I was born in Burlington, Ontario Canada. I received my PhD in Physical Anthropology from the Department of Anthropology, McMaster University in 1996 under the supervision of Dr. Shelley Saunders. My doctoral research focused on issues of bias in palaeodemographic estimates. Following my doctoral research I undertook a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in historical demography and epidemiology of a 19th century subarctic Aboriginal community during the decline of the Fur Trade. In 1998, I joined the Laboratory of Survival and Longevity at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany as part of a multidisciplinary team examining the social and biological determinants of aging. In July 1999, I joined the Department of Anthropology at the University of Manitoba.

My research interests include: Human Skeletal Biology, Osteological Methods of Personal Reconstruction, Digital Imaging, 3D Modeling and Visualization; Growth and Development; Palaeodemography, 19th Century Aboriginal Health & Mortality.

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