Contact Information
607 S Mathews Ave.
M/C 148
Urbana, IL 61801
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Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Anthropology
Professor, Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Professor, American Indian Studies Program
Professor, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
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Recent Publications
Auerbach, B. M., Jackson, F. L. C., Berry, S. D., Blakey, M. L., Caldwell, J., Clinton, C., Graves, J. L., Jones, J. B., Lofaro, E. M., Malhi, R. S., Mosley, C. V., & Stubblefield, P. R. (2026). AABA Task Force on the Ethical Study of Human Remains Recommendations: Proposal for the Management and Oversight of Community Partnership and Ethical Stewardship of Human Remains. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 189(3), Article e70213. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.70213
Hoffman, A., Cortez, A. D., Davis, J. L., Bishop, K. J., de Flamingh, A., & Malhi, R. S. (Accepted/In press). In Dire Straits: The Resurrection and Extraction of the Dire Wolf, and the Current Colonial Basis of De-extinction Science. Ethnobiology Letters.
Dong, Y., & Malhi, R. S. (2025). Ancient DNA offers clues about mysterious prehistoric settlement in China. Nature, 648(8094), 548-549. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-03593-5
Lopopolo, M., Avanzi, C., Duchene, S., Luisi, P., De Flamingh, A., Ponce-Soto, G. Y., Tressieres, G., Neumeyer, S., Lemoine, F., Nelson, E. A., Iraeta-Orbegozo, M., Cybulski, J. S., Mitchell, J., Marks, V. T., Adams, L. B., Lindo, J., DeGiorgio, M., Ortiz, N., Wiens, C., ... Rascovan, N. (2025). Pre-European contact leprosy in the Americas and its current persistence. Science, 389(6758), Article eadu7144. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adu7144
de Flamingh, A., Gnoske, T. P., Kerbis Peterhans, J. C., Simeonovski, V. A., Gitahi, N., Mwebi, O., Agwanda, B. R., Catchen, J. M., Roca, A. L., & Malhi, R. S. (2024). Compacted hair in broken teeth reveals dietary prey of historic lions. Current Biology, 34(21), 5104-5111.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.09.029