Despite advancements in research on sexual morphology as well as increasing interdisciplinary theory on gender, medicine continues to perpetuate anti-transgender stigma in health care. Research on this topic has typically lacked perspectives from health professionals, who operat…
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This dissertation explores the skeletal evidence for violent conflict and social change during the agricultural transition of prehistoric Japan. During the Yayoi period (about 900 BCE to 250 CE), migrants from the Asian mainland brought rice agriculture, metalworking, and new cu…
Digital image forensics entails the deduction of the origin, history and authenticity of a digital image. While a number of powerful techniques have been developed for this purpose, much of the focus has been on images depicting natural scenes and generic objects. In this thesis…
This dissertation focuses on human decomposition research within the forensic sciences, in particular forensic entomology, and how the death certificate Manner of Death category ‘Natural Death’ effects forensic research and functions to naturalize environmental injustices. After…
This experiment explored the feasibility of using attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform infrared radiation (ATR-FTIR) as a preliminary method to identify and differentiate forensic soil samples in Lyon County, Kansas. Current methods used by soil scientists such as pola…
The thousands of Qur'anic school students (taalibes ) flooding the urban streets of Senegal, West Africa, each day begging for spare change to support their schools (daaras ) and scraps of food are inciting a burgeoning humanitarian movement consisting of international non-gover…
There is a growing recognition that there is a requirement for methods of age estimation of the living to be rigorously tested to ensure that they are accurate, reliable and valid for use in forensic and humanitarian age estimation. The necessity for accurate and reliable method…
Eyewitness recognition is acknowledged to be prone to error but there is less understanding of difficulty in discriminating unfamiliar faces. This thesis examined the effects of face perception on identification of facial composites, and on unfamiliar face image comparison. Faci…
Image Forensics has become an important area of research due to the exponential increase in availability and free exchange of media. The accessibility to good quality sensors and image hosting websites is now at the disposal of more users than ever. The increase in sharing of im…
This dissertation evaluates how unequal power structures generate a form of structural violence that becomes embodied by people who live within them, and explores how historical narratives of the colonial experience have obfuscated the realities of the Indigenous experience of c…
On a global scale, NGOs have played an important role in development and addressing healthcare inequities over the last several decades. Yet in recent years, the work of NGOs is continuously impacted by processes of socio-cultural, political, and economic change in increasingly …
The role of climate change is a recurrent theme in debates concerning the replacement of Neanderthals by anatomically modern humans across Europe and western Asia. The Iberian Peninsula is widely regarded as a key geographic location for understanding this process, owing to the …
Diversity has been a central focus within anthropology since its disciplinary origins. In forensic anthropology this has come to include understanding the wide range of physical variation present in the human species across the spectra of geographies, generations, life stages, s…
During the 18th century, New York City was developing rapidly, and it required a significant source of labor to keep pace. The solution, like the century before, was to increase the forced migration of enslaved Africans. The growth in this population, as one would expect, needed…
Genocide has long been an instrument of warfare; augmenting domination by terrorizing targeted populations. The definition of genocide itself is broad and often varies among researchers, with context and specific circumstances continuously changing. The aim of this study is to a…
Patterns of genetic diversity are shaped by both demographic history and natural selection, and underlie much of the observed phenotypic variation in our species. An additional factor in determining phenotypic variation is epigenetics – broadly, a suite of chemical modifications…
The objective of the present qualitative study is to explore the health beliefs of elderly southern Sudanese immigrants from the Nuer tribe living in Omaha, Nebraska, and Storm Lake, Iowa. Questions surrounding the health beliefs of this population arose when the author worked a…
The accurate estimation of the postmortem interval (PMI) is one of the most important determinations in a forensic investigation of decomposing human remains. Forensic entomology has gained popularity in death investigation due to its reliability and precision in the estimation …
There is no doubt that mummification was an incredibly important element of the ancient Egyptian mortuary sphere and a key element in preserving the body after death. The purpose of mummification in ancient Egypt is often described as preserving the body in order to remain life-…