George J. Armelagos (May 22, 1936 – May 15, 2014)[2][3] was an American anthropologist, and Goodrich C. White Professor of Anthropology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Relevant topics include epidemiology,[5] paleopathology,[6][7] paleodemography,[8] bioarchaeology,[7] evolutionary medicine,[9] and the social interpretations of race,[10][11] among others.
[3][4] During his 22-year career at the University of Massachusetts, Armelagos would train over a dozen anthropologists that would themselves contribute to research in human variation and adaptation, paleopathology, and skeletal biology and hold high ranking positions in the major associations for the discipline.
[4] His graduate students included Owen Lovejoy, John Lallo, Ann Magennis, Rebecca Huss-Ashmore, Dennis van Gerven, Michael Blakey, Jerome Rose, Pamela Bumsted, David Carlson, Lesley Rankin-Hill, Debra Martin, Anne Grauer, Alan H. Goodman, and Brenda Baker.
He would serve three years as chair of the Anthropology Department at the University of Florida and affiliate curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History [4][14] before taking his current position as the Goodrich C. White Professor of Anthropology at Emory University in Georgia [4] where he has trained a whole new generation of anthropologists (Tad Schurr, Kristin Harper, Bethany Turner, Amber Campbell Hibbs, and Molly Zuckerman) working on understanding the evolution of disease from a biocultural approach receiving the George Cuttino Award for Mentoring (2002).