Staff profile

Dr Kori Lea Filipek


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Senior Lecturer in Biomedical and Forensic Science

Square image of staff member Dr Kori Filipek

Subject

Forensic Science

College

College of Science and Engineering

Department

School of Human Sciences

Research centre

Human Sciences Research Centre

ORCiD ID

0000-0002-7058-2216

Email

K.Filipek@derby.ac.uk

Teaching responsibilities

Professional interests

Research interests

Dr. Filipek is accepting MRes and PhD students who have interests in any of the areas above.

Membership of professional bodies

Qualifications

International experience

I have extensive fieldwork experience previously working in the United States, Guatemala, El Salvador, the United Kingdom, Greece and further afield. For the past 14 years, my fieldwork has largely focussed on sites revealing human remains in Romania, where I have led several collaborative projects.

  • Filipek, K.L., Moore, J., Stanciu, I., Tucker, K., Loeffelmann, T., Oliverson, M., Montgomery, J. (2023) Biomolecular investigations of Transylvanian Children. 36th Annual Zilelor Academice Clujene. Romanian Academy. (Invited Speaker)
  • Filipek, K.L., Moore, J., Stanciu, I., Tucker, K., Loeffelmann, T., Oliverson, M., Montgomery, J. (2023). Uncovering the Wedding of the Dead: Biomolecular investigations of Transylvanian children with s(Cu)rvy. 24th Annual Meeting of British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology. University College London (UK)
  • Filipek, K.L., Tucker, K., Stanciu, I. (2022). Bodies of Evidence: Progress and Potential from the Jucu de Sus Necropolis Excavations. 35th Annual Zilelor Academice Clujene. Romanian Academy. (Invited Speaker)
  • Filipek, K.L., Roberts, C.A., Montgomery, J., Gowland, R., Evans, J. (2021). Imagined Exclusion? Mobility Histories of Adolescents with Leprosy from Anglo-Scandinavian Norwich (Eastern England). 22nd Annual Meeting of British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology. Teesside University (UK)
  • Filipek, K. L., Roberts, C., Montgomery, J., Gowland, R., & Beaumont, J. (2020). Stressed to Death: Stable isotope evidence of pathophysiological stress from young people with leprosy buried at a Medieval English leprosarium. 89th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropology (Virtual Presentation)
  • Filipek, K.L., Roberts, C.A., Montgomery, J., Gowland, R., Beaumont, J. (2019). Assessing diet and cachectic stress in young people with leprosy buried at a Medieval English leprosarium using stable isotope analyses from high-resolution incremental dentine. Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing 4th annual Early Career Researcher Conference (UK)
  • Filipek, K.L., Tucker, K., Stanciu, I., Oliverson, M., Crowther, M., Snyder, J. (2019). Bilateral Protrusio Acetabuli in a Medieval Skeleton from Transylvania: A Case for Marfan Syndrome. Workshop on Ancient Rare Diseases. German Archaeological Institute (Germany)
  • Filipek, K.L., Crowther, M., Errickson, D., Tucker, K., Stanciu, I., Blevins, K., Snyder, J., Lanigan, L. (2018). Beyond the cutting edge: high-resolution digital analysis of potential lacerations from the Jucu de Sus Necropolis (Transylvania). Digital Dilemmas Conference. Institute of Archaeology, University College London (UK)
  • Filipek, K.L. (2017). Digging Deeper: Opportunities within the field school model. Beyond the Trench: A workshop in archaeological pedagogy. Durham University (UK)
  • Filipek, K.L., Errickson, D., Crowther, M. Tucker, K., Stanciu, I., Blevins, K., Snyder, J., Lanigan, L. (2017). Beyond the cutting edge: high-resolution digital analysis of potential lacerations from the Jucu de Sus Necropolis (Transylvania).19th Annual Conference British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology. Liverpool John Moores University (UK)
  • Filipek, K.L., Roberts, C.A., Montgomery, J., Gowland, R., Evans, J. Tucker, K. (2017). Anywhere they roam: Mobility histories of young individuals from medieval leprosaria. 23rd Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Maastricht (Netherlands)
  • Filipek, K.L., Roberts, C.A., Montgomery, J., Gowland, R., Beaumont, J. (2016). Assessing physiological stress in young people with leprosy buried at a Medieval English leprosarium using stable isotope analyses from high-resolution incremental dentine. 18th Annual Conference British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology. University of Kent (UK)
  • Blevins, K., Filipek, KL, Tucker, K., Snyder, J., Lanigan, L., Hunt, K., Crowder, K., Oliverson, M., Tschinkel, K. (2016).The straw that broke their backs: Patterns of spinal trauma in medieval males from the Jucu de Sus Necropolis (Transylvania).18th Annual Conference British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology. University of Kent (UK)
  • Crowder, K; Montgomery, J; Gröcke, DR; Filipek, KL. (2016). Lesions and isotopes: an integrated study of childhood metabolic stress and stable isotope life histories in the Kingdom of the Gepids. 18th Annual Conference British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology. University of Kent (UK)
