Mallory D. Cox

I received my MA in Anthropology from the University of Louisville in 2018. As an Anthropological archaeologist, I analyze skeletal remains to look for evidence of malaria in the pre-contact Americas. Most of my work has focused on methods to identify hemozoin, a crystalline pigment that accumulates in the bone marrow of individuals infected with malaria. Currently, in Yale’s Evolutionary Genomics Lab (Tucci lab), we are using Next Generation Sequencing to analyze skeletal remains for ancient DNA of Plasmodium vivax malaria. In the Archaeomagnetism Lab (McIntosh lab), we are attempting to characterize hemozoin crystals from multiple Plasmodium species using Alternating Gradient Magnetometry. At present, I am the acting Director of the Yale University Archaeology Laboratory Malaria Project, and I welcome emails from interested students or collaborators who wish to talk more