Notes on Contributors

Jessica D. Bardill is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. Alongside a range of literatures from Indigenous communities, she engages with the possibilities of biological sciences and policy, with particular emphasis on genetics and genomics, by, for, and with Indigenous peoples. Since 2011, she has helped to lead the decolonial bioethics training for the Summer internship for INdigenous peoples in Genomics (SING) workshops.

Abigail W. Bigham is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan. Abby received her BA from the University of Arizona and her PhD from The Pennsylvania State University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington. Her current research focuses on understanding human genetic adaptation to environmental pressures and how these adaptations affect the range of modern human phenotypic diversity.

Rafael Bisso-Machado graduated in biology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Porto Alegre, Brazil, holding master's (2010) and PhD (2014) degrees in Genetics and Molecular Biology (UFRGS). He spent one year as a postdoctoral researcher at UFRGS, and was associate professor at Universidad de la República, Uruguay, until 2017. His main topics of research are historical and anthropological genetics, especially concerning Y-chromosome, mitochondrial DNA; intra- and interpopulational diversity in Native and neo-American populations; and gene-culture coevolution based on an interdisciplinary approach.

Graciela S. Cabana is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her expertise is in anthropological genetics, and she focused her early research efforts on developing core analytical and simulation methods for the analysis of genetic data, particularly ancient DNA data. She is the co-editor of the 2011 edited volume Rethinking Anthropological Perspectives on Migration. Her current efforts are directed toward actively engaging social and ethical concerns into anthropological genetic research.

Murray P. Cox is a computational biologist specializing in human genomics, computer modeling, and statistical inference. Dr. Cox is currently an associate professor in the Institute of Fundamental Sciences at Massey University, New Zealand, and an inaugural Rutherford Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

Michael H. Crawford, professor of anthropological genetics and director of the Laboratory of Biological Anthropology, University of Kansas, has conducted extensive field investigations in Siberia, the Aleutian Islands, Central America, and the Caribbean, and religious and geographic genetic isolates in the Midwestern United States and Europe. Professor Crawford served as editor-in-chief of the journal Human Biology from 1989 to 2000. He has published widely with over 400 articles, chapters, and books on various aspects of anthropological genetics.

Stefan A. Czerwinski received his BA in anthropology from Binghamton University and his PhD in biological anthropology from the University at Albany. He completed a postdoc in genetic epidemiology at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research in San Antonio, Texas. From there, he moved to Wright State University, where he eventually became director of the Fels Longitudinal Study at the Lifespan Health Research Center. He is currently professor of epidemiology at the University of Texas School of Public Health, Brownsville Campus. Dr. Czerwinski's research interests include growth and development, obesity, and chronic disease risk.

Ellen W. Demerath received her AB from Harvard University and her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in biological/physical anthropology and human biology. In 1997, she joined the Lifespan Health Research Center at Wright State University School of Medicine in Dayton, Ohio, where she worked with the Fels Longitudinal Study on the developmental origins of obesity. In 2007, she joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, where she has continued her federally funded research program on the interplay of genetic and early-life environmental factors on child development and cardiometabolic disease risk, including an interdisciplinary cohort study on maternal obesity, breast milk composition, and infant outcomes. Professor Demerath is the director of the Maternal and Child Health MPH program and co-directs the university's Driven to Discover Research Facility.

Nelson Jurandi Rosa Fagundes graduated in biology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Porto Alegre, Brazil, holding master's (2001) and PhD (2007) degrees in genetics and molecular biology (UFRGS). After a stage as a postdoctoral researcher at UFRGS, he acted as adjunct professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. He has been an adjunct professor at UFRGS since 2011, working with evolutionary biology and population genetics of several different organisms, and advising students in both the genetics and molecular biology and animal biology postgraduation programs.

Nanibaa' A. Garrison (Navajo), PhD, is a faculty member in the Treuman Katz Center of Pediatric Bioethics at Seattle Children's Research Institute and assistant professor of pediatrics in the Division of Bioethics at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on the ethical, social, and cultural implications of genetic and genomic research for Indigenous communities. Using community-based research approaches, she engages with tribal communities to develop policies and guidance for tribes.

Omer Gokcumen graduated from Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey, with a degree in molecular biology and genetics. He defended his thesis, "Ethnohistorical and Genetic Survey of Four Central Anatolian Settlements," and was awarded a PhD in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania. He worked on human and primate genomic variation as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University at Buffalo. The research in his laboratory uses anthropological genomics tools to address the broad question "What makes us human?"

Henry C. Harpending was an anthropological geneticist whose work focused on patterns of genetic diversity among human populations. Following a PhD from Harvard, he held faculty positions at Yale, the University of New Mexico, The Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Utah. At the latter institution, he was the Thomas Distinguished Professor of Anthropology. He was also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Toomas Kivisild graduated with a PhD in genetics from the University of Tartu, Estonia, in 2000. After a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University (2002-2003), he worked at the Estonian Biocentre (2003-2005) and the Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu (2005-2006). Since 2006, he has led the Human Evolutionary Genetics research group at the University of Cambridge. His research interests have included human evolution and evolutionary population genetics, with a particular focus on questions relating global genetic population structure with evolutionary processes such as selection, drift, migration, and admixture.

Leslie A. Knapp received her degrees in anthropology from UCLA, and she was a postdoc at the University of Wisconsin. From 1997 to 2013, she was a faculty member in biological anthropology at the University of Cambridge, where her PrIME (Primate Immunogenetics and Molecular Ecology) laboratory hosted 8 postdoctoral researchers and 16 PhD students, including international scholars from Japan, France, Switzerland, Chile, Brazil, and Mexico. Currently, she is professor and chair of anthropology at the University of Utah. Her research concentrates on the evolution of immune response genes and the relationship between genes, disease, and behavior in primates.

Ripan S. Malhi is a Richard and Margaret Romano Professor in the Department of Anthropology, School of Integrative Biology, and the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He earned his PhD in anthropology at the University of California, Davis, and completed a postdoc in human genetics at the University of Michigan Medical School. Prior to starting at the University of Illinois, he cofounded a biotechnology company, Trace Genetics, Inc. Ripan is a molecular anthropologist who partners with Indigenous communities to study the evolutionary histories of Indigenous peoples of North America. He organizes the Summer internship for INdigenous peoples in Genomics (SING), an NSF and NIH-funded program for Indigenous community members to learn innovative concepts and methods at the cross section of indigeneity and genomics. He is executive editor of Human Biology and an associate editor of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

Aida T. Miró-Herrans is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas at Austin. Her previous work studied how the combined use of simulated genetic data and nongenetic data enhanced demographic reconstructions of the migration of modern humans out of Africa. Currently, she studies genome-wide patterns of variation in Native Americans from the southern United States to identify the effect...