Ryan Harrod is an assistant professor in UAA’s Department of Anthropology whose research involves the identification of social inequality and violence within a community through archaeological findings. Besides bio archaeology, his other interests lie in biological anthropology, skeletal biology, paleopathology, trauma, violence, forensic anthropology, and bio cultural adaptation. This projects have focused on the U.S. Southwest, South-Central Alaska, Great Basin, and Columbia Plateau. This event is the fourth in the series “Women and Agents of Violence” which is held in honor of Women’s History Month and is sponsored with the UAA Anthropology Dept.