Margaret Judd

Margaret Judd is an Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. She received her PhD from the University of Alberta (2000), an MSc from the University of Bradford (1994), and a BA from Wilfrid Laurier University (1993). Prior to joining Pittsburgh in 2004, she served as Special Collections Curator in the Department of Ancient Egypt & Sudan at The British Museum.

Her research focuses on bioarchaeology, with emphasis on how sociocultural and resource stress affects the human body. She specializes in forensic anthropology and paleopathology, with extensive fieldwork in Jordan, northern Sudan, Russia, Egypt, Italy, and Canada. Current projects investigate multi-resource subsistence among ancient Jordanian pastoralists using bioarchaeological evidence.

Dr. Judd teaches courses including Forensic Anthropology and Paleopathology. She has advised graduate students such as Alysha Lieurance and Gretchen Zoeller but is no longer accepting new advisees.