View Profile
Dr Trudi Buck
Teaching Fellow in the Department of Anthropology
Teaching Fellow in the Health and Human Sciences
Department Undergraduate Co-Ordinator, Health and Human Sciences
(email at t.j.buck@durham.ac.uk)
Biography
I received my PhD from the University of Durham in 2007. The title of my thesis was "Dispersal of Homo sapiens around the Indian Ocean Rim: a geometric morphometric study of craniofacial diversity".
My research interests include:
- The evolution of human craniofacial diversity
- Early human migrations
- Biological anthropology from material culture
- Forensic anthropology
- Applications of geometric morphometrics to human evolution
- Public engagement with science and anthropology
Research Groups
Department of Anthropology
Selected Publications
Journal papers: academic
- Buck, T J & Vidarsdottir, U S (2009). Craniofacial evolution in Polynesia: a geometric morphometric study of population diversity. American Journal of Physical Anthropology (48): 99.
- Buck, T J & Vidarsdottir, U S (2007). Environmental Influences on cranial shape variation. American Journal of Physical Anthropology (44): 82.
- Vidarsdottir US, Buck TJ, Cooper A, Endicott P & Stringer C (2005). Morphology and molecules: a study of diversity and dispersal in the island populations of South Asia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology (Suppl. 40): 200-200.
- Buck, TJ & Strand Vidarsdóttir, U (2004). A proposed method for the identification of race in sub-adult skeletons: a geometric morphometric analysis of mandibular morphology. Journal of Forensic Sciences 49(6): 1159-1164.