  • Filipek, K.L., Roberts, C.A., Montgomery, J., Gowland, R.L., Beaumont, J. (2016). Assessing physiological stress in young people with leprosy buried at a Medieval English leprosarium using stable isotope analyses from high-resolution incremental dentine. 19th International Leprosy Congress. Beijing (China)
  • Lanigan LT, Filipek KL, Tucker K, Gestsdóttir H. Unusual Dental Calculus Formation and Orofacial Pathology. (2016). 18th Annual Conference British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology. University of Kent (UK)
  • Filipek-Ogden, K.L., Roberts, C.A., Montgomery, J., Gowland, R., Evans, J. Tucker, K. (2016). Keeping Up with the Kids: Mobility patterns of young individuals from the St. Mary Magdalen Leprosy Hospital (Winchester). 85th Annual Conference of the American Association of Physical Anthropology. Atlanta, Georgia (USA)
  • Crowder, K., Montgomery, J.,Filipek-Ogden, K.L., Evans, J., Grocke, D. (2016). Isotopic profiling of diet, health, and mobility amongst the non-adult Gepid population buried at the Archuid Cemetery in Transylvania, Romania (4th –7th centuries AD). 85th Annual Conference of the American Association of Physical Anthropology. Atlanta, Georgia (USA)
  • Tschinkel, K., Filipek, KL, Tucker, K., Blevins, K., Snyder, J., Lanigan, L., Hunt, K., Crowder, K., Oliverson, M. (2016) Working land and eating bland: physiological trends in early Slavic migrants from the Jucu de Sus Necropolis (Transylvania, Romania). 43rd Annual Meeting of the Palaeopathology Association, Atlanta, USA
  • Filipek-Ogden, K.L., Stanciu, I., Tucker, K., Hunt, K., Snyder, J., Crowder, K., Ogden, N., Oliverson, M., Tschinkel, K., Bereza, M. (2015). Working Land and Eating Bland: Pathological trends in early Slavic migrants from the Jucu de Sus Necropolis (Transylvania, Romania). 43rd Annual Meeting of the Paleopathology Association. Atlanta, Georgia (USA)
  • Gowland, R., Roberts, C.A., Caffell, A., Filipek-Ogden, K.L., Jakob, T. (2015). Til Poison Phosphorous Brought Them Death: The ‘othering’ of working class bodies in 19th century England. 114th Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association. Denver, Colorado (USA)
  • Hunt, K., Filipek-Ogden, K.L., Stanciu, I., Tucker, K., Snyder, J., Crowder, K., Ogden, N., Oliverson, M., Tschinkel, K., Bereza, M. (2015). Burials and Bodies: Patterns of treatment, pathology, and demography in the Jucu de Sus Necropolis, Transylvania (5th-12th centuries AD). 17th Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology. Sheffield University, Sheffield (UK)
  • Filipek-Ogden, K.L., Roberts, C.A., Montgomery, J., Gowland, R., Evans, J. Tucker, K. (2015). Keeping Up with the Kids: Mobility patterns of young individuals from the St. Mary Magdalen Leprosy Hospital (Winchester).17th Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology. Sheffield University, Sheffield (UK)
  • Filipek-Ogden, K.L., Roberts, C.A., Montgomery, J., Gowland, R., Evans, J. (2015). Isotopic approaches to assessing Leprosy Stigma in Medieval England. United Kingdom Archaeological Science Conference. Durham University, Durham (UK)
  • Roberts, C.A., Caffell, A., Filipek-Ogden, K.L., Gowland, R., Jakob, T. (2015). An occupationally related disease in a 19th century skeleton from north-east England? The past and present of “phossy jaw.” 42nd Annual Meeting of the Palaeopathology Association. St. Louis, Missouri (USA)
  • Filipek-Ogden, K.L., Roberts, C.A., Montgomery, J., Gowland, R., Evans, J. (2014). Infection and Isolation?: Assessing Leprosy Stigma in Medieval England. 42nd Annual Meeting of the Palaeopathology Association. St. Louis, Missouri (USA)
  • Roberts, C.A., Caffell, A., Filipek-Ogden, K.L., Gowland, R., Jakob, T. (2014). An occupationally related disease in a 19th century skeleton from north-east England? The past and present of “phossy jaw.” 16th Annual Conference of the 16th Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology. Durham University, Durham (UK)
  • Filipek-Ogden, K.L. (2014). Ill-Fated?: Exploring bioarchaeological links between childhood non-specific indicators of stress and leprosy immunity in Medieval England. 16th Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology. Durham University, Durham (UK)
  • Roberts, C.A., Caffell, A., Filipek-Ogden, K.L., Gowland, R., Jakob, T. (2014). An occupationally related disease in a 19th century skeleton from north-east England? The past and present of “phossy jaw.” 20th Annual European Meeting of the Palaeopathology Association Lund (Sweden)
  • Filipek-Ogden, K.L. (2014). Ill-Fated?: Exploring bioarchaeological links between childhood non-specific indicators of stress and leprosy immunity in Medieval England. 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists- Special Symposium on Neglected Infectious Diseases in Palaeopathology and Clinical Medicine. Dedicated to the memory of Donald J. Ortner. Calgary, Alberta (Canada)
  • Filipek-Ogden, K.L. (2014). Congenital Confusions: Assessing Diagnostic Discrepancies in Spinal Malformations. 41st Annual Meeting of the Palaeopathology Association. Calgary, Alberta (Canada)
  • Filipek-Ogden, K.L. (2013). The Clash of the Congenital Conditions.15th Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology, University of York, York (U.K.)

