Michelle Cameron (she/her) joined the Department of Anthropology in 2018. Dr. Cameron specializes in skeletal biology and bioarchaeology. Her research explores human plasticity and adaptability, looking at how diverse environmental and cultural contexts shape the human body.

Dr. Cameron integrates skeletal, archaeological, and ecological lines of evidence to understand how human behaviours and biology were impacted by environmental conditions in the past. She uses a range of methods including 3D modelling, biomechanical analyses, and spatial analyses to examine how people negotiated environmental challenges.

Dr. Cameron also examines how subsistence transitions, such as economic intensification and the introduction of herding practices, impacted past populations. Her bioarchaeological work is primarily based in South Africa and Namibia, however, she also has research interests in eastern Africa and North America.

She also researches skeletal biology among living humans to better understand how our skeletons respond to biocultural stressors. By looking at skeletal morphology in past and present groups, Dr. Cameron seeks to bring together our knowledge of the human skeleton in the living and the deceased.

Dr. Cameron also enjoys science communication and co-hosts the YouTube series Humans in 5.