EDUCATION

University of Oregon, Ph.D. Biological Anthropology, 2007
Dissertation Title: Population Dynamics, Growth and Development in Chalcolithic Sites of the Deccan Plateau, India

Chair: John Lukacs

University of Oregon, M.S. in Biological Anthropology, 1998-2000
Master's Paper: Dental Histology and Age Estimation in Mesolithic India

Advisor: John Lukacs

University of Oregon, B.S. in Anthropology (with departmental honors), 1996-1998
Thesis: Discrete Traits as a Measure of Biological Distance In Gujarat, India
 

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology

Appalachian State University (Boone, NC), 2007-present

Faculty Member, Global Studies Program

Appalachian State University (Boone, NC), 2008-present

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology

Appalachian State University (Boone, NC), 2006-2007

Instructor, Department of Social Sciences, Anthropology

Lane Community College (Eugene), Spring 2004, 2005-2006

Instructor, Department of Anthropology

University of Oregon (Eugene), Summer 2005

Barnett Teaching Fellow, Department of Anthropology

University of Oregon (Eugene), 2004-2005

Graduate Teaching Fellow, Department of Anthropology

University of Oregon (Eugene), 2001-2006

Academic Advisor, Department of General Science

University of Oregon (Eugene), 1998-2000

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION

Bioarchaeology and Subsistence Transition

Paleodemography

Human Growth and Development

Human Osteology

Skeletal and Dental Histology

South Asian prehistory

PUBLICATIONS

Robbins G., Mushrif V., Misra V.N., Mohanty R.K., and Shinde V.S. (2007) Adult skeletal material from Balathal: A full report and inventory. Man and Environment XXXII(2: December):1-26. 

Robbins G., Mushrif V., Misra V.N., Mohanty R.K., and Shinde V.S. (2006) Biographies of the Skeleton: Pathological Patterns at Balathal. Man and Environment XXXI(2: December):150-165. 

Robbins G., Misra V.D., Pal J.N., and Gupta M.C. (2004) Mesolithic Damdama: Dental Histology and Age Estimation. India: Allahabad University Press. OCLC: 60453955. 

Ayres, William C., Joan A. Wozniak, Gwen Robbins, and Epi Suafo'a (2001) Archaeology in American Samoa: Maloata, Malaeimi, and Malaeloa. In: Pacific 2000: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Easter Island and the Pacific, Stevenson, C.M., G. Lee, and F.J. Morin (eds). California: Bearsville Press: 227-235.

PUBLICATIONS IN PRESS, IN REVISION, OR UNDER REVIEW

Dixon K., Novak S., Robbins G., Schablitsky J., Scott R., and Tasa G. (in press) Archaeology of the Donner Party’s Alder Creek Camp. American Antiquity.

Robbins G. (in press) Fertility and Infertility. In: Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Smith, B., editor. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Robbins G. (in press) Demography- an overview. In: Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Smith, B., editor. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Robbins G. (submitted to editor) Bone Histology and Identification of a Starvation Diet. In: The Archaeology of the Donner Party Campsite, eds. Dixon, K., Schablitsky, J. and S. Novak eds. Has been accepted by University of Nebraska Press/ Society for Historical Archaeology. (forthcoming 2009)

Robbins G. (submitted to editor) Dental Histology and Paleodemography. In: Holocene Foragers of North India: Bioarchaeology of Mesolithic Damdama, Lukacs, J.R. and Pal, J.N.. John and Erica Hedges Ltd., U.K.: BAR International Series. (projected date for submission to press: 10/2008)

Robbins, G. (in revision) Saving the babies and the bathwater: expanding available methods for fertility-centered demography. Submitted to Current Anthropology (University of Chicago Press).

Robbins, G. and Lukacs J.R. (in review) Cementum Annulations, Age Estimation, and Demographic Dynamics in a Middle Holocene Site, India. Submitted to Homo (Elsevier).

PUBLICATIONS UNDER CONTRACT AND IN PREP

Robbins G. (under contract) Biodemography of the Deccan Chalcolithic, India. Book contract with University Press Florida (due August 1, 2009).

Robbins, G. and Cowgill L. (in prep) Compact Bone, Low Body Mass, and Biocultural Stress. Will be submitted to American Journal of Physical Anthropology (Wiley).

Robbins G. (in prep) Harappans from Kalibangan Revisited. Will be submitted to Man and Environment (DCPRI).

POPULAR ARTICLES, IMAGE CREDITS, AND PUBLIC OUTREACH

March, 2008 Our Origins:  Image credit, chapter 5 (Fig. 5.9b):127.

July 10, 2007 Nova Science Now online edition:  Image credit for "Bone Histology" in part 5 of the profile of archaeologist Julie Schablitsky.

