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Heather A. Walsh-Haney, Ph.D.Specialties
Forensic Anthropology, Crime Scene Investigations TFT Courses Taught Recovery of Human Remains Workshop |
About Heather A. Walsh-Haney
Heather A. Walsh-Haney, Ph.D. is an associate professor and program leader for the Department of Justice Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University. She received her Ph.D., M.A., and B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Florida where she trained within the C.A. Pound Human Identification Laboratory for over a decade. She is the consulting forensic anthropologist for eight Florida Medical Examiner Districts and has been the principle investigator for over 500 forensic anthropology cases. Dr. Walsh-Haney is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2010 FGCU Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Emerging Forensic Scientist Award, and the Ruth O. McQuown Fellowship. She has published, presented her work, and testified in criminal prosecutions in the United States, Canada, Guatemala, and Bermuda.
Dr. Walsh-Haney 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 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 September 11, 2001.
Dr. Walsh-Haney is an experienced anthropologist with skills that include processing buried, surface scattered and mass fatality scenes while archiving physical evidence. Her expertise also includes the analysis of traumatic injury on bone, estimating time-since-death, and reading skeletal remains to aid in the determination of age, sex, ancestry, stature as well as the identification of unique traits, injuries, or pathological conditions that will help law enforcement and the medical examiner determine a positive identification from unidentified skeletal remains.
Heather A. Walsh-Haney, Ph.D. is an associate professor and program leader for the Department of Justice Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University. She received her Ph.D., M.A., and B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Florida where she trained within the C.A. Pound Human Identification Laboratory for over a decade. She is the consulting forensic anthropologist for eight Florida Medical Examiner Districts and has been the principle investigator for over 500 forensic anthropology cases. Dr. Walsh-Haney is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2010 FGCU Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Emerging Forensic Scientist Award, and the Ruth O. McQuown Fellowship. She has published, presented her work, and testified in criminal prosecutions in the United States, Canada, Guatemala, and Bermuda.
Dr. Walsh-Haney 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 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 September 11, 2001.
Dr. Walsh-Haney is an experienced anthropologist with skills that include processing buried, surface scattered and mass fatality scenes while archiving physical evidence. Her expertise also includes the analysis of traumatic injury on bone, estimating time-since-death, and reading skeletal remains to aid in the determination of age, sex, ancestry, stature as well as the identification of unique traits, injuries, or pathological conditions that will help law enforcement and the medical examiner determine a positive identification from unidentified skeletal remains.