Ana Rita Quito Curto (C210-3F99-8D26)

Curriculum Vitae

Ana Rita Quito Curto

Ana Curto received her PhD in Biological Anthropology from the University of Kent in 2019. She was awarded the University of Kent 50th Anniversary Research Scholarship. Her research is focused on the relationship between diet and health. Ana published 5 scientific articles and 1 book chapter. She also presented podium communications and posters at several international conferences. In 2018 she placed 2nd place for the scientific text prize from the Portuguese Association for Anthropology and in 2019 she won the first prize in the category 2019/2020 Scientific text - Young Anthropologists (Biological/Forensic Anthropology). Ana is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, by accomplishing the UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching and learning support in higher education in 2016 and teaching various modules at the University of Kent. She taught Foundations of Biological Anthropology, Biology and Human Identity and Forensic Anthropology to BSc and BA students. She was also an Academic Ambassador at the University of Kent, The University of Évora and the University of Coimbra. She also co-supervised 5 BSc students doing project on biological anthropology. Ana has experience in both filed and laboratory work.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Ana Rita Quito Curto

Citation names

Curto, Ana Rita Quito
Curto, Ana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: C210-3F99-8D26
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3568-9322
Researcher Id: O-6849-2015

Websites

http://cias.uc.pt/team_member/ana-curto/ (Scholar)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - History and Archaeology - Archaeology
Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)
French	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2015/09/21 - 2019/11/22 Concluded	Biological Anthropology (Doctor of Philosophy) University of Kent, United Kingdom "The Impact of Diet and Health on Bone Stable Isotope Ratios: A Comparative Study " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2018 - 2018 Concluded	FRUITS workshop (Outros) Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Arqueologia, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Concluded	Workshop on stable isotope and mercury analysis (Outros) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Concluded	R software 3 days Course (Outros) University of Kent, United Kingdom
2018 - 2018 Concluded	Routes into Academia & Writing Research Grant Workshop (Outros) University of Kent, United Kingdom
2016 - 2016 Concluded	Fundamentals of Statistics 2 days Workshop (Outros) University of Kent, United Kingdom
2016 - 2016 Concluded	Managing your Research Data Workshop (Outros) University of Kent, United Kingdom
2016 - 2016 Concluded	Forensic Anthropology Society of Europe workshop (Outros) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2012 - 2012 Concluded	Workshop on archaeozoology (Outros) Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2009/09 - 2011/09 Concluded	Human Biology and Evolution (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal "[In Templar Lands. Osteological study of human remains from Santa Maria dos Olivais] Por Terras Templárias. Estudo paleobiológico de uma amostra osteológica humana inumada em Santa Maria dos Olivais, Tomar" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2011 - 2011 Concluded	Workshop of archaeothanatology and bioarchaeology (Outros) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2010 - 2010 Concluded	Anthropology and Health: trends for the next decade” (Outros) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2006/09 - 2009/09 Concluded	Biology (Bachelor) Universidade de Évora, Portugal "n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2008 - 2008 Concluded	Exploring all the potential of Web of Knowledge (ISI) (Outros) Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Affiliation

Science

2019/06 - 2019/12

Researcher (Research)

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

2015/09/21 - 2017/07/21

Assistant Professor (University Teacher)

