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Derek Boyd

@derekboyd.bsky.social

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Board-Certified Forensic Anthropologist • Assistant Professor of Anthropology • Co-Director of the UNLV Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Laboratory • #QueerInStem 🏳️‍🌈 Check out the FAB lab website! fablab.sites.unlv.edu

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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

Excited to announce that I will be joining the faculty at UNLV in July as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology! I will be directing research through the new Human Health and Skeletal Biology Lab focused on exploring health in marginalized groups through time.

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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

Big thanks to @dryaussy.bsky.social for giving a guest lecture on famine, climate change, and medieval plague in my Plagues and Peoples course. The students had a blast!!

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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

Last week, the students in my course, Bodies of Evidence: The Science of CSI, completed their final activity, a mock crime scene recovery. They worked in teams to assess, document, and recover (plastic) human remains. I had a blast working with them this semester. Onto Forensic Anth in the spring!

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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Big thanks to Dr. Becca George for talking to my UTC students about dental anthropology and forensic science!

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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Had a fantastic time at the Mountain, Swamp, and Beach Regional Forensic Anthropology Conference with my students last weekend. We heard several great talks about current research in forensic anthropology in the southeast!

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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

My undergraduates had a blast in my class, Bodies of Evidence: The Science of CSI, this morning. Can you say arterial spurt?

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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 11/09/2023

Finally found a use for these postcards of old anatomical illustrations I got from the Getty Museum in LA last summer. Did you know that they have a collection of old medical illustrations from the 18th-19th centuries?? Excited to integrate these documents into my future teaching and research!

Office door with postcards depicting old drawings of the human body from the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

Hi there! I am a queer biological anthropologist and full-time lecturer at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga specializing in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology. I integrate skeletal and archival data to examine health among marginalized groups through time.

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