Leadership Team

Kristrina Shuler is an Associate Professor of Anthropology specializing in the area of bioarchaeology. After spending an exciting summer in college excavating on alate prehistoric archaeological site in South Carolina, she followed her passion for combining history and science by earning an M.A. (University of Southern Mississippi, 1994) and Ph.D. (Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2005) in Anthropology. Along the way, she gained extensive experience as an archaeologist working on sites across the U.S. with some of the largest cultural resource management firms in the nation. Today, Dr. Shuler’s research explores bioarchaeology in the Caribbean and U.S.to better understand persistent health and social inequalities in marginalized and disenfranchised communities. Since joining the Auburn faculty in 2007, Dr. Shuler has regularly taught on-campus and online courses, such as Introduction to Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Forensic Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Bioarchaeology, Race and Human Variation, and Anthropology of the African Diaspora. In 2015, Dr. Shuler was named the Auburn University Honors College Professor of the Year and concurrently received the College of Liberal Arts Award for Teaching Excellence. She serves as the director of the Bioanthropology Laboratory at Auburn and actively mentors undergraduate and graduate student research, and she is the founder of CSI: Auburn-an outreach project that teaches Alabama students in grades 5-8about the intersection of forensics and social sciences.