Iris Clever
Biographic Data
| ID | 84364 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Iris Clever |
| GIVEN NAMES | Iris |
| FAMILY NAME | Clever |
| SIGNATURE | CLEVER I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8984-0329 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Old Bones in New Databases
This article explores the persistence of race in biological anthropology, particularly in the context of ancestry estimation using the Fordisc software. Despite efforts to move away from race-based typologies since the mid-20th century, historical notions of race continue to shape scientific methods and technologies in anthropology. By tracing the "data journey" of a skeletal collection within Fordisc's database, we reveal how early 20th-century …
Origins of Forensic Anthropology in the United States
Traditional histories of forensic anthropology focus on key figures, events, and/or publications within a larger narrative of disciplinary formation and expansion. These histories typically highlight individuals such as Thomas Dwight or institutions such as the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. This project represents an interdisciplinary collaboration with the goal of shedding new light onto the origins of forensic an…
Biometry against Fascism
This essay introduces an anthropological practice that remains largely unexplored in the historical literature on racial science: biometrics. In the early twentieth century, biometricians analyzed skull measurements using novel statistical methods to demonstrate racial biological differences. Drawing on new archival material, the essay reveals how these biometric data practices challenged racist anthropology. Between 1934 and 1952, Geoffrey Moran…
Beyond Cultural History? The Material Turn, Praxiography, and Body History
The body came to be taken seriously as a topic of cultural history during the “corporeal” or “bodily” turn in the 1980s and 1990s. Soon, however, critique was raised against these studies’ conceptualization of the body as discursively shaped and socially disciplined: individual bodily agency and feeling were felt to be absent in the idea of the material body. This article critically analyzes new approaches in the field of body history, particular…
Biometry against Fascism
This essay introduces an anthropological practice that remains largely unexplored in the historical literature on racial science: biometrics. In the early twentieth century, biometricians analyzed skull measurements using novel statistical methods to demonstrate racial biological differences. Drawing on new archival material, the essay reveals how these biometric data practices challenged racist anthropology. Between 1934 and 1952, Geoffrey Moran…
Old Bones in New Databases
This article explores the persistence of race in biological anthropology, particularly in the context of ancestry estimation using the Fordisc software. Despite efforts to move away from race-based typologies since the mid-20th century, historical notions of race continue to shape scientific methods and technologies in anthropology. By tracing the "data journey" of a skeletal collection within Fordisc's database, we reveal how early 20th-century …
Origins of Forensic Anthropology in the United States
Traditional histories of forensic anthropology focus on key figures, events, and/or publications within a larger narrative of disciplinary formation and expansion. These histories typically highlight individuals such as Thomas Dwight or institutions such as the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. This project represents an interdisciplinary collaboration with the goal of shedding new light onto the origins of forensic an…
Beyond Cultural History? The Material Turn, Praxiography, and Body History
The body came to be taken seriously as a topic of cultural history during the “corporeal” or “bodily” turn in the 1980s and 1990s. Soon, however, critique was raised against these studies’ conceptualization of the body as discursively shaped and socially disciplined: individual bodily agency and feeling were felt to be absent in the idea of the material body. This article critically analyzes new approaches in the field of body history, particular…
Biometry against Fascism
This essay introduces an anthropological practice that remains largely unexplored in the historical literature on racial science: biometrics. In the early twentieth century, biometricians analyzed skull measurements using novel statistical methods to demonstrate racial biological differences. Drawing on new archival material, the essay reveals how these biometric data practices challenged racist anthropology. Between 1934 and 1952, Geoffrey Moran…
Origins of Forensic Anthropology in the United States
Traditional histories of forensic anthropology focus on key figures, events, and/or publications within a larger narrative of disciplinary formation and expansion. These histories typically highlight individuals such as Thomas Dwight or institutions such as the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. This project represents an interdisciplinary collaboration with the goal of shedding new light onto the origins of forensic an…
Old Bones in New Databases
This article explores the persistence of race in biological anthropology, particularly in the context of ancestry estimation using the Fordisc software. Despite efforts to move away from race-based typologies since the mid-20th century, historical notions of race continue to shape scientific methods and technologies in anthropology. By tracing the "data journey" of a skeletal collection within Fordisc's database, we reveal how early 20th-century …
Sociology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Forensic anthropology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Race, Genetics, and Society (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Biological anthropology (2 works) · Forensic and Genetic Research (2 works)