CURRICULUM VITA
Carlina M. de la Cova
University of South Carolina
Department of Anthropology
Gambrell Hall, Room 439
Columbia, SC 29208
Phone: (803) 777-2957; Fax: (803) 777-0259
Email: [email protected]
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Birthplace:
Jacksonville, Florida
EDUCATION
2008
Ph.D., Department of Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Major:
Biological anthropology
Inside concentrations: Paleopathology/Skeletal biology
Growth and development
Primate behavior
Inside minor:
Archaeology
Minor:
Medical sciences
Dissertation:
“Silent Voices of the Destitute: An Analysis of African American and EuroAmerican Health During the Nineteenth Century”
Advisor: Dr. Della Cook
2005
M. A., Department of Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
2000
B. S., Magna Cum Laude, Department of Anthropology, Indiana State
University, Terre Haute, Indiana
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Human Osteology,
Paleopathology
Cross-disciplinary analysis of health, disease, disease process, and trauma in
ancient and modern populations incorporating methods and theory from
sociocultural anthropology, history, sociology, public health and medicine
Analyzing the biological impact of marginalization
African American
Biohistory/Diaspora
Examining health, disease, trauma, and growth and development among
enslaved and freed African Americans
The skeletal biological consequences of the Great Migration
Historical Medicine
Other interests:
Examination of health, disease, infection and medicine during the 19th century
combining an osteological and historical approach focusing on disadvantaged
populations
Forensic anthropology, craniometrics, Eastern North America prehistory,
Neandertal morphology, primate behavior, Mesoamerican Bioarchaeology
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
Spanish:
Comprehension, reading, and speaking competency
PUBLICATIONS
Books
In prep.
de la Cova C. Skeletal Voices: Race, Interpersonal Violence, and Institutionalization,
Book manuscript and book contract with Springer Press.
Peer-Reviewed Publications and Book Chapters
2015
de la Cova C. The Retromolar Space: The Retromolar Space: A Morphological Curiosity
Observed Amongst the Protohistoric Arikara and Mandan. International Journal of
Osteoarchaeology. DOI: 10.1002/oa.2451 (in Early View online)
2014
de la Cova C. "The biological effects of urbanization and in-migration on 19th-centuryborn African Americans and Euro-Americans of low socioeconomic status: An
anthropological and historical approach." In MK Zuckerman (ed.), Are Modern
Environments Bad for Human Health? Revisiting the Second Epidemiological Transition.
Wiley-Blackwell.
2012
de la Cova C. Trauma Patterns in 19th-Century-Born African American and EuroAmerican Females. International Journal of Paleopathology 2 (2–3): 61–68.
2011
de la Cova C. Race, health, and disease in 19th-century-born males. American Journal
of Physical Anthropology 144 (4): 526–537.
2010
de la Cova C. Cultural Patterns of Trauma among 19th-Century-Born Males in Cadaver
Collections. American Anthropologist 112(4): 589–606.
Republished in 2013 in “Violence: Anthropologists Engaging Violence, 1980-2012,” in
American Anthropologist Virtual Issue edited by Virginia R. Dominguez, Online ISSN:
1548-1433
2007
Wells J, de la Cova C. Stable Isotopic Relationships between Age, Sex, and Maize
Consumption in the Mississippian Vincennes Phase of Indiana. Society for Archaeological
Sciences Bulletin 30(4): 12-16.
Book Reviews
2013
Book Review of Barnes JK. 2011. The Materiality of Freedom: Archaeologies of
Postemancipation Life. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press for American
Anthropologist.
Additional Publications
1999
“Burial Rites of Neandertal Man.” The Australian Funeral Director 20(1):15-16.
FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS
Stevens W, de la Cova C, Young C, Judge C. “A law school with no books is easier to operate than a
medical school with no cadavers”: Skeletal Remains from the School of Anatomy, DeSaussure College,
University of South Carolina. IN SC Hodge, KA Shuler (eds.) Bioarchaeology of the Southeast: Bridging
Bones and Behavior. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
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Muller JL, Pearlstein KE, de la Cova C. Dissection and Documented Skeletal Collections. In K Nystrom
(ed.) Bioarchaeology of Dissection. New York: Springer.
