Contact Information
607 S Mathews Ave.
M/C 148
Urbana, IL 61801
Office Hours
Courses Taught
ANTH 241 Human Variation and Race
ANTH 246 Forensic Science
ANTH 441 Human Genetics
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Anthropology
Professor, Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Professor, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Anthropology
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Recent Publications
de Flamingh, A., Coutu, A., Sealy, J., Chirikure, S., Bastos, A. D. S., Libanda-Mubusisi, N. M., Malhi, R. S., & Roca, A. L. (2021). Sourcing Elephant Ivory from a Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Shipwreck. Current Biology, 31(3), 621-628.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.10.086
Perri, A. R., Feuerborn, T. R., Frantz, L. A. F., Larson, G., Malhi, R. S., Meltzer, D. J., & Witt, K. E. (2021). Dog domestication and the dual dispersal of people and dogs into the Americas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(6). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2010083118
Witt, K. E., Yarlagadda, K., Allen, J. M., Bader, A. C., Simon, M. L., Kuehn, S. R., Swanson, K. S., Cross, T. W. L., Hedman, K. M., Ambrose, S. H., & Malhi, R. S. (2021). Integrative analysis of DNA, macroscopic remains and stable isotopes of dog coprolites to reconstruct community diet. Scientific reports, 11(1), [3113]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-82362-6
Buonasera, T., Eerkens, J., de Flamingh, A., Engbring, L., Yip, J., Li, H., Haas, R., DiGiuseppe, D., Grant, D., Salemi, M., Nijmeh, C., Arellano, M., Leventhal, A., Phinney, B., Byrd, B. F., Malhi, R. S., & Parker, G. (2020). A comparison of proteomic, genomic, and osteological methods of archaeological sex estimation. Scientific reports, 10(1), [11897]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-68550-w
Flamingh, A., Coutu, A., Roca, A. L., & Malhi, R. S. (2020). Accurate sex identification of ancient elephant and other animal remains using low-coverage DNA shotgun sequencing data. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 10(4), 1427-1432. https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.119.400833