Staff profile

Education

(2016-2021) Ph.D. in Anthropology, Arizona State University, USA

(2014-2015) M.Sc. in Paleopathology with distinction (first class), Durham University, UK

(2010-2014) B.S. in Biological Anthropology (summa cum laude), minor in chemistry, Appalachian State University, North Carolina, USA

• Social determinants of past health and disease
• Ancient DNA of humans and their pathogens
• Bioarchaeological and paleopathological applications of ancient DNA
• Pathogen evolution and paleoepidemiology
• Specialised mortuary assemblages

Chapter in book

• Ancient pathogens and paleoepidemiology
  
  Blevins, K. E. (2024). Ancient pathogens and paleoepidemiology. In Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-323-99931-1.00202-6
• Here and Now, There and Then: Two Mycobacterial Diseases Still with Us Today
  
  Roberts, C. A., Blevins, K. E., Filipek, K. L., & Pacheco Miranda, A. (2022). Here and Now, There and Then: Two Mycobacterial Diseases Still with Us Today. In A. L. Grauer (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology. Routledge.
• The Center Cannot Hold: A Bioarchaeological Perspective on Environmental Crisis in the Second Millennium BCE, South Asia
  
  Schug, G. R., & Blevins, K. E. (2016). The Center Cannot Hold: A Bioarchaeological Perspective on Environmental Crisis in the Second Millennium BCE, South Asia. In G. R. Schug & S. R. Walimbe (Eds.), A Companion to South Asia in the Past. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119055280.ch16
• The origin and evolution of tuberculosis from clinical, genetic and palaeopathological perspectives.
  
  Roberts Charlotte, A., Davies, P., Blevins, K. E., & Stone, A. C. (n.d.). The origin and evolution of tuberculosis from clinical, genetic and palaeopathological perspectives. In K. A. Plomp, C. A. Roberts, S. Elton, & G. R. Bentley (Eds.), Evolving Health: Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach [Contracted by publisher]. Oxford University Press.

Journal Article

• Facilitating accessible, rapid, and appropriate processing of ancient metagenomic data with AMDirT
  
  Borry, M., Forsythe, A., Andrades Valtueña, A., Hübner, A., Ibrahim, A., Quagliariello, A., White, A. E., Kocher, A., Vågene‬, Åshild J., Bartholdy, B. P., Spurīte, D., Ponce-Soto, G. Y., Neumann, G., Huang, I.-T., Light, I., Velsko, I. M., Jackson, I., Frangenberg, J., Serrano, J. G., … Fellows Yates, J. A. (2024). Facilitating accessible, rapid, and appropriate processing of ancient metagenomic data with AMDirT. F1000Research, 12, Article 926. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.134798.2
• Structural violence and physical death at Tlatelolco: selecting the chronically malnourished for sacrifice at a Late Postclassic Mesoamerican city (1300-1521 CE)
  
  Blevins, K. E., McGrane, M., Mansilla Lory, J., Arroyo, S. G., & Buikstra, J. E. (2023). Structural violence and physical death at Tlatelolco: selecting the chronically malnourished for sacrifice at a Late Postclassic Mesoamerican city (1300-1521 CE). Bioarchaeology International, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.5744/bi.2022.0011
• Missing data in bioarchaeology I: A review of the literature
  
  Wissler, A., Blevins, K. E., & Buikstra, J. E. (2022). Missing data in bioarchaeology I: A review of the literature. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 179(3), 339-348. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24609
• Twenty‐first century bioarchaeology: Taking stock and moving forward
  
  Buikstra, J. E., DeWitte, S. N., Agarwal, S. C., Baker, B. J., Bartelink, E. J., Berger, E., Blevins, K. E., Bolhofner, K., Boutin, A. T., Brickley, M. B., Buzon, M. R., de la Cova, C., Goldstein, L., Gowland, R., Grauer, A. L., Gregoricka, L. A., Halcrow, S. E., Hall, S. A., Hillson, S., … Zakrzewski, S. R. (2022). Twenty‐first century bioarchaeology: Taking stock and moving forward. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 178(S74), 54-114. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24494
• Missing data in bioarchaeology II: A test of ordinal and continuous data imputation
  
  Wissler, A., Blevins, K. E., & Buikstra, J. E. (2022). Missing data in bioarchaeology II: A test of ordinal and continuous data imputation. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 179(3). https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24614
• Paleogenómica y bioarqueología en México
  
  Nieves-Colón, M. A., Blevins, K. E., Contreras-Sieck, M. Ángel, & Bravo López, M. (2021). Paleogenómica y bioarqueología en México. Cuicuilco. Revista De Ciencias antropológicas, 28(81).
• Evolutionary history of Mycobacterium leprae in the Pacific Islands
  
  Blevins, K. E., Crane, A. E., Lum, C., Furuta, K., Fox, K., & Stone, A. C. (2020). Evolutionary history of Mycobacterium leprae in the Pacific Islands. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 375(1812). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0582
• Infection, Disease, and Biosocial Processes at the End of the Indus Civilization
  
  Robbins Schug, G., Blevins, K. E., Cox, B., Gray, K., & Mushrif-Tripathy, V. (2013). Infection, Disease, and Biosocial Processes at the End of the Indus Civilization. PLoS ONE, 8(12), Article e84814. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0084814