Dr. Juliet Brophy

Instructor
Department of Anthropology
437 Coffey Hall|
1032 W. Sheridan Road
Chicago, Illinois 60660
Phone: 773.508.2981
jbrophy1@luc.edu

Juliet K Brophy is a Biological Anthropologist with a specialization in Paleoanthropology. Her particular research interests involve documenting the paleoenvironments associated with the South African hominins and how changes in these environments might have influenced hominin evolution. She is currently the Director of Bovid Studies at the Institute of Human Evolution, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg for the Australopithecus sediba site of Malapa. She has been involved in excavations at several fossil localities in South Africa including Plover’s Lake, Coopers, and Gladysvale Cave, and has recently expanded her work into Botswana. At present Juliet is senior research assistant in charge of field operations at the early Pliocene site of Matjhabeng in the Free State of South Africa. In addition to her excavation experience, Juliet is also interested in the taphonomic effects of hominin and carnivore activities on patterns of bone fragmentation.

Selected Publications:

2013    Brophy, J.K., deRuiter, D.J., Athreya, S., DeWitt, T. Quantitative morphological analysisof bovid teeth and its implications for paleoenvironmental reconstructions inSouth Africa. Submitted to Journal of Archaeological Science.

2013    de Ruiter, D.J., DeWitt, T., Carlson, K.B, Brophy, J.K., Churchill, S.E., Berger, L.R. Mandibular remains support taxonomic validity of Australopithecus sediba. Science. Accepted for publication.

2012    Brophy, J.K., Crisman, K. 2012. A taphonomic analysis of three pork barrels from the steamboat Heroine. Submited to Journal of Historical Archaeology. Accepted for publication.

2011    de Ruiter, D.J., Churchill, S.E., Brophy, J.K., Berger, L.R. Regional Survey of Middle Stone Age Fossil Vertebrate Deposits in the Virginia-Theunissen area of the Free State, South Africa. Navorsinge van die Nasionale Museum Bloemfontein. 27: 1-20.

2010    de Ruiter, D.J., Brophy, J.K., Lewis, P.J., Kennedy, A.M., Stidham, T.A., Carlson, K.B., Hancox, P.J. Preliminary investigation of Matjhabeng, a Pliocene fossil locality in the Free State of South Africa. Palaeontologia Africana 45:11-22.

2008    de Ruiter, D.J., Brophy, J.K., Lewis, P.J., Churchill, S.E., Berger, L.R. Faunal assemblage composition and paleoenvironment of Plovers Lake, a Middle Stone Age locality in Gauteng Province, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution 55:1102-1117.

2008    Brophy, J.K. Visitors. The Field Museum Collections & Research Weekly News, 5 December.

2006    Brophy, J.K., de Ruiter, D.J., Lewis, P.J., Churchill, S.E. and Berger, L.R. Preliminary Investigation of the New Middle Stone Age Site of Plover’s Lake, South Africa. Current Research in the Pleistocene 23:41-43.

Courses taught:

Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Introduction to Anthropology
Introduction to Human Origins
The Human Ecological Footprint
Scientific Basis of Environmental Issues
Human Evolution
Hominin Paleoecology and Taphonomy
Anatomy and Physiology