Faculty Profiles

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Dr. Deborah Lenz Cunningham

  • Assoc Professor of Instruction at Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts

Scholarly and Creative Works

2025

  • Hassan, B., Sylvester, A. D., Wescott, D. J., Cunningham, D. L., Manson, P., & Grant, M. P. (2025). An Introduction to the orbital buttress. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 155(4), 780e–783e.

2024

  • Sylvester, A. D., Zbijewski, W., Shi, G., Meckel, L. A., Chu, E. Y.-N., Cunningham, D. L., & Wescott, D. J. (2024). Macroscopic differences in adult human femora are linked to body mass index. The Anatomical Record, 2024, 1–12.
  • Gignac, P. M., Aceves, V., Baker, S. A., Barnes, J. J., Bell, J., Boyer, D., … Zobek, C. M. (2024). The role of networks to overcome large-scale challenges in tomography: The non-clinical tomography users research network. Tomography of Materials and Structures, 5. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmater.2024.100031

2023

  • Sylvester, A., Wescott, D. J., Cunningham, D. L., & Gleiber, D. S. (2023). Effects of obesity on talar micro- and macro-morphology. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 68(2), 369–381.
  • Li, H., Shi, G., Meckel, L., Cunningham, D. L., Wescott, D. J., Sylvester, A. D., … Zbijewski, W. (2023). Body mass classification from skeletal elements using landmark-free morphological atlas estimation with diffeomorphic shape mapping (Vol. 12468).

2019

  • Cunningham, D. L., Rogers, M. V., Wescott, D. J., & McCarthy, R. C. (2019). Re-evaluation of the body mass estimates for the KNM-ER 5428 Homo erectus talus. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 170(1), 148–155.

2018

  • Christensen, A. M., Smith, M. A., Wescott, D. J., Gleiber, D. S., & Cunningham, D. L. (2018). The use of industrial x-ray computed tomography technologies in forensic anthropology. Forensic Anthropology, 1(2), 124–140.
  • Cunningham, D. L., Graves, R. R., Wescott, D. J., & McCarthy, R. C. (2018). The effect of ontogeny on estimates of KNM-WT 15000’s adult body size. Journal of Human Evolution, 121, 119–127.

2015

  • Williams, F. L., Cunningham, D. L., & Amaral, L. Q. (2015). Forearm articular proportions and the antebranchial index in Homo sapiens, Australopithecus afarensis and the great apes. HOMO - Journal of Comparative Human Biology, 66(6), 477–491.

2014

  • Wescott, D. J., Cunningham, D. L., & Hunt, D. R. (2014). Temporal trends in femoral diaphyseal torsional asymmetry among the Arikara associated with postural behavior. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 154, 512–524.
  • Cunningham, D. L., Graves, R. R., Wescott, D. J., & McCarthy, R. C. (2014). New estimates of body mass in KNM-WT 15000. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 58, 100–101.

2013

  • Cunningham, D. L. (2013). Review of The Fossil Chronicles:  How Two Controversial Discoveries Changed Our View of Human Evolution. [Review of The Fossil Chronicles: How Two Controversial Discoveries Changed Our View of Human Evolution., by D. Falk]. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

2010

  • Graves, R. R., Lupo, A. C., McCarthy, R. C., Wescott, D. J., & Cunningham, D. L. (2010). Just how strapping was KNM-WT 15000? Journal of Human Evolution, 59, 542–554.

2009

  • Cunningham, D. L., & Wescott, D. J. (2009). Still more €œfancy€ and €œmyth€ than €œfact€ in students€™ conceptions of evolution. Evolution: Education and Outreach, 2(3), 505–517.

2006

  • Wescott, D. J., & Cunningham, D. L. (2006). Temporal changes in Arikara humeral and femoral cross-sectional geometry associated with horticultural intensification. Journal of Archaeological Science, 33, 1022–1036.

2005

  • Wescott, D. J., & Cunningham, D. L. (2005). Recognizing and understanding student misconceptions about science and evolution. Mountain Rise, 2(2). Retrieved from http://facctr.wcu.edu/mountainrise/archive/vol2no2/html/science_evolution.html

2004

  • Cunningham, D. L. (2004). Review of Dragon Bone Hill:  An Ice-Age Saga of Homo erectus [Review of Dragon Bone Hill:  An Ice-Age Saga of Homo erectus, by N. Boaz & R. Ciochon]. American Journal of Human Biology.

2003

  • Cunningham, D. L., & Jantz, R. L. (2003). Craniometric relationships of Paleoamericans and Archaic Indians. Current Research in the Pleistocene, 20, 87–89.
  • Cunningham, D. L., & Jantz, R. L. (2003). The morphometric relationship of Upper Cave 101 and 103 to modern Homo sapiens. Journal of Human Evolution, 45, 741–758.

2002

  • Cunningham, D. L., & Wescott, D. J. (2002). Within-group human variation in the Asian Pleistocene: The three Upper Cave crania. Journal of Human Evolution, 42, 627–638.

1999

  • Cunningham, D. L. (1999). Creationist tornado rips evolution out of Kansas science standards. Reports of the National Center for Science Education, 19(4), 15-Oct.
  • Cunningham, D. L. (1999). Language and human evolution. Lambda Alpha Journal, 29, 50–62.