Caroline VanSickle

Caroline VanSickle is a biological anthropologist and an assistant professor of anatomy at Des Moines University Medicine and Health Sciences.

Caroline VanSickle is a biological anthropologist and an assistant professor of anatomy at Des Moines University Medicine and Health Sciences. Her research seeks to understand the development and evolution of sex differences in the human skeleton, with a particular focus on how the shape of the bony pelvis relates to obstetrics. She co-teaches a dissection-based human gross anatomy course for first year medical students and has previously led an elective course on LGBTQIA+ Health Care.

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December 16, 2025

An Anthropologist’s Perspective on Sex and Gender in the Skeleton

Anthropological methods show that skeletal sex is an estimate, not a certainty, revealing the limits of binary claims about human identity.