Amy Z Mundorff
Biographic Data
| ID | 2005100 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Z Mundorff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy Z |
| FAMILY NAME | Mundorff |
| SIGNATURE | MUNDORFF A Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4008-4969 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Turhon A. Murad
Dr. Turhon A. Murad was the first tenure-track biological anthropologist hired at California State University, Chico (Chico State). He founded the Human Identification Laboratory in 1974, became the 42nd Diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Anthropology in 1989, started the Chico State Certificate in Forensic Identification in 1995, and was active in forensic casework for 40 years. Turhon had a long, successful career as a professor and fo…
Disaster victim identification operations with fragmented, burnt, or commingled remains: Experience-Based Recommendations
Human-made and natural disasters can result in severely fragmented, compromised, and commingled human remains. The related disaster victim identification (DVI) operations are invariably challenging, with the state of the remains potentially precluding some identifications. Practitioners involved in these DVI operations will routinely face logistical, practical, and ethical challenges. This review provides information and guidance derived from fir…
Identifying child victims of the South-East Asia Tsunami in Thailand
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reveal difficulties associated with identifying child victims of the 2004 South-East Asia Tsunami at the Thai Tsunami Victim Identification (TTVI) operation in Phuket and explores two strategies that increased child identifications. Design/methodology/approach Data allowing comparison of identification proportions between adult and child (defined as ⩽16 years old) victims of six nationalities and the forens…
“Year That Trembled and Reel’d”: Reflections on Public Anthropology a Decade after 9/11
This review offers a sampling of the kinds of public projects anthropologists launched in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, and it reflects on some of the ways in which that event has had a profound and lasting effect on the public aspects of our discipline. Rather than reviewing all of the public roles that anthropologists played following 9/11, we echo the deeply personal nature of the event by offering a selection of first-person reflections fr…
Disaster victim identification operations with fragmented, burnt, or commingled remains: Experience-Based Recommendations
Human-made and natural disasters can result in severely fragmented, compromised, and commingled human remains. The related disaster victim identification (DVI) operations are invariably challenging, with the state of the remains potentially precluding some identifications. Practitioners involved in these DVI operations will routinely face logistical, practical, and ethical challenges. This review provides information and guidance derived from fir…
“Year That Trembled and Reel’d”: Reflections on Public Anthropology a Decade after 9/11
This review offers a sampling of the kinds of public projects anthropologists launched in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, and it reflects on some of the ways in which that event has had a profound and lasting effect on the public aspects of our discipline. Rather than reviewing all of the public roles that anthropologists played following 9/11, we echo the deeply personal nature of the event by offering a selection of first-person reflections fr…
Identifying child victims of the South-East Asia Tsunami in Thailand
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reveal difficulties associated with identifying child victims of the 2004 South-East Asia Tsunami at the Thai Tsunami Victim Identification (TTVI) operation in Phuket and explores two strategies that increased child identifications. Design/methodology/approach Data allowing comparison of identification proportions between adult and child (defined as ⩽16 years old) victims of six nationalities and the forens…
Disaster victim identification operations with fragmented, burnt, or commingled remains: Experience-Based Recommendations
Human-made and natural disasters can result in severely fragmented, compromised, and commingled human remains. The related disaster victim identification (DVI) operations are invariably challenging, with the state of the remains potentially precluding some identifications. Practitioners involved in these DVI operations will routinely face logistical, practical, and ethical challenges. This review provides information and guidance derived from fir…
Turhon A. Murad
Dr. Turhon A. Murad was the first tenure-track biological anthropologist hired at California State University, Chico (Chico State). He founded the Human Identification Laboratory in 1974, became the 42nd Diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Anthropology in 1989, started the Chico State Certificate in Forensic Identification in 1995, and was active in forensic casework for 40 years. Turhon had a long, successful career as a professor and fo…
Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (2 works) · Identification (biology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (1 works) · Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes (1 works) · Biography (1 works) · Biology (1 works)