Area of Interest:

Bioarchaeology, stress & disease, disease ecology & evolution, Southeast U.S., South America (Peru & Bolivia)

Education:

Arizona State University, BA in Anthropology, 2000

California State University Los Angeles, MA in Anthropology, 2003

Professional Background:

Teaching areas include: General anthropology, biological anthropology, human osteology, human origins, bioarchaeology 

Research & Activities:

Health and disease, paleopathology, disease ecology, skeletal indicators of activity and labor, emerging complexity and state formation, effects of European contact and precontact on health and lifeways of North and South American indigenous groups, and modern labor among the Aymara Indians of highland Bolivia


Dissertation Project: Labor and the Rise of the Tiwanaku State (AD 500-1100): A Bioarchaeological Study of Activity Patterns.

Selected Publications:

Simon, SK. 2007. Testing a ‘Caries Correction Factor’ in Two Populations with Differing Dental Caries Rates. Poster presented at the 2007 American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. 

Simon, SK. 2006. Bioarchaeological Report on Tomb M-U615 for the San José de MoroArchaeological Project (Informe de Bioarqueológico sobre la Tumba M-U615). Report submitted to Proyecto Arqueológico San José de Moro. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima.

Simon, SK and Gagnon, CM. 2005. The Effect of Migration on the Dental and Skeletal Health of Protohistoric and Early Historic Susquehannock Indians (AD 1575-1675). Paper presented at the 2005 American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meeting, Milwaukee, WI.