Nichole Fournier

Nichole is a broadly trained Anthropologist whose work spans Biological Anthropology and
Bioarchaeology. She received a PhD in Anthropology from Washington State University in
August 2020, an MA in Forensic Anthropology/Bioarchaeology from North Carolina State
University in 2013, and a BA in Biological Anthropology and Public Health from Boston
University in 2011.

Her research program broadly focuses on the impacts of environmental
change and other stressors (e.g., social inequality, transnational cultural encounters,
pathogenic load) on human morphological, life history, and health variation. She addresses
these questions using skeletal, stable isotope, and ancient DNA data. Her work has thus far
largely focused on Indigenous populations from the San Francisco Bay Area, specifically the
Ohlone nation.

Nichole is originally from Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Her education and her work
have taken her all over the country, but she is a New Englander at heart. She is very happy to
join the USM community and build a home in Maine.