Abagail Breidenstein
Research Development Specialist
Office of Strategic Research Initiatives
Background
Abagail Breidenstein received her Ph.D. in 2019 from the University of Michigan and continued her postdoctoral work as a researcher for the Paleogenomics and Mummies Studies groups at the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Z眉rich. She has been a lecturer at 黑料视频 in the Anthropology Department since 2022. She is also the Associate Director of the Nuri Archaeological Expedition where she currently conducts anthropological and bioarchaeological research at this ancient necropolis in Sudan. Abagail鈥檚 research interests include the bioarchaeology of Nubia (ancient Sudan) and other Nile Valley civilizations, the optimization of paleogenomic methodologies applied to materials from African archaeological sites, and the growing role of ancient DNA data in anthropological research projects.