Celeste Marie Gagnon
Professor and Division Chair, Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences
pronouns: she, her
718-390-3126 celeste.gagnon@wagner.edu Parker Hall 110 Ph.D. University of North Carolina, AnthropologyM.A. Arizona State University, Anthropology
B.A. University of Delaware, Anthropology
Course Code | Course Title | Course Description | Time & Location |
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CH215-IL | Food Science | Main Hall 23A | |
AN240-IL | The Raw and the Cooked: Anthropological Perspective on | Main Hall 23A |
I am a broadly trained anthropologist specializing in the study human skeletal remains excavated from archaeological sites. By examining skeletal indicators of diet and disease and interpreting these data within archaeological and biocultural contexts, I investigate the dietary and health consequences of sociopolitical change and how changes in diet and health affect economic, social, and political lives. My research areas include the Moche Valley of North Coastal Peru and the Susquehanna Valley of New York and Pennsylvania. In addition to my academic experiences, I have worked as a applied archaeologists (CRM) throughout the Middle Atlantic region, and as an osteologist (NAGPRA) at the New York State Museum.
Students write about their summer research in Peru on the HawkTalk blog: 2012, 2014, 2015.
If you want to become involved in bioarchaeological, archaeological or health and development work in Peru, visit savethemoche.org.
- AN 101 Introduction to Anthropology
- AN 202 Biological Anthropology and Human Evolution
- AN 235 North American Archaeology: The Prehistory of Native Americans (D)
- AN 240 The Raw and the Cooked: Anthropological Perspectives on Food (I)
- AN 241 Forensic Anthropology and Human Osteology
- AN 291 Advanced Human Osteology
- AN 342 The Dead Speak: Bioarchaeology and the Archaeology of Death (D)
- AN 393 Professionalization in Anthropology
- AN 400 Senior Reflective Tutorial
- Gagnon CM, Uceda S (2020) Non-sacrificial violence at the Huacas de Moche, north coastal Peru. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 30: 656– 665.
- Gagnon CM, Becker SK (2020) Native lives in colonial times: insights from the skeletal remains of Susquehannocks, A.D. 1575–1675. Historical Archaeology 54:262-285.
- Gagnon CM (2019) Exploring oral paleopathology in the Central Andes: A review. International Journal of Paleopathology 29:24-34.
- Gagnon CM (2019) To Live and die in the city: investigations of stress at the Huacas de Moche. In Actas de La I Mesa Redonda de Trujillo: Nuevas perspectivas en la arqueología de los valles de Virú, Moche y Chicama, edited by G. Prieto and A. Boswell, pp. 153-166. Fondo Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, Peru
- Gagnon CM, Juengst SL (2018) The Drink Embodied: an integrated bioarchaeological approach to the investigation of chicha de maíz Bioarchaeology International 2:206-216.
Gagnon CM, Boswell A, Mullins P (September 5, 2017) Facing Extreme El Niños at the Local Level. Just Environments Items. - Gagnon CM, Andrus CFT, Ida J, Richardson N (2015) Local water source variation and experimental chicha de maíze brewing: implications for interpreting human hydroxyapatite δ18O values in the Andes. Journal of Archaeological Sciences Reports 4:174-181.
- Gagnon CM, Billman BR, Carcelén J, Reinhard KJ (2013) Tracking Shifts in Coca Use in the Moche Valley: Analysis of Oral Health Indicators and Dental Calculus Microfossils. Ñawpa Pacha 33:193-213.
- Gagnon CM, Wiesen C (2013) Using General Estimating Equations to Analyze Oral Health in the Moche Valley of Perú. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 23:557-572.
- Lambert PM, Gagnon CM, Billman BR, Carcelén J, Katzenberg MA, Tykot RH (2012) Bone Chemistry at Cerro Oreja: A Stable Isotopic Perspective on the Development of a Regional Economy in the Moche Valley, Peru in the Early Intermediate Period. Latin American Antiquity 23:144-166.
