Dr. Sabrina Agarwal

Biography

Sabrina C. Agarwal is a prominent figure in the field of bioarchaeology, serving as the Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She holds a B.A., M.Sc. from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. from an institution collaborating with the Department of Anthropology and the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto. With extensive experience, she was a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada Postdoctoral Fellow at McMaster University and has held positions at the University of Toronto and UC Berkeley. Agarwal's research interests are cross-disciplinary, encompassing biological evolutionary anthropology, skeletal biology, health disparities, and bioethics. Notably, she has co-directed significant studies on archaeological remains and has published numerous academic works, including as a founding co-editor of Bioarchaeology International. She actively engages in pedagogical training for future college instructors and has received accolades for her teaching excellence, including the Distinguished Teaching Award. Additionally, she is a member of the UC Berkeley NAGPRA Advisory Committee and the T.C.E.T.H.E.R. of the American Anthropological Association. Her publications cover topics such as bone health, childhood experiences in antiquity, and the implications of sex and gender in bioarchaeology, contributing significantly to the academic discourse in her field.

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