Horvey M. Palacios
He/Him
I am bi and I am a molecular anthropologist and bioarchaeologist.//
I am a Miami native and a Cuban-American LatinX man. I am completing my Ph.D. in Molecular Anthropology and Human Health at the University of Oklahoma’s Department of Anthropology, the Laboratories of Molecular Anthropology and Microbiome Research (LMAMR), and The Center for the Ethics of Indigenous Genomics Research (CEIGR). I am a broadly trained anthropological bioarchaeologist with a regional focus on the Americas. I am interested in how multiple-omic approaches to anthropology can be interpolated with community-engaged research practices, data analytics, and digital humanities to co-create ethical and timely research projects. I am interested in understanding how reconstructions of antiquity can refine our understanding of ancient (and contemporary) narratives of health, stress, and inequality. My work aims to complicate and destabilize research on inequality to include multiple disciplines and address implicit assumptions about the biological embodiment of inequality across scales of human history. I am also interested in conversations about ethical research, science communication, and the accessibility of scholarship to public audiences.
I am a big fan of Musicals, Giraffes, Plants, Florence + The Machine, and Magical Realism!