Julie Farnum
Assistant Professor
Anthropology
Montclair State University
United States of America
Biography
Julie Farnum, assistant professor, received a PhD from the University of Missori. Her research interests include modeling health processes through the examination of activity patterns, diet, ecology, occupational stress and pathologies, genetics, and social inequalities. She teaches courses including: Physical Anthropology, Health and Healing, Human Variation, Health and Disease in the Ancient World, and Medical Anthropology. Farnum is also the director of the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies program.
Research Interest
Social inequalities, occupational stress and pathologies, genetics, diet, ecology
Publications
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Farnum JF. Biological consequences of social inequalities in prehistoric Peru.
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Pechenkina EA, Vradenburg JA, Benfer RA, Farnum JF. Skeletal biology of the central Peruvian coast: consequences of changing population density and progressive dependence on maize agriculture. Ancient Health: Skeletal Indicators of Agricultural and Economic Intensification, University Press of Florida, Gainesville. 2007:93-112.
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Shimada I, Shinoda K, Farnum J, Corruccini R, Watanabe H, Butters L, Dudar JC, Kaulicke P, Nelson A, Ramirez S, Shimada I. An Integrated Analysis of Pre-Hispanic Mortuary Practices: A Middle Sicn Case Study. Current Anthropology. 2004 Jun;45(3):369-402.
