This award aims to recognize the contributions of a career scholar in dental anthropology. The innovation must have occurred within the immediate 10 years preceding the nomination for the award. Individuals will be recognized for pushing the discipline in exciting, novel, and ethical directions, which can include teaching, research, outreach, or service.
This year we are proud to recognize two outstanding scholars in the subfield of Dental Anthropology:
Dr. Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg for her dedication to research and professional service dental anthropology. Over the last ten years Dr. Guatelli-Steinberg has presented over sixty conference presentations, published more than forty journal articles, and published the book What Teeth Reveal about Human Evolution (2016). While this amazing list of accomplishments is enough to award her this honor, Dr. Guatelli-Steinberg has also been influental in the training of many dental anthropologists and has even served as the Past President of the Dental Anthropology Association (2004-2006). It is our honor to award her the Innovation in Dental Anthropology for all she has done for our discipline.
Dr. Hannes Rathmann for his recent and impressive innovations to dental anthropology. Recently, Dr. Rathmann has worked on understanding the role that genotype:phenotype relations play in both neutral and adaptive evolutionary signals preserved in dental anthropology. Applying these innovative methods to worldwide popualtions, Dr. Rathmann has shown new and exciting ways that we can better use dental anthropology to understand human evolution. It is our honor to recognize these new and innovation methods in our discipline, and through that honor Dr. Rathmann.