Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of Debra L. Martin

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of Debra L. Martin" at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Professor Martin’s extraordinary achievements in anthropology have crossed interdisciplinary boundaries to unpack the complexity of human experiences through direct archaeological and osteological analyses, theoretical scholarship, exhaustive publications, and her leadership across disciplines and within her teaching and mentoring. Her research has transformed our understanding how violent events are shaped, used, and experienced by people in the past, highlighting how violence impacts the lives of those on the margins. She is a role model in how to perform engaged, ethical, and forward-moving research. This session celebrates the ways her teaching, mentorship and collaborative work has impacted her students and colleagues. The papers presented here reflect on Dr. Martin’s rock-steady mentorship, leadership, and collaboration in the ways we all work to read the past and strive for humanistic and scientific models of inquiry, and consider our own research questions. She has significantly reshaped the field of bioarchaeology, biological anthropology, biocultural studies, and forensic sciences. She shows by example not only how to do good anthropology but how to be a good anthropologist. We take tremendous pleasure in sharing our experiences and scholarship to recognize Dr. Martin in honor of the Fryxell award.