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		Melissa Scott Murphy Department of Anthropology West House 210 Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 610-526-5032 (office) 610-526-5075 (fax)
	Educational background
	Haverford College, Haverford, PA Bachelor of Arts, Anthropology Degree conferred May 1994 Major: Anthropology University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Doctorate in Biological Anthropology PhD qualifying exams, April 2000 May 2004, PhD degree conferred
	PhD Dissertation: From Bare Bones to Mummified. Understanding health and disease in an Inca community Current research interests: paleodemography, paleopathology, paleoradiography, biocultural impact of European contact, Inca and Early Colonial mortuary practices, Inca social organization, Inca warfare
	Selected Publications Murphy, M.S. (submitted) Coca leaf chewing during the Inca empire: Evidence from the mortuary community at Puruchuco-Huaquerones, Peru. 2004 From bare bones to mummified: Understanding health and disease in an Inca community. PhD dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Anthropology.
	Teaching experience Lecturer/Lab coordinator, Bryn Mawr College, July 2004-present Courses taught: Introduction to Prehistoric Archaeology and Human Evolution (Anthropology 101), Introduction to Biological Anthropology, Human Evolution (Anthropology 209), Human Origins and Race, (Anthropology 210), Forensic Anthropology (Anthropology 234), Medical Anthropology, NutritionalAnthropology (Anthropology 232), Evolution (cross-listed; Anthropology 236); Supervised reading (Anthropology 409)
	Current research •Puruchucu-Huaquerones Bioarchaeological Project (PHBP), June 2005-December 2008 Principal investigator of paleodemographic, paleopathological and radiographic project to be undertaken with the human remains from the cemetery of Puruchuco-Huaquerones. • Puruchuco-Huaquerones Project, Peru, August 2000-present Researching the question of health, disease, and paleodemography of a sample of the human remains from the Inca cemetery at Puruchuco-Huaquerones in Lima, Peru.
	Professional presentations Murphy, M.S. 2004 Coca leaf chewing at Puruchuco-Huaquerones, Peru. Paper presented at the Paleopathology Association meetings. Tampa, Florida, April Gaither, C., M.S. Murphy, G. Cock, M. Lund Vallee 2004 Insights from a provincial Inca cemetery: Mortuary patterns, growth and health at Puruchuco-Huaquerones. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology meetings. Montreal, Canada,March 31-April 4. Murphy, M.S. 2003 Coca leaf chewing and the Inca: Evidence from Puruchuco-Huaquerones. Paper presented to the Pre Columbian Society of Philadelphia. October 11, 2003. Murphy, M.S., G. Cock, E. Goyacochea 2003 Preliminary report on the relationship between status and health at the Inca cemetery of Puruchuco-Huaquerones, Peru. Paper presented at the Institute for Andean Studies 43rd Annual Meeting. Berkeley, California, January 10-11, 2003. Murphy, M.S. 2001 A bioarchaeological examination of human remains from the residential sector at El Brujo, Peru. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology meetings. New Orleans, Louisiana, April 18-22. Campbell, K., M.S. Murphy 2000 An examination of an Early Horizon community from El Brujo, Peru. Paper presented at the Northeast Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory Conference. Hanover, New Hampshire, November 4-5, 2000.
	Profession memberships/affiliations Society for American Archaeologists, Paleopathology Association, American Anthropological Association Language proficiency Spanish, French (reading only)

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