The field of forensic anthropology is relatively new. Although there were famous grisly murders of the 19th century solved through examination of bones and body fragments, it wasn't until the ...

Research Interests: American West, East Africa, Historical Anthropology/Archaeology, Capitalism, Globalization, Exchange/Circulation, Consumption, Material Culture ...

and History of Anthropology. My scholarship focuses on the archaeology of slavery and, more specifically, emancipated and self-emancipated people. In my doctoral research, I studied runaway slave ...

The field of forensic anthropology is relatively new. Although there were famous grisly murders of the 19th century solved through examination of bones and body fragments, it wasn't until the ...