University of Kent, United Kingdom

Others

2011/10 - Current	Collaborator Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal
2018/10 - 2019/06	Osteologist Archeo'Estudos, Portugal
2011/05/05 - 2015/07/30	Collaborator Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2015/04/01 - 2015/05/31	Excavation at Tomar, Portugal (Morgado Shelter, Neolithic necropolis) Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal
2014/07/07 - 2014/08/09	Excavation at Perdigões Enclosure, Portugal (Neolithic funerary pit with cremated bones) ERA Arqueologia Conservacao gestao do Patrimonio, Portugal
2014/06/02 - 2014/06/14	Excavation at Muge, Portugal (Cabeço da Amoreira’s shellmidden, Mesolithic) Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2014/05/14 - 2014/05/25	Excavation at Torres Vedras, Portugal (Sauropod, Upper Jurassic) Sociedade de História Natural, Portugal
2014/03/10 - 2014/05/10	Osteological analysis, Project LARES Laboratório Hercules Herança Cultural Estudos e Salvaguarda, Portugal
2013/09/15 - 2013/10/18	Excavation at Évora, Portugal (medieval/modern necropolis) Câmara Municipal de Évora, Portugal
2012/08/20 - 2012/08/31	Excavation at Mértola, Portugal (medieval necropolis) Campo Arqueológico de Mértola, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2020 - Current	Tracking changes in diet from Late Antique to High Medieval period in continental Croatia na Researcher Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Croatia	Croatian Foundation for Science
2019 - 2019/12	CIAS database UID/ANT/00283/2013 Researcher Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal
2015 - 2019/01/14	The Impact of Diet and Health on Bone Stable Isotope Ratios: A Comparative Study na PhD Student Fellow University of Kent, United Kingdom	University of Kent
2008 - 2009/12	BII/ICAM/07/2008 BII/ICAM/07/2008 Integration into Research Grant Fellow Universidade de Évora, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Other

	Designation	Funders
2015 - Current	Landscape and funerary practices: examples from Alto da Corvina na Researcher

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Cruz, Ana; Senna-Martinez JC; Santos L; Relvado C; Ribeiro C; Fernandes T; Curto A. "Upper Morgado Shelter, Still a Peripheral Funeral Context, or Perhaps Not? (Tomar, Central Portugal)". In Interchange in Pre- and Protohistory Case Studies in Iberia, Romania, Turkey and Israel, edited by Cruz, Ana; Gibaja, JF, 117-132. United Kingdom: BAR International Series, 2018. Published
Conference paper	Curto, Ana; Fernandes, Teresa. "A possible case of Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease in Medieval Tomar, Portugal". Paper presented in Actas del Congreso Nacional de Paleopatología, 2013. Published
Conference poster	Curto, Ana. "Did military orders influence the general population diet?". Paper presented in Skeletons, Stories, and Social Bodies Conference, 2018. Curto, Ana. "Diet in a Templar town: Medieval Portuguese diet from carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios". Paper presented in UK Archaeological Science Conference, 2017. Curto, Ana. "Sexual dimorphism in a medieval/modern Portuguese sample: estimating biological sex and stature from long bone length". Paper presented in BABAO Conference, 2016. Curto, Ana. "A possible treponemal infection in a young adult from medieval/modern Tomar, Portugal". Paper presented