STANFORD UNIVERSITY ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KRISH SEETAH – CURRICULUM VITAE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, 450 SERRA MALL, BUILDING 50 STANFORD, CALIFORNIA, 94305-2034. E: [email protected] / T: 650 721 3421 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RESEARCH EMPHASIS Human-animal interactions as observed through the socio-economic contexts of meat consumption. Cross cultural relationships and culture contact within the context of European colonization in the Indian Ocean. Interdisciplinary approaches to disease using climatic & archaeo-historic data to study the spread of malaria. CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECT Mauritian Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (MACH) Project: (~$500,000 secured in funding to date). Undertaking fieldwork to better understand slave and indentured diasporas, to investigate the consequences of anthropogenic climatic change on local disease ecology, and to drive historical archaeology in the Indian Ocean. ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2012 – present Assistant Prof. of Anthropology, Stanford University, USA. 2010-2012 Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Central Lancashire, UK. AFFILIATIONS AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY 2018 Faculty Research Fellow, Institute for Research in the Social Sciences. 2017 – present Faculty Lead, Malaria Working Group, Center for Innovation in Global Health. 2015 – present Faculty Fellow, Center for Innovation in Global Health. 2015 – present Fellow, Program in Disease Ecology, Health and Development. 2015 – present Fellow, Center for Population Health Sciences. 2014 – 2015 Fellow, Center for Innovation in Global Health. 2013 – present Fellow / Executive Board Member (since 2017), Center for African Studies. 2013 – present Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment. 2013 – present Fellow, The Europe Center / Freeman Spogli Institute. 2013 – present Fellow, Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 2013 – present Faculty Affiliate, Center for South Asia. 2012 – present Faculty Affiliate, Stanford Archaeology Center. FELLOWSHIPS AND CONSULTANCY 2011-2014 ERC Research Fellow, Reading University, UK. 2010-2014 Associate Fellow, McDonald Institute, UK. 2010-2011 Scientific Fellow, Scientific Research Centre, Slovenia. 2009-2011 External Consultant, Truth & Justice Commission, Mauritius. 2007-2010 Leverhulme Research Associate, McDonald Institute, UK. EDUCATION 2002-2007 Ph.D. Archaeology, University of Cambridge, UK. 2000-2002 M.Sc. Osteoarchaeology (with Distinction), Bournemouth University, UK. 1996-1998 M.Sc. Ecology for Sustainable Development, University of Surrey, UK. 1993-1996 B.Sc. (with Honors) Biological Sciences, University of Surrey, UK. 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PUBLICATIONS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PUBLISHED (1 MONOGRAPH; 2 EDITED VOLUMES; 26 PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES; 21 BOOK CHAPTERS) Monographs Seetah. K. 2019. Humans, Animals, and the Craft of Slaughter in Archaeo-Historic Societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Edited volumes Seetah. K. 2018a. (ed.). Connecting Continents: Archaeology and History in the Indian Ocean World. Athens (OH): Ohio University Press (Indian Ocean Studies Series). *Awarded the Society for American Archaeology Prize for Scholarly Books, 2019* Seetah. K., &, Gravina. B. 2012. (eds.). Bones for Tools – Tools for Bones. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Monographs Series. Edited journals Dawson. H., Grima. R., Pluskowski. A., &, Seetah. K. (eds.). 2010, Archaeological approaches to the cultural construction of islands. In: Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Special issue on Island Archaeology) Journal Articles – peer reviewed Banerjea. R., Badura. M., Kalējs. U., Cerina. A., Gos. K., Hamilton-Dyer. S., Maltby. M., Seetah. K., &, Pluskowski. A. 2017. A multi-proxy, diachronic and spatial perspective on the urban activities within an indigenous community in medieval Riga, Latvia. Quaternary International. Vol. 460., pg. 3-21. Garchitorena. A., Sokolow. S., Roche. B., Ngonghala. C., Jocque. M., Lund. A., Barry. M., Mordecai. E., Daily. G., Jones. J., Andrews. J., Bendavid. E., Luby. S., LaBeaud. A., Seetah. K., Guégan. J., Bonds. M., &, De Leo. G. 2017. Disease ecology, health and the environment: a framework to account for ecological and socio-economic drivers in the control of neglected tropical diseases. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. Vol. 372: 1722. 20160128. