Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Heather T. Battles and Bethany Sanders (2022) Historical touchstones and imagined futures during COVID-19 in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Anthropological Forum 32(3):253-265.  https://doi.org/10.1080/00664677.2022.2113500 Part one of two-part Special Issue on “Imagination, the Ordinary and the Extraordinary: COVID-19 in Aotearoa/New Zealand.”

Jessica Dimka, Taylor P. van Doren, and Heather T. Battles (2022) Pandemics, past and present: The role of biological anthropology in interdisciplinary pandemic studies. Yearbook of Biological Anthropology 178(Suppl. 74):256–291. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24517

Daniele Evelin Alves, Svenn-Erik Mamelund, Jessica Dimka, Lone Simonsen, Mathias Molbak, Soren Orskov, Lisa Sattenspiel, Lianne Tripp, Andrew Noymer, Gerardo Chowell-Puente, Sushma Dahal, Taylor P. van Doren, Amanda Wissler, Courtney Heffernan, Kirsty Renfree Short, Heather Battles, and Michael G. Baker (2022) Indigenous peoples and pandemics. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 1–6. http://doi.org/10.1177/14034948221087095

Heather T. Battles and Rebecca J. Gilmour (2022) Beyond mortality: Survivors of epidemic infections and the bioarchaeology of impairment and disability. Bioarchaeology International 6(1–2):23–40. https://doi.org/10.5744/bi.2021.0003 

Sara Dada, Heather Battles, Caitlin Pilbeam, Bhagteshwar Singh, Tom Solomon, and Nina Gobat (2021) Learning from the past & present: Social science implications for COVID-19 immunity-based documentation. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 8:219. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00898-4

Phillip Roberts and Heather T. Battles (2021) Measles and scarlet fever epidemic synergy and evolving pathogenic virulence in Victoria, Australia, 1853–1916. Social Science History 45(1):187–217. http://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2020.41 Published online 14 December 2020.

Heather T. Battles (2020) Teaching anthropological demography through project- and service-based learning: Case study of the Symonds Street Cemetery Project. Teaching Anthropology 9(1):59–73. https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v9i1.471

Heather T. Battles and Bobbie-Leigh Jones (2018) The social geography of diphtheria mortality in Hamilton. Ontario History, 110(1):88–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1044327ar

Heather T. Battles (2017) Differences in polio mortality by socioeconomic status in two southern Ontario counties, 1900–1937. Social Science History 41(2):305–332. https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2017.1

Heather T. Battles (2016) The biologically vulnerable boy: Framing sex differences in childhood infectious disease mortality. Boyhood Studies 9(2):56–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/bhs.2016.09205

Heather Battles (2011) Toward engagement: Exploring the prospects for an integrated anthropology of disability. vis-à-vis: Explorations in Anthropology, 11(1):107–124, http://vav.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/vav/article/view/14724

Heather T. Battles (2010) Exploring ethical and methodological issues in Internet-based research with adolescents. International Journal of Qualitative Methods 9(1):27–39, https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/ijqm/index.php/IJQM/article/view/5017

Heather T. Battles (2009) Long bone bilateral asymmetry in the nineteenth century Stirrup Court Cemetery collection from London, Ontario. NEXUS: The Canadian Student Journal of Anthropology, Vol. 21, http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/nexus/vol21/iss1/1/

Heather Battles (July 2008) “The body is not a battleground”: The anti-vaccination movement and ideas about biomedicine, health, and the body. McMaster Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition’s Working Paper Series Graduate Student Issue 08/2, http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~global/Assets/grad%20WPS%20final-rev.pdf

Non-Refereed Journal Articles

Heather T. Battles and Lenore Manderson (2008) The Ashley Treatment: Furthering the anthropology of/on disability. Medical Anthropology 27(3):219–226.

Book Chapters

Heather T. Battles (2019) In the shadow of war: The forgotten 1916 polio epidemic in New Zealand.  In: Bioarchaeology of Marginalized People. Editors M. Mant and A. Holland. Elsevier Academic Press, pp. 181-203.

D. Ann Herring and Heather T. Battles (2012) Introduction. In: Ch2olera: Hamilton’s Forgotten Epidemics, D. Ann Herring and Heather T. Battles (eds). Hamilton, Ont.: Dept. of Anthropology, McMaster University: 2–7, http://hdl.handle.net/11375/14367

Edited Volumes

D. Ann Herring and Heather T. Battles, Eds. (2012) Ch2olera: Hamilton’s Forgotten Epidemics. Hamilton, Ont.: Dept. of Anthropology, McMaster University, http://hdl.handle.net/11375/14367

Book and Dissertation Reviews

Heather T. Battles and Samantha Maitland (2022) BOOK REVIEW: The Children in Child Health: Negotiating Young Lives and Health in New Zealand, by Julie Spray. Childhood in the Past 15(2):129–131. https://doi.org/10.1080/17585716.2022.2102144

Heather T. Battles (2018) Listening to a pandemic. Science 361(6408):1207, http://doi.org/10.1126/science.aav0195 [PODCAST REVIEW: Going Viral: The Mother of All Pandemics, by Hannah Mawdsley and Mark Honigsbaum].

Heather T. Battles (May 2014) DISSERTATION REVIEW: Parents of Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants: Disability, Medicalization and Neuroculture, by Laura K. Mauldin. Dissertation Reviews, http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/8761/

Heather T. Battles (2009) BOOK REVIEW: Bones and Ochre: The Curious Afterlife of the Red Lady of Paviland by Marianne Sommer. NEXUS: The Canadian Student Journal of Anthropology, Vol. 21, http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/nexus/vol21/iss1/7/

Other Publications

Judith Littleton, Heather Battles, and Evelyn Marsters (23 October 2020) Syndemic thinking and diabetes. Invited blog for Defining Moments Canada/ Moments Déterminants Canada https://definingmomentscanada.ca/news/syndemic-thinking-and-diabetes/ Version française: https://definingmomentscanada.ca/fr/actualites/lapproche-syndemique-et-le-diabete/ Version republished 24 February 2021 on The Big Q blog as “How can syndemics help us understand disease better?” https://www.thebigq.org/2021/02/24/how-can-syndemics-help-us-understand-disease-better/

Heather Battles (21 October 2020) Hybridized project-based learning in a local cemetery: Changing course design and student responses. Teaching Anthropology Journal Blog https://www.teachinganthropology.org/2020/10/21/hybridized-project-based-learning-in-a-local-cemetery-changing-course-design-and-student-responses/

Samantha Sandassie and Heather Battles (21 October 2014) BLOG POST: “Plus ça change: Infectious Diseases Past & Present.” Panacea: Musings on the History of Medicine, http://www.medhistorian.com/2014/10/plus-ca-change-infectious-diseases-past.html (original website no longer available – archived blogpost available here: https://web.archive.org/web/20200927070935/http://www.medhistorian.com/2014/10/plus-ca-change-infectious-diseases-past.html)

Heather Battles and Rebecca Gilmour (2013) CONFERENCE REPORT: “The Bioarchaeology of Disease Ideologies,” session at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA) (Knoxville, 13 April 2013). Disability History Newsletter, 9(1):10–13.