Melina Seabrook, MA, is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at Harvard University. She is an NSF-GRFP Recipient interested in human-animal relationships and studying animal life histories using multiple avenues of analysis. Her dissertation project returns to a legacy collection to examine 400 mandibles using traditional zooarchaeological and new archaeological science methods. As part of her work, she is developing additional proteomic analyses for archaeological material. She has worked on the Ur project in Southern Iraq since 2015, and now works at other Iraqi sites including Kani Shaie and Fara. She is a coauthor on peer-reviewed articles published in PNAS and Bioarchaeology International, as well as popular science Magazine, Sapiens, which describes animal care in ancient societies. She received a teaching award for her pedagogy while teaching at Harvard. Her website supports the public to learn more about archaeology. Beyond academia, she has published a poetry book, available internationally.
