA thesis research at Montpelier ($250)
Other Professional Experience
2011- Roman DNA Project, Chapel Hill, NC (Principal Investigator)
2010- Gabii Project, Rome, Italy (Bioarchaeologist)
2008 8th Palaeopathology Short Course, Bradford, England
2007 Archeologia Funeraria e Antropologia di Campo (Seminar), Rome, Italy
2005 Dental Anthropology Workshop, Instituto Portugues de Arqueologia, Lisbon, Portugal
2004 Cecina Valley Project, Field Archaeologist, Tuscany, Italy
2003 Azoria Project, Field Archaeologist/Trench Supervisor, Crete, Greece
2001-2002 ECU Depts of Anthropology and Pathology, Forensic Assistant, Greenville NC
1999-2002 Managing Uncertainty in Cancer Studies, Social Research Assistant, UNC-CH
1998-1999 Montpelier, Archaeology Lab Assistant, Orange VA
1996 Monticello Archaeology Field School, Charlottesville VA
Publications
Articles
- Killgrove K and R Tykot. (In prep). Investigating diets of the lower classes of Imperial Rome through carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses. Manuscript in prep for the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.
- Killgrove K. (In prep). Embodying Rome: crafting history using skeletons and science. Manuscript in prep for Ancient Planet.
- —–. 2012 (submitted). Bioarchaeology in the Roman Empire. In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology: Classical Archaeology, section editors J. Becker, H. Becker, and A. Barclay. Springer.
- —–. 2012 (submitted). Using biological distance techniques to investigate the heterogeneous population of Imperial Rome. In The Past in Motion, D. Peterson and J. Dudgeon, eds.
- —–. 2010. 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. [PDF]
- Montgomery J, J Evans, S Chenery, V Pashley, —–. 2010. “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. Response to C. Bruun’s Water, oxygen isotopes and immigration to Ostia-Portus. Journal of Roman Archaeology 23:133-136. [PDF]
- —–. 2009. Rethinking taxonomies: skeletal variation on the North Carolina coastal plain. Southeastern Archaeology 28(1):87-100. [PDF]
- Musco S, A Caspio, P Catalano, W Pantano, —–. 2008. Le complexe archéologique de Casal Bertone. Les Dossiers d’Archéologie 330 (Nov/Dec):32-39. [PDF]
- Killgrove K. (In prep.) Human Osteology at Gabii. Chapter contributed to Gabii Project Field Manual, edited by Jeffrey Becker, Acting Director, Gabii Project.
- —–. 2011. Gabii Osteological Report, 2009-2010. Report to N. Terrenato, Department of Classical Studies, University of Michigan, 23 pp.
- —–. 2008. Biodistance at the Broad Reach (31CR218) site. Report to D.L. Hutchinson, Department of Anthropology, UNC Chapel Hill, 10 pp.
- —–. 2007. Casal Bertone Relazione. Report to P. Catalano, Anthropology Division, Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma (Italy), 7 pp.
- —– and Larsen CS. 2000. Human Skeletal Remains from Mission San Marcos, New Mexico. Report to D.H. Thomas, Department of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 24 pp.
- Killgrove K. 2011. Chapter quizzes, summaries, learning objectives, and outlines for How Humans Evolved, 6th Ed., by R. Boyd and J. Silk. Online content for StudySpace. W.W. Norton.
- —–. 2010. Chapter quizzes and learning objectives for Our Origins, 2nd Ed., by C.S. Larsen. Online content for StudySpace. W.W. Norton. [Read Online]
- —–. 2009. Chapter quizzes and metacontent for Essentials of Physical Anthropology: Discovering Our Origins by C.S. Larsen. Online content for StudySpace. W.W. Norton. [Read Online]
- —–. 2009. Chapter quizzes, summaries, and outlines for How Humans Evolved, 5th Ed., by R. Boyd and J. Silk. Online content for StudySpace. W.W. Norton. [Read Online]
- —–. 2008. Chapter quizzes for Our Origins: Discovering Physical Anthropology by C.S. Larsen. Online content for StudySpace. W.W. Norton. [Read Online]
- Killgrove K. (In prep.) Review of Mission and Pueblo of Santa Catalina de Guale, St. Catherine’s Island, Georgia: A Comparative Zooarchaeological Analysis, by E.J. Reitz, B. Pavao-Zuckerman, D.C. Weinand, and G.A. Duncan. Southeastern Archaeology.
- —–. (In prep.) Review of Breathing New Life into the Evidence of Death: Contemporary Approaches to Bioarchaeology by A. Baadsgaard, A.T. Boudin, and J.E. Buikstra. Historical Archaeology.
- —–. 2011. 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. Review of Iron Age and Roman Burials in Champagne, by I.M. Stead, J.-L. Flouest, and V. Rigby. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 20(6). [PDF]
- @—–. 2010. Consultant for Bones: Dead People DO Tell Tales, by S. Latta. (Nonfiction forensic anthropology book for grade schoolers.) Enslow Publishers.