in 2nd BioAnthropological Meeting: life, death and in between, 2015. Curto, Ana. "A slipped capital femoral epiphysis case study from medieval Estremoz, Portugal". Paper presented in 2nd BioAnthropological Meeting: life, death and in between, 2015. Curto, Ana. "Multiple lesions in a male skeleton from the necropolis (medieval/modern) of Santa Maria dos Olivais, Tomar, Portugal". Paper presented in 4th Portuguese Conference of Paleopathology, 2014. Curto, Ana. "Spondyloarthropathy in medieval/modern Tomar, Portugal". Paper presented in 4th Portuguese Conference of Paleopathology, 2014.
Journal article	Curto, Ana; Mahoney, Patrick; Maurer, Anne-France; Barrocas-Dias, Cristina; Fernandes, Teresa; Fahy, Geraldine E.. "Effect of different healing stages on stable isotope ratios in skeletal lesions". American Journal of Physical Anthropology 171 2 (2020): 285-297. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23958. 10.1002/ajpa.23958 Curto, Ana; Ana Curto; Patrick Mahoney; Anne-France Maurer; Cristina Barrocas-Dias; Teresa Fernandes; Geraldine E. Fahy. "Diet and disease in Tomar, Portugal: comparing stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios between skeletons with and without signs of infectious disease". Journal of Archaeological Science 105 (2019): 59-69. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23958. Under revision • 10.1016/j.jas.2019.03.005 Curto, Ana; Maurer, Anne-France; Barrocas-Dias, Cristina; Mahoney, Patrick; Fernandes, Teresa; Fahy, Geraldine E.. "Did military orders influence the general population diet? Stable isotope analysis from Medieval Tomar, Portugal". Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12520-018-0637-3. Open access • 10.1007/s12520-018-0637-3 Ana Curto; Teresa Fernandes. "A possible Madura foot from medieval Estremoz, southern Portugal". International Journal of Paleopathology 13 (2016): 70-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2016.01.006. 10.1016/j.ijpp.2016.01.006
Report	Curto, Ana. 2020. Osteology Report: Intervention in the Bronze Age burial of Santa Vitória, Beja. Curto, Ana. 2019. Osteology Report: Intervention in a Bronze Age burial at Torrão, Alcácer do Sal. Curto, Ana. 2019. Osteology Report: Intervention in a graveyard of unknown chronology at Alpendres, Serpa. Curto, Ana. 2019. Osteology Report: Excavation and laboratory study of osteological remains from genus Sus. Curto, Ana. 2019. Osteology Report: Study of osteological faunal remains recovered in Alvalade do Sado. Curto, Ana. 2019. Osteology Report: Intervention in the Roman Necropolis of Quintos, Beja. Curto, Ana. 2019. Osteology Report: Human and faunal osteological remains from a Medieval pit at Silves' Castle. Curto, Ana. 2018. Osteology Report: The Medieval Islamic graveyard of Safara. Curto, Ana. 2017. Osteology Report: Intervention in the Neolithic funerary cave at Morgado Shelter, Tomar (2016 Campaign). Curto, Ana. 2016. Osteology Report: Intervention in the Neolithic funerary cave at Morgado Shelter, Tomar (2015 Campaign).
Thesis / Dissertation	Curto, Ana. "The Impact of Diet and Health on Bone Stable Isotope Ratios: A Comparative Study". PhD, University of Kent, 2019. Curto, Ana Q.. "Por terras templárias. Estudo paleobiológico de uma amostra osteológica humana inumada em Santa Maria Olivais, Tomar". Master, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/31528.

