Staff profile

I received my PhD from the University of Durham in 2007. The title of my thesis was "Dispersal of Homo sapiens around the Indian Ocean Rim: a geometric morphometric study of craniofacial diversity".

Senior Fellow Higher Education Academy

• Applications of geometric morphometrics to human evolution
• Biological anthropology from material culture
• Early human migrations
• Forensic anthropology
• Public engagement with science and anthropology
• The evolution of human craniofacial diversity

• 2000: 2015 Winner Outstanding Academic Social Sciences: Durham Student Union Awards:
• 2000: 2012 Winner Best Lecturer: Durham Student Union Awards:

Chapter in book

• Buck, T. J. (2024). Evidence for child migration at Vindolanda on the northern frontier of Roman Britain. An osteobiography of a clandestine burial. In T. Ivleva, C. van Driel-Murray, T. Hazenberg, E. Graafstal, M. Driessen, & H. van Enckevort (Eds.), . Sidestone Press. https://doi.org/10.59641/1b090en

Journal Article

• Buck, T., & Vidarsdottir, U. (online). Environmental Influences on cranial shape variation. American journal of physical anthropology,
• Buck, T., Greene, E. M., Meyer, A., Barlow, V., & Graham, E. (2019). The Body in the Ditch: Alternative Funerary Practices on the Northern Frontier of the Roman Empire?. Britannia: A Journal of Romano-British and Kindred Studies, 50, 203-224. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0068113x1900014x
• Merli, C., & Buck, T. (2015). Forensic identification and identity politics in 2004 Post-Tsunami Thailand: Negotiating dissolving boundaries. Human Remains and Violence: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1(1), 3-22. https://doi.org/10.7227/hrv.1.1.2
• Buck, T., & Pipyrou, S. (2014). You can die but once? Creativity, narrative and epistemology in Western death. Mortality, 19(3), 261-283. https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2014.929567
• Buck, T., & Strand Viđarsdóttir, U. (2012). Craniofacial Evolution in Polynesia: A Geometric Morphometric Study of Population Diversity. American Journal of Human Biology, 24(6), 776-785. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.22315
• Strand Vidarsdottir, U., Buck, T., Cooper, A., Endicott, P., & Stringer, C. (2005). Morphology and molecules: a study of diversity and dispersal in the island populations of South Asia. American journal of physical anthropology, 200-200
• Buck, T., & Strand Vidarsdóttir, U. (2004). A proposed method for the identification of race in sub-adult skeletons: a geometric morphometric analysis of mandibular morphology. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 49(6), 1159-1164. https://doi.org/10.1520/jfs2004074