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Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Anchorage
Phone: (907) 786-4989 Email: rharrod2@uaa.alaska.edu
EDUCATION
2013
2008
2005
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Bioarchaeology, paleopathology, forensic anthropology with a focus on identity, health and disease,
conflict and violence, social inequality, ethics, and repatriation.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2013-2014
2013-2012
2012-2010
2012-2009
2008-2006
2005-2004
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
2013
2012
2011-2009
2009-2007
2009-2006
2008
Archaeological Technician working with the Idaho State Historic Preservation Office.
Volunteer
2006
2013
2012
2012
2012
College of Liberal Arts Dean's Graduate Student Award, University of Nevada, Las
Vegas ($5,000) [awarded but declined]
2012
2012
2011
2011
2011
2011
2010
2009
2008
SERVICE
2014-2013
2013-2010
2013-2011
2012-2011
2012-2011
Organizing Committee, 41st Annual Meeting of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research
(SCCR), 8th Annual Meeting of the Society of Anthropological Sciences (SASci), and
3rd Annual Meeting of the Anthropology of Children and Childhood Interest Group
(AAACIG).
2011-2010
2008-2007
PUBLICATIONS
Edited Volumes and Books
2014
Harrod, RP and Martin, DL. The Bioarchaeology of Climate Change and Violence.
SpringerBriefs, Anthropology and Ethics Series. New York: Springer.
2013
2012
Martin, DL, Harrod, RP, and Prez, VR (Eds). The Bioarchaeology of Violence.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida
Martin, DL and Harrod, RP. Body Parts and Parts of Bodies: Traces of violence in
past cultures. The International Journal of Paleopathology, Volume 2, Issues 2 and 3.
2012
Martin, DL and Harrod, RP. New Directions in Bioarchaeology. The SAA Archaeological
Record, Volume 12, Issues 2 and 3.
2014
Crandall, JJ, Harrod, RP, Anderson, CP, and Baustian, KM. Interpreting Gunshot Trauma
as Context Clue: A case study from historic North Las Vegas, Nevada. In: Martin, DL and
Anderson, CP, editors. Bioarchaeological and Forensic Perspectives on Violence: How
violent death is interpreted from skeletal remains. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. p 289-308.
2013
Harrod RP, Thompson JL, and Martin DL. 2013. Hard Labor and Hostile Encounters:
What human remains reveal about institutional violence and Chinese immigrants living in
Carlin, Nevada (1885-1923). Historical Archaeology 46(4):In Press.
2012
Bauer-Clapp HJ, and Harrod RP. 2012. Teaching Violence: Pedagogical approaches and
challenges. Anthropology News 53(7):12, 15.
2012
Harrod RP. 2012a. Centers of Control: Revealing elites among the Ancestral Pueblo
during the Chaco Phenomenon. International Journal of Paleopathology 2(2-3):123135.
2012
2012
Martin DL, Harrod RP, and Prez VR. 2012. Introduction: Bioarchaeology and the study
of violence. In: Martin DL, Harrod RP, and Prez VR, editors. The Bioarchaeology of
Violence. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. p 1-10.
2012
Harrod RP, Linard P, and Martin DL. 2012a. Deciphering Violence: The potential of
modern ethnography to aid in the interpretation of archaeological populations. In: Martin
DL, Harrod RP, and Prez VR, editors. The Bioarchaeology of Violence. Gainesville:
University of Florida Press. p 63-80.
2012
Harrod RP, Martin DL, and Prez VR. 2012c. Conclusion: Implications and future
directions. In: Martin DL, Harrod RP, and Prez VR, editors. The Bioarchaeology of
Violence. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. p 276-280.
2012
Harrod RP, Martin DL, and Carlyle SW. 2012b. Taphonomy After the Fact: Violence,
sex and ritual in Room 33 at Chaco and Room 178 at Aztec. Landscapes of Violence
2(2):Article 5.
2011
2010
Martin, DL, Harrod, RP, and Fields, M. Beaten Down and Worked to the Bone:
Bioarcaheological investigations of women and violence in the Ancient Southwest.