- Gagnon, Celeste Marie (2008) Bioarchaeological Investigations of Pre-State Life at Cerro Oreja. In Arqueología Mochica Nuevos Enfoques, edited by L.J. Castillo, H. Bernier, G. Lockard, and J. Rucabado. Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú e Institut Français d'Études Andines, Lima.
- Gagnon, Celeste Marie (2004) Food and the State: Bioarchaeological Investigations of Diet in the Moche Valley of Perú. Dental Anthropology 17:45-54.
- Gagnon, Celeste Marie (2004) Stability within the Context of Change: Native American Health during Contact in the Lower Susquehanna Valley, Pennsylvania. Archaeology of Eastern North America 32:101-121.
- Gagnon CM, Sutter RC (2022) “Me against my brother; me and my brother against our cousin; me, my brother and my cousin against the stranger (Bedouin proverb)” - A bioarchaeological examination of Early Intermediate Period (200 BC - AD 500) relatedness and violence among populations of the Moche Valley, northern Peru.” Warfare, Environment, Social Inequality, and Pro-Sociability Conference, Sevilla, Spain.
- Morales GT, Gagnon CM (2021) “Explorando Estrés y Dieta: Un Análisis Bioarqueologíco de los Chimú en Huaca de la Luna.” VIII Congreso Nactional de Arqueolgí, Edición virtual, Ministerio de Cultura, Perú.
- Gagnon CM, Rizzuto BL, Turner B, Burnett SE (2020) “The First Decorative Dental Inlay Identified in a Pre-Hispanic Peruvian.” American Association of Physical Anthropology annual meeting, Los Angeles, CA.
- Morales GT, Gagnon CM (2020) “The Chimú at Huaca de la Luna: A bioarchaeological understanding of dietary and nutritional stress.” Institute of Andean Studies annual meeting, Berkeley, CA.
- Morales GT, Gagnon CM, Prieto G (2019) “The Lives and Deaths of Moche Valley Children: What Endocranial Lesions Can Tell Us.” Society for American Archaeology annual meeting, Albuquerque, NM.
- Sutter R, Prieto G, Gagnon CM, Prince JAR (2019) “Horizontality Revisited: Evidence for 3,000 Years of Prehistoric Biocultural Continuity of Fisherfolk at Huanchaco, north coast of Peru.” Society for American Archaeology annual meeting, Albuquerque, NM.
- Morales, GT, Gagnon CM, Prieto G (2018) “Violence among the Gallinazo: New Insights from Pampa la Cruz, Moche Valley.” Society for American Archaeology annual meeting, Washington, DC.
- Prince JAR, Prieto G, Gagnon CM (2018) “Disturbing the Ancestors: Interpreting Early Intermediate Period Commingled Remains at La Iglesia, Huanchaco Peru.” Society for American Archaeology annual meeting, Washington, DC.
- Woolwine L, Gagnon CM (2017) “All’s fair in Health and War: a paleopathological analysis of skeletal remains from the Salinar and Gallinazo periods in the Moche Valley (Peru).” Northeast Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Philadelphia, PA.
- Gagnon CM, Laffey AO (2017) “Micro-fossils recovered from dental calculus: implications for reconstructing Moche diets.” American Association of Physical Anthropology annual meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana.
- Gagnon CM, Turner BL (2016) “Those Who Came Before: Investigating Diet, Health and Mobility in the Moche Valley, 1800 BC – AD 200." Society for American Archaeology annual meeting, Orlando, FL.
- Gagnon CM (2015) “Feeding the City: Oral Health and Implications for Dietary Reconstruction at Huacas de Moche, Peru.” Mesa Redonda de Trujillo. Universidad de Nacional de Trujillo, Peru.
