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Faculty Curriculum Vitae
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NAME:
Rebecca Storey
POSITION/TITLE: Associate Professor of Anthropology
OFFICE ADDRESS:
258C McElhinney Building
OFFICE TELEPHONE:
713-743-3786
WORK EMAIL:
rstorey@uh.edu
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EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND/TRAINING
A.B., Anthropology, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, May 1972
M.A., Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York, New
York, May 1976
Ph.D., Department of Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park,
Pennsylvania, May 1983. Title of Dissertation: "The Paleodemography of Tlajinga 33:
An Apartment Compound of the Pre-Columbian City of Teotihuacan."
RELEVANT TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Houston, Houston,
Texas, September 1991-present.
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Houston, Houston,
Texas, September 1984-1991.
ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP/RESEARCH/CREATIVE ENDEAVORS
Grants
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation (BNS
80-05825) for proposal entitled "The Paleodemography of a Teotihuacan-Period
Apartment Compound," September 1980-August 1981.
Co-Investigator on grant received from the National Science Foundation (BNS 82-04862)
for project entitled "Laboratory Analysis of Archaeological Collections from Tlajinga 33,
Teotihuacan, Mexico.
U.S. Fulbright Grant for Research, Academic Year 1986-87, to the Instituto Hondureno
de Antropologia e Historia, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Central America.
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Selected Recent Publications
Total Publications, 38 with 2 currently in press.
Book
1992
Life and Death in the Ancient City of Teotihuacan: A Modern
Paleodemographic Synthesis. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
Recent Articles on the Maya and Teotihuacan
2004
The Ancestors: The Bioarchaeology of the Human Remains of K’axob. In
K’axob: Ritual, Work, and Family in an Ancient Maya Village, edited by
Patricia McAnany. Pp. 109-138. Monumenta Archaeologica 22. The
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles
2006
Children of K’axob: Premature Death in a Formative Maya Village. With
Patricia A. McAnany. In The Social Experience of Childhood in Ancient
Mesoamerica, edited by Traci Ardren and Scott Hutson, pp.53-72.
University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
2006
Mortality Through Time in an Impoverished Residence of the
Precolumbian City of Teotihuacan: A Paleodemographic View. In
Urbanism in the Preindustrial World: Cross-Cultural Approaches, edited
by Glenn R. Storey, pp. 277-294. University of Alabama Press,
Tuscaloosa.
2007
An Elusive Paleodemography? A Comparison of Two Methods for
Estimating the Adult Age Distribution of Deaths at Late Classic, Copan,
Honduras. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 132:40-47.
2007
From Early Village to Regional Center in Mesoamerica: An Investigation
of Lifestyles and Health.
With Lourdes Márquez Morfín. In
Ancient Health, edited by MN Cohen and G. Crane-Kramer. Chapter 6.
The University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
2008
“Los hombres y las mujeres mayas en el mundo prehispánico” In
Tendencias actuales de la Bioarqueología en México, edited by P. O
Hernandez, Lourdes Márquez and E. González Licón, pp. 235-261.
Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historía, Mexico City.
2009
“Heterogeneidad individual, fragilidad y la paradoja osteológica.” In
Paradigmas retos de la Bioarqueología mexicana, edited by Ernesto
Gonzalez L.and Lourdes Marquez Morfín, pp. 65-76. Instituto Nacional
de Antropología e Historía, Mexico City.
Professional Service
Taught special graduate-level course on “Salud y Perfiles Demograficos” at the Escuela
Nacional de Anthropología e Historía, Mexico City, by Invitation of Coordinators of the
Program in Physical Anthropology October 28 to November 1, 2002.
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Biological Seat, Nominations Committee of the American Anthropological Association,
2006-2008.
Member-at-large of the Executive Committee for the Biological Anthropology Section of
the American Anthropological Association, 2000-2002.
Secretary/Treasurer of the Biological Anthropology Section of the American
Anthropological Association, 2003-2004.
Editorial Board, Ancient Mesoamerica, Peer reviewed journal published by Cambridge
University Press.
Editorial Board, Cuicuilco Revista de la Escuela Nacional De Antropología e Historía,
México.
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