Landscapes of Violence, 1 (1):Article 3.
2009
Prez, VR, Harrod, RP, and Martin DL. Looting, Collecting and Selling Ancient
Artifacts: Who are the Victims? Anthropology News, 50 (6):28-29.
In Press
Harrod, RP and Martin, DL. The Bioarchaeology of Social Control: Interpreting the
skeletal markers of slavery, captivity, and indentured servitude. In: Marshall, LW, editor.
The Archaeology of Slavery: Toward a comparative, global framework. Occasional
Papers. Carbondale: Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois
University Press.
Under Review Harrod, RP, Martin, DL, and Fields, M. Hierarchy, Health, and Culturally Sanctioned
Violence in the Ancient Southwest. In:Klaus, HD, Harvey, AR, and Cohen, MN, editors.
Bones of Complexity. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Under Revision Harrod, RP, Martin, DL, and Tyler, DE. Pacifists or Pragmatists: An analysis of violence
in the southern portion of the Interior Plateau. American Antiquity.
In Prep
Harrod, RP and Gordon, CC. Where Did All the Anthropologists Go? Current research in
ergonomics and human factors and the role of anthropology. Practicing Anthropology.
Book Reviews
2010
Harrod, RP. Book Review: Ancient Health: Skeletal indicators of agricultural and
economic intensification, edited by Cohen, MN and Crane-Kramer, G. International
Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 21 (1):e9-e11.
2009
2009
2006
Harrod, RP. Book Review: The Faunas of Hayonim Cave, Israel: A 200,000-Year Record
of Paleolithic Diet, Demography and Society, by Stiner, MC. PaleoAnthropology,
2006:120-121.
Abstracts
2011
Osterholtz, AJ, Harrod, RP, and Martin DL. Differential Diagnosis of Patellar Pathology:
Use-wear patterns and pathology from Tell Abraq (2200-2000 BC). American Journal of
Physical Anthropology, 144 (S52):231.
2010
Harrod, RP, Linard, P. and Martin, DL. The Walking Wounded: Mapping nonlethal
violence on living Turkana Africans to provide insight for bioarchaeological
interpretations. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 141 (S50): 124.
2008
Harrod, RP, Derbidge, P, and Reid, KC. Walters Ferry Burials of the Late 19th Century:
Analysis of two individuals excavated from a site in Canyon County. Journal of
Northwest Anthropology, 42 (2): 228.
2008
2007
Harrod, RP. People of the Plateau. Journal of Northwest Anthropology, 41 (1): 88.
2006
INVITED TALKS
2014
Harrod, RP. Violence against Women: Towards a new understanding. Invited Speaker.
UAA Campus Bookstore, Special Events, University of Alaska Anchorage.
2013
Harrod, RP. Bioarchaeological Data and the Reconstruction of the Chinese Railroad
Worker Experience. Archaeology Network Workshop, Chinese Railroad Workers in
North America Project, Stanford University.
2013
2013
CONFERENCES
Organized Sessions
2014
Hoover, KC and Harrod, RP. (Co-organizer and Co-chair). Podium Presentation. Papers
in Biological Anthropology. The 41st Annual Meeting of the Alaska Anthropological
Association. Fairbanks, Alaska.
2013
2012
2011
2011
Harrod, RP, Osterholtz, AJ, and Martin DL. (First-organizer and First-chair). Poster
Presentation. The Dead Dont Bury Themselves*: Taphonomy as a tool to understand
sex and violence in the past. The 76th Annual meeting of the Society of American
Archaeology. Sacramento, California.
2010
Presentations
2014
2014
Raymond, NM, Harrod, RP, and Woods, AR. Podium Presentation. Childhood in a
Marginal Environment: Analyzing health, nutrition, and demographic characteristics of
two populations of children living in the pre-contact U.S. Southwest. The 41 st Annual
Meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association. Fairbanks, Alaska.
2013
Harrod, RP, Osterholtz, AJ., and Martin, DL. Poster Presentation. Cranial Depression
Fractures of the Frontal Bones from a Bronze Age Arabian Commingled Tomb. The 82nd
annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Knoxville,
Tennessee.
