Welcome to New Staff Member Dr Victoria Gibbon

Dr. Victoria Gibbon has recently joined the Division of Clinical Anatomy and Biological Anthropology as a Senior Lecturer in Biological Anthropology. She earned her PhD in 2008 from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Her dissertation was based on the development of novel molecular sex determination methods optimal for human forensic and archaeological skeletal remains. After the completion of her PhD she conducted research as a postdoctoral fellow, initially at the University of the Witwatersrand followed by a position at Purdue University. Before returning to South Africa in her new position at UCT, she held a permanent academic position at the University of New Brunswick in Biological and Forensic Anthropology. Her research and teaching interests are primarily in biological anthropology, forensics, and bioarchaeology. She uses biological indicators from the skeleton to understand past human societies; their biology, migration patterns, health, culture and subsistence practices. Her current research focus is applying these methods to Iron and Bronze Age human skeletal remains from southern Africa (2000 BP, South Africa and Zambia), North Africa (3500-3000 BP, northern Sudan) and northern China (3000-1600 BP, near Beijing).