Cassidy Tomlinson

A fair-skinned woman with blonde hair stands next to a black-painted window and door unit. She is wearing a black and white striped shirt underneath a black, translucent, long-sleeved button-up shirt with white polka dots. She wears her shoulder-length hair parted to the left. Her earrings are visible, hanging near her right ear. Outside, green trees can be seen through the window. She has a slight smile on her face.

Cassidy Tomlinson is a first-year PhD student studying with Dr. Amy Non. She joined the Anthropology Department in 2020 after receiving her B.A. in Anthropology with a concentration in Disasters, Displacement, and Human Rights from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in 2019. Cassidy’s research interests lie in the fields of biological anthropology, more specifically anthropological genetics. She is broadly interested in researching the relationship between policy and health disparities, embodiment, and epigenetics.