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George J. Armelagos

George J. Armelagos
Born (1936-05-22)May 22, 1936
Detroit, Michigan
Died May 15, 2014(2014-05-15) (aged 77)
Atlanta, Georgia
Nationality American
Alma mater University of Michigan (BA) (1958)
University of Colorado (MA) (1963)
University of Colorado (PhD) (1968)
Occupation Anthropologist
Organization Emory University
Awards Viking Fund Medal (2005)
Franz Boas Award (2008)
Charles Darwin Award (2009)

George J. Armelagos (May 22, 1936 – May 15, 2014) was an American anthropologist, and Goodrich C. White Professor of Anthropology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Armelagos significantly impacted the field of physical anthropology in the disciplines of paleopathology and bioarchaeology. His work has provided invaluable contributions to the theoretical and methodological understanding human disease, diet and human variation within an evolutionary context. Relevant topics include epidemiology,paleopathology,paleodemography,bioarchaeology,evolutionary medicine, and the social interpretations of race, among others.

Armelagos received a B.A. with honors in Anthropology from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in 1958. He then entered the Medical School at Michigan-Ann Arbor (1958), transferred a year later into the Rackham Graduate School in Anthropology at Michigan (1959), where he met Jack Kelso. He would later follow Kelso to the Anthropology Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder where he received both his M.A. (1963) and Ph.D. (1968) degrees. It was at Colorado that he formulated his early ideas the nature of disease and the need for a bio-cultural approach to explain the relationship between the evolution of disease and the human response to it.

Upon graduating from the University of Colorado, Armelagos taught at the University of Utah (1965-1968) and was then hired at the University of Massachusetts where he aided in the creation of the Ph.D. program in Anthropology.

During his 22-year career at Massachusetts he would train over a dozen anthropologists that would themselves contribute to research in human variation and adaptation, paleopathology, and skeletal biology and hold high ranking positions in the major associations for the discipline. He chaired Section H (Anthropology), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)(1997), and was President of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (1987-1989). His graduate students included Owen Lovejoy, John Lallo, Ann Magennis, Rebecca Huss-Ashmore, Dennis van Gerven, Michael Blakey, Jerome Rose, Pamela Bumsted, David Carlson, Lesley Rankin-Hill, Debra Martin, Anne Grauer, Alan H. Goodman, and Brenda Baker. While a professor at the University of Massachusetts he would receive many awards, including the University Distinguished Teacher (1973) and the Chancellor’s Medalist (1980).


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