RESEARCH INTERESTS

Mortuary Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Identity, Cultural Modifications of the Body, Paleopathology, Ethnicity, Culture Contact, Andean South America, Tiwanaku, San Pedro de Atacama, Mesopotamia, Kish, Museum Anthropology.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Anthropology, 2003
University of California at Santa Barbara
Dissertation: Shaping Identity: Cranial Vault Modification in the Pre-Columbian Andes
Committee: Phillip Walker (chair), Katharina Schreiber, Stuart Tyson Smith

M.A., Anthropology, 1998
University of California at Santa Barbara

A.B., Anthropology, 1996
University of California at Berkeley

POSITIONS HELD

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, The Colorado College, Fall 2003 – present
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Assistant Professor, Fall 2005 – Spring 2007
Courses: Introduction to Biological Anthropology, First Year Experience: Introduction to Cultural and Biological Anthropology, Human Evolution, Human Biological Variation, Primate Social Behavior, Human Osteology, Bioarchaeology, Anthropological Perspectives on Violence, States and Empires in the Ancient Andes, Andean Prehistory, The Archaeology of Death.

Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Summer 2000 – Spring 2003
Courses: Introduction to Physical Anthropology, Human Evolution, Human Variation.

Conference Program Assistant, American Association of Physical Anthropologists
73rd Annual Meeting (April 2004), Tampa, FL. John Relethford, Scientific Program Committee Chair and Vice President. August 2003 – April 2004.
71st Annual Meeting (April 2002), Buffalo, NY. Phillip Walker, Scientific Program Committee Chair and Vice President. August 2001 – April 2002.

Editorial Assistant, Latin American Antiquity, March 2000 – July 2001
Assistant to Katharina Schreiber and Patricia Fournier, co-editors of the Society for American Archaeology’s quarterly Latin American archaeology journal.

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

In Press        Torres-Rouff C. “The Influence of Tiwanaku on Life in the Chilean Atacama: Mortuary and Bodily Perspectives.” Manuscript submitted to American Anthropologist in October 2007, accepted December 2007. Expected publication September 2008.

2007            Torres-Rouff C and Knudson KJ. “Examining the life history of an individual from Solcor 3, San Pedro de Atacama: Combining bioarchaeology and archaeological chemistry.” Chungara: Revista de Antropología Chilena, 39(2):235-257.

2007            Torres-Rouff C. “La deformación craneana en San Pedro de Atacama.” [“Cranial deformation in San Pedro de Atacama”] Estudios Atacameños: Arqueología y Antropología Surandina, 33:25-38.

2006            Torres-Rouff C, and Costa MA. “Interpersonal Violence in Prehistoric San Pedro de Atacama, Chile: Behavioral Implications of Environmental Stress.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 130(1):60-70.

2005            Torres-Rouff C, Costa MA and Llagostera A. “Violence in times of change: The Late Intermediate Period in San Pedro de Atacama.” Chungara: Revista de Antropología Chilena, 37(1):75-83.

2005            Torres-Rouff C and Yablonsky LT. “Cranial Vault Modification as a Cultural Artifact: A comparison of the Eurasian Steppes and the Andes.” Homo: Journal of Comparative Human Biology, 56(1):1-16.

2003            Torres-Rouff C. "Oral Implications of Labret Use: A Case from pre-Columbian Chile," International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 13:247-251.

2002            Torres-Rouff C. "Cranial Vault Modification and Ethnicity in Middle Horizon San Pedro de Atacama, Chile," Current Anthropology, 43(1):163-171.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

2007            Torres-Rouff C. “Revisiting Tiwanaku." Review of Identity and Power in the Ancient Andes: Tiwanaku Cities through Time (JW Janusek) and Andean Diaspora: The Tiwanaku Colonies and the Origins of South American Empire (PS Goldstein).Current Anthropology, 48(1):176-177.

2006            Torres-Rouff C. Review of Biological Anthropology and Ethics: from repatriation to genetic identity, edited by Trudy R. Turner, SUNY Press. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 16:89-92.

