Sara Marsteller

Sara Marsteller is an Associate Teaching Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. An anthropological bioarchaeologist, Dr. Marsteller’s teaching interests bridge the fields of archaeology, biological anthropology, sociocultural anthropology, and global health. She is passionate about creating inclusive, active learning experiences for undergraduate students, particularly through online teaching and study abroad.

Dr. Marsteller's research expertise is in social identities and processes of sociopolitical change in the Central Andes. Through research in Peru, Marsteller examines long term transformations in health and identity on the central Peruvian coast. She employs an interdisciplinary approach that synthesizes methods from human osteology, archaeological chemistry, and mortuary archaeology within a framework informed by sociocultural theories of identity, social and biocultural theories of health, and regional ethnography and ethnohistory.