My current research focuses on skeletal aging and age estimation, the skeletal embodiment of social marginalization, and the use of quality control to mitigate cognitive bias in forensic anthropological analyses.
AWARDS FOR RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP
2021 The University of West Florida Research Administration and Engagement Distinction in Research and Scholarly Activities Award
2017 The Ellis R. Kerley Forensic Sciences Foundation Scholarship ($2,500)
RECENT FUNDING
2023 UWF’s Askew Institute for Multidisciplinary Studies (AIMS) Research Fellowship, awarded to the UWF Biocultural Research Group (Allysha P. Winburn, Meredith G. Marten, and Katherine A. Miller Wolf), 2023-2026 ($100,000)
2023 Society of Forensic Anthropologists (SOFA) Atlas Grant, to support original, CT-based research on the skeletal and dental embodiment of lived experiences of inequity ($516)
2022 Wenner-Gren Post-PhD Research Grant, “Visualizing Structural Vulnerability: Skeletal and Dental Evidence of Embodied Social Marginalization from Anonymized CT Imagery”; co-PIs Katie Miller Wolf and Meredith Marten ($19,842)
2021 The AAFS Forensic Sciences Foundation Field Research Grant, with PI An-Di Yim and co-PI Michala Stock ($1,000)
2021 The Register of Professional Archaeologists Equipment Grant, to fund the UWF Indigenous Remains Repatriation Project, with co-PI Katherine Miller Wolf ($779.68)
2017 University of New Hampshire College of Health and Human Services Research Affinity Group Funding, “Social and Health Service Utilizations Among Low-Income Elders in Subsidized Senior Housing” (Aging Affinity Group, with interdisciplinary co-applicants, $8,031)
2015 National Institute of Justice (NIJ) FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (Grant #: 2015-R2-CX-0009), "Skeletal Age Estimation in Modern U.S. Adults: The Effects of Activity, Body Mass, and Osteoarthritis on Age-Related Changes in the Acetabulum" ($42,671)