research.
REFEREED ARTICLES
Gruenthal-Rankin, A., and T. Somogyi (in press) Opening the cabinets: A critical evaluation of skeletal teaching collections in the United States. American Journal of Biological Anthropology.
Adams DM, JR Bedard, SH Blatt, E Faisal, JR Goliath, G Gregory-Alcock, A Gruenthal-Rankin, PN Morales Lorenzo, AC Smith, SD Tallman, R Tegtmeyer Hawke. (2024). Speaking Truth to Power: Toward a Forensic Anthropology of Advocacy and Activism. Humans. 14(1):66-90.
Gruenthal-Rankin, A., Somogyi, T., Roome, A., & DiGangi, E. A. (2023). Beyond the report: Prospects and challenges in forensic anthropological investigations of structural vulnerability. Forensic Science International: Synergy, 100315. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsisyn.2023.100315 (Open access)
Gruenthal-Rankin, A. and T. Somogyi. (2022). Critical Review Essay: The Archaeology of Human Bones and Bioarchaeology: An Introduction to the Archaeology and Anthropology of the Dead. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24427
Ramsier, M., A. Gruenthal-Rankin, K. Gaddis, and A. Koperkiewicz. (2021) Sample Size and Representational Bias in Small Sites: A Case Study of Stature from Medieval Prussia. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 31(4): 523-533. doi: 10.1002/oa.2969
DiGangi, E. and A. Gruenthal-Rankin. 2019. Skeletal Stress Markers and Subsistence Strategy in Prehistoric Chilean Populations of the Semi-arid North. Chungará 51(4): 613-626. doi: 10.4067/S0717-73562019005002201
Gruenthal, A., T. Simmons and C. Moffat. 2012. Differential Decomposition Patterns in Charred Versus Un-Charred Remains. Journal of Forensic Sciences 57(1): 12-18. doi: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2011.01909.x
CONFERENCE PAPERS
Gaddis, K. and A. Gruenthal-Rankin (2024). Beyond Nuns and Grandmothers: Intersectional aging and the role of elder females in medieval Prussia. European Association of Archaeologists 30th Annual Meeting, Rome, IT.
Gruenthal-Rankin, A., K. Lalley, N. Sookla, and K. Aceret (2024). Missing and Unidentified in Hawai'i: Collaborative, community-driven forensics. University of West O'ahu Research and Engaged Scholarship Conference.
Ślusarska, K., M. Adamczyk, J. Karmowski, A. Gruenthal-Rankin, K. Gaddis, and M. Ramsier (2024). Life and Death by the Lake in Pomerania: Introducing the Late Medieval Cemetery at Żelewo Site 1-3. Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
DiGangi, E., A. Gruenthal-Rankin, and T. Somogyi. “They’re People Too”: Perspectives on the (Dis)embodiment of Teaching Assemblages. American Association of Biological Anthropologists’ 91st Annual Scientific Meeting, Denver, CO.
Gruenthal-Rankin, A., M. Ramsier, K. Gaddis, and A. Koperkiewicz. Early-Life Dietary Stress and Frailty after Colonization and Conversion in Medieval Prussia. American Association of Biological Anthropologists’ 91st Annual Scientific Meeting, Denver, CO.
DiGangi, E., A. Gruenthal-Rankin, and T. Somogyi. 2021. Forensic Science and the Living: The Ethics of "Determining" Age from Minor Children. American Academy of Forensic Sciences 73rd Annual Scientific Meeting, virtual.
DiGangi, E., A. Gruenthal-Rankin and M. Trimble. 2018. Forensic Science, Death, and the Public: Towards Effective and Compassionate Communication. American Association of Physical Anthropologists 87th Annual Meeting, Austin, TX. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 165(S66): 68.
Gruenthal-Rankin, A., M. Ramsier, A. Koperkiewicz and M. Polcyn. 2016. Investigating early-life stress and early death through growth disruption in a medieval Prussian sample. 6th Annual Bioarchaeologists’ Northeast Regional Dialogue, Oneonta, NY.
Gruenthal AM. 2010. Differential Decomposition Patterns in Charred Versus Un-Charred Remains. American Academy of Forensic Sciences Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. Proceedings of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. 16: 355.
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP
Tallman, S., A. Smith, A. Gruenthal-Rankin, and D. Adams. 2025. Fighting for Justice for the Dead- and the Living. Sapiens- Anthropology Magazine (Link to full article).
N. Cristobal and A. Gruenthal-Rankin. 2023. Whose Kuleana Is It? Addressing the Missing and Murdered Native Hawaiian Women, Girls, and Māhū Crisis through Forensic Anthropology and Community Collaboration. American Academy of Forensic Sciences Justice Talks. (Link to full article)
SELECTED CONFERENCE POSTERS
Ramsier, M., A. Gruenthal-Rankin, K. Gaddis, and A. Koperkiewicz. 2022. Dietary trends in the post-colonization medieval Prussian region. American Association of Biological Anthropologists’ 91st Annual Scientific Meeting, Denver, CO.
Gaddis, K., M. Ramsier, A. Koperkiewicz, M. Polcyn, A. Gruenthal-Rankin. 2019. Exploring Frailty in Bezławki: A Modified Method for the Assessment of Frailty in Human Skeletal Remains. American Association of Physical Anthropologists 88th Annual Meeting, Cleveland, OH. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 168(S68): 80.
Gruenthal-Rankin, A., K. Gaddis, A. Koperkiewicz, M. Polcyn, and M. Ramsier. 2019. Testing the Effectiveness of Permanent Canine Tooth Metrics for Sex Estimation in a Medieval Prussian Sample. American Association of Physical Anthropologists 88th Annual Meeting, Cleveland, OH. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 168(S68): 93.
Pinkston, E., A. Gruenthal-Rankin, S. Glasgow, and M. Ramsier. 2019. Estimating Body Mass for Subadults: A Radiographic Study of the Femur. American Association of Physical Anthropologists 88th Annual Meeting, Cleveland, OH. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 168(S68): 191.
Gaddis, K., A. Gruenthal-Rankin, M. Ramsier, A. Koperkiewicz and M. Polcyn. 2018. Stress and frailty in Medieval Prussia: Interpretations from skeletal remains at Bezławki. American Association of Physical Anthropologists 87th Annual Meeting, Austin, TX. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 165(S66): 92.
Horvat, J., M. Ramsier, A. Gruenthal-Rankin, A. Koperkiewicz and M. Polcyn. 2018. Nutrition and diet of a Late Medieval Prussian population: What the analysis of dental microwear can tell us. American Association of Physical Anthropologists 87th Annual Meeting, Austin, TX. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 165(S66): 125.