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  Dr. Diane Ballinger
 Lecturer
(940) 369-7854
diane.ballinger@unt.edu
My first love is the study of the ancient Maya and I have been fortunate to work in Honduras and Belize several times. I spent 3 field seasons at the site of Copán, Honduras and taught and excavated at a field school in San Antonio, Belize. In 2002, I worked at La Lima, Honduras with Julia Hendon on a small faunal collection. My particular interests are the impact of the introduction of new diseases on native populations, the health of ancient Maya populations, faunal analysis, bone diagenesis, taphonomy, site formation and human ecology. I consider myself a four-field anthropologist even though I am a bioanthropologist by training. For twelve years, I worked as a Research Associate at two Texas Medical schools where I studied people with spinal cord injury. At UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, I also taught fellows and residents research methods and design.

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Selected Consulting Projects

Project: Enhancing Student Success by Correlating Testing Strategies with Student Learning Styles: Part I-Defining the Strategies and Part II-Sample Items for Professors’ Use
Client: Brookhaven College
Date: 2003

Project: Comparison of Lower Extremity Bone Density in Spinalized and Sham-operated Female Mice
Client:  Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Date: 2001

Project: Osteoporosis After Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)
Client:: Mobility Foundation for Spinal Cord Injury, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Date: 2000-2002

Project: Use of Trentinoin to Prevent Pressure Ulcers in Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Patients
Client: Houston Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Date: 1997-1999

Education

1999 Ph.D., Anthropology, Indiana University
1986 M.A., University of Houston
1983 Bachelor of Arts, Anthropology, University of Alabama-Birmingham

Selected Publications

2000 Ballinger, D. A. and J. Stomper. "The Jaguars of Altar Q., Copán, Honduras: Faunal Analysis, Archaeology, and Ecology." Journal of Ethnobiology, 20(2): 223-236.

2000 Ballinger, D. A., D. H. Rintala, and K. A. Hart. "Shoulder Problems in a Community-Based Sample of Men with Spinal Cord Injury." Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 81(12):1575-1581.

1999 Ballinger, D. A. Sexual Dimorphism in Cortical Bone Geometry in Two Maya Populations. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor Michigan. .Dissertation, Indiana University, Department of Anthropology.

1998 Rintala, D.H., K.A. Hart, M.M. Priebe, and D. A. Ballinger. "Racial and Ethnic differences in Community Integration in a Community-Based Sample of Adults with Spinal Cord Injury." Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation 4(2):1-19

1989 Rue, D., A. Freter, and D. A. Ballinger. "The Caverns of Copán Revisited: Preclassic Sites in the Sesesmil River Valley, Copán, Honduras." Journal of Field Archaeology 16:395-404.

1986 Ballinger, Diane A. Ossuary Burial of Cremated Human Remains from Copán, Honduras Master of Arts thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Houston. 

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