PUBLICATIONS IN PREPARATION OR UNDER REVIEW
In prep.
“Lives, Limbs, and “Laudable Pus”: Amputation, infection, and healing in the American
Civil War. Intended for the International Journal of Paleopathology
GRANTS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
2014
Provost Social Science Grant, “Embodying trauma and disease in 19th-centuryborn African American and Euro-American females in cadaver collections,
$18,848
Provost Distributed Learning Grant to create an online version of ANTH 367
Basic Forensic Anthropology, $7944
2013
Collaborator with John Gerdes, Jr., PI, ASPIRE III, 3-D Modeling Service Bureau
Grant. Award allowed for the purchase of 3D printers to use for research
purposes, $99,993
2012
Co-PI with Charles Cobb, PI, and Sharon DeWitte, Co-PI, Visiting Scholar Grant,
“Building Collaborations in Bioarchaeology and Physical Anthropology,” $7600
2009
New Faculty Grant, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Office of Research
and Public/Private Sector Partnerships, $5000
2008
Summer Excellence Grant, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Office of
Research and Public/Private Sector Partnerships, $5000
2006
Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellowship, Department of Anthropology
Advisors: Douglas Owsley and David Hunt, $9000
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/rtp/other_opps/intern/fellow06.html
2005
Indiana University Graduate and Professional Student Organization Research
Grant, $500
Indiana University, David Skomp Dissertation Feasibility Grant, $2424.74
2004
Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences Fellowship
2003
Outstanding Associate Instructor Award for teaching a stand alone course
2001–2003
D. C. Skomp Minority Fellowship, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
1997-2000
Robert Pace Memorial Scholarship, Department of Geology, Geography, and
Anthropology, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, $1000
http://www.indstate.edu/ees/scholarships/scholarships.html
ACADEMIC AWARDS AND HONORABLE MENTIONS
2012
de la Cova
Featured Scholar of the Month, May 2012, Office of the Vice President for
Research, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
http://www.sc.edu/vpresearch/featuredscholars_may.shtml
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2000
Indiana State University
High Honor Collegiate Scholar Award for maintaining a GPA of 4.0
1999
Golden Key National Honor Society Membership Award for Outstanding
Scholastic Achievement
1998
Indiana Coalition of Blacks in Higher Education Award for Outstanding Academic
Achievement
ACADEMIC CONFERENCE PAPERS, POSTERS, and SYMPOSIA ORGANIZED
2015
Invited discussant for the “Beyond the Bones: Engaging with Disparate Datasets” Invited poster
symposium at the 84th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists,
St. Louis, Missouri, March 2015.
2014
Army Healthcare for Sable Soldiers and Contrabands during the American Civil War. Paper
presented as part of the “On the Battlefield of Women and Children's Bodies: Bioarchaeological
Approaches to Warfare” invited symposium at the 113th Annual Meeting of the American
Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, December 2014.
2014
Controlled Lives, Impoverished Deaths: The biological stresses of institutionalization. Paper
presented as part of the “Embodied Politics of Inequality and Pain,” symposium at the Society
for American Archaeology 79th annual meeting, Austin, Texas, 2014.
2013
The Bioarchaeology of Disease Ideologies: Integrating biocultural, historical, and sociocultural
variables into ancient health research. Invited Executive Session co-organized with John
Crandall for the 112th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago,
Illinois, 2013.
Embodying and Historicizing Those Forgotten: Theorizing Race, Trauma, and Disease in
American Anatomical Collections. Paper presented as part of “The Bioarchaeology of Disease
Ideologies: Integrating biocultural, historical, and sociocultural variables into ancient health
research” Executive Session at the 112th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological
Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 2013.