2001            Walker PL, Buzon MR, and Torres-Rouff C. Report on the Human Remains from SLO-1878. C.A. Singer and Associates, Inc. Cambria, CA.

2000            Torres-Rouff C. “Dental Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara,” Dental Anthropology, 14(1):15-16.

RESEARCH FUNDING

Extramural Grants

NSF Senior Research Grant BCS-0721229, Physical Anthropology and Archaeology Sections, “RUI: Collaborative Research: A Bioarchaeological Approach to Identity in the Middle Horizon to Late Intermediate Period Transition in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile,” (with KJ Knudson) August 2007 – August 2010

Enhancing Scholarly Agendas Grant, Associated Colleges of the Midwest Faculty Career Enhancement Project, “Analysis of human skeletal remains from the ancient city of Kish, Iraq,” Summer 2006 – Summer 2007

Women’s International Science Collaboration Grant, American Association for the Advancement of Science, "A Bioarchaeological Investigation into Late Intermediate Period (AD 1000 – 1476) Populations in the Chilean Atacama," with María A. Costa, Summer 2004

NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant #0124594, National Science Foundation, “Cranial Vault Modification in the Pre-Columbian Andes,” (with PL Walker) Jan - Dec 2002

Visiting Scholar Research Award, The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, Jun 2002

Pre-Doctoral Fellow, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Jan - Apr 2002

Latino Fellow, "Interpreting Latino Cultures: Research and Museums," Smithsonian Institution and the Inter-University Program for Latino Research, June 1998

Intramural Grants

Research and Development Funds, Gaylord Pacific Endowment, Latin American Studies, The Colorado College, to support participation in archaeological field surveys and excavation in the Río San Salvador Valley, Chile, Spring 2008

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Assistant Professor, The Colorado College, endowed professorship for promising young faculty, release time, research and travel support, Fall 2005-Summer 2007

Research and Development Funds, Social Sciences Executive Committee, The Colorado College, to support research in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile and on the Kish Collections at the Field Museum, Chicago, IL, 2004-2007

Benezet Summer Research Grant, Research and Faculty Development Board, The Colorado College, Summer 2004

Research and Development Funds, Social Sciences Executive Committee, The Colorado College, to support research in Santiago, Chile and Cuzco, Peru, Summer 2004

Graduate Division Dissertation Write-up Fellowship, UCSB, Summer 2003

Fee Fellowship, Dept. of Anthropology, Sep 2002 - Jun 2003

Intercampus Research Travel Grant, Academic Senate, UCSB, May 2002, November 2002

Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant, Graduate Division, UCSB, Apr 2002, Oct 2002

Albert Spaulding and Elman Service Memorial Fellowship, Dept. of Anthropology, UCSB, Fall 2001 - Spring 2003

Fieldwork in Anthropology Award, Graduate Division, UCSB, Summer 1999

Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grant, Graduate Division, UCSB, Summer 1998

Eugene Cota-Robles Fellow, a four-year merit based fellowship for students with great promise for academic careers, UCSB, Fall 1996 - Spring 2000

Regents' Scholar, a four-year merit based scholarship, UC Berkeley, Fall 1992 - Spring 1996

CONFERENCE PAPERS (last 5 years)

(2008) Torres-Rouff C, Pestle WJ and *Daverman BM. “Where kingship came from the heavens: social, political, and temporal patterns of health at Kish” Paper submitted for presentation at the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Boston, MA. In the Footsteps of J. Lawrence Angel: Bioarchaeology in the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean, Symposium. November.

2008 Torres-Rouff C and Knudson KJ. “Exploring the relationship between biological and cultural identity in northern Chile: Biogeochemical and bioarchaeological research in San Pedro de Atacama.” Paper presented at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC. Advances in Andean Isotopic Research: Movement and Subsistence through Space and Time, Symposium. March.

