Marie Danforth

Marie Danforth is a Professor at the University of Southern Mississippi, specializing in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology. Her research spans Mesoamerican and Southeastern US contexts, focusing on skeletal stress, urbanization impacts, and gender analysis.

• PhD (1989) and MA (1985) from Indiana University-Bloomington
• BA (1981) from Albion College

Key research areas include:

• Colonial-period bioarchaeological profiles
• Gender and identity reconstruction
• Ancient disease patterns (e.g., meningiomas)
• Human variation in urbanizing societies

Recent publications emphasize methodological critiques in skeletal demography (2023) and cross-colonial comparisons of urban stress markers (2020). Her 2024 work explores sexual hybridity in Mesoamerican osteobiographies, while 2022 contributions address stature analysis and cancer prevalence in antiquity.