Jonny Geber

Biography

  Dr. Jonny Geber is currently working as a Lecturer (Biological anthropology) in the Department of Anatomy, University of Otago School of Biomedical Sciences , New Zealand. His research interests includes Biological anthropology, famine studies, palaeopathology, social bioarchaeology. He is serving as an editorial member and reviewer of several international reputed journals. Dr. Jonny Geber is the member of many international affiliations. He has successfully completed his Administrative responsibilities. He has authored of many research articles/books related to Biological anthropology, famine studies, palaeopathology, social bioarchaeology. 

Research Interest

 Dr Geber's research involves biocultural and broad contextual approaches to the study of life in the past, and he has a particular interest in sociocultural aspects of the experience of poverty, social marginalisation, health and conflict. In recent years, his research has focused on the bioarchaeology of the Great Irish Famine (1845–52), based on nearly 1,000 skeletons of impoverished workhouse inmates from a Famine-period mass burial ground in Kilkenny City, Ireland. Other research interests involve: the bioarchaeology of prehistoric funerary practices and mortuary rites; the study of cremated human remains; weapon trauma and violence; palaeopathology and the physiological experience of disease from skeletal remains; and burial taphonomy and thanatology. He is involved in several collaborative research projects with colleagues in Ireland and Britain.