- Gagnon CM, G Prieto (2015) “Violence in the Moche Valley: An Embodied View of the Early Intermediate Period from the Core and Hinterlands” Warfare, Environment, Social Inequality and Peace Studies Conference, Sevilla, Spain.
- Gagnon CM (2015) “To Live and Die in the City: Investigations of Health at the Huacas de Moche.” Society for American Archaeology annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.
- Gagnon CM (2015) “Interpersonal Violence, a View from the Huacas de Moche, North Coastal Peru.” American Association of Physical Anthropologists annual meeting , St. Louis, MO.
- Rawlins C, Gagnon CM, Case DT, Griffith E (2015) “Subadults in Transition: Analysis of Ancient Moche Health through Comparative Skeletal Development and Pathology during the Emergence of Statehood.
- Gagnon, CM, Matlak C (2104) “Through the Student’s Lense: Documenting Engaged, International Research. Innovation Celebration: Teaching and Learning Symposium, Staten Island, NY.
- Gagnon, CM, Richardson N, Andrus CF, Ida J (2014) “Experimental Chicha Brewing: Implications for Interpreting Skeletal δ18O Values in the Andes.” Society for American Archaeology annual meeting, Austin, TX.
- Gibaldi N, Gagnon CM (2013) “Trauma in the Tombs at Huacas de Moche.” Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory, New Haven, CT.
- Gagnon CM, Turner BL, Tykot RH (2012) “A Bioarchaeological Approach to Gendering Consumption in the Moche Valley.” Society for American Archaeology annual meeting, Memphis, TN.
- Tobiasen R, Gagnon CM (2012) “How the Children Grow: Tracking the Health Impacts of Sociopolitical Change in Prehistoric Peru.” Eastern Colleges Science Conference, Wayne, NJ.
- Scott, Sarah J, Celeste Marie Gagnon & Michael D. Scholl MD (2011) Archaeology, Community-Based Research, and College Society at Wagner College. Staten Island 350 Academic Conference and Education Symposium, Staten Island, NY.
- Gagnon, Celeste Marie (2010) Reconstructing Diet and Climate in the Moche Valley, Stable Isotopic Analyses.” Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Madison, NJ.
- Dietrich, Alexa & Celeste Marie Gagnon (2010) Student Retention: Using Exploratory Data Analysis to Frame the Questions. Summer Institute for the New American College's and Universities, New York.
- Gagnon, Celeste Marie (2007) Coca Chewing and Social Inequality in the Moche Valley, Perú. American Association of Physical Anthropologists annual meeting , Philadelphia, PA.
- Tykot, Robert H. and Celeste Gagnon (2006) Dietary and Political Change at the Regional Center of Center of Cerro Oreja in the Moche Valley of Northern Peru. International Symposium on Archaeometry, Quebec, QC.
- Simon, Sarah K. & Celeste Marie Gagnon (2005) The Effect of Migration on the Dental and Skeletal Health of Protohistoric and Early Historic Susquehannock Indians, AD 1575-1675. American Association of Physical Anthropologists annual meeting, Milwaukee, WI.
- Gagnon, Celeste Marie (2004) Food and the State: Bioarchaeological Investigations of Diet in the Moche Valley of Perú. American Association of Physical Anthropologists annual meeting, Tampa FL.
- Gagnon, Celeste Marie (2001) Health, Politics and Population Movement in the Susquehanna Valley. Society of American Archaeology annual meeting, New Orleans, LA.
- Gagnon, Celeste Marie (1997) Stability in the Face of Change: Health During the European Contact Period. American Association of Physical Anthropologists annual meeting , St. Louis, MO.
- Gagnon, Celeste Marie (1996) The Effects of European Contact on Native American Health in the Lower Susquehanna Valley. Eastern States Archaeological Federation annual meeting Huntington, WV.
- Gagnon, Celeste Marie (1995) A Possible Case of Blastomycosis from Proto-historic Pennsylvania. Paleopathology Association annual meeting Oakland, CA.
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