Friday, November 8th

5:00pm | Dinner & Drinks at Goat Lips (2811 Copter Road, Pensacola, FL, 32514)

Saturday, November 9th

8:30am | Registration

Complimentary coffee & bagels

9:00am | Opening Remarks

Allysha P. Windburn, University of West Florida

9:15am | An Exploration into the Multifactorial Nature of Modern Entheseal Changes

Emilie L. Wiedenmeyer, Troy University

9:30am | Assessment of MorphoPASSE Software for Undergraduate Forensic Anthropology Education: Integrating Sex Estimation Technology into the Classroom

Elauna Hicks, Middle Tennessee State University

9:45am | Development and Validation of Protocols for using a Dermestes maculatus Colony in Faunal Remains Maceration

Austin Gillis, Jesse R. Goliath, & Jennifer Seltzer, Mississippi State University

10:00am | Discussion

10:15am | Injury Recidivism as Embodied Evidence of Structural Vulnerability and Violence: An Analysis of Fracture Occurrence and Surgical Intervention in a Modern Forensic CT Sample from New Mexico

Emily Romdenne, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

10:30am | Oral Health as Evidence of Embodied Social and Structural Inequity in a New Mexico Forensic CT Sample

Siena Ward, Taylor Perritt, and Allysha P. Winburn, University of West Florida

10:45am | Mapping the Unseen: Leveraging CrimeStat for Missing Persons Analysis

Sarajane Smith-Escudero & Jesse R. Goliath, Mississippi State University

11:00am | Reading the Room: What Forensic Death Scenes Can Tells Us about the Lived Experience

Michaela Andrusko, University of West Florida

11:15am | Discussion

11:30am - 1:00pm | Break for Lunch

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Recommendations for Maintaining Dermestes maculatus Colonies to Prepare Osteological Material in the Southeastern United States.

Madisen James, Troy University

Exploring Decomposition and the Influence of Burial Depth on Surface Soil pH in Mobile, AL

Tyler Fickling & Lesley A. Gregoricka, University of South Alabama

Call for Research: New Approaches to Identification Strategies for Missing and Unidentified Undocumented Migrants in the United States

Mollie Morgan, Mississippi State University

GIS Applications in the Management of Outdoor Anthropological Research Facilities

Savannah Truan-Walker & Mary Davis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

2:00pm | In the Wake of Disaster: The Vital Importance of Forensic Anthropologists in Mass Fatality Events

Jacob Jones & Siena Ward, University of West Florida

2:15pm | The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) and Medicolegal Institutions: Developing Best Practice Guidelines and Practical Resources to Support Repatriation

Mary E. Hill, University of Georgia

2:30pm | Reconstructing Diet and Migration: How Stable Isotope Analyses of Camelid Teeth from Chavín de Huántar, Peru, Can Inform Forensic Anthropological Practice

Tierney Cunningham, Vanderbilt University

2:45pm | What's the Best Practice? Developing Standards in Forensic Anthropology

Tiffany Fracchia, Vanderbilt University

3:00pm | Valuing Our Worth: Professionalizing Forensic Anthropology Expertise at the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner

Jonathan D. Bethard, University of South Florida

3:15pm | The State(s) of Forensic Anthropology: Practice, Protocol, and Policy Variation

Angela Dautartas, Troy University

3:30pm | Discussion

3:45pm - 4:45pm | Social Hour

Complimentary snacks

Sunday, November 10th

8:30am | Registration

Complimentary coffee & donuts

9:00am - 12:00pm | Transition Analysis

Angela Dautartas, Troy University; Jonathan D. Bethard, University of South Florida

Saturday, October 14th

9:00am | Registration

9:30am | Welcome

Angela Dautartas, Troy University

9:45am | Use of GIS Mapping to Assist with Forensic Recoveries of Historic Aircraft Crash Sites

Audrey Lauerhass

10:00am | Aviation Archaeology and War Loss

Tori Bascou

10:30am | Validating MorphoPASSE Using the University of Tennessee Donated Skeletal Collection: Preliminary Findings

Derek Boyd, Kylie A. Williamson, Steven G. Lautzenheiser, Britt Little, Emma Pullias

11:00am | Finding the Missing: The Mississippi Repository for Missing and Unidentified Persons

Jesse R. Goliath

11:15am | Rural Areas as a Foci of Future Directions for Injury Recidivism Research

