Published Works

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2025

Locker AJ*, Chase DZ, Chase AF, Chase ASZ, Pederson Vallejos A, Cano G, Rodriguez R, To’one Masehualoon NGO, Badillo M, Baker LJ, Tung TT, Smith RWA. The Maya are a People of Movement: Reconstructing Shifts in Maya Mobility from Oxygen Isotopes across Three Millenia at Chactemal (Santa Rita Corozal), Northern Belize. AJBA. [In press]

Wutich A, Nelson R, DuBois LZ, Astorino CM, Knudson K, Reynolds AW, Riley EP, Smith RWA, Vansickle C, Russo Carroll S, Connors CK, Jankovic-Rankovic J, Mitchell CF, Roque AD, Tsosie KS, Watkins R. Rigorous and Systematic Qualitative Data Analysis in Biological Anthropology. Yearbook of Biological Anthropology. [In press]

2024

Smith RWA, Nelson RG, Magpiong AR*, South SK*, Dervarics A, Plattner P, Coe Schweiger B, Reynolds AW. The plantation system and the roots of the southern rural mortality penalty in the northern Blackland Prairies of Texas. Health and Place. 88: 103234.

2023

Balentine CM, Alfonso-Durruty M, Reynolds AW, Vilar M, Morello F, San Román M, Springs LC, Smith RWA, Archer SM*, Mata-Míguez J, Wing N, and Bolnick DA. Exploring population histories in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, Chile, using ancient mitochondrial and Y-chromosome DNA. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 180(1):144-161.

2021

Smith RWA and Non A. Assessing the Achievements and Uncertain Future of Paleoepigenomics. Epigenomics. [pdf]

Tsosie KS, Bader A, Fox K, Bolnick DA, Garrison N, Smith RWA. Ancient DNA Researchers Write Their Own Rules. Nature 600(37). [pdf]

Smith RWA. Imperial Terroir: Toward A Queer Molecular Ecology of Colonial Masculinities. Current Anthropology 62(23)1:14. [invited by Wenner-Gren] [pdf]

Smith RWA, Springs L, Reynolds AW, Bolnick DA. Making Kin in a Postgenomic World: Indigenous Belonging after the Genome. In: Daniels v Canada: In and Beyond the Courts. Nathalie Kermoal and Chris Andersen, eds. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press. [book]

Salas LA, Peres LC, Thayer ZM, Smith RWA, Guo Y, Chung W, Si J, Liang L. A Transdisciplinary Approach to Understand the Epigenetic Basis of Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities. Epigenomics. [pdf]

Smith RWA. How Imperialism Gave Us 2020. SAPIENS Magazine. [essay]

2020

Tsosie K, Yracheta J, Kolopenuk J, Smith RWA. Indigenous Data Sovereignties and Data Sharing in Biological Anthropology. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 174(2):183-186.

Tung TA, Smith RWA, Creanza N, Monroe C, Bolnick DA, Kemp BM. Constrained Agency while Negotiating Spanish Colonialism: A Bioarchaeological, Isotopic, and Ancient DNA Study of the Vinchos Cave Mummies, Ayacucho, Peru. Bioarchaeology International 3(3):187–218.

2019

Smith RWA and Bolnick DA. Situating Science: Doing Biological Anthropology as a View from Somewhere. In: Vital Topics Forum – How Academic Diversity is Transforming Scientific Knowledge in Biological Anthropology. American Anthropologist 121(2):465-467.

Smith RWA and Archer SM. Bisexual Science. In: Vital Topics Forum – How Academic Diversity is Transforming Scientific Knowledge in Biological Anthropology. American Anthropologist 121(2):491-492.

Bolnick DA, Smith RWA, Fuentes A (eds.). Vital Topics Forum – How Academic Diversity is Transforming Scientific Knowledge in Biological Anthropology. American Anthropologist 121(2):464.

Smith RWA. Fifty Years in the Fight for Indigenous Sovereignty: From Alcatraz Island to Elizabeth Warren (1969-2019). Anthropology News 60(2):3-5. [invited] [top 5 article of 2019] [article]

Smith RWA. Monogamy Undone: Review of A. Willey’s Undoing Monogamy: The Politics of Science and the Possibilities of Biology. Durham, Duke University Press. Imaginations. [invited] [pdf]

2015

Smith RWA, Monroe C, Bolnick DA. Detection of Cytosine Methylation in Ancient DNA from Five Native American Populations Using Bisulfite Sequencing. PLoS ONE 10(5): e0125344. [pdf]