Education
Ph.D. Biological Anthropology, University of Oregon
M.S. Anthropology, University of Oregon
B.S. with departmental honors, Anthropology, University of Oregon
Courses Taught
- BIO 411: Advanced Human Anatomy
- BIO 413: Human Growth and Development
- BIO 414: Evolutionary Medicine and Infectious Disease
- BIO 446: Evolutionary Medicine and Paleopathology Study Abroad
- BIO 111: Principles of Biology 1
Research
Dr. Robbins Schug’s research is focused on how history, society, and culture shaped human responses to crisis throughout the Holocene and how adaptive challenges like climate change, urbanism, and the adoption of agriculture have affected human health. She is primarily interested in the role of social inequality and the experience of resilience in the past. Dr. Schug is also involved in research on the ethics of the curation and use of human skeletons in teaching and research. She has primarily worked in India but has recently begun projects in Oman and Italy. She is the editor of the Routledge Handbook of the Bioarchaeology of Climate and Environmental Change (2020) and The Companion to South Asia in the Past (2016), and author of the book, Bioarchaeology and Climate Change (2011). She is also the author of more than 50 journal articles and book chapters. She is the former co-Editor-in-Chief of Bioarchaeology International and still serves on the advisory board. She is also on the Advisory Board for the Triangle Center for Evolutionary Medicine and OUP Climate Adaptation in Society and Culture. She is an Academic Editor of the journal, PLOS ONE, Associate Editor for CUP Research Directions: ONE Health, and Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology.
Selected Publications
1. Robbins Schug, G., Halcrow, S., and de la Cova, C., (2025). They Are People Too: The ethics of curation and use of human skeletal remains for teaching and research. American Journal of Biological Anthropology 86(2):1-16.
2. Robbins Schug, G., and Buikstra, J.E., (2025). From ONE Health to ONE Paleopathology: Deep-time perspectives on health in the face of climate and environmental change. Encyclopedia of ONE Health. Wuhan: MDPI. ISSN 2673-8392.
3. Robbins Schug, G. Past is Present: Climate adaptation, resilience, and malaria in the Holocene. (2024). In W. Leal Filho, D. Guedes Vidal, and M. Alzira Pimenta Dinis (Eds.), Planetary Health and climate change: Understanding the impacts of climate change to the well-being of our planet. Bern: Springer. pp. 405-434.
4. Goldman, H., and Robbins Schug, G. (2024). Pediatric bone histomorphology and environmental stresses. In S. Stout and C. Crowder (Eds.), Bone Histology: A biological anthropological perspective, 2nd ed. Chicago: CRC Press. pp. 90–126.
5. Robbins Schug, G., Buikstra, J.E., DeWitte, S.N., Baker, B.J., … & Zakrzewski, S.R. [& 20 others in alphabetical order]. (2023). Climate change, human health, and challenges to resilience in the Holocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 120(4): e2209472120.
6. Buikstra, J.E., DeWitte, S.N., Agarwal, S.C., Baker, B.J., Bartelink, E.,… & Zakrzewski, S.R. [& 37 others in alphabetical order, including #25 G. Robbins Schug]. (2022). Twenty-first century Bioarcheology: Taking stock and moving forward. Yearbook of Biological Anthropology 178(S74): 54–114.
7. Robbins Schug, G., Halcrow, S.E. (2022). Building a bioarcheology of pandemic, epidemic, and syndemic diseases: Lessons for understanding COVID-19. Bioarcheology International 6(1–2): 179–200.
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