Alexandra D. Uhl

Biography 

Alexandra Uhl is a biological anthropologist. As a member of Stonehill’s faculty, she manages The Uhl Lab, where she and students complete an interdisciplinary examination of research focused on biological anthropology, biological archaeology, historic archaeology, sexual dimorphism, skeletal morphology and health/wellness. 

Uhl’s research has been funded by The Leakey Foundation and focuses on sexual dimorphism and ontogeny. She utilizes medical imaging software to study skeletal material and fossil specimens. Her work has been published in PLOS ONE, AJPA and Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 

Uhl is the excavation leader of an ongoing archaeological site in Rhode Island funded by the van Beuren Charitable Foundation. With 10 years of teaching experience across the fields of anthropology and biology, she has taught as a visiting professor at Boston University and Salve Regina University. She regularly teaches courses on osteological forensic techniques, primate ecology/evolution, human evolution, sexual dimorphism in humans, general anthropology, anatomy and physiology, North American Indian societies and archaeology. 

Uhl earned a doctoral degree in scientific archaeology from the Department of Paleoanthropology at the Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen in Germany. 

Education 

• Dr. rer. nat., Scientific Archaeology, Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen 

Areas of Expertise 

• Biological anthropology 
• Human evolution 
• Scientific archaeology 
• Osteology 
• Sexual dimorphism of humans 
• Bony labyrinth (inner ear)

Awards & Accomplishments 

• van Beuren Charitable Foundation, CCHC, Archaeological Excavation Leader, Newport Town Spring project   
• L.S.B. Leakey Foundation Research Grant - “Sex determination in geographically and ontogenetically diverse samples”