PUBLICATIONS
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PRESENTATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles
Yaussy SL. 2024. Using craniofacial fluctuating asymmetry to examine the effects of sex, socioeconomic status, and early life experiences on adult age at death in industrial England. Am J Biol Anthropol 184(1): e24907. Link
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Yaussy SL, DeWitte SN, Hughes-Morey G. 2023. Survivorship and the second epidemiological transition in Industrial-era London. Am J Biol Anthropol 181(4): 646-652. PDF
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Yaussy SL. 2022. Intersectionality and the interpretation of past pandemics. Bioarchaeology International 6(1-2): 58-76. PDF
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DeWitte SN, Yaussy SL. 2020. Sex differences in adult famine mortality in medieval London. Am J Phys Anthropol 171(1): 164-169. PDF
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Yaussy SL. 2019. The intersections of industrialization: Variation in skeletal indicators of frailty by age, sex, and socioeconomic status in 18th- and 19th-century England. Am J Phys Anthropol 170(1): 116-130. PDF
Yaussy SL, DeWitte SN. 2019. Calculus and survivorship in medieval London: The association between dental disease and a demographic measure of general health. Am J Phys Anthropol 168(3): 552-565. PDF
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Yaussy SL, DeWitte SN. 2018. Patterns of frailty in non-adults from medieval London. International Journal of Paleopathology 22: 1-7. PDF
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DeWitte SN, Yaussy SL. 2017. Femur length and famine mortality in medieval London. Bioarchaeology International 1(3-4): 171-182. PDF
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Yaussy SL, DeWitte SN, Redfern R. 2016. Frailty and famine: patterns of mortality and physiological stress among victims of famine in medieval London. Am J Phys Anthropol 160(2): 272-283. PDF
Refereed Chapters
Yaussy SL. 2022. Epidemiology and Mathematical Modeling. In Grauer, A (Ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. Pp. 64-81. Link
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DeWitte SN, Yaussy SL. 2020. Bioarchaeological applications of intersectionality. In Cheverko C, Prince-Buitenhuys J, and Hubbe M (Eds) Theoretical Approaches in Bioarchaeology. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. Pp. 45-58. Link
Refereed Encyclopedia Entries
Yaussy SL. 2024. Paleoepidemiology. In Aldenderfer M (Ed.). Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Oxford University Press. Link
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Professional Presentations
​Frailty and Resilience in the Metropolis: Embodying Old Age in Medieval London.
Podium presentation with co-authors Kathryn Marklein, Sharon DeWitte, and Douglas Crews in “Elevating the Elders: (Re)Centering Older Adults in Bioarchaeology” at the 2024 meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists.
Frailty or Resilience? Hazards-based and Cumulative Phenotype Approaches to Discerning Signals of Health Inequality in Human Skeletal Data.
Invited podium presentation with co-authors Sharon DeWitte, Kathryn Marklein, and Douglas Crews in “Terminology, Theory, and Method for the Study of Inequality of Health: Breakthroughs or Barriers?” joint HBA/AABA symposium at the 2024 meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists.
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The Intersections Matter: Sex, Site, and Survivorship in Ottoman-era Hungary.
Invited podium presentation in “Women Have Always Been Here: Working Towards a Biological Anthropology of Women” symposium at the 2024 meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists. PDF
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The DOMINA Project: Revisiting the Condition of Women in Milan Over
2,000 years through Their Skeletal Remains.
Invited podium presentation with co-authors Lucie Biehler-Gomez, Claudia Moro, Paolo Morandini, Mirko Mattia, Lucrezia Rodella, Beatrice del Bo, and Cristina Cattaneo in “Women Have Always Been Here: Working Towards a Biological Anthropology of Women” symposium at the 2024 meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists.
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Women’s Health in Industrial-Era London.
Invited podium presentation with co-author Derek Boyd in “Women Have Always Been Here: Working Towards a Biological Anthropology of Women” symposium at the 2024 meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists.
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Evaluating Risks of Mortality for Individuals with Unilateral versus Bilateral Linear Enamel Hypoplasias in Postmedieval London.
Poster presentation with co-author Kathryn Marklein at the 2024 meeting of the Paleopathology Association. PDF
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Evaluating Risks of Mortality for Individuals with Concurrent versus Non-concurrent Bilateral Linear Enamel Hypoplasias in Postmedieval London.
Poster presentation with co-author Kathryn Marklein at the 2024 meeting of the Paleopathology Association. PDF
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The Effect of Sex on Risk of Mortality in Two Ottoman-era Populations from
Hungary
Poster presentation in “Bioarchaeology: Biocultural Variation in Human Health Experiences” session at the 2023 meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists. PDF
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Considering the Hyperinflammatory State in the Study of Periosteal Visceral Surface Rib Lesions: A Case Study in England at the Rise of Industry
Podium presentation with co-authors Derek Boyd and Chelsea Landon at the 2022 meeting of the Paleopathology Association.
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The Second Epidemiological Transition: Survivorship and Industrialization in London
Poster presentation with co-authors Sharon N. DeWitte and Gail Hughes-Morey at the 2021 meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. PDF
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The Intersectional Effects of Sex and Socioeconomic Status on Risk of Mortality in Industrializing England
Poster presentation in “Bioarchaeology: Demography, Migration, and Identity” session at the 2020 meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
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Tooth Size and Vertebral Neural Canal Size as Bioarchaeological Evidence of the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease Hypothesis
Podium presentation in “Paleodemography, Health, and Disease” session at the 2019 meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
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The Intersections of Industrialization: Variation in Physiological Stress Indicators by Age, Sex, and Socioeconomic Status in 18th- and 19th-century England
Invited poster presentation in “Paleopathology and the Rise of Industry” symposium at the 2019 meeting of the Paleopathology Association. PDF
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*Patterns of Craniofacial Fluctuating Asymmetry in Industrial-era England
Poster presented at the University of South Carolina’s Discover USC 2018. PDF
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Calculus and Survivorship in Medieval London: The Association between Dental Disease and a Demographic Measure of General Health
Invited poster presentation with co-author Sharon N. DeWitte in “Reevaluating the Meaning of ‘Oral Health’ in Bioarchaeology” symposium at the 2018 meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. PDF
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Childhood and Famine in Medieval London
Poster presentation with co-author Sharon N. DeWitte in “Bioarchaeology and Paleopathology: Stress, Frailty, and Inequality" session at the 2017 meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. PDF
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**Patterns of Physiological Stress among Victims of Medieval Crisis Mortality
Invited podium presentation with co-author Sharon N. DeWitte in “Feasts and Famines: Foregrounding the Interaction between Humans and Their Environment” symposium at the 2016 Paleopathology Association meeting; also presented at the University of South Carolina’s Graduate Student Day 2016.
Sex Mortality Differentials in Medieval London in the Context of Famine
Poster presentation with co-author Sharon N. DeWitte in “Skeletal Biology: Violence, Trauma, and Disease” session at the 2016 meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. PDF
Famine and Frailty: Crisis Mortality and Stature in Medieval London
Invited poster presentation with co-author Sharon N. DeWitte in "Kampsville: Celebrating Six Decades of Anthropological Research" symposium at the 2015 meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. PDF
Settlement and Site Formation in the upper Yadkin River Valley
Poster presented with co-author Eric E. Jones at the 2012 Southeastern Archaeological Conference.
Using Soils to Understand the Environment and Culture of North Carolina's Prehistoric Peoples
Poster presented at the 2012 Wake Forest University Undergraduate Research Symposium.
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* Awarded the Discover USC Graduate Student Poster Award
** Awarded the PPA Eve Cockburn Student Podium Presentation Award