Jenna Dittmar

Dr Jenna Dittmar is a Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen. As a specialist in bioarchaeology and palaeopathology, her research utilises a multidisciplinary approach to examine questions about health, disease and medical intervention in past populations.

She was previously employed (2016-2020) as a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge on the Wellcome funded project entitled, ‘After the Plague: Heath and History of Medieval Cambridge’. This multidisciplinary project examined the historical and biological effects of the catastrophic Medieval plague epidemic, known as the Black Death.