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0128 Sawicki. Z., Pluskowski. A., Brown. A., Badura. M., Makowiecki, D., Shilito, L-M., Zabilska. M., &, Seetah. K. 2017. “Sobrevivir en la frontera de la Guerra santa: expansión política, cruzadas, explotación ambiental y el asentamiento medieval de colonización de Biała Góra, norte de Polonia”, [Survival at the Frontier of Holy War: Political Expansion, Crusading, Environmental Exploitation and the Medieval Colonizing Settlement at Biała Góra, North Poland] Revista Universitaria de Historia Militar, Vol. 6: 12., pg. 50-84. Seetah. K. 2016. Contextualising complex social contact: Mauritius, a microcosm of global diaspora. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. Vol. 26: 2., pg. 265-83. DOI:10.1017/S0959774315000414. Seetah. K., Cardini. A., &, Barker. G. 2016a. The long-fuse model of horse domestication. The Holocene. Vol. 26: 8., pg. 1326-33. DOI: 10.1177/0959683616638436. Seetah. K., Birch. T., Calaon. D., &, Čaval. S. 2016b. Colonial iron in context: the Trianon slave shackle from Mauritius. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. Vol. 9., pg. 419-30. DOI: 10.1007/s12520-015-0295-7. Seetah. K. 2015a. The archaeology of Mauritius. Antiquity. Vol. 89: 346., pg. 922-39. DOI:10.15184/aqy.2015.75. 2 Seetah. K. 2015b. “The Minister will tell the nation…”: the role of media for public archaeology in Mauritius. World Archaeology, Special volume: Public Archaeology. Vol. 47:2., pg. 285-98. Seetah. K. 2015c. Objects past: objects present: materials, resistance and memory from the Le Morne Old Cemetery, Mauritius. Journal of Social Archaeology. Vol. 15:2., pg. 233-53. DOI: 10.1177/1469605315575124. Cardini. A., Seetah. K., &, Barker. G. 2015. How many specimens do I need? Sampling error in geometric morphometrics: testing the sensitivity of means and variances in simple randomized selection experiments. Zoomorphology. Vol. 134: 2., pg. 149-63. DOI 10.1007/s00435-015-0253-z Sawicki. Z., Pluskowski. A. G., Brown. A., Badura. M., Makowiecki. D., Shillito. L-M., Zabilska-Kunek. M., &, Seetah. K. 2015. Survival at the frontier of holy war: Political expansion, crusading, environmental exploitation and the medieval colonizing settlement at Biała Góra, north Poland. European Journal of Archaeology. Vol. 18: 2., pg. 282-313. Seetah. K., Cucchi. T., Dobney. K., &, Barker. G. 2014. A geometric morphometric re-evaluation of the use of dental form to explore population differences in horses (Equus caballus) and its potential zooarchaeological application. Journal of Archaeological Science. Vol. 41., pg. 904-10. Fregel. R., Seetah. K., Betancor. E., Suárez. N., Calaon. D., Čaval. S., Janoo. A., &, Pestano. J. 2014. Multiple ethnic origins of mitochondrial DNA lineages for the population of Mauritius. Joint first author. Public Library of Science ONE 9(3): e93294. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0093294 Appleby. J., Seetah. K., Calaon. D., Čaval. S., Janoo. A., &, Teelock. V. 2014. The juvenile cohort from Le Morne cemetery: a snapshot of early life and death after abolition. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. Vol. 24., pg. 737-46. Pluskowski. A. G., Sawicki. Z., Shillito. L-M., Badura. M., Makowiecki. D., Zabilska-Kunek. M., Seetah. K., &, Brown. A. 2014. Biała Góra: the forgotten colony in the medieval Pomeranian-Prussian borderlands. Antiquity. Vol. 88: 341., pg. 863-82. Seetah. K., Cardini. A., &, Miracle. P. 2012. Can morphospace shed light on cave bear spatial-temporal variation? Population dynamics of Ursus spelaeus from Romualdova pecina and Vindija, (Croatia). Journal of Archaeological Science. Vol. 39: 2., pg. 500-10. Campana. M., Stock. F., Barrett. E., Benecke. N., Barker. G., Seetah. K., &, Bower. M. 2012. Genetic stability in the Icelandic horse breed. Animal Genetics. Vol. 43: 3., pg. 447-9. Seetah. K. 2010. “Our Struggle”: colonial legacies on an island paradise. SHIMA, The International Journal for Island Cultures. Vol. 4: 1., pg. 99-112. Pluskowski. A., Seetah. K., &, Maltby. M. 2010. Potential osteoarchaeological evidence for riding and the military use of horses at Malbork Castle, Poland. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Vol. 20: 3., pg. 335-43 Pluskowski, A., Ioniţă, A. &, Seetah. K. 2010. Excavations at the medieval fortress in Feldioara / Marienburg, 2007. Materiale Şi Cercetări Arheologice (serie nouă). Vol. 6., pg. 173-84. Maltby. M., Pluskowski. A., &, Seetah. K. 2009. Animal Bones from an Industrial Quarter at Malbork, Poland: Towards an Ecology of a Castle Built in Prussia by the Teutonic Order. Crusades, Vol. 8., pg. 191-213. 3 Seetah. K. 2008. Modern analogy, cultural theory and experimental archaeology: a merging point at the cutting edge of archaeology. World Archaeology, Vol. 40: 1., pg. 135-50.