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Meet our keynote speaker

Dr. Elizabeth Digangi

Dr. DiGangi earned her Bachelor's degree in Anthropology and History and Master's in Biological Anthropology from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She then attended the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee. A month after defending her dissertation, she moved to Bogotá, Colombia as a contractor for the United States Department of Justice's International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program. She spent the next five years in Colombia, offering a variety of training courses for the country's professional forensic scientists, including osteology, trauma analysis, and forensic archaeology. In addition, she collaborated on the design for the Centro de Identificación Humana, a state of the art forensic anthropology laboratory run by the Fiscalía General de la Nación, in Medellín. Presently, she continues to mentor and offer courses for forensic scientists in Algeria. It was a research methods course developed by her and a colleague for Colombian anthropologists that led to the publication of her co-edited volume (with Dr. Megan Moore): Research Methods in Human Skeletal Biology (Academic Press, 2013). Her most recent book (with Susan Sincerbox) is Forensic Taphonomy and Ecology of North American Scavengers (Academic Press, 2018). Dr. DiGangi is currently Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Binghamton University in upstate New York. She completed the requirements for Diplomate certification by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology in 2015, and works on cases for local and state law enforcement in addition to teaching and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students. Her research interests in forensic anthropology include developing population-specific biological profile standards, improving trauma analysis, and human rights.

You can learn more about her work here and at the BNRD conference November 2!

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