Conference presentations prior to 2013 available upon request

  • Filipek, K.L. & Blevins, K.E. (in press). Holistic Understandings of Leprosy through the First Millenium AD: Clinical, Historical, Palaeopathological, and Biomolecular Approaches. In: Epidemic and Pandemic Infectious Diseases in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Historical, Bioarchaeological and Paleopathological Approaches. ASLAEME SERIES, Monographs 6" BAR International Series. (Invited Contribution)
  • Filipek, K.L., White-Iribhogbe, K., Stanciu, I., Loeffelmann, T., Oliverson, M., Crowther, M., Remsey, T., Tranca, T. (2023). Discoveries from recent excavations of the Jucu de Sus Cemetery (Cluj County). Cronica
  • Filipek, K.L. (2023) The Medieval Changeling: Health, Childcare, and the Family Unit, Childhood in the Past, 16:2, 146-147
  • Filipek, K.L., Giulia Riccomi. 2023. Bioarchaeology and Dietary Reconstruction across Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages in Tuscany, Central Italy. Antiquity, pp.1-2
  • Roberts, C.A., Filipek, K.L., Blevins, K.E., Pacheco, A. (2022). Here and Now, There and Then: Mycobacterial diseases still with us today. In The Handbook of Palaeopathology. Grauer, A.L. (ed.). London: Routledge
  • Filipek, K. L., Roberts, C. A., Montgomery, J., Gowland, R. L., Moore, J., Tucker, K., & Evans, J. A. (2022). Creating communities of care: Sex estimation and mobility histories of adolescents buried in the cemetery of St. Mary Magdalen leprosarium (Winchester, England). American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 178(1), 108-123
  • Filipek, K. L., Roberts, C. A., Gowland, R. L., Montgomery, J., & Evans, J. A. (2021). Illness and inclusion: Mobility histories of adolescents with leprosy from Anglo‐Scandinavian Norwich (Eastern England). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 31(6), 1180-1191
  • Moore, J., Filipek, K., Kalenderian, V., Gowland, R., Hamilton, E., Evans, J., & Montgomery, J. (2021). Death metal: Evidence for the impact of lead poisoning on childhood health within the Roman Empire. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 31(5), 846-856
  • Filipek, K.L. (2021). Carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses of individuals from Hyde Abbey. In Excavations at Hyde Abbey, Winchester (1972-1999). Ottaway, P. (ed.) Winchester: Hampshire Cultural Trust. pp. 296-300
  • Filipek, K.L., Roberts, C.A., Gowland, R., Tucker, K. (2021). Alloparenting Adolescents: Evaluating the Biological and Social Impacts of Leprosy on Young People in Saxo-Norman England (9th - 12th centuries AD) through Cross-Disciplinary Models of Care. In The Family in Past Perspective: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Familial Relationships Through Time. Kendall, E. & Kendall, R. (eds). London: Routledge. 37-50
  • Moore, J.F., Williams-Ward, M., Filipek, K.L., Gowland, R., Montgomery, J. (2021). Poisoned Pregnancies: Consequences of prenatal lead exposure in relation to infant mortality in the Roman Empire. In The Family in Past Perspective: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Familial Relationships Through Time. Kendall, E. & Kendall, R. (eds). London: Routledge. 37-50
