Research description: As a biological anthropologist, I focus on the ways in which social inequalities affect health. I explore biological and archaeological evidence from historic and late prehistoric sites in the Caribbean and the Americas to better understand the lives of large “historically invisible” communities (e.g., enslaved and indigenous populations, especially women and children) for whom little or no textual evidence exists. I have directed research at sites in Barbados, Belize, and across the eastern U.S.