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Sharon N. DeWitte
Office: Arts and Sciences, Room 107
Phone: (518) 442-4715
Email: sdewitte@albany.edu
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2006
Interests: Paleodemography;
Paleopathology
Areas: Europe
Curriculum
Vitae
Research Statement
I am a biological anthropologist with interests in
human osteology, paleodemography, paleopathology, and
infectious and epidemic diseases. I am currently studying
the mortality patterns of the Black Death of 1347-1351
using large skeletal samples from England and Denmark.
I am particularly interested in how age, sex, and health
status affect an individual's risk of death during epidemics
as devastating as the Black Death, and how and why those
risks change over time.
More generally, I am interested in applying new methods
of paleodemographic age-at-death estimation and multi-state
models of disease and death which were developed to
solve some of the fundamental problems in paleodemography
such as age mimicry, selective mortality, and hidden
heterogeneity in frailty.
Selected Publications since 2000
2003 Wood JW, RJ Ferrell, and SN DeWitte-Aviña.
The temporal dynamics of the fourteenth-century Black
Death: New evidence from English ecclesiastical records.
Human Biology 75:427-448
2003 Wood JW and SN DeWitte-Aviña.
Was the Black Death yersinial plague? The Lancet Infectious
Disease 3:327-328.
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