Short Bio

Angelique Corthals is a biological/forensic anthropologist. She earned her DPhil (PhD) at the University of Oxford, where she specialized in Egyptology and biological anthropology. Her work has focused on conservation biology in the US and abroad, the ecology of infectious diseases (Bilharzia, Malaria) and forensics. She has studied and worked on human remains at the Metropolitan Museum of New York, AMNH and the Museum of High Mountain Archaeology in Salta, Argentina. She worked for 6 years at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, first as Collection Manager then as the Curatorial Associate (director) of the Ambrose Monell Collection for Molecular and Microbial Research (AMCC), which she pioneered with Drs. Hanner and Desalle. She is particularly eager to work with academic institutions in developing biological repositories or genetic resource collections for uses such as conservation, medicine and evolutionary research.

She is currently engaged in a collaborative study with Drs. Pinedo-Vasquez (Columbia University), Padoch (NYBG), Gilman (Johns Hopkins) and Davalos (AMNH) on the ecology of Malaria in the Peruvian Amazon.

She is also engaged in a study of the ecology of infectious diseases, specifically tuberculosis and malaria, in Egypt.  

She was appointed Lecturer in Biomedical and Forensic Studies in the faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Manchester from 2006 to 2008, and is moving to the State University of New York at Stony Brook.