DAWNIE WOLFE STEADMAN

Email: osteo@binghamton.edu

(PhD University of Chicago 1997) Associate Professor of Anthropology, is a skeletal biologist who specializes in forensic anthropology, bioarchaeology and paleopathology. She has worked on prehistoric and historic sites in the Midwest and has been involved in human rights investigations in Argentina and Cyprus.  She and her students are now also investigating human rights atrocities from the Spanish Civil War with colleagues at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona.

Dr. Steadman is a Board Certified Forensic Anthropologist and regularly consults for medical examiners and law enforcement across the nation. Her edited book, Hard Evidence: Case Studies in Forensic Anthropology , emphasizes the multidisciplinary, collaborative nature of the forensic sciences.

Other current research foci include warfare in prehistoric Tennessee and Illinois (new NSF funding for Tennessee research with co-PI Charles Cobb), the epidemiological modeling of prehistoric diseases (particularly TB), the application of population genetic models to prehistoric populations, and forensic taphonomy .

2006 Steadman, Dawnie L. Wolfe, Bradley Adams and Lyle Konigsberg.  The Statistical Basis For Positive Identifications In Forensic Anthropology. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 131(1):15-26

2006 Steadman, Dawnie L. Wolfe, Lisa DiAntonio, Jeremy Wilson, Kevin E. Sheridan and Steven Tammariello. The Effects of Chemical and Heat and Maceration on the Recovery of Nuclear and Mitochondrial DNA from Bone. Journal of Forensic Sciences 51(1):11-17.

2005 Steadman, Dawnie L. Wolfe and William D. Haglund  
The Scope of Anthropological Contributions to Human Rights Investigations. Journal of Forensic Sciences 50(1):1-8.

Steadman, Dawnie L. Wolfe and Steven A. Andersen
2003 Latent Print Processing of Human Bones. Journal of Forensic Identification 53(5):556-565.

Mundorff, Amy Zelson and Dawnie L. Wolfe Steadman
2003 Anthropological Perspectives of the Forensic Response at the World Trade Center Disaster. American Anthropological Association Bulletin of the General Anthropology Division 10(1):1-5.

Steadman, Dawnie L. Wolfe and Lyle W. Konigsberg.
2003 Multiple Points of Similarity. In D.W. Steadman (ed), Hard Evidence: Case Studies in Forensic Anthropology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. pp.63-76.

Steadman, Dawnie L. Wolfe (editor)
2003 Hard Evidence: Case Studies in Forensic Anthropology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Steadman, Dawnie L. Wolfe
2003 Introducing Forensic Anthropology. In D.W. Steadman (ed), Hard Evidence: Case Studies in Forensic Anthropology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. pp. 1-22.

2003 The Pawn Shop Mummified Head: Discriminating Among Forensic, Historic, and Ancient Contexts. In D.W. Steadman (ed), Hard Evidence: Case Studies in Forensic Anthropology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. pp. 212-226.

2001 Missisippians in Motion? A Population Genetic Analysis of Interregional Gene Flow in West-Central Illinois. Amer J Physical Anthropol 114(1):61-73.

1998 The Population Shuffle in the Central Illinois Valley: A Diachronic Model of Mississippian Biocultural Interactions. World Archaeology 30(2): 306-326.

Courses for the Spring 2008 Semester: ANTH 245, ANTH 550

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