2013
Harrod, RP, and Martin, DL. Podium Presentation. Climate and Conflict in the
American Southwest: Bioarchaeological analysis of the relationship between
environmental change and interpersonal conflict and violence. The 78th annual meeting
of the Society for American Archaeology. Honolulu, Hawaii.
2013
Stone, PK., Harrod, RP, and Martin, DL. Podium Presentation. The Women Behind the
Pueblos: A bioarchaeological analysis of the role of women in the ancestral Pueblo world
(AD 800-1300). The 78th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Honolulu, Hawaii.
2013
Osterholtz, AJ and Harrod, RP. Podium Presentation. Warrior, Soldier, Big Man:
Warrior Ethos, Identity formation and the Negotiation of Social Roles in Multicultural
Settings. The 78th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Honolulu,
Hawaii.
2013
2012
Crandall, JJ, Harrod, RP, and Martin DL. Podium Presentation. Violent Death and the
Narration of the Wild West: A bioarchaeological deconstruction. The 111th annual
meeting of the American Anthropological Association. San Francisco, California.
2012
2012
Baustian, KM, Martin, DL, Harrod, RP, and Osterholtz, AJ. Poster Presentation. Injury
Recidivism, Trauma, and Pathology in the Multi-ethnic Community at Grasshopper
Pueblo (AD 1275-1400). The 81st annual meeting of the American Association of
Physical Anthropologists. Portland, Oregon.
2012
Harrod, RP and Martin, DL. Podium Presentation. Status and Health among the
Ancestral Pueblo Women: Comparing Pueblo Bonito to the rest of the Pueblon world
(AD 900-1300). The 77th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Memphis, Tennessee.
2012
Crandall, JJ, Martin, DL, and Harrod RP. Podium Presentation. We Didn't Know We
Were Poor: Rethinking marginality and gender relations at Black Mesa (AD 900-1150).
The 77th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Memphis, Tennessee.
2012
Martin, DL, Baustian, KM, and Harrod, RP. Podium Presentation. Looking for Patterns
in a Sea of Variability: Mortuary contexts from disparate southwest groups as correlated
with age-at-death, sex and trauma. The 77th annual meeting of the Society for American
Archaeology. Memphis, Tennessee.
2012
2011
Harrod, RP. Podium Presentation. Chronologies of Pain: Temporal and regional patterns
of violence among Colorado Plateau ancestral Pueblo populations (AD 900-1300). The
110th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Montreal, Quebec.
2011
2011
Fields, M, Harrod, RP, and Martin, DL. Podium Presentation. Measuring Misery:
Nonlethal violence and injury recidivism in the lives of servants and slaves. The 110th
annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Montreal, Quebec.
2011
Baustian, KM, Harrod, RP, Osterholtz, AJ, and Martin, DL. Podium Presentation.
Battered and Abused: Analysis of increased violence at a large, multi-ethnic Mogollon
site. The 110th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Montreal,
Quebec.
2011
Crandall, JJ, Baustian, KM, Anderson, CP, and Harrod, RP. Poster Presentation. Lost in
the Archives: A forensic reanalysis of the Kiel Ranch murders. The 31st annual meeting
of the Mountain, Desert & Coastal Forensic Anthropologists.
2011
Osterholtz, AJ, Harrod, RP, and Martin DL. Poster Presentation. Differential Diagnosis
of Patellar Pathology: Use-wear patterns and pathology from Tell Abraq (2200-2000 BC).
The 80th annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
2011
Harrod, RP and Martin, DL. Poster Presentation. Taphonomy After the Fact: Violence,
sex and ritual in room 33 at Chaco. The 76th annual meeting of the Society of American
Archaeology. Sacramento, California.
2010
Harrod, RP and Martin, DL. Podium Presentation. Gender Inequality in the Ancient
Southwest (AD 900-1350): Non-lethal head wounds as evidence of institutionalized
violence. The 109th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. New
Orleans, Louisiana.
2010
Martin, DL and Harrod, RP. Podium Presentation. Inscribed on the Body-Written on the
Bones: The human debt of female captives. The 109th annual meeting of the American
Anthropological Association. New Orleans, Louisiana.
