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University of California Merced

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5.04/30/2025

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Christina Torres-Rouff is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Heritage Studies at the University of California, Merced, where she has been a faculty member since 2012. A bioarchaeologist, her research emphasizes contextualized bioarchaeology through the study of archaeological human remains and their mortuary contexts, primarily in northern Chile and the surrounding Atacama Desert regions. She investigates themes such as the production of social identity, the emergence of inequality, human dimensions of exchange and mobility, health indicators, violence, and deliberate cultural body alterations including cranial vault binding on children. Torres-Rouff's fieldwork and museum-based research combines skeletal analyses for pathology and trauma with regional environmental patterns, grave goods, isotopic studies, and markers of local or foreign affiliation to reconstruct past societal transformations and individual life histories. She teaches broadly in biological anthropology, including courses on the human skeleton and mortuary archaeology.

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