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31 that the things that we were finding to identify them … " " … we had seen before … ," Beatrice says. They met on the first day of graduate school in 2004, married in 2014, and often finish each other's sentences. " … and were telling us that they were coming across the border for specific reasons, that it was because their childhoods and their livelihoods south of the border weren't sustaining them or their families," Soler finished. They left Arizona at the end of 2013 — Soler is now a forensic anthropologist for New York City's Office of Chief Medical Examiner, and Beatrice came to TCNJ as an assistant professor of anthropology in 2015 — but what they learned there launched them on an ongoing research project that has helped illuminate a hidden side of a volatile issue. Beatrice left his hometown of Youngstown, Ohio, for Ohio University with a guitar that he played in a rock band but little idea about what he would major in, or what anthropology was. A class with a professor, a biological anthropologist, quickly answered those questions. In graduate school at Michigan State he did fieldwork in Albania and Greece. "I've always wanted to explore what life was like in the past," he says. "I was really interested in how we can reconstruct living conditions and lifeways." Soler's high school in Rockville, Maryland, offered a class in biological anthropology that made it easy for her to later choose a major at George Washington University. "I went to college pretty certain I wanted to be an anthropologist," she says. She did fieldwork in Albania in graduate school, too, deciphering juvenile scurvy rates in BILL CARDONI Data behind death Beatrice and his wife, Angela Soler, together here at TCNJ, are giving the dead a way to describe the deprivation they fled.

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