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Hillary Parsons, Ph.D.
Specialties
Forensic Anthropology Human Skeleton Remains Recovery TFT Courses Taught Clandestine Burials: Locating and Excavating Buried Human Remains Human Osteology, Taphonomy, and Forensic Recovery of Human Remains |
About Dr. Hillary Parsons
Dr. Hillary Parsons is a practicing forensic anthropologist specializing in the search, recovery, analysis, and identification of human skeletal remains. She received her Ph.D. in biological anthropology from the University of Tennessee; her M.A. in anthropology from the University of Montana, and her B.S. in anthropology from Montana State University in her hometown of Bozeman, Montana. Hillary has instructed short-course topics in forensic anthropology for the past 17 years, working with the Southern Institute of Forensic Sciences and TriTech Forensics Training. She is a member of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, the Society for American Archaeology, and an associate member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.
Dr. Parsons is the sole-proprietor of her forensic anthropology-consulting firm, Odyssey Anthropology LLC, offering forensic anthropological and archaeological services at home and abroad. She regularly provides her expertise to attorneys and other medicolegal professionals for modern forensic casework and is currently the contracted forensic anthropologist for the Laboratorie de sciences judiciaries et de médicine légale in Montréal, Québec.
She assisted Kenyon International and SNA International assisting with the mortuary operations in New York City during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic and presently provides services for SNA International in their work with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). This project entails the search, recovery, and repatriation of fallen U.S. service personnel from the battlefields of Vietnam and World War II, work she has been involved with since 2015. As a subject matter expert, Hillary regularly consults for Milsearch Lao, an explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) company located in Laos. Hillary’s knowledge of human skeletal remains and battlefield archaeology allows her to collaborate with EOD technicians to document and collect evidence associated with DPAA sites during the removal of unexploded ordnance from the jungles of Laos.
When not on assignment to remote locations in search and recovery of America’s fallen war heroes, Dr. Parsons serves as a medicolegal death investigator at the Whatcom County Medical Examiner’s Office in beautiful Bellingham, Washington.
Dr. Hillary Parsons is a practicing forensic anthropologist specializing in the search, recovery, analysis, and identification of human skeletal remains. She received her Ph.D. in biological anthropology from the University of Tennessee; her M.A. in anthropology from the University of Montana, and her B.S. in anthropology from Montana State University in her hometown of Bozeman, Montana. Hillary has instructed short-course topics in forensic anthropology for the past 17 years, working with the Southern Institute of Forensic Sciences and TriTech Forensics Training. She is a member of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, the Society for American Archaeology, and an associate member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.
Dr. Parsons is the sole-proprietor of her forensic anthropology-consulting firm, Odyssey Anthropology LLC, offering forensic anthropological and archaeological services at home and abroad. She regularly provides her expertise to attorneys and other medicolegal professionals for modern forensic casework and is currently the contracted forensic anthropologist for the Laboratorie de sciences judiciaries et de médicine légale in Montréal, Québec.
She assisted Kenyon International and SNA International assisting with the mortuary operations in New York City during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic and presently provides services for SNA International in their work with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). This project entails the search, recovery, and repatriation of fallen U.S. service personnel from the battlefields of Vietnam and World War II, work she has been involved with since 2015. As a subject matter expert, Hillary regularly consults for Milsearch Lao, an explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) company located in Laos. Hillary’s knowledge of human skeletal remains and battlefield archaeology allows her to collaborate with EOD technicians to document and collect evidence associated with DPAA sites during the removal of unexploded ordnance from the jungles of Laos.
When not on assignment to remote locations in search and recovery of America’s fallen war heroes, Dr. Parsons serves as a medicolegal death investigator at the Whatcom County Medical Examiner’s Office in beautiful Bellingham, Washington.