Office: EPS 2.208
Office Hours: On Leave
Phone: 512-471-8514
deborah.bolnick@mail.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., University of California, Davis

Research interests:
Molecular anthropology, ancient DNA studies, human biological variation, race, population genetics, Native American prehistory, anthropology of science

Courses taught:
Anthropological Genetics (Fall 2007, Spring 2006)
Human Variation (Spring 2007, Fall 2005)
Constructions of Race in Biology and Physical Anthropology (Fall 2006)

Field(s) of Study: Physical Anthropology

Recent Publications:
Bolnick DA. 2007. Individual ancestry inference and the reification of race as a biological phenomenon. In: Koenig B, Lee S, Richardson S, editors. Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. (In press)

Bolnick DA, Smith DG. 2007. Migration and social structure among the Hopewell: evidence from ancient DNA. American Antiquity 72 (4).

Kemp BM, Malhi RS, McDonough J, Bolnick DA, Eshleman JA, Rickards O, Martinez-Labarga C, Johnson JR, Lorenz JG, Dixon EJ, Fifield TE, Heaton TH, Worl R, Smith DG. 2007. Genetic analysis of early Holocene skeletal remains from Alaska and implications for the peopling of the Americas. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 132:605-621.

Bolnick DA, Bolnick DI, Smith DG. 2006. Asymmetric male and female genetic histories among Native Americans from eastern North America. Molecular Biology and Evolution 23:2161-2174.

TallBear K, Bolnick DA. 2004. “Native American DNA” tests: what are the risks for tribes? The Native Voice, December 3-17.

Bolnick DA, Shook BAS, Campbell L, Goddard I. 2004. Problematic use of Greenberg’s linguistic classification of the Americas in studies of Native American genetic variation. American Journal of Human Genetics 75:519-522.

Bolnick DA, Smith DG. 2003. Unexpected patterns of mitochondrial DNA variation among Native Americans from the southeastern United States. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 122:336-354.