Professor emeritus Elizabeth Weiss is a controversial and world-renowned physical anthropologist, specializing in the analysis of human skeletal remains. At San José State University, Weiss curated one of the largest collections of prehistoric human skeletal remains in the US. She is the author of numerous books, including Reading the Bones: Activity, Biology, and Culture, Paleopathology in Perspective: Bone Disease and Health through Time, and Repatriation and Erasing the Past (which she co-authored with James W. Springer). Weiss has also been published in top anthropology journals, like the American Journal of Biological Anthropology, and medical journals, like Rheumatism. She’s been a frequent contributor to Minding the Campus, Reality’s Last Stand, and City Journal. Weiss has also been featured in The New York Times, Science magazine, and USA Today.