2001
Presented by the American Academy of Forensic Sciences to the author of the best paper on any topic focusing on the reliability and validity of techniques, processes or methods in a forensic area of the author’s choice.

FSF Emerging Forensic Scientist Award

Physical Anthropology / Forensic Anthropology

American Board of Forensic Anthropology : Diplomate

American Academy of Forensic Sciences : Fellow

U.S. Department of Homeland Security : Founding Member

American Anthropological Association : Member

American Association of Physical Anthropologists : Member

Florida Emergency Mortuary Response Team : Member

National Disaster & Mortuary Response Team : 1998-2018

Latin American Studies Association : Member

Kana Tamata or feasts of men: An interdisciplinary approach for identifying cannibalism in prehistoric Fiji

Surgical sutures as a means of identifying human remains

Recovery of anthropological, botanical, and entomological evidence from buried bodies and surface scatter

Human Skeletal Anatomy

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Heather Walsh-Haney is an associate professor and chair in the Department of Justice Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University. As a member of the Department of Health and Human Services Disaster Mortuary Response Team (DMORT), she helped locate and/or identify human remains from Hurricanes Wilma and Katrina and assisted in the recovery of human remains at the World Trade Center following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Walsh-Haney is also an expert in forensics and crime scene recovery. Her research has taken her to Fiji on several occasions where she has been part of a larger study concerning ritual cannibalism and foodways in modern and ancient Oceania. She also works with an interdisciplinary team of practitioners on cases of feminicide in Guatemala and to combat human rights abuses in Colombia and Guatemala.

As faculty at the National Forensic Academy in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, she teaches forensic techniques in anthropology, archaeology and osteology to law enforcement officers from both national and international agencies. She also regularly assists local law enforcement with finding and studying human remains, working on nearly 100 human remains cases every year.

Trauma Analysis

Witness Testimony

Child Abuse

Forensics

Human Rights

Crime Scene Recovery

Forensic Anthropology and Human Evolution

Anthropology and Bioarchaeology

Ground-penetrating Radar

Domestic Violence

Decomposition Ecology and Forensics

Mass Fatalities

Crime Scene Analysis

Human Remains

French

English

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Guatemalan Human Rights

Expert in forensic studies and human rights

FGCU Assistant Professor Heather Walsh-Haney in the Division of Justice Studies joins host Kevin Pierce to discuss the current state of forensic anthropology.

FGCU Perspectives - Forensic Anthropology - Heather Walsh-Haney

Heather Walsh Haney: Forensic Anthropologist

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