Rhian Dunn
- Doctoral Student
- Graduate Research Assistant
Contact
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rhian_r_dunn
Research Interests
Forensic anthropology
Human variation
Ancestry estimation
Skeletal biology
Human rights
Biographical Info
Rhian is a biological anthropology doctoral student with a focus in forensic anthropology. She is working with Dr. Hefner as a graduate assistant looking at human variation through metric and macromorphoscopic trait analyses. She earned her B.A. in Biological Anthropology from University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2016 and her M.S. in Forensic and Biological Anthropology from Mercyhurst University in 2018.
Publications
Dunn RR, Zurek-Ost A, Lynch P, Bohne Warren C. Dennis C. Dirkmaat: A brief visit with an influential forensic anthropologist. Forensic Anthropology 2022;Early View. https://doi.org/10.5744/fa.2021.0030
Biggs JA, Burnett JJ, Dunn RR, Milton EBP, Plemons AM. The Campus Archaeology Program at Michigan State University: Reevaluating our program during a pandemic. SAA Archaeology Record 2022;22(2):17-21. https://mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?m=16146&i=740794&p=18&ver=html5
Dunn RR, Spiros MC, Kamnikar KR, Plemons AM, Hefner JT. Ancestry estimation in forensic anthropology: A review. WIREs Forensic Sciences 2020;e1369. https://doi.org/10.1002/wfs2.1369
Ost AM, Dunn RR, Dirkmaat DC. 2019. What forensic taphonomy can do for you: a case study in rural Pennsylvania. In: Garvin H, Langley N, editors. Case studies in forensic anthropology: bonified skeletons. Boca Raton: CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429436987