  • Arday, J., Craig-Atkins, L., Faillace, K., Filipek, K., Hullock, K. M., Lee, M., Redfern, R., Watkin, T. and Williams, A. (2021). British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Race Equality Review. United Kingdom British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology
  • Crowder, K. D., Montgomery, J., Filipek, K. L., Evans, J. A. (2020). Romans, barbarians and foederati: New biomolecular data and a possible region of origin for “Headless Romans” and other burials from Britain. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 30, 102180
  • Filipek, K.L., Stanciu, I.,Tucker, K., Lanigan, L., Snyder, J., Oliverson, M., Crowther, M., Gardner, B., Rice, K. (2019). Jucu de Sus Medieval Cemetery, Cluj Napoca, Transylvania, Romania: Excavation and Analyses from the 2018 Season. Cronica Cercetărilor Arheologice Din România: Campania 2018. Bucharest: Institutul Național al Patrimoniului
  • Crowder, K. D., Montgomery, J., Gröcke, D. R., Filipek, K.L. (2019). Childhood “stress” and stable isotope life‐histories in Transylvania. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 29(4), 644-653
  • Filipek, K., Roberts, C.A. (2018). The Bioarchaeology of Infectious Disease in The International Encyclopedia of Biological Anthropology. Wenda Trevathan (ed). John Wiley and Sons, Inc
  • Filipek, K.L., Stanciu, I., Tucker, K., Lanigan, L., Blevins, K., Snyder, J., Oliverson, M., Thompson, E., Rothlin, K., Crowther, M. (2018). Jucu de Sus Medieval Cemetery: Excavation and Analysis Report. Cronica Cercetărilor Arheologice Din România: Campania 2017. Institutul Național al Patrimoniului
  • Roffey, S., Tucker, K., Filipek-Ogden, K., Montgomery, J., Cameron, J., O’Connell, T., Evans, J., Taylor, G. M. (2017). Investigation of a Medieval Pilgrim Burial Excavated from the Leprosarium of St Mary Magdalen Winchester, UK. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 11(1), e0005186
  • Stanciu, I., Tucker, K., Filipek, K.L., Lanigan, L., Snyder, J., Blevins, K. (2017). Jucu de Sus. Punct: Râtul boilor (parcul industrial TETAROM III). Cronica Cercetărilor Arheologice Din România: Campania 2016. Institutul Național al Patrimoniului
  • Roberts, C.A., Caffell, A., Filipek-Ogden, K.L., Gowland, R., Jakob, T. (2016). Til Poison Phosphorous Brought them Death: A potentially occupationally related disease in a post-medieval skeleton from north-east England. International Journal of Paleopathology, Vol. 13: 39-48
  • Stanciu, I., Filipek-Ogden, K.L., Tucker, K., Hunt, K., Ogden, N. (2016). Jucu de Sus excavations. Punct: Râtul boilor (parcul industrial TETAROM III). Cronica Cercetărilor Arheologice Din România: Campania 2015. Institutul Național al Patrimoniului
  • Stanciu, I., Filipek-Ogden, K.L., Tucker, K., Hunt, K., Ogden, N. (2015). Jucu de Sus, Com. Jucu, jud. Cluj. Punct: Râtul boilor (parcul industrial TETAROM III). Cronica Cercetărilor Arheologice Din România: Campania 2014. Institutul Național al Patrimoniului: 97-98

Publications prior to 2015 available on request