2013
Bioarchaeology of Disease Ideologies. Poster session co-organized with John Crandall for the
82nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Knoxville,
Tennessee, April 2013.
Race, Disease, Disability, and Medical Ideologies tied to American Anatomical Collections.
Poster presented as part of the “Bioarchaeology of Disease Ideologies” Invited poster session at
the 82nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Knoxville,
Tennessee, April 2013.
2012
Lives, Limbs, and “Laudable Pus”: Amputation, infection, and healing in the American Civil
War. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, Portland,
Oregon, April 2012.
Bending Bones: An Interdisciplinary Approach in Anthropology. Paper presented as part of the
“Scientific humanists and humanistic scientists: flattening the world with anthropology,”
invited symposium presentation at the Annual meetings of the American Association for the
Advancement of Sciences, Vancouver, Canada, February 2012.
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2011
Trauma Patterns in 19th-Century-Born African American and Euro-American Females. Paper
presented as part of the BODY PARTS AND PARTS OF BODIES: THE TRACES OF VIOLENCE IN
CULTURES IN CONFLICT invited symposium presentation at the 110th Annual Meeting of the
American Anthropological Association, Montreal, Canada, November 2011.
The biological effects of urbanization and in-migration on 19th-century-born African Americans
and Euro-Americans of low socioeconomic status: An anthropological and historical approach.
Invited presentation and paper presented at the South Carolina Institute for Anthropology and
Archaeology 2011 Postdoctoral Fellows Conference: Moving the Middle to the Forefront: ReVisiting the Second Epidemiological Transition, Columbia, South Carolina, April 2011.
Stature and Long Bone Lengths in 19th-century-born African American and Euro-American
males. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, Minneapolis,
Minnesota, April 2011.
2010
Dental Health among Nineteenth-Century-Born African Americans and Euro-Americans. Paper
presented at the Annual Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico,
April 2010.
2009
Silent Voices of the Destitute: An Examination of Skeletal Health Disparities among Nineteenth
Century-born African American and Euro-American Males in Cadaver Collections. Paper
presented at the Annual Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, Chicago, Illinois, April
2009.
2008
An Analysis of Trauma among African Americans and Euro-Americans Born in the Nineteenth
Century. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Paleopathology Association,
Columbus, Ohio, April 2008.
2007
Wells, Joshua and Carlina de la Cova. When the Corn Mothers Came to Stay: A
Bioarchaeological Perspective on Maize Consumption and Cahokian Diffusion in Early
Mississippian Indiana. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American
Archaeology, Austin, Texas, April 2007.
2002
A Probable Case of Tertiary Syphilis and Insect Casings found in an Individual Originally Thought
to be Associated with Woodland and Mississippian Artifacts. Paper presented at the Informal
Session of the Midwest Bioarcheology & Forensic Anthropology Association (BARFAA),
Indianapolis, Indiana, October 2002.
2001
A Preliminary Analysis of Shew Mound (12VE25). Paper presented in the Anthropology and
Archaeology symposium of the Indiana Academy of Sciences, Fort Wayne, Indiana, November
2001.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
2015
NEXTENGINE 3D Scanning demonstration, 3D Expo hosted by It-ology and USC, Columbia, South
Carolina, April 2015.
2013
“What is biological anthropology?” Presentation and discussion with the Anthropology Student
Association, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, September 2013.
“Skeletal Voices: Race, Destitution, Dissection, Disease, Violence, and Institutionalization.”
Anthropology Colloquium, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, February 2013.
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2012
University of South Carolina Book Discussion sponsored by the African American Studies
Program, Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes and Black Women in America, co-organizer and
participant, November 2012.
Forensic Anthropology, Duke TIPS Scholar Program, University of South Carolina, Columbia,
South Carolina, November 2012.
Invited Participant in the Great Sherlock Holmes Debate 2, MX Publishing, London, March 2012.
2010
“Bones and Documents: Using history to understand skeletal disease.” Presentation before the
History Club, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, September 2010.