Sarajane Smith-Escudero, Keri Porter, Jesse R. Goliath

11:30am | Discussion

12:00pm - 1:30pm | Lunch Break

1:30pm | Canine Scent Discrimination of Human Remains

Alex Pescador

1:45pm | Effects of Soil Chemistry and Plant Growth of Decomposition Preserved and Non-preserved Pig's Feet

EmilyAnne Smith, Madisen James, Tyler Lee, Jakeria Montgomery, Sheri Baker

2:00pm | Adipocere Formation Patterns in Clay and Sand as Observed on Submerged Felis cattus Specimens

Isabella Ragazzi

2:15pm - 2:30pm | Break

2:30pm - 4:30pm

This symposium will present Southeastern forensic anthropology resources. Labs, research facilities and collections, and graduate programs will be discussed. This session includes a Q&A and is meant to be informative for both students and professionals.

6:00pm | Happy Hour & Dinner at B Graves (65 West Court Street, Troy, AL, 36081)

Sunday, October 15th

9:00am | Welcome

Complimentary coffee & pastries

9:30am - 11:30am | Student and Professional Mixer

Saturday, November 5th

9:00am | Registration, Podium & Poster Presentation Set Up, Networking Event Sign Up

9:30am | Welcome

Tiffany Saul, Middle Tennessee State University

9:45am | History of Mountain, Swamp, & Beach

Hugh Berryman

10:00am | Using Fiber-Optic Reflectance Spectroscopy (FORS) to Identify Human Decomposition Characteristics in Plants and Soil

Anielle Duncan, Sierra Bow, Amy Mundorff, Dawnie W. Steadman

10:15am | Bridging Health, Human Rights, and Forensic Anthropology

Caroline Znachko

10:30am | Break

10:45am | Methods and Observations of Conducting Full-Body Burn Research

Mason Jones, Jack Orebaugh, Giovanna Vidoli, Joanne Devlin

11:00am | Trauma at Phaleron(?): Differentiation of Trauma and Taphonomy at an Ancient Greek Site

Dawnie W. Steadman

11:15am | Discussion

11:30am - 12:15pm

Another Broken Skull: Repercussions of Systemic Ignorance in Marginalized Communities, Correlations with Etiologies of Alzheimer's Dementia, and Future Directions

Larra M. Diboyan & Elise J. Adams

Differences in Perspectives Between Forensic Experts and Lay Men

Elizabeth Kowalczyk & Carter Smith

Sex Estimation from Cremated Remains using Morphological Methods and Macroscopic/Non-Metric Approaches

Luke Massongill, Tessa Carter, Joanne Devlin, Giovanna Vidoli

The Persistence and Utility of Soil-Derived Human Nuclear and Mitochondrial DNA following Surface-Level Decomposition

Hannah Noel, Frankie West, Brittania Bintz, Rebecca George

12:15pm - 1:30pm | Lunch Break

1:30pm | The Career of Lee Meadows Jantz

Richard L. Jantz

1:45pm | Lee Meadows Jantz: The FAC's Strongest Secular Trend

Joanne Devlin

2:00pm | Contributions of Lee Meadows Jantz to the Understanding of Variation in Human Taphonomy and to the Development of Empirical Research of the Postmortem Interval

Kathleen A. Hauther

2:15pm | The Devil's in the Details

Jake Smith

2:30pm | Statistically Speaking: Dealing with Decomposition Data Problems

Angela Dautartas

2:45pm | Break

3:00pm | Processing and Curation in the UTK Donated Skeletal Collection

Sara Fatula & Sarah Schwing

3:15pm | Comparison of Male and Female Sternal Rib Ends and the Effects of Aging using Elliptical Fourier Analysis

Marta M. Paulson

3:30pm | A Handy Study of Secular Change in Early and Modern Metacarpals

Helen Martin

3:45pm | Sex and Age Estimation using Digital Bone Loss (DBL) in Korean Population

Yangseung Jeong & Shannon Velasquez

4:00pm | Final Remarks

4:15pm | Discussion

4:30pm | Reception

7:00pm | Happy Hour at Bar Louie (2615 Medical Center Parkway, Murfreesboro, TN, 37129)

Sunday, November 6th

9:00am | Welcome

Complimentary coffee & pastries

9:00am | "Ask a Professional" Round Table

Student & Professional Mixer

11:30am | MTSU Forensic Anthropology & Isotope Laboratory Tour