Education

• Ph.D - from Bordeaux 1 University in Biological Anthropology
• M.A. - from Bordeaux 1 University in Biological Anthropology
• B.A. - from Bordeaux 1 University in Natural Sciences

Courses Taught

• 151 Physical Anthropology
• 490B Seminar: The Anthropology of Neandertals

Selected Publications and Presentations

Rougier H., 2009. The peopling of Europe by anatomically modern humans: contribution of the Peştera cu Oase (Romania). Annales Fyssen 23: 82-85.

Semal P., Rougier H., Crevecoeur I., Jungels C., Flas D., Hauzeur A., Maureille B., Germonpré M., Bocherens H., Pirson S., Cammaert L., De Clerck N., Hambucken A., Higham T., Toussaint M., van der Plicht J., 2008. New Data on the Late Neandertals: Direct Dating of the Belgian Spy Fossils. American Journal of Physical Anthropology (in press).

Rougier H., Milota Ş., Rodrigo R., Gherase M., Sarcină L., Moldovan O., Zilhão J., Constantin S., Franciscus R. G., Zollikofer C. P. E., Ponce de León M., Trinkaus E., 2007. Peştera cu Oase 2 and the Cranial Morphology of Early Modern Europeans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104, p. 1165-1170.

Maureille B., Rougier H., 2006. The Neandertal Lineage: Origin, Evolution and Extinction. In: E. Bodzsar, C. Susanne (Eds.), Human Evolution, Facts and Factors. Biennal books of EAA vol. 4, Eötvös University Press, Budapest, p. 49-56.

Rougier H., Crevecoeur I., Wolpoff M., 2006. Lower Third Premolar Rotation in the Krapina Dental Sample. Periodicum Biologorum 108, p. 269-278.

Semal P., Toussaint M., Balzeau A., Rougier H., Crevecoeur I., Bouchneb L., Maureille B., Louryan St., De Clerck N., 2006. Digitization of Belgian Neanderthals: Cultural Heritage Preservation and Scientific Exploitation. Terra Nostra 2, p. 129.

Trinkaus E., Zilhão J., Rougier H., Rodrigo R., Milota Ş., Gherase M., Sarcină L., Moldovan O., Băltean I. C., Codrea V., Bailey S. E., Franciscus R. G., Ponce de León M., Zollikofer C. P. E., 2006. The Peştera cu Oase and Early Modern Humans in Southeastern Europe. In: N. J. Conard (Ed.), When Neanderthals and Modern Humans Met. Kerns Verlag, Tübingen, p. 145-164.

Trinkaus E., Zilhão J., Rougier H., Quilès J., Milota Ş., Gherase M., Rodrigo R., Sarcină L., Codrea V., Băltean I. C., Moldovan O., 2005. The Peştera cu Oase: Cave Bear, Canids, Caprids, Cervids and a Cranium. PaleoAnthropology 2005, p. A 58.

Research and Interests

Dr. Hélène Rougier comes to CSUN from Bordeaux, France, where she earned her BA, MA and Ph.D. from Bordeaux 1 University in Biological Anthropology.   A paleoanthropologist, she specializes in the study of Neandertals during the Middle and Late Pleistocene periods, focusing on the forms and variations of this early human species, their relationship with modern humans, and the reasons for their disappearance.   She has conducted field excavations in Le Piage, France, Peştera cu Oase, Romania, and Dia Shoma, Mali.  The author of over twenty articles, Dr. Rougier is an internationally-known expert in her field, and her research projects will offer students exciting opportunities to contribute to our knowledge of early hominids.   Dr. Rougier received a Wenner-Gren Fellowship for Anthropological Research for Fall 2008, and will begin teaching in our department in Spring 2009.  She will offer two sections of ANTH 151, “Physical Anthropology,” as well as ANTH 490B, a seminar on Neandertals and their portrayals in anthropology.  She plans to develop courses on identifying and dealing with human remains, as well as other aspects of physical anthropology, in the future.