Collaborations for a Biocultural Approach to Forensic Casework in the US
Dr. Jaymelee Kim, a four-field anthropologist, and Dr. Megan Moore, a biological anthropologst, work as forensic anthropologists in southeastern Michigan. Recent collaborations with Drs. Allysha Winburn, Katie Miller Wolf, Meredith Marten, and many others have facilitated scholarship and discussion on structural violence, structural vulnerability, and social determinants of health as seen in domestic US casework.
2024 American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) presentation, “Forensic Anthropology and Structural Vulnerability in Casework”
Co-Presenters: Jaymelee J. Kim, Allysha Winburn
Is structural violence or social vulnerability evidenced in casework populations? How does this inform public health and social determinants of health?
2023 Special Issue in Forensic Science International - Synergy: The Structural Vulnerability Profile (SVP) in Forensic Anthropology
Guest Editors: Jaymelee J. Kim, Allysha Winburn, Megan K. Moore
Current Publications (13 of 17):
Adapting forensic case reporting to account for marginalization and vulnerability by Jaymelee Kim, Allysha P. Winburn, Megan K. Moore, and Haley Scott.
If you See Something, Say Something: Structural Vulnerability Data and Reporting in Forensic Anthropology Casework by Jaymelee Kim and Hanna Friedlander.
Operationalizing a Structural Vulnerability Profile for forensic anthropology: Skeletal and dental biomarkers of embodied inequity by Allysha Powanda Winburn, Katherine A. Miller Wolf, and Meredith G. Marten
Beyond the report: Prospects and challenges in forensic anthropological investigations of structural vulnerability By Ariel Gruenthal-Rankin, Tessa Somogyi, Amanda Roome, and Elizabeth DiGangi
Incorporating a structural vulnerability framework into the forensic anthropology curriculum by Helen Litavec and Rose Leach Basom
Causative effects of cranial depression fractures: A case study of structural violence and social vulnerability within the Mississippi state asylum by Elise J. Adams and Jesse R. Goliath
If you see something, say something: Using Structural Vulnerability Data and Reporting in Forensic Casework by Jaymelee Kim and Hanna Friedlander.
Caribbeanist Casualties: Interrogating the Application of Structural Vulnerability to Forensic Anthropology by Isis Dwyer, Delande Justinvil, and Andreana Cunningham.
Error and Bias in Race and Ethnicity Descriptions in Medical Examiner Records in New Mexico by Nicollette Appel, Heather Edgar, Keith Hunley, and Shamsi Daneshvari Berry.
Towards a Forensic Anthropology of Structural Vulnerability by Robin Reineke, Angela Soler, and Jared Beatrice.
Misgendering a Transgender Woman with Fordisc 3.1: A Case Study by Taylor Flaherty, Jennifer Byrnes, and Antonella Maddelena.
Antemortem Tooth Loss as a Biomarker of Poverty: Dental Evidence of “Weathering” in a Contemporary U.S. Skeletal Sample by Taylor Walkup, Allysha Winburn, and Michala Stock.
Operationalizing the Structural Vulnerability Profile within the Medical Examiner Context by Caroline Znachko, Allysha Winburn, Meredith Frame, and Sarah Maines.
2023 AAA Roundtable “Transforming Structural Vulnerability Research: Integrating Ethnographic and Biocultural Approaches”
Organized by Meredith Marten
Speakers:
Claire Wendland, UW-Madison
Jaymelee Kim, University of Findlay
Paula Tallman, Loyola University Chicago
Jason De Leon, UCLA
James Quesada, San Francisco State University
Ben Burgen, University of West Florida
Jennifer Byrnes, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Ivan Sandoval-Cervantes, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Robin Reineke, University of Arizona
2023 AAFS Panel “Beyond the Science: The Value of Anthropological Forensics”
Organized by Ginny Listi
2022 Edited Volume “The Marginalized in Death: A Forensic Anthropology of Intersectional Identity in the Modern Era”
Editors: Jennifer Byrnes, Ivan Sandoval-Cervantes
