Contact Information
607 S Mathews Ave.
M/C 148
Urbana, IL 61801
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Anthropology
Professor, Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Professor, American Indian Studies Program
Professor, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
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Recent Publications
Auerbach, B. M., Jackson, F. L. C., Berry, S. D., Blakey, M. L., Caldwell, J., Clinton, C., Graves, J. L., Jones, J. B., Lofaro, E. M., Malhi, R. S., Mosley, C. V., & Stubblefield, P. R. (2026). AABA Task Force on the Ethical Study of Human Remains Recommendations: Proposal for the Management and Oversight of Community Partnership and Ethical Stewardship of Human Remains. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 189(3), Article e70213. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.70213
de Flamingh, A., Alexander, N., Diaz, J. D., Bader, A. C., & Malhi, R. S. (2026). Considerations for biobanking of nonhuman genome data connected to Indigenous Peoples and lands. Conservation Biology, 40(4), Article e70301. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70301
Hoffman, A., Cortez, A. D., Davis, J. L., Bishop, K. J., de Flamingh, A., & Malhi, R. S. (2026). In Dire Straits: The Resurrection and Extraction of the Dire Wolf, and the Current Colonial Basis of De-extinction Science. Ethnobiology Letters, 17(1), 53-66. https://doi.org/10.14237/ebl.17.1.2026.1975
Pečnerová, P., Ishida, Y., Garcia-Erill, G., Bertola, L. D., Santander, C. G., Liu, X., Brüniche-Olsen, A., Khan, A., Hennelly, L. M., Balboa, R. F., Lin, L., Rasmussen, M. S., Wang, X., Schubert, M., Al-Chaer, A., Urbaniak, S., Nobuta, K., Treadup, S., Viaud-Martinez, K. A., ... Roca, A. L. (2026). The genomic impact of population connectivity and decline in Africa’s elephants. Nature communications, 17(1), Article 3223. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-71262-w
Dong, Y., & Malhi, R. S. (2025). Ancient DNA offers clues about mysterious prehistoric settlement in China. Nature, 648(8094), 548-549. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-03593-5