2010
Harrod, RP, Linard, P. and Martin, DL. Podium Presentation. The Walking Wounded:
Mapping nonlethal violence on living Turkana Africans to provide insight for
bioarchaeological interpretations. The 79th annual meeting of the American Association
of Physical Anthropologists. Albuquerque, New Mexico.
2008
Harrod, RP, Derbidge, P, and Reid, KC. Podium Presentation. Walters Ferry Burials of
the Late 19th Century: Analysis of two individuals excavated from a site in Canyon
County. The 61th annual Northwest Anthropological Conference. Victoria, British
Columbia.
2008
Harrod, RP. Podium Presentation. Phylogeny of the southern Plateau. The 77th annual
meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Columbus, Ohio.
2007
Harrod, RP. Podium Presentation. People of the Plateau. The 60th annual Northwest
Anthropological Conference. Washington State University. Pullman, Washington.
2006
TECHNICAL REPORTS
2014
Harrod, RP and Grover, MA. Recovery of Human Remains and Re-Survey for the
Hooper Bay Airport Improvement Project, DOT&PF Project No. 57419. Office of
History and Archaeology, Report.
2009
2009
Sappington, RL, Norman, JM, and Harrod, RP. Archaeological and Historic Survey
Report. Washington Archaeological Survey: Results of Cultural Resource Investigations
for the Proposed Listening Circle at Chief Timothy Park, Asotin County, Washington.
2009
Sappington, RL, Norman, JM, Harrod, RP, Longstaff, L. Archaeological and Historic
Survey Report. Idaho Archaeological Survey: Results of Test Investigations for the
Proposed Pole Barn at Benton Meadows, Nez Perce County, Idaho.
2009
Sappington, RL, Norman, JM, Harrod, RP. Results of Archaeological Testing for the
Proposed Port of Clarkston Boat Dock and ADA Accessible Pathway Project, Asotin
County, Washington.
2008
2008
Sappington, RL, Harrod, RP, Norman, JM. Results of Archaeological Investigations for
Two Monitoring Wells at the East Mission Flats Repository Project Near Cataldo,
Kootenai County, Idaho.
2008
Sappington, RL, Norman, JM, Harrod, RP. Cultural Resource Survey for the Proposed
US-95 Pedestrian/Bike Path Lapwai Project, Project No. A010 (485), Key No. 10485.
2008
2008
Sappington, RL, Norman, JM, Harrod, RP. A Cultural Resource Survey for the Proposed
EQIP Project on the Marcus Flerchinger Property in Garfield County, Washington.
2008
Sappington, RL, Norman, JM, Harrod, RP. A Cultural Resource Survey for the Proposed
CREP and CCRP Projects on the John B. Simpson Property Along Penawawa Creek in
Whitman County, Washington.
2007
Sappington, RL, Norman, JM, Harrod, RP. Cultural Resource Survey for the Proposed IMinerals, Inc., Mine Development Project in the Moose Meadows Area Near Bovill.
2007
Sappington, RL, Norman, JM, Harrod, RP. A Cultural Resource Survey for Proposed
Ramsden CREP and CCRP Projects on Hefflefinger Creek, Asotin County Conservation
District, Washington.
2007
Sappington, RL, Norman, JM, Harrod, RP. Results of Archaeological Testing for the
Proposed Granite Lake RV Resort Expansion at the Port of Clarkston, Asotin County,
Washington.
2007
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2014-2013
2012-2010
2012-2009
2008-2006
2008
ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS
2014-2006
2014-2007
2014-2010
2014-2010
2014-2007
Paleoanthropology Society
2014
2012-2010
2011-2010
2010-2009
2009
2007-2006
FIELD SCHOOLS
2009
Archaeological Excavation, Nez Perce Tribe. Spaulding, prehistoric Nez Perce site on the
Clearwater River in Nez Perce County, Idaho
2006
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2010
The 7th Annual Traumatized Bone Short Course: Bone Trauma and Pseudo-Trauma in
Suspected Violent Deaths. Archaeological Institute, Mercyhurst College.