“Christmas in Muslim Indonesia.” International Global Studies Program, University of North
Carolina at Greensboro, February 2010.
2009
“Encountering Ardipithecus ramidis: Summary, Context, Impact.” University of North Carolina
at Greensboro, with Dr. Charles Egeland, October 2009.
Trauma Patterns of Terry Collection #954, presented at Forensic Fridays at the Smithsonian
Museum of Natural History. Washington, D.C., August 2009.
TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Fall 2011-Present
Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina at Columbia, Dual Position in
Anthropology and African American Studies
Fall 2008-Spring 2011
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Anthropology
Department; affiliated faculty of the African American Studies Program
Spring 2008
Lecturer, Indiana University, Department of African American and African
Diaspora Studies
2005
Assistant Undergraduate Student Advisor, Latino Studies Program,
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
2003-2004
Instructor, Indiana University
Lecture and Laboratory Methods in Biological Anthropology
1998-1999
Lab Assistant, Indiana State University Archaeology Laboratory
1996
Field Assistant, University of North Florida/National Parks Service Fort Caroline
Archaeological Survey, Jacksonville, Florida
1995-97
Teacher’s Assistant, Child Development Research Center, University of North
Florida, Jacksonville, Florida
COURSES TAUGHT
B301
A398
A399
ATY 253
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Laboratory Methods in Bioanthropology
Blacks and the Social Sciences (African American Archaeology)
Slavery, Medicine, and Health in 19th Century African American Communities
Introduction to Physical Anthropology
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ATY 305
ATY 342
ATY 355
ATY 361
ATY 553
ATY 559
ATY 555
ANTH 161
ANTH 362
ANTH 391/AFAM 398
ANTH 561
ANTH 565
AFAM 201
AFAM 397/SCHC 322W
AFAM 498
The Forensics of Sherlock Holmes and Bones
Human Growth and Development
Medicine, Disease, and Slavery
Methods in Physical Anthropology
Human Osteology and Human Osteology Laboratory
Disease and Nutrition in Ancient Populations
Human Evolution
Introduction to Biological Anthropology
The Forensics of Sherlock Holmes
Medicine, Disease, and Slavery
Human Osteology
Health and Disease in the Past
Introduction to Afro-American Studies
Medical Experimentation and the Black Body
Seminar in African American Studies, “Race and Medicine”
UNIVERSITY and DEPARTMENT SERVICE
Fall 2013-Present
Faculty Senator
Member, SPARC Graduate Fellowship Review Committee
Spring 2013
Member, SPARC Graduate Fellowship Review Committee
Fall 2012
Member of Honors Student, Chance Cockrell, Baccalaureus Artium et Scientiae
Committee
Fall 2012-Present
Member of the African American Studies Program Events and Awards
Committee
Spring 2012
Member, Department of Anthropology Chair Search Committee, University of
South Carolina
Fall 2011-Present
Latin American Studies Program Committee, University of South Carolina at
Columbia
Fall 2010-Spring 2011
Harriett Elliott Lecture Series Anthropology Committee, University of North
Carolina at Greensboro
Fall 2008-Spring 2011
Anthropology Department Curriculum Committee, University of North Carolina
at Greensboro
Fall 2008-Spring 2011
Committee member, African American Studies Program, University of North
Carolina at Greensboro
Fall 2009-Spring 2011
Committee member, Archaeology Program, University of North Carolina at
Greensboro
Spring 2009
Guest panelist. Inclusive Community Initiative Task Force Panel. Provost Office
and Faculty Senate, “Barriers to Inclusivity in the UNCG Campus.” University of
North Carolina at Greensboro, Feb. 20, 2009.
