Rick W. A. Smith

Biocultural anthropologist @GeorgeMasonU @indigenous_sts @canada_sing. I work at the intersections of genomics & queer, feminist, & Indigenous STS. Texpat🤘🏻

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

GPT-5 confirmed to confidently try to complete 11 tasks simultaneously then email you 6 months later explaining it’s had a mental breakdown

[Rick W. A. Smith @rickwasmith]

@Anthrofuentes Thanks, Agustin ❤️

[Rick W. A. Smith @rickwasmith]

Excited to share our new paper from the Texas Rural Health and Heritage project - “The plantation system and the roots of the southern rural mortality penalty in the northern Blackland Prairies of Texas.” @robingnelson @AWRgenes https://t.co/hrp7HXZqrv

[StoneLab_ASU @StoneLab_ASU]

I am recruiting a #postdoc to work on projects related to forensic genetic, conservation genomics and/or ancient DNA analyses of ancient pathogens! See https://t.co/6ZMJ1dnanW & join us! #SciencePartyInTheDesert!

[Rick W. A. Smith @rickwasmith]

Lunch planning with the co-organizers of the forthcoming AJBA special issue, Queer Feminism in Biological Anthropology. #AABA2024

[Rick W. A. Smith @rickwasmith]

@robingnelson Can confirm 😂

[Rick W. A. Smith @rickwasmith]

@robingnelson Wednesday’s bout to be wacky as hell.

[AABA @BiologicalAnth]

The American Association of Biological Anthropologists affirms our support of trans lives. Please see the full text of our statement on our website: https://t.co/0rvMkhfwUc

[Dan Baldassarre @evornithology]

This site is such a hellscape now. I miss the good old days. Like when that professor had a burner account and pretended to die from Covid. That was when Twitter was pure.

[Rick W. A. Smith @rickwasmith]

@JenniferRaff 💀💀💀

[Rick W. A. Smith @rickwasmith]

@ChrisStantis @robingnelson @AWRgenes Really beautiful pic, Chris. I remember talking about your TX Czech roots in DC last year. Eventually I’d like to write another paper just about them & contrast the experiences of Eastern Europeans in TX vs. the NE in the late 19th and early 20th century. Night and day.

[Rick W. A. Smith @rickwasmith]

My new preprint with @robingnelson and @AWRgenes from our Texas Rural Health Project: “The Plantation System and the Roots of the Southern Rural Mortality Penalty.” https://t.co/e01FGrei7c

[Rick W. A. Smith @rickwasmith]

@ktcapuchin Thanks, Katie!

[Rick W. A. Smith @rickwasmith]

We find that the plantation system accounts for nearly all the variation in mortality that exists across the rural/urban divide in the Blackland Prairies of Texas, elucidating the historical processes underlying the emergence of rural health disparities in the region.

[Rick W. A. Smith @rickwasmith]

We collected & analyzed vital records data from post-emancipation period Texas, when emerging forms of plantation labor such as tenant farming, convict leasing, & migrant labor were developed to sustain the plantation economy after the abolishment of chattel slavery.