Summary

Dr. Christian Crowder from the Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Office joins the show to talk about his experiences in forensic anthropology, using histology for forensic cases, and how anthropologists are a crucial component of the response team for mass fatality events. Dr. Crowder also talks about his work on the editorial boards of peer-reviewed publications like the Journal of Forensic Anthropology.

Recommendations

• Dr. Crowder’s ResearchGate profile
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• Ed. N. Langley & M. Tersigni-Tarrant. (2012) Forensic Anthropology: An Introduction. CRC Press.
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• ScienceDirect’s Forensic Anthropology homepage
• E. Carlson. (1996). I Remember Julia: Voices of the Disappeared. Temple University Press.
• Ed. A. Klales. (2020). Sex Estimation of the Human Skeleton: History, Methods, and Emerging Techniques. Academic Press.
• Bethard JD, DiGangi EA. Letter to the Editor-Moving Beyond a Lost Cause: Forensic Anthropology and Ancestry Estimates in the United States. J Forensic Sci. 2020 Sep;65(5):1791-1792. doi: 10.1111/1556-4029.14513. Epub 2020 Jul 23. PMID: 33104304; PMCID: PMC7496147.