Ventura Perez
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Interpersonal and institutionalized violence, paleopathology, etiology of diseases affecting the skeleton, NAGPRA compliance, forensics. American Southwest, Mexico
Professional Biography
Dr. Pérez is a bioarchaeologist whose research is embedded within a biocultural paradigm. His focus is on the poetics of violence (both interpersonal and institutional) in past and present human populations. His analysis of various types of trauma examines how the symbolic aspects of violence have the potential to create order and disorder depending on the specific social context within which the violence is expressed. Dr. Pérez is currently researching the use of performance violence in pre-Hispanic and post contact Mexico, is a consultant for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, and is working with Dr. Nancy Scheper-Hughes at the site of Montes de Oca in Argentina. Contact him at @email.
Education
- 2006 Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology, with distinction, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- 2000 MA in Biological Anthropology, with distinction, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- 1997 BA in Anthropology, University of Iowa