April 24, 2006 New Yorker Magazine: My research was featured in article “What Really Happened at Alder Creek?” by Dana Goodyear

March, 2006 The History Channel: My research was featured in “Cannibals: Secrets Revealed”

March 12, 2001 India Today: My research was featured in article “The Ahars: Piecing the Ahar Puzzle” by Rohit Parihar

PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS AND PRESENTATIONS AT MEETINGS

Robbins G. (2008) Resolving Stressful Relationships in Prehistory: macroscopic and histological indicators of growth disruption in subadult long bones.

Poster to be presented (by Gwen Robbins) at the seventy-seventh annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (Apr 2008).

Whyte T., Robbins G., Seramur K., Staley K., Moore C., Thacker J., Brandt E. (2008) The Sorority Skull Mystery: A Case of Grave Robbins in Boone, North Carolina.

Poster to be presented (by Tom Whyte) at the seventy-third annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (Mar 2008).

Robbins G. (2007) Cortical Bone Ontogeny: Activity, Nutritional Status, and Archaeology.

Poster presented (by Gwen Robbins) at the thirty-second annual meeting of the Human Biology Association (Mar 2007).

Robbins G. (2007) Saving the Babies from the Bathwater: a new method for paleodemography in subadult samples. A.J.P.A. suppl. 38.

Poster presented (by Gwen Robbins) at the seventy-sixth annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (Mar 2007).

Robbins G., and Lukacs J.R. (2006) Adaptive Diversity, Growth and Development in Chalcolithic India. A.J.P.A. suppl. 39.

Poster presented (by Gwen Robbins) at the seventy-fifth annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (Mar 2006).

Robbins G., and Hanks, M. (2006) Profile of a Starvation Diet: Bone Histology and Species Identification of Calcined Food Refuse at a Small Donner Party Campsite.

Paper presented (by Gwen Robbins) at the thirty-ninth annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology (Jan 2006).

Robbins G. (2003) Calibrating Macroscopic and Microscopic Age Determinations for Paleodemography.

Paper presented to the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Oregon.

Robbins G., and Lukacs J.R. (2003) Cementum Annulations and Age Estimation in an Early Holocene Population. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. suppl. 36: 179.

Poster presented (by Gwen Robbins) at the seventy-second annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

Robbins G. (2001) Age Related Transformation and Paleodemography at Damdama: Prospects for Histology on Archaeological Material.

Paper presented to the faculty and students at the Deccan College Post-Graduate Research Institute, Pune, India.

Robbins G. (2001) Cannibalism: Bioarchaeology and Taphonomic Signature.

Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Center for Cultural Studies, Nagpur, India.

Robbins G. (2000) Age Related Transformation and Paleodemography at Damdama.

Paper presented at University of Oregon Anthropology Department Fall Colloquium Series.

FIELD AND LABORATORY EXPERIENCE

Bone Histologist: Species identification from calcined bone fragments, Donner Party Project, Principal investigator Dr. J. Schablitsky (2005- present).

Principal Investigator: Human growth and development at Inamgaon, Nevasa, and Daimabad, Deccan College Postgraduate Research Institute, India (2004-present).

Consultant: Medical Examiner’s Office, Lane County (2004-2006)

Principal Investigator: Age estimation and paleodemography at Inamgaon, Nevasa, and Daimabad, Deccan College Postgraduate Research Institute, India (2001).

Research Assistant: Nutritional stress and LHPC in Maharashtran (India) tribal populations. Principal investigators Dr. J.R. Lukacs and Dr. S. Walimbe (2000).

Assistant Osteologist: Analysis of previously unpublished remains from Maharashtran Chalcolithic sites. Principal investigators Dr. J.R. Lukacs and Dr. S. Walimbe (2000).

Assistant Director: University of Oregon and American Samoa Community College Archaeological Field School, Tutuila, American Samoa (1999).

Archaeological Lab Technician: faunal analysis for the Carlon Village Project, Oregon State Museum of Anthropology. Principal investigator Dr. George Wingard (1997).

Archaeological Field Technician: CRM for Oregon Department of Transportation Project in Hines, Oregon State Museum of Anthropology. Principal investigators Dr. T. Connolly and Dr. D. Jenkins (1997).

Archaeological Field Technician: CRM for Oregon Department of Transportation Project in Salem, Oregon State Museum of Anthropology. Principal investigators Dr. T. Connolly and Dr. D. Jenkins (1997).

