Pamela L. Geller (born 1974) is an American anthropologist and professor of anthropology at the University of Miami. Her research interests include bioarchaeology and archaeology, sex, gender, and sexuality; biopower and necropolitics, socio-politics of the past, bioethics and dead bodies and the archaeology of plastics.[1]
Pamela L. Geller | |
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| Born | March 28, 1974 [citation needed] Philadelphia, PA |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania |
| Occupation | Anthropology |
| Website | https://people.miami.edu/profile/ea4df3a4ff5272822bbc96c9ce9dabdb |
Education
editGeller graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004.[2] Her doctoral dissertation examined pre-Columbian Maya burials from northwestern Belize to document intentional manipulation of bodies in life and after death. Bioarchaeological evidence demonstrated that intentionally changing bodies of the living and the dead facilitated (re)construction of individuals’ identities in ancient Maya communities. She has conducted anthropological fieldwork in Hawaii, Belize, Honduras, Perú, and Haiti.[1]
Career
editGeller has authored several books, including The Bioarchaeology of Social-Sexual Lives (2017),[3] Theorizing Bioarchaeology (2021),[4] and Becoming Object: The Sociopolitics of the Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection (2024). She is also the editor of Feminist Anthropology: Past, Present, and Future (2006) and The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Anthropology (2025).[5] In addition to the numerous academic journal articles and book chapters she has written, her opinion essays have appeared in Slate,[6] Miami Herald,[7] the New York Times,[8] and The Conversation.[9]
References
edit- 1 2 "Pamela GELLER | Professor (Associate) | PhD | University of Miami, Coral Gables | UM | Department of Anthropology | Research profile".
- ↑ "Pamela Geller". guide.americananthro.org. Retrieved 2025-04-28.
- ↑ Zuckerman, Molly K. (April 2022). "The Bioarchaeology of Socio-Sexual Lives: Queering Common Sense About Sex, Gender, and Sexuality. PAMELA L. GELLER. 2017. Springer, Cham, Switzerland. xxi + 232 pp. $84.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-3-319-40995-5". American Antiquity. 87 (2): 427–428. doi:10.1017/aaq.2021.106. ISSN 0002-7316.
- ↑ Nilsson Stutz, Liv (2022). ". By , . , , pp. : . \140/\109 (hardback/e-book)". American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 178 (4): 678–679. doi:10.1002/ajpa.24528. ISSN 2692-7691. PMC 9542926.
- ↑ "Pamela Geller". people.miami.edu. Retrieved 2025-04-28.
- ↑ Geller, Pamela L. (2020-10-19). "The Archaeology of the Disposable Mask". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Retrieved 2025-04-28.
- ↑ https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article273917920.html
- ↑ Geller, Pamela L.; Parmeter, Christopher (2021-04-05). "Opinion | This Peeler Did Not Need to Be Wrapped in So Much Plastic". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-04-28.
- ↑ Geller, Pamela L. (2024-11-14). "Hundreds of 19th-century skulls collected in the name of medical science tell a story of who mattered and who didn't". The Conversation. Retrieved 2025-04-28.