She is a historical (post-medieval) archaeologist who has written extensively on the archaeology of children and childhood including The Archaeology of Childhood: Children, Gender, and Material Culture. Meredith A.B. Ellis is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, USA. She is an historical bioarchaeologist who focuses on social bioarchaeology and studies subadult skeletal remains, particularly within the context of the nineteenth century United States.