Summary

Stine Carlsson is a PhD candidate at Queens University Belfast in Northern Ireland. We discuss strategies for finding a good grad program, dealing with toxic academic environments, choosing a path, and skeletal stress indicators. 

Recommendations

• What to read to learn more:
  • Bioarchaeology: Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton by Clark Spencer Larsen (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
  • Dr. Daniel Temple’s work on the osteological paradox
• What she’s reading for work right now:
  • Site reports
  • Radiocarbon analysis literature
  • Life and death in medieval Gaelic Ireland: the skeletons from Ballyhanna, Co. Donegal by Dr. Catriona McKenzie and Dr. Eileen Murphy (Four Courts Press, 2020)
• What she’s consuming for fun:
  • Listening to the AnthroBiology Podcast 🙂
  • The Arch & Anth Podcast
  • Serial
  • Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease by Daniel Lieberman (Vintage, 2014)