Migration, Borderlands, and Social Boundaries in Antiquity: Lecture 4 with Dr. Megan Perry

Megan A. Perry is Professor of Anthropology and Rivers Distinguished Professor of International Studies at East Carolina University.  She holds her degrees from the University of New Mexico (Ph.D.), Case Western Reserve University (M.A.), and Boston University (B.A.). Her primary research interests involve investigating human skeletal remains to assess ancient disease, diet, and mobility patterns, in addition to mortuary practices of ancient populations in 1^st to 6^th century A.D. Jordan. Her bioarchaeological research at Petra focuses on how one neighborhood in the ancient city adapted to their increasingly urban environment through evidence of physiological stress, isotopic evidence of diet and migration, population demography, and sources of the site’s most important resource, water. Professor Perry has been working on archaeological projects in Jordan for over 30 years, and she is on the Board of Trustees of the American Center of Research (ACOR) in Amman, Jordan.