Diana Malarchik

Diana Malarchik Portrait

PhD Candidate

Office Hours
Fall 2025: Monday 1:30 - 3:30, Wickson 2147

Education

  • B.A. - University of Nevada, Reno - Education, Spanish minor
  • M.A. - University of Nevada, Reno - Biological Anthropology

Research Focus

My research examines life history and health patterns in historic-period California populations from the San Francisco Bay Area. I use stable isotopic analysis, trace element analysis, and dental proteomics to better understand how childhood health, maternal behavior, and the societal changes that came with rapid industrialization. 

Publications

Malarchik, Diana, Jelmer W. Eerkens, Christopher Canzonieri, Christopher Zimmer, Tanya M. Smith, Christine Austin, and Austin Cole.(2025). Examining Heavy Metal Exposure at Asistencia de San Pedro y San Pablo during the Mission Period in Northern California. In J.W. Eerkens, L.M. Panich, C. Canzonieri, and C. Zimmer (Eds.), Native Persistence at a California Mission Outpost: The Bioarchaeology and History of  the Asistencia de San Pedro y San Pablo. University of Florida Press. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3136966d 

Buonasera, Tammy, Diana Malarchik, Jelmer W. Eerkens, Christopher Canzonieri, and Glendon Parker. (2025). Proteomic Sex Estimation and Detection of Immune Proteins in  Tooth Enamel at the Asistencia de San Pedro y San Pablo (CA- SMA 71/H) 71. In J.W. Eerkens, L.M. Panich, C. Canzonieri, and C. Zimmer (Eds.), Native Persistence at a California Mission Outpost: The Bioarchaeology and History of  the Asistencia de San Pedro y San Pablo. University of Florida Press. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3136966d  

Buonasera, Tammy, Jelmer Eerkens, Diana Malarchik, Lee M. Panich, Christopher Canzonieri, Christopher Zimmer, Courtney Clough, Thomas Ostrander, Aja Sutton, Michelle Salemi, Glendon Parker. (2024). Immune proteins recovered in tooth enamel as a biochemical record of health in past populations: Paleoproteomic analysis of Mission Period Native Californians. Journal of Archaeological Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2024.106069

Eerkens, Jelmer W., Sepideh Asgari, Karim Alizadeh, Diana Malarchik, Samantha Cramer, & Glendon Parker. (2024).Stable isotope and proteomic insights into Bronze age human dietary life history at Köhne Shahar, Northwest Iran. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 58, 104746. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104746

Rosario, Mikayla K., Jelmer W. Eerkens, Diana Malarchik, Brian Byrd, Laurel Engbring, Monica V. Arellano, and Alan Leventhal. (2022). Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Analysis of Bone Collagen at Ayttakiš ‘Éete Hiramwiš Trépam-tak (CA-ALA 677/H). Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology 35: 105-114. https://scahome.org/page18327#Volume35

Malarchik, Diana, Marin A. Pilloud, and G. Richard Scott. (2020).A Dental Metric Study of Medieval, Post Medieval, and Modern Basque Populations from Northern Spain.  Dental Anthropology 33(2): 17-34. https://doi.org/10.26575/daj.v33i2.305

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