2008 *Daverman BM, Torres-Rouff C and Pestle WJ. “An analysis of health and nutritional stress among the early inhabitants of Kish, Iraq.” Poster presented at the 77th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Columbus, OH, April.

2007 Torres-Rouff C and Pestle WJ. “Skeletal biology and mortuary practices at Kish, Iraq: A preliminary investigation of the human remains excavated by the Joint Oxford-Field Museum Expedition (1923-1933).” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, San Diego, CA. In the Footsteps of J. Lawrence Angel: Bioarchaeology in the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean, Symposium. November.

2007 Torres-Rouff C and Knudson KJ. “Acculturation and geographic origins: Integrative bioarchaeological and archaeological chemical analyses of an individual from Solcor 3, north Chile.” Paper presented at the 76th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Philadelphia, PA. March.

2007 Peste WJ and Torres-Rouff C. “Preliminary investigation of infant burials from 3rd millennium BC Kish, Iraq.” Poster presented at the 76th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Philadelphia, PA. March.

2006 Torres-Rouff C. “Head shaping in prehistoric San Pedro de Atacama as a bodily expression of group identity.” Paper presented at the 105th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Jose, CA. Transforming biological anthropology: Interdisciplinary intersections and theoretical innovation, Symposium. November.

2006  Torres-Rouff C. “Surviving troubled times: Bioarchaeological insights into the Middle Horizon/Late Intermediate Period transition in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile.” Paper presented at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Theorizing the Late Intermediate Period in the Andes: Large Scale Patterns, Local Trajectories, Symposium. April.

2006  Costa MA and Torres-Rouff C. “The influence of Tiwanaku on life in the Chilean Atacama: A bodily perspective.” Paper presented at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Bioarchaeological Insights into Ancient Imperialism: Perspectives from the Old and New Worlds, Symposium. April.

2006  *Burns JD, *Eckhoff KM, and Torres-Rouff C. “A bioarchaeological perspective on sex, health and identity at Tchecar (AD 700-900), northern Chile.” Poster presented at the 75th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Anchorage, AK. March. Abstracted in American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Supplement 42:71.

2005  Torres-Rouff C. “Changing patterns of violence: An analysis of cranial trauma in prehistoric San Pedro de Atacama.” Paper presented at the 74th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Milwaukee, WI. April.

PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

“Body modifications in prehistory.” Experience Liberal Arts Month, Purdue University. October 2007.

“Shaping bodies: Identity and politics in the ancient Americas.” Presented as part of the School of American Research Lecture Series, Santa Fe, New Mexico. May 2007.

"Skeletal evidence of conflict, warfare and ritual violence in ancient Chile." Pikes Peak Chapter of Sigma Xi, Colorado Springs, March 2004.

"Cranial modification among the Inca." Denver Museum of Nature and Science, February 2004.

“Formando la identidad: modificación craneana en San Pedro de Atacama.” Terrantai Lodge, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. July 2003.

“Migration, Violence and Social Change in pre-Columbian Chile.” Anthropology Brown Bag Lecture Series, UCSB. February 2003.

“Cranial Modification and Conquest” with Leonid Yablonsky. Anthropology Brown Bag Lecture Series, UCSB. April 2001.

FIELDWORK AND MUSEUM EXPERIENCE

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology - Philadelphia, PA

Bioarchaeological Research on human skeletal remains from Tepe Hissar, Iran, October 2007

Natural History Museum - London, UK

Bioarchaeological Research on human skeletal remains from Kish, Iraq, May 2007

Field Museum of Natural History - Chicago, IL

Visiting Scholar - Dissertation research on cranial vault modification at the site of Ancón. May 2002

Bioarchaeological research on skeletal remains from Kish, Iraq. September 2005, January 2006, July 2006

Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology - University of California, Berkeley

Dissertation research on cranial vault modification at the sites of Ica T, Chincha C, Pachacamac, Colmay and Marca Huamachucho. Nov 2002

Volunteer, Conservation Department, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology. Supervisor: Dr. Madeleine Fang. Fall 1992 - Spring 1996