- —–. 2009. 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. [PDF]
- —–. 2008. Review of Biocultural Histories in La Florida: a Bioarchaeological Perspective, by C.M. Stojanowski. Southeastern Archaeology 27(1):152-3. [PDF]
- —–. 2007. Review of Two Historic Cemeteries in Crawford County, Arkansas, by R.C. Mainfort and J.M. Davidson. Southeastern Archaeology 26(2):343-4. [PDF]
- —–. 2007. Review of Hunting for Hides, by H. Lapham. Historical Archaeology, 41(2):204-5. [PDF]
- Killgrove K. 2010. Migration and Mobility in Imperial Rome. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina. [PDF] [Hard Copy]
- —–. 2005. Bioarchaeology in the Roman World. M.A. Thesis, Department of Classics, University of North Carolina. [PDF] [Hard Copy]
- —–. 2002. Defining Relationships between Native American Groups: a Biodistance Study of the North Carolina Coastal Plain. M.A. Thesis, Department of Anthropology, East Carolina University. [PDF] [Hard Copy]
- —–. 1999. 44OR249 – South Yard of Montpelier – “The Greasy Black Stain.” B.A. Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia.
Conference Presentations
- Killgrove, K. 2012. Embodying the Empire: Reading bones to understand Roman health. Paper to be presented at the conference Crossing Boundaries: Ancient History Explores Its Future, sponsored by Columbia and Cambridge Universities, December 12-13, in Cambridge, England.
- —–. 2012. Moving to Rome: immigrants in the capital. Paper to be presented at the conference Moving Romans: Urbanisation, Migration, and Labour in the Roman Principate, June 1, in Leiden, Netherlands.
- —–. 2012. Death and the city: intramural burials and disease at Imperial Gabii, Italy. Poster to be presented at the 81st Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, April 11-14, in Portland, Oregon.
- —–. 2012. Differential diagnosis of an unusual lower leg pathology in an Imperial Roman. Poster to be presented at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, April 9-11, in Portland, Oregon.
- —–, R. Tykot, and J. Montgomery. 2011. Foreign women in Imperial Rome: the isotopic evidence. Paper presented in the session “Women on the move: the scientific and archaeological evidence for female mobility in the past,” at the 17th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, September 14-18, in Oslo, Norway. [Read]
- —–. 2011. Unsanitary urbanism? Rethinking pathology in Imperial Rome. Paper presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, April 12-13, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. [Read]
- —–, J. Montgomery, and R. Tykot. 2011. Dietary differences between immigrants and locals in Imperial Rome. Poster presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, April 12-16, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. [Read]
- —–. 2010. All roads lead to Rome: an Old World perspective on human circulation. Paper presented at the 109th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 17-21, in New Orleans, Louisiana.
- —–. 2010. “Demography, diet, and disease: implications of immigration to Imperial Rome.” Presented at Sex, Death, and Bones: Paleodemography and Gender Differentials in the Mediterranean World at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece (15 March), sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.
- Montgomery, J., J. Evans, S. Chenery, V. Pashley, —–, and J. Beaumont. 2010. “Gleaming, white and deadly”: the use of lead to track human exposure and geographic origins in the Roman period in Britain. Presented at the 4th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- —–. 2009. What makes one Roman? Paper presented at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Atlanta, Georgia.
- —–. 2009. 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. 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. 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. Bodies of work: understanding the Roman lower class. Paper presented at the 109th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in Chicago, Illinois.
- Perry MA and —–. 2008. Embodiment and remembrance in a mortuary context. Colloquium organized at the 109th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in Chicago, Illinois.
- —–. 2006. Classical bioarchaeology. Workshop chaired at the 107th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in Montreal, Canada.
- —–. 2004. 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. 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.
Invited Talks
- Killgrove K. 2012. ”The corporeality of the plebs urbana: redefining the body politic of Imperial Rome.” Presented at the University of Miami, Coral Gables FL (2 February 2012), sponsored by the Department of Anthropology.
- —–. 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.
- —–. 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. “One empire, multiple stories: Lives of foreigners in Imperial Rome.” Presented at Seton Hall University, South Orange NJ (15 March 2011), sponsored by the Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Social Work.
- —–. 2010-11. “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; University of Central Florida, Orlando FL (15 December 2010), sponsored by the Department of Anthropology.
- —–. 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.
Press Coverage
11 Nov 2011 ”Who were the 99% of ancient Rome?” by Ed Yong for CNN
11 Nov 2011 ”An archaeologist wants the story of Rome’s 99%” by Alex Knapp for Forbes
Student Advising
2010 M.A. committee member for Lara Frame, East Carolina University
2006-2009 Graduate Student Mentor Program, Office for Undergraduate Research at UNC; oversaw independent study projects for students majoring in anthropology, biology, and geological sciences.
Professional Service
Manuscript reviewer Journal of Anthropological Archaeology; Journal of Roman Archaeology; Tennessee Archaeology; American School of Classical Studies at Athens Monographs
Grant proposal reviewer Collaborative Incentive Research Grant (CUNY)
Membership in Professional Organizations
American Association of Physical Anthropologists
Society for American Archaeology
Archaeological Institute of America
Southeastern Archaeological Conference
Paleopathology Association
American Anthropological Association
References available upon request
