Ask an Archaeologist, Episode 16: What can human bones tell us about epidemics in the past?

Ask an Archaeologist is a series of live-streamed interviews co-hosted by the Archaeological Research Facility (arf.berkeley.edu) and the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology (hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu).
During each program, we interview a UC Berkeley affiliated archaeologist and answer audience questions. Submit your questions in advance, or live, in the chat box.
José Luis Marrero Rosado is a PhD Student at UC Berkeley in Anthropology, with a focus in Archaeology and Bioarchaeology. He is currently funded through the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, which will allow him to complete his doctoral research on the effects of structural violence and social identity in differential rates of morbidity and mortality of infectious disease, under the supervision of social bioarchaeologist Dr. Sabrina Agarwal. José Luis is also interested in the history of the Caribbean in general, with particular focus on the historical period. Apart from his main research interests, José Luis has also participated in bioarchaeological excavations in rural Ohio and rural Transylvania (Harghita, Romania), seeking to better understand the life of immigrants that perished during the cholera epidemic and the christian community from the late medieval period, respectively.
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