GRANTS AND RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

2003- 2004 American Institute of Indian Studies, Junior Research Dissertation Fellowship ($14,225)

·         Funding for 6 months of dissertation research on human growth and development at Chalcolithic Sites of Inamgaon, Nevasa, and Daimabad

2003- 2004 George Franklin Dales Scholarship ($5,000)

·         Funding for 6 months of research on histological age estimation for adults from Inamgaon

2001 Fulbright Student Fellowship ($9,200)

·         Funding for 12 months of dissertation research on paleodemography at Chalcolithic Sites of Inamgaon, Nevasa, and Daimabad

2002 UO Department of Anthropology Travel Grant ($150)

·         Funding for travel to present a poster at the AAPA Annual Meeting

2000 Graduate Student Research Award, Graduate School, University of Oregon ($400)

·         Funding for dental histological section preparation for Master’s research

2000 Research Assistantship, Dr. John Lukacs, University of Oregon ($2,500)

·         Funding for 2 months of research on cortical bone maintenance and LHPC in Maharashtra, India

ACADEMIC AND TEACHING AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS

Graduate Teaching Fellowship, U of O Department of Anthropology, 2001-2006

Homer Barnett Teaching Fellowship, U of O Department of Anthropology, 2004-2005

·         Departmental teaching award for doctoral candidates

Comprehensive Exams Passed with Distinction, 2004

·         Exams in the subjects of Human Evolutionary Anatomy and South Asian Bioarchaeology

Cressman Prize, U of O Department of Anthropology, 2003 

·         Annual award for graduate student research paper of publishable quality

Graduate Teaching Fellowship, U of O Department of General Science, 1998-2000.

UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE-LEVEL TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Appalachian State University (Boone, NC)

Courses taught: Introduction to Biological Anthropology, Human Biological Variation, Human Osteology, Bioarchaeology, Paleoanthropology of South Asia, Human Evolution, Forensic Taphonomy, Anthropology of Human Reproduction

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Appalachian State University (Boone, NC)

Introduction to Biological Anthropology, Human Osteology, Bioarchaeology, Anthropology of Human Reproduction.

Barnett Teaching Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon.

Summer 2005: Human Growth and Development

Spring 2005: Bioarchaeology

Visiting Instructor, Social Science Department, Lane Community College (Eugene, OR).

Fall 2005, Winter 2006: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Spring 2004, Spring 2006: Introduction to Human Evolution

Spring 2006: Introduction to Archaeology

Graduate Student Teaching Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, 2001-2006. Courses taught:

Human Evolution, Introduction to Biological Anthropology, Evolution of Human Sexuality, Primate Feeding and Nutrition, Monkeys and Apes, People of India, Culture Contact, Pacific Island Archaeology. Designed labs and discussion sections, taught lab and discussion sections, conducted quizzes and other assessments, graded exams and papers, and led review sessions.

Assistant Director of Archaeological Field School, University of Oregon and American Samoa Community College, Pago Pago, Tutuila, American Samoa.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

Peer Reviewer: American Journal of Physical Anthropology peer reviewer, National Science Foundation proposal reviewer, Pearson/Prentice Hall textbook reviewer, McGraw-Hill textbook reviewer. 2005 to present

Academic Advisor: Students in Biological Anthropology concentration of the Bachelor of Science in Anthropology

UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

Appalachian State University and the Town of Boone, NC

2007- present: Developer, Coordinator, and Advisor for the Biological Anthropology concentration in the B.S. Anthropology, Appalachian State University

2007- present: Darwin Centennary Celebration 2009 Organizational Committee, Appalachian State University

2007 - present: International Education Program South Asia Committee, Appalachian State University

2007- present: Core Curriculum Committee, Appalachian State University

2007 - present: Anthropology Department Search Committee, Appalachian State University

Summer, 2007 Hartley Cemetery Project: Osteological Identification of Exhumations, Boone, NC.

2006 - present: Dewel-CAS Microscopy Facility Advisory Committee, Appalachian State University

2006 - 2007: International Education Program South Asia Working Group, Appalachian State University

April, 2007: NC State Undergraduate Education Assessment Conference. Office of International Programs, Appalachian State University

University of Oregon and City of Eugene, OR

2006-present: Web Master: Personal Home Page: http://www.appstate.edu/~Robbinsgm

2000 - 2006: Web Master: U of O Anthropology Department Home Page: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~anthro

1998-2006: Web Master: Personal Home Page: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~grobbins

1999-2000: President, Association of Anthropology Graduate Students, University of Oregon

1998: Assistant Organizer, Anthropology Department Colloquium, University of Oregon

1994-1996: Member and Treasurer, New Zone Cooperative Art Gallery, Eugene, Oregon

CURRENT MEMBERSHIPS

American Anthropological Association

American Association of Physical Anthropologists

Paleopathology Association

Dental Anthropology Association

Human Biology Association

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Sigma Xi (Associate Member)

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