Sarah A Lacy: Dental Paleoanthropologist
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Academic Appointments

2022-present    Interim Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research: California State University Dominguez Hills
2021-present   Associate Professor of Biological Anthropology: California State University Dominguez Hills
2017-2021        Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology: California State University Dominguez Hills
2014-2017        Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology: University of Missouri-St. Louis, Department of
                         Anthropology and Archaeology
2015-2018        Honorary Research Fellow: Durham University, Department of Archaeology
2014                 Visiting Postdoctoral Research Associate: Durham University, Department of Archaeology
2008-2014        Graduate Student & Adjunct Instructor: Washington University, Department of Anthropology

Education

2008-2014     Washington University in Saint Louis
                       AM in Biological Anthropology earned in May 2010
                       PhD in Biological Anthropology scheduled for May 2014 (Defense held Feb 3rd)
2004-2008     Tulane University
                       BS in Anthropology cum laude earned in May 2008, minors in Economics and German Language

Grants

2015    LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn, Germany, non-competitive funding to cover my attendance at invited conference, 1200€
2014    The University of Durham, UK, Visiting Scholar Seedcorn Funding, £3330 with Profs. Charlotte Roberts and Paul Pettitt
2011     Leakey Foundation “Oral Health in Late Pleistocene Western Eurasian Humans” $12,000
2010     National Geographic Waitt Grant “Transitional Homo Project: Loiyangalani Summer 2011” $9,995

Awards

2017     Kate Chopin Defiance Award, faculty nomination, Gender Studies Program, UMSL
2015    
Honorary Golden Key member, student nomination, UMSL
2014     International Studies and Programs Faculty Fellow, UMSL, academic year 2014-2015
2014     Earnest A Hooten Award for Best Student Poster, American Association for Physical Anthropologists
2013     Pollitzer Travel Essay Award, American Association of Physical Anthropologists
2013     2nd Place Poster for Social Sciences, Washington University Graduate Research Symposium
2011     Pollitzer Travel Essay Award, American Association of Physical Anthropologists
2009     Pollitzer Travel Essay Award, American Association of Physical Anthropologists
2008     Elizabeth S. Watts Award for Outstanding Achievement in Physical Anthropology, Tulane University
2008     Newcomb Scholar, Tulane University
2005     Campus Life Grant, Tulane University

Professional Affiliations

American Association of Physical Anthropologists
PaleoAnthropology Society
Lambda Alpha- National Honor Society for Anthropology
Paleopathology Association
Dental Anthropology Association
British Association of Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology
Society for American Archaeology

Conference Presentations

2018    Europeans Paleopathology Association- “Prevalence of hypercementosis in Middle and Upper Paleolithic Humans”
            Podium Presentation on Aug 31st
2018    American Association of Physical Anthropologists- “Defining good health in the Paleolithic: Oral disease and a very
            distant patient” in Invited Poster Symposium: Reevaluating the meaning of ‘oral health’ in bioarchaeology on April 13th
2017    Stressed Out Conference (Institute of Archaeology of University College London)- “Stressed out in the Stone Age:
            Periodontal disease and dental enamel hypoplasia in the Paleolithic” Podium Presentation on May 19th
2017   
American Association of Physical Anthropologists- “Evidence for subsistence shifts in the Late Upper Paleolithic of
            Europe: Caries and antemortem tooth loss” in Invited Symposium: The Paleobiology of Upper Paleolithic / Later Stone
            Age Humans
2016    Midwest Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology Association- “(Necro)Politics in the Bioarchaeology Lab” Podium
             presentation for Oct 22nd
2016    American Association of Physical Anthropologists- “Revisiting the Caries Hypothesis as a mechanism of tooth size
             selection” With James Calgano, April 14th in Invited Symposium: Old Questions, New Approaches and New Solutions:
             Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Dental Anthropology Association
2015   “The Dental Metrics, Morphology and Oral Paleopathology of Oberkassel 1 and 2”. Invited presented at “100 years of
            the Bonn-Oberkassel double burial: New research on the Federmesser-Gruppen/Azilian” symposium, Bonn, Germany,
            accepted for October 23, 2015
2015    “Testing for correlation amongst two periodontal disease diagnostic protocols” Paleopathology Association, St. Louis,
             MO. accepted for March 25, 2015
2015    “Necropolitics and Bioarchaeology: Enduring Legacies and Ethical Responsibilities” co-presenter with Heidi Shaw and
              Pamela Geller. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, St. Louis, MO, accepted for March 28, 2015
2015     “Can oral pathology avoidance explain human dental size reduction?”  American Association of Physical
             Anthropologists, St. Louis, MO, accepted for March 27, 2015
2015     “Using oral health indicators as evidence of environmental instability and subsistence shifts in the Late Paleolithic of
              Western Eurasia” Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, CA, accepted for April 16, 2015
2014    “Health and Old Age in the Late Pleistocene: Changes in oral pathological condition prevalence over time in older
             Neandertal and modern human adults in Europe” British Association of Biological Anthropology and
             Osteoarchaeology, Durham, UK. Sept 14, 2014
2014     American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings- "Periodontal disease and health in Western Eurasian
             Late Pleistocene humans" Accepted Abstract
2014     Paleopathology Association Meetings- Poster "Dental caries in Neandertals and early modern humans in Western
             Eurasia". Accepted Abstract

2013     American Association of Physical Anthropologist Meetings- Poster “Caries and other oral pathology in the Broken
             Hill (Kabwe) cranium” 10.12853/POSTER.NESPOS.0035
2013     Washington University Graduate Research Symposium- Poster "Periodontal Disease and Oral Health in the Late
             Pleistocene of Western Eurasia”
2011     Paleoanthropology Meetings- Poster “Dento-Alveolar Abnormalities of the Early Modern Humans from Zhirendong, 
             South China” 10.12853/POSTER.NESPOS.0036
2010     Paleoanthropology Meetings- Poster “Mosaic Morphology in the Mandible and Maxilla from Loiyangalani,
             Southeastern Shore of Lake Turkana, Northern Kenya” 10.12853/POSTER.NESPOS.0037

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View Broken Hill Poster
View Zhirendong Poster
View Loiyangalani Poster

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