As an archaeologist, Diana Malarchik, Ph.D., has experience in cultural resource management working in northern California and northern Nevada. She also has experience in forensic anthropology, working as part of the humanitarian recoveries of victims of the Camp Fire complex as well as on projects recovering fallen soldiers from WWII.
As a teacher, she has more than a decade of teaching experience in both secondary education (grades 7 – 12), and at the university level. She is currently the head lecturer for the Anthropology of Health track at UCSB.
Her research is in bioarchaeology focusing on dental anthropology and what dentition can tell us about people in the past. She currently focuses on early childhood health and life history differences in Historic California using stable isotopes, proteomics, and trace element analysis.
Education
B.A. - University of Nevada, Reno - Education, Spanish minor
M.A. - University of Nevada, Reno - Biological Anthropology
Ph.D. - University of California, Davis - Evolutionary Anthropology
Research Focus
My research examines life history and health patterns in historic-period California populations from the San Francisco Bay Area. I use stable isotopic analysis, trace element analysis, and dental proteomics to better understand how childhood health, maternal behavior, and the societal changes that came with rapid industrialization.