Livia B Santos

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Anthropology: Bioarchaeology, paleopathology, developmental stress, resilience theory, diet, phenotypic plasticity, peopling of the americas (Brazil), hunter-gatherers, marginalization, colonialism.

Livia Santos received her BS in biology and anthropology at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. She is currently pursuing an MA in anthropology with a concentration in bioarchaeology at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. Her current research focuses on reconstructing habilitual activity, behavior, lifestyle, and in paleoamerican populations with attention to resiliency, adaptation, and plasticity.

Courses Taught

TA for ANTH 114 (Fall 2023)-Anne Schiller

TA for ANTH 135 (Spring 2024)-Rick Smith

Education

Biology/ anthropology B.S.- Western Washington University

Anthropology MA (ongoing)- George Mason University