American Museum of Natural History - New York, NY

Dissertation research on cranial vault modification at the sites of Titicaca (Island of the Sun), Tama Tam Chullpa and Kupa Pukio Chullpa. June 2002

National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Pre-doctoral Fellow - Ongoing dissertation research on cranial vault modification at the site of Pachacamac, Supervisor, Dr. Douglas Ubelaker. Jan - Apr 2002

Museo Arqueológico R. P. Le Paige, Instituto de Investigacíones Arqueológicas, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile

Lab Assistant, Physical Anthropology Laboratory: conservation, curation and analysis of human skeletal remains. Summer 1992 - present

Project director and principal osteologist, “The cultural and health impacts of the Late Intermediate Period on Atacameños.” Preliminary bioarchaeological analysis of human skeletal remains. Co-PI: María A. Costa. Summer 2004

Dissertation research on cranial vault modification at the sites of Yaye 1-4, Quitor 6, Caspana and Coyo 3. Summer 2001

Analysis of cranial vault modification at the sites of Toconao Oriente, Solcor 3 and Catarpe 1. Summers 1997, 1998

Pathology study of human skeletal remains from the site of Coyo Oriental. Summer 1995

Field archaeologist - two seasons of excavations at the pre-Columbian cemetery site of Coyo 3 including responsibilities such as mapping, excavation, photographing and cataloging of artifacts and skeletal remains. Principal Investigator: Dr. Agustín Llagostera. Summers 1992, 1994

Lab Assistant - data collection and analysis of dental wear and pathology from numerous pre-Columbian sites. Principal Investigator: Sean P. Murphy. Summer 1992

Lab Assistant - Textile Conservation Project, Principal Investigators: William J and Barbara Conklin. Involved dissasemblage, analysis and curation of textiles from numerous "mummy bundles." Summers 1990, 1992

Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago, Chile

Dissertation research on cranial vault modification at the sites of El Torin, Punta Teatinos, and Pisagua. Summer 2001

San Diego Museum of Man, San Diego, CA

Dissertation research on cranial vault modification at the sites of Pachacamac, Huacho and the Chicama Valley. March 2001

Museo Arqueológico, La Serena, Chile

Lab Assistant for FONDECYT project, El Hombre Arcaíco Chileno: Su biodiversidad y bioadaptacion, Principal Investigator: María Antonietta Costa. Examination of skeletons from a Pre-Diaguita population from the semi-arid north - involved the collection of data on cranial and pelvic sex, cranial vault modification and cranial pathologies and traumas. July 1997

TEACHING AND COURSE ENHANCEMENT GRANTS

Faculty/Student Collaborative Research Grant, Colorado College, “Bioarchaeological research on human skeletal remains from the ancient city of Kish, Iraq,” with BM Daverman, Summer 2007 and M Poole, Summer 2008.

Common Interest Workshop, Associated Colleges of the Midwest Faculty Career Enhancement Project, “Biological Anthropology and Liberal Arts Colleges,” MR Jenike, V Bentley-Condit, N Krusko and C Torres-Rouff, Fall 2006.

Curricular Development Grant, Colorado College, funds to support the revision of AN101: Introduction to Biological Anthropology, Summer 2006.

Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Award, The Colorado College, funds to support the development of an anthropology course in Oaxaca, Mexico, C Torres-Rouff and M Montaño, Fall 2005.

Faculty Development Block, Social Sciences Executive Committee, The Colorado College, release time to develop a new course, Human Osteology, Fall 2004.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Editorial Advisory Board, Estudios Atacameños: Arqueología y Antropología Surandina, 2006 – present

Steering Committee, Ad-Hoc Committee on Underrepresented Minorities in Physical Anthropology, American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 2006 – present

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Association of Physical Anthropologists

Paleopathology Association

Dental Anthropology Association

Asociación Latinoamericana de Antropología Biológica

Institute of Andean Studies (Elected to membership)

Society for American Archaeology

American Schools of Oriental Research

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