Doctorado en Biología. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Licenciatura en Biología. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• CARGOS y EMPLEOS en DOCENCIA e INVESTIGACION
2018-presente: Associate Professor (Tenured) Department of Anthropology. University of Louisville.
2011-2018: Assistant Professor (Tenure Track). Department of Anthropology. University of Louisville.
2007; 2008; 2011; 2018: Profesor Visitante, Departamento de Biología, FCEN, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Argentina.
2010-2011: Assistant Professor (Full time-Term Appt. till June 2011) Department of Anthropology. University of Louisville.
2006 - 2009: Assistant Professor (Part time) Department of Anthropology. University of Louisville.
2006 - 2009: Assistant Clinical Professor (Part time) Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. University of Louisville
2004 - 2005: Lecturer. Department of Anthropology. University of Louisville.
2001 - 2005: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Pathology. University of Louisville.
1991 - 2000: Ayudante de 1ra. Departamento de Biología, FCEN, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Argentina
1989-1991: Ayudante de 2da. Departamento de Biología, FCEN, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Argentina.
• SUBSIDIOS DE INVESTIGACION ACTIVOS
2021/24: National Science Foundation (Biological Anthropology Division). Topic: “Reconstruction of host immune status, host immune response (inflammatory response), and heterogeneity in frailty to acquired syphilis” Budget: u$260,000. Role: Co-Principal Investigator.
2018/22: National Science Foundation (Biological Anthropology Division-EAGER). Topic: “Osteoimmunology as new frontier in treponemal infection: setting the ground for bioarchaeological analysis and reconstruction of host immunological status during acquired syphilis” Budget: u$59,240. Role: Principal Investigator.
2018/21: FONCyT-RAICES (Argentina). Tópico: "Gentes y Paisajes: arqueología, bioarqueologia, y patología de cazadores-recolectores del Noroeste de Patagonia” Presupuesto (pesos argentinos) $466,981. Rol: Investigador Principal (Múltiple Investigadores)
• PUBLICACIONES RELEVANTES al CURSO PROPUESTO (Revistas/volúmenes con referato)
2021. Larsen, C.S. and Crespo, F. When will it ever end? The bioarchaeology of epidemics and syndemics indicate otherwise. Centaurus: International Journal of the History of Science and its Cultural Aspects. Submitted.
2021. Crespo F. Leprosy in Medieval Europe: An Immunological and Syndemic Approach. In “Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds” Editors: Lori Jones and Nukhet Varlik. York Medieval Press. In press.
2020. Crespo, F. Reconstructing immune competence in skeletal samples: a theoretical and methodological approach. In “Theoretical Approaches in Bioarchaeology” 76-92. Editors: Colleen Cheverko, Julia Prince-Buitenhuys, and Mark Hubbe. Routledge Press.
2019. Crespo, F.; White, J. and Roberts, C. Revisiting the tuberculosis and leprosy cross-immunity hypothesis: Expanding the dialogue between immunology and paleopathology. International J. of Paleopathology. 26: 37-47.
2017. Crespo, F.; Klaes, K.; Switala, A. and DeWitte, S. Do leprosy and tuberculosis generate a systemic inflammatory shift? Setting the ground for a new dialogue between experimental immunology and bioarchaeology. American J. Physical Anthropology, 162(1): 143-156.
2014. Crespo, F. and Matthew B. Lawrenz. “Heterogeneous Immunological Landscapes and Medieval Plague: An Invitation to a New Dialogue between Historians and Immunologists,” The Medieval Globe 1: 229–257.