Courtney HofmanÂ
anthropology
University of Oklahoma
United States of America
Biography
I am an assistant professor and co-director at the University of Oklahoma’s Laboratories of Molecular Anthropology and Microbiome Research. My current research focuses on human-environment interactions on two very different scales, 1. human-wildlife and 2. human-microbe. First, I investigate human-wildlife interactions and their influence on changing environments over the past several millennia to inform conservation decisions. Second, I have ongoing projects to explore how significant cultural changes (ie agriculture, industrialization, etc.) impact the human microbiome.
Research Interest
Ancient DNA, microbiomes, historical ecology, coastal, archaeology, genomics, translocations, zooarchaeology, conservation genetics, high-throughput DNA sequencing, bioinformatics, human-environment interactions, archaeogenomics, domestication, and science education.
Publications
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Hofman CA, Rick TC, Maldonado JE, Collins PW, Erlandson JM, Fleischer RC, Smith C, Sillett TS, Ralls K, Teeter W, Vellanoweth RL. Tracking the origins and diet of an endemic island canid (Urocyon littoralis) across 7300 years of human cultural and environmental change. Quaternary Science Reviews. 2016 Aug 15;146:147-60. Jeong C, Ozga AT, Witonsky DB, Malmström H, Edlund H, Hofman CA, Hagan RW, Jakobsson M, Lewis CM, Aldenderfer MS, Di Rienzo A. Long-term genetic stability and a high-altitude East Asian origin for the peoples of the high valleys of the Himalayan arc. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2016 Jul 5;113(27):7485-90. Rick TC, Reeder-Myers LA, Hofman CA, Breitburg D, Lockwood R, Henkes G, Kellogg L, Lowery D, Luckenbach MW, Mann R, Ogburn MB. Millennial-scale sustainability of the Chesapeake Bay Native American oyster fishery. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2016 Jun 7;113(23):6568-73.
