Renee M. Bonzani holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh and currently serves as a senior lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. Dr. Bonzani has been a peer reviewer for numerous professional journals. She co-authored (with Dr. Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo) San Jacinto 1: A Historical Ecological Approach to an Archaic Site in Colombia, which was also published in Spanish by the Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia, and Manual of Ethnobotany and Paleoethnobotany: Case Study from San Jacinto, Colombia (with Michael B. Steenken). She has received research grants from the National Science Foundation and has published with the American Museum of Natural History in New York. She is a member of the Society for American Archaeology and the Society for Ethnobiology.