Fall 2009-Spring 2010
Member, two faculty search committees, Anthropology Department, University
of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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Ph.D. COMMITTEES
Christina Brooks, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina
Kristen E. Pearlstein, Health and the Huddled Masses: An Analysis of Immigrant and Euro-American
Skeletal Health in 19th Century New York City, Department of Anthropology, American University
William A. Stevens, A Comparative Biomechanical Study of the Stresses of Enslaved Labor among Sugar,
Rice, and Northern Iron Industry Contexts of Slavery, Department of Anthropology, University of South
Carolina
Kristina Zarenko, Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina
M.A. COMMITTEES
Kelly Goldberg, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina
Amy Goldstein, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina
Rebecca Shepherd, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina
Liz Wakefield, Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina
Stacey Whitacre, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina
Samantha Yaussy, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina
UNDERGRADUATE THESES ADVISED
Breton Huntley, Hidden Violence: An examination of intimate partner violence among London’s lower
class: 1800-1899, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina
Claudia LaBarre, Locating Cannibalism on St. Croix: Shedding Light on Cultural Practice, Department of
Anthropology, University of South Carolina
Adam Snyder, Reader, Cultural Associations of the Banjo in America, South Carolina Honors College and
Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina
Greg Wehrman, Reader, Status and Health Indicated by Enamel Hypoplasia in 17th-19th Century
London, South Carolina Honors College and Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina
FORENSIC WORK
Fall 2012-Present
Deputy Coroner (osteological identification), Richland County Coroner’s Office,
Columbia, South Carolina
2008-2011
Forensic anthropology consultant for the Guilford County, North Carolina
Sheriff’s Office/State Bureau of Investigation
REPORTS
2013
"Burned Human Remains Recovered from Eastover, South Carolina
from the 3200 Block of Screaming Eagle Road." Submitted to the
Richland County Coroner's Office, Columbia, South Carolina
2012
“Bones found in a portable cooler at Congress and Garner’s Ferry Road.”
Narrative submitted to the Richland County Coroner’s Office, Columbia, South
Carolina
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2009
“Excavation of Human Remains from 2108 Hicone Road.” Submitted to the
Guildford County Sheriff’s Office, Greensboro, North Carolina
ACADEMIC CONSULTING
2009
Academic consultant for the Center for the Documentary at the College of
Charleston, Charleston, S.C. “In Search of Ambrosio Gonzales: Soldier Under
Two Flags.”
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 2005-present
Paleopathology Association 2005-present
American Anthropological Association 2011-present
American Academy for the Advancement of Science 2012-present
Society for American Archaeology 2013-present
SERVICE TO THE DISCIPLINE
2013-present
Advisory Board Member, Warfare, Environment, Social Inequality and Peace Studies
(WESIPS) Conference.
2013
Judge, Eve Cockburn Student Prize, Paleopathology Association.
2012
Session Chair (invited), Annual Meetings of the Paleopathology Association, Portland, Oregon,
April 2012.
REFERENCES
Professor Della C. Cook
Indiana University
Department of Anthropology
Student Building 130
701 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Bloomington, Indiana 47405
[email protected]
phone: 812-855-6368
fax: 812-855-4358
Professor Emeritus Paul L. Jamison
Indiana University
Department of Anthropology
Student Building 130
701 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Bloomington, Indiana 47405
[email protected]
phone: (812) 855-1041
fax: 812-855-4358
Professor K. Anne Pyburn
Indiana University
Department of Anthropology
Student Building 130
701 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Bloomington, Indiana 47405
[email protected]
phone: 812-855-2563
fax: 812-855-4358
David Hunt, Ph.D.
Department of Anthropology
Division of Physical Anthropology
P.O. Box 37012
NHB, Room 345, MRC 112
Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
[email protected]
phone: 202-633-1971
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Professor Steven Stowe
Indiana University
Department of History
Ballantine 742
1020 E. Kirkwood
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-7103
[email protected]
phone:812-855-7581
fax: 812-855-3378
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Douglas W. Owsley, Ph.D.
Division Head for Physical Anthropology
Smithsonian Institution
P.O. Box 37012
NHB, Room 345, MRC 112
Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
[email protected]
phone: 202-633-1989
fax: 202-357-2208
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