Overcoming Systemic Barriers in US Forensic Anthropology Education: Considering Underlying Barriers to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in Forensic Anthropology [PDF]
Am J Biol AnthropolThe experience of disparity—relative to race, ethnicity, gender, age, socioeconomic status, disability, sexual orientation, and others—in higher education is deeply connected to legacies of structural harm and stratification.
Borgelt T, Goliath J, Waxenbaum E.
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How Do Drugs Affect the Skeleton? Implications for Forensic Anthropology. [PDF]
Biology (Basel), 2022 Simple Summary Forensic anthropologists analyze human remains to assist in the identification of the deceased, predominantly by assessing age-at-death, sex, stature, ancestry and any unique identifying features.
Márquez-Grant N +8 more
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Humans, 2023 Implicit and explicit barriers to building a culture of belonging persist in U.S. forensic anthropology. These barriers create and exacerbate vulnerabilities, especially among marginalized groups, that need to be addressed.
Jesse R. Goliath +2 more
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Ancestry Studies in Forensic Anthropology: Back on the Frontier of Racism. [PDF]
Biology (Basel), 2021 Simple Summary Within the practice of forensic anthropology ancestry is oftentimes used as a proxy for social race. This concept and its implications were explored via a content analysis (2009–2019) of the Journal of Forensic Sciences.
Ross AH, Williams SE.
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Speaking Truth to Power: Toward a Forensic Anthropology of Advocacy and Activism
HumansOver the years, the field of forensic anthropology has become more diverse, bringing unique perspectives to a previously homogeneous field. This diversification has been accompanied by recognizing the need for advocacy and activism in an effort to ...
Donovan M. Adams +11 more
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The impact of scavenging: perspective from casework in forensic anthropology [PDF]
Forensic Sciences Research, 2020 Forensic anthropology casework frequently encounters evidence of animal scavenging associated with fragmentation and loss of skeletal material. Published research demonstrates that patterns of destruction in bone can suggest the size and type of animal ...
Douglas H. Ubelaker +1 more
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Awareness of forensic anthropology in Switzerland: a survey among forensic practitioners, police, and prosecutors. [PDF]
Int J Legal Med, 2023 Siebke I +4 more
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Recent advances in forensic anthropology: decomposition research [PDF]
Forensic Sciences Research, 2018 Decomposition research is still in its infancy, but significant advances have occurred within forensic anthropology and other disciplines in the past several decades. Decomposition research in forensic anthropology has primarily focused on estimating the
Daniel J. Wescott
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The Bioarchaeology of children. Perspectives from biological and forensic anthropology [PDF]
, 2009 Book reviewRenata J ...
Henneberg, R.
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Evaluating expertise in forensic anthropology [PDF]
Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2023 The medicolegal system relies on the ability of experts and non‐experts alike to make judgments about expertise and use those judgments to reach consequential decisions.
Nicholas V. Passalacqua +3 more
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