Elizabeth Weiss is an American anthropologist. She is a professor of anthropology at

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Education

In 1996, Weiss received a BA in anthropology from the

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. In 1998, she received a MA in anthropology from California State University, Sacramento. In 2001, she received a PhD from the

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in Environmental Dynamics. From 2002 to 2004, Weiss did post-doctoral work at the Canadian Museum of Civilization.

Career

In 2004, Weiss became a fully tenured professor at

. In April 2021, Weiss gave a presentation at the

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virtual annual meeting titled "Has Creationism Crept Back into Archaeology?" She claimed during the presentation that

NAGPRA The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Pub. L. 101-601, 25 U.S.C. 3001 et seq., 104 Stat. 3048, is a United States federal law enacted on November 16, 1990. The Act requires federal agencies and institutions that ...

gives control of scientific research to the religious beliefs of contemporary Native American communities. In February 2022, Weiss sued San Jose State officials claiming that they retaliated against her for her views and restricted her from accessing skeletal remains that she was studying. She is being represented by a lawyer from the Pacific Legal Foundation.

Personal life

Weiss was married to

J. Philippe Rushton John Philippe Rushton (December 3, 1943 – October 2, 2012) was a Canadian psychologist and author. He taught at the University of Western Ontario until the early 1990s, and became known to the general public during the 1980s and 1990s for resea ...

Awards and honors

In 2019, Weiss received the College of Social Sciences’ Austen D. Warburton Award of Merit for excellence in scholarship.

Books

*''Reburying the Past: The Effects of Repatriation and Reburial on Scientific Inquiry'' (Nova Science Publishers, 2008) *''Bioarchaeological Science: What we have Learned from Human Skeletal Remains'' (Nova Science Publishers, 2009) *''Introduction to Human Evolution'' 2010 *''Paleopathology in Perspective: Bone Health and Disease through Time'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014) *''Reading the Bones: Activity, Biology, and Culture'' (University Press of Florida, 2017) *with James W. Springer ''Repatriation and Erasing the Past'' (University Press of Florida, 2020)

References

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