Marissa Ramsier

Research Focus

I am a strong proponent of interdisciplinary collaboration and crossing theoretical and methodological boundaries to explore questions. My research interests are broad and include both lab work and fieldwork, quantitative and qualitative analysis, and the integration of disparate fields and datasets. Within anthropology, my focus is in comparative anatomy, bioarchaeology, skeletal biology, ecology, health, and diet. My current research focuses on skeletal biology, heallth, diet, and migration in medieval Poland, including the influence of colonization on the health and lifeways of Old Prussians. Other areas of interest include stable isotope ecology, zooarchaeology, forensic anthropology, and nonhuman primate evolutionary biology.  I have conducted fieldwork in Central and South America, Africa, the West Indies, and Europe. I am a Director of the Biological Anthropology Research Lab and the Poland Bioarchaeology Field Program. I also consult on forensic anthropology cases with various local agencies.

Teaching Specialties

• Biological Anthropology
• Bioarchaeology
• Method & Theory in Biological Anthropology
• Archaeology & World Prehistory
• Skeletal Biology & Forensics
• Comparative Osteology / Zooarchaeology
• World Heritage & Archaeology
• Quantitative Data Analysis
• Paleoanthropology
• Primate Adaptation & Evolution