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Sharon DeWitte (Biological Anthropology)

Dr. DeWitte is a biological anthropologist with expertise in paleodemography, paleoepidemiology, and bioarchaeology.Ìý Her primary research interest is biosocial variation in health in past populations, particularly how factors such as sex, gender, socioeconomic status, migration, developmental stress, and diet affected risks of disease and mortality, how disease shapes population dynamics, and how host and environmental factors affect disease patterns. Using data from human skeletal remains, she examines medieval mortality crises (famine and plague) in European contexts, including the mortality patterns, the demographic and health consequences, and the context of the emergence of the 14th-century plague pandemic commonly referred to as the Black Death. Using archival evidence, she examines health transitions in the context of industrialization and urbanization in historical New York State.