Research description: I study skeletons from archaeological sites in Greece. I am particularly interested in disease and war-related trauma, but I am happy to work with whatever an excavation turns up. My current projects involve an early Christian cemetery in Thebes, Greece that was probably associated with an early monastic hospital/hospice. There are high numbers of cancers, trauma, and infectious diseases, particularly leprosy. I also am currently writing up, together with Susan Kirkpatrick Smith, two rich Mycenaean chamber tombs from the Athenian Agora that contained large numbers of bronze weapons. My third project is a Roman-era deposit in a well in Eretria on the island of Euboia, Greece that contains both secondarily deposited adult and child skeletons, some of which also have leprosy (my new favorite disease), and about 150 infant and fetal remains that appear to be primary depositions. This may be similar to the phenomenon of the Hellenistic (2nd c. BC) Athenian Agora Bone Well (Liston, Rotroff and Snyder, 2018) which contained an MNI of 459 neonatal and fetal skeletons as well as one adult and one child. We hypothesized that the infants died of natural causes and were deposited by midwives who were tasked with disposing of afterbirths and may have also disposed of the bodies of infants who died before the rite of passage known as the Amphidromia. Other recent work includes the Kavousi Vronda early Iron Age cemeteries from Crete (Day and Liston, in press) and the early Iron Age graves from the Athenian Agora (Papdopoulos et al. 2017). In addition to my position in the Anthropology Department at the University of Waterloo, I am currently an Honorary Research Affiliate at the Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory of Archaeological Sciences at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.