A Companion to Forensic Anthropology

About

The Editor Dennis C. Dirkmaat PhD is the Chair of both the undergraduate program in Applied Forensic Sciences and the Masters of Science in Anthropology at Mercyhurst College Erie PA. He is a board-certified forensic anthropologist with a specialty in forensic archaeology who has conducted hundreds of forensic anthropology cases nationally and internationally. He has been a member of the US federal government's Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team (DMORT) since its inception in the mid-1990s and is co-chair of the Scene Search and Recovery and Anthropology Subcommittees of the Scientific Working Group on Disaster Victim Identification (SWGDVI) US National Institute of Justice (NIJ). He also serves as a consultant for international organizations and companies involved in the recovery and identification of victims of mass disaster events around the world.