IBS Speaker Series: Sharon DeWitte
December 2 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Join in person at IBS 155 or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.
*Light lunch served at 11:45 a.m.
Title: Childhood nutritional stress and later-life health outcomes in medieval England: evidence from incremental dentine analysis
Bio: Sharon DeWitte is a professor of anthropology at CU Boulder and IBS Faculty and Fellow. She is a biological anthropologist with expertise in paleodemography, paleoepidemiology, and bioarchaeology. DeWitte’s primary research interest is infectious disease in the past, particularly how factors such as sex, socioeconomic status, migration, developmental stress, and diet affected risks of mortality from disease, how disease shaped population dynamics, and how host and environmental factors affect disease patterns. Using human skeletal remains, she examines medieval mortality crises (famine and plague) in European contexts, including the mortality patterns, the demographic and health consequences, and the context of the emergence of the 14th-century plague pandemic commonly referred to as the Black Death.