Other

Other output

Curto, Ana. 2015. Academic ambassador. I was an Academic ambassador at the University of Kent from 2015 to 2018. During this time I did outreach at different schools and at the university for visiting students..

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2020	Are we what we eat? Other factors affecting stable isotope ratios	EMBIO2020: New approaches to Early Medieval funerary contexts in the Centre and North of the Iberian Peninsula University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019	A troubled relationship: Five cases of treponematosis from Tomar, Portugal (11th-17th centuries)	15th Spanish Congress of Paleopathology University of Granada (Granada, Spain)
2019	Can stable isotope analysis become a tool for paleopathological studies?	15th Spanish Congress of Paleopathology University of Granada (Granada, Spain)
2019	Endocranial bone lesions in non-adults: Four study cases from the church of Santa Maria do Olival, Tomar, Portugal (11th -17th centuries)	15th Spanish Congress of Paleopathology University of Granada (Granada, Spain)
2019	The mysteries of the Ark of the Founders of Saint Francis Church in Évora: comparing legend and biological anthropology	7th Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019	Stable isotope analysis in the study of Paleopathology	Conference cycle celebrating 25th Anniversary of CIAS University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2018	Using stable isotope analysis as a tool for paleopathology, examples from Tomar, Portugal	6th Portuguese Conference of Paleopathology Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal)
2018	Intrabone stable isotope variation in skeletons with infectious diseases	Annual European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association European Paleopathology Association (Zagreb, Croatia)
2018	Diet and disease in Tomar, Portugal	Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists European Association of Archaeologists (Barcelona, Spain)
2017	Bone remodelling during infections	Lecture series in Human Biology and Biochemistry Universidade de Évora (Portugal)
2017	Stable isotope comparison between apparently healthy and unhealthy adult individuals from medieval Tomar, Portugal	BABAO Annual Conference University of Liverpool (Liverpool, United Kingdom)
2016	A possible case of poliomyelitis in an adult male from medieval Tomar	5th Portuguese Conference of Paleopathology Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal)
2015	A possible Madura foot from medieval Estremoz, southern Portugal	2nd BioAnthropological Meeting: life, death and in between Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal)
2014	Talipes equinovarus: a case study from a medieval necropolis in Estremoz, Portugal	4th Portuguese Conference of Paleopathology Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal)
2011	A POSSIBLE CASE OF LEGG-CALVÉ-PERTHES’ DISEASE IN AN ADULT MALE FROM MEDIEVAL/MODERN TOMAR, PORTUGAL	XI Congreso Nacional de Paleopatología Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Andorra la Vella, Andorra)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2017 - 2018	Paleobiologia de uma Amostra Populacional Antiga de Santa Maria do Olival, Datado do Século XIII-XVIII Co-supervisor	Project in Biological Sciences (Degree) Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2017 - 2018	Estudo de entesopatias numa amostra de população medieval/moderna de Santa Maria do Olival em Tomar. Co-supervisor	Project in Biological Sciences (Degree) Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2014 - 2015	Análise morfológica comparativa de lesões ósseas relacionadas com espondiloartropatias e DISH em populações humanas Co-supervisor	Project in Biological Sciences (Degree) Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2014 - 2015	Estudo Paleobiológico de uma amostra osteológica humana de uma necrópole medieval-moderna em Tomar Co-supervisor	Project in Biological Sciences (Degree) Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2013 - 2014	Estudo do perfil biológico de uma amostra osteológica medieval/moderna Co-supervisor	Project in Biological Sciences (Degree) Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2019/09/01 - Current	Organising Committee of the 7th Portuguese Conference on Paleopathology (2020/09/04 - 2020/09/05) Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2009 - 2009	9th European Course on Basic Aerobiology (2009 - 2009) Workshop	Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2019	Normal and pathological foot bones variability in historical and modern series	Eduardo Enrique Saldías Vergara (PhD) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2019 - Current	GEEvH - Grupo de Estudos em Evolução Humana (Study Group in Human Evolution)	Fiscal council reporter
2017 - Current	European Paleopathology Association	Member
2017 - Current	European Association of Archaeologists	Member
2017 - Current	Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia	Member
2015 - Current	British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology	Member

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2009 - 2009	XIII Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Biologia	Universidade de Évora

Consulting

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2015 - 2015	Scientific advisor for the documentary “Os nossos Dinossauros”, RTP2

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2015 - 2017	Foundations of Biological Anthropology - Autumn and Spring term	Foundations of Biological Anthropology (Bachelor)	University of Kent, United Kingdom
2015 - 2017	Biology and Human Identity - Spring term	Biology and Human Identity (Bachelor)	University of Kent, United Kingdom
2015 - 2017	Forensic Anthropology - Spring term	Forensic Anthropology (Bachelor)	University of Kent, United Kingdom

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

	Activity description	Newspaper / Forum
2017/02/06	Interview about the skeleton I studied with a Madura foot infection: "Vivia na Idade Média em Estremoz e o fungo que tinha num pé era raro na Europa"	Público
2016/12/21	The skeleton I studied, and published, with a Madura foot infection was considered on of the 10 Most Intriguing Skeletons Of 2016 by Forbes	Forbes
2016/02/23	One of my scientific papers was featured in Forbes: "Archaeologists Find Medieval Foot Fungus In Portuguese Cemetery"	Forbes

Distinctions

Award

2020	2019/2020 Scientific text - Young Anthropologists (Biological/Forensic Anthropology) Portuguese Association of Anthropology, Portugal
2018	2nd place for the 2017/2018 Scientific text - Young Anthropologists Portuguese Association of Anthropology, Portugal
2017	Runner-up student poster prize University College London Institute of Archaeology, United Kingdom
2015	University of Kent 50th Anniversary Research Scholarship University of Kent, United Kingdom

Title

2016	Associate Fellow of The Higher Education Academy, UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching and learning support in higher education The Higher Education Academy (HEA), United Kingdom