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CURRICULUM VITAE

Ann Webster Bunch

Department of Criminal Justice

College at Brockport, SUNY

Brockport, NY 14420

Phone: (585) 395-5501

Email: [email protected]

EDUCATION

Ph.D. University of Chicago 1993 Anthropology

M.A. University of Chicago 1988 Anthropology

B.A. Wellesley College 1986 Anthropology

LICENSURES AND PRIVELEGES

Diplomate, American Board of Forensic Anthropology (Number 60)

Fellow, American Academy of Forensic Sciences

Henry F. Williams Associate, New York State Police, Bureau of Criminal Investigation

MAJOR ACADEMIC INTERESTS

Topical: Forensic anthropology; human and faunal osteological analysis;

archaeological/recovery field methods; human taphonomy and site formation

processes

Area: Central New York, Southeast Asia, South America (Andes)

Dissertation Title: “The Role of the South American Camelid in the Development of the

Tiwanaku State”

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2006-present Consultant, Faculty Mentor, Syracuse University Project Advance,

Forensic Science Program

2003-present Consultant, Jefferson County Medical Examiner’s Office

2002-present Consultant, Onondaga County Medical Examiner’s Office

1995-2002 Forensic anthropologist, U.S. Army Central Identification

Laboratory, Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii

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1990, 1989 Zooarchaeologist/human osteologist, Project Wila Jawira, University

of Chicago and INAR, Bolivia

1988 Unit supervisor/zooarchaeologist, Project Wila Jawira, University of

Chicago: Excavations at Tiwanaku, Bolivia

1987 Unit supervisor: Programa Contisuyu, Projecto Osmore, University

of Chicago: Excavations at San Antonio, Moquegua Valley, Peru.

1984 Member, Brock University Archaeological Practicum: Excavations

at Kalavassos-Tenta, Cyprus.

ACADEMIC/TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2010-present Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, College at Brockport, SUNY,

Brockport, NY

2007-2010 Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, College at Brockport, SUNY,

Brockport, New York

2006-2007 Chair and Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, SUNY

Oswego, Oswego, New York

2002- 2006 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, SUNY Oswego, Oswego, New York

2000-2002 Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii, West Oahu

1993-1995 Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Kentucky,

Lexington, Kentucky

1992-1993 Visiting Instructor/Lecturer of Anthropology, Loyola University of Chicago,

Chicago, Illinois

1990-1993 Teaching Fellow/Lecturer, Department of Organismal Biology and

Anatomy, University of Chicago, Human Gross Morphology

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

2011-present Director, Forensic Specialties Accreditation Board

2009-present Member, Board of Directors, American Board of Forensic Anthropology

2005-present: International Association of Identification, Member

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1998: Henry F. Williams Associate, New York State Police, Bureau of Criminal

Investigation

1996-present: American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Current Status: Fellow

HONORS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS

Post-graduate:

2009-2011 National Institute of Justice Grant entitled “Continuing Education

Program in Forensic Anthropology” submitted by Syracuse University,

Forensic Science Program. (Co-Principal Investigators: James Spencer,

Michael Sponsler, Shannon Novak, and Ann Bunch.) $912,580.

2009 January – May. Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Leave Award. $6337.80

2006-2007 National Institute of Justice General Forensics Research and Development

Grant. Awarded August 2006. $7000.00

2006 SUNY Oswego Arts and Sciences Summer Research Grant for Students

and Faculty (Heather Kozuba, co-author, principal investigator) $1000.00

2006-2007 SUNY Oswego Rice Creek Field Station Grant (Student/Faculty

collaboration with Heather Kozuba) $500.00

2005-2006 Forensic Science Foundation Lucas Grant , AAFS. $750.00

2005-2007 SUNY Oswego Rice Creek Field Station Grant $850.00

2004-2005 SUNY Oswego Rice Creek Field Station Grant $750.00

2005 Medina High School Distinguished Alumni Award

2003-present Consulting Grant, Onondaga County Medical Examiner’s Office

(with the Office of Research and Graduate Studies, SUNY Oswego)

$100.00 per case

1999 Achievement Medal for Civilian Service, Department of the Army

Graduate:

1991-1992 Horton-Hallowell Fellowship, Wellesley College Alumnae Association,

Ten month grant for $4000

1990-1991 Fulbright Grant, Institute of International Education, Twelve month

grant for $12,000

1987-1990 University of Chicago, Unendowed fellowships, Full tuition.

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Graduate awards (continued):

1987, 1989 University of Chicago, Center for Latin American Studies,

Mellon Foundation Travel Grant

PUBLICATIONS

Peer Reviewed Journal articles

2011 Ann W. Bunch. “Indoor Wet-Screening of Exhumed Skeletal Remains: A

Suggested Procedure for the Preparation of Fragile Evidence for

Anthropological Analysis” Journal of Forensic Sciences, 66(2): 456-460.

2010 Ann W. Bunch and Calvin Y. Shiroma. "The Search for, Recovery, and

Positive Identification of a Vietnam-Era U.S. Army Soldier" in Military

Medicine, February 2010.

2009 Ann W. Bunch. “The Impact of Cold Climate on the Decomposition

Process.” Journal of Forensic Identification 59 (1): 26-44.

2005 Ann W. Bunch and Christopher G. Fielding. “The Use of World War II

Chest Radiographs in the Identification of a Missing-In-Action U.S. Marine

Raider from World War II.” Military Medicine, 170 (3): 239-242.

1998 Ann D. Webster. “Recovery of a Vietnam-Era Aircraft Crash: Use of

Cross-Cultural Understanding and Dual Forensic Recovery Methods”

Journal of Forensic Sciences, 43 (2): 277-283.

1992 Lisa M. Hoshower, Jane E. Buikstra, Paul S. Goldstein, and Ann D.

Webster. “Artificial Cranial Deformation at the Omo M10 Site. A

Tiwanaku Complex from the Moquegua Valley, Peru” Latin American

Antiquity 6 (2): 145-164

Book Reviews

2007 Of Fundamentals of Forensic Anthropology by L. Klepinger. In the

American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Volume 132, Issue 3. p 484.

Journal articles

1996 Robert W. Mann and Ann D. Webster. “An Anthropologist’s Walk into the

Past” Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association, 87 (2).

1996 Robert W. Mann, Thomas D. Holland, Ann D. Webster, and William E.

Grant. “The Search for American MIAs: Forensic Anthropology in the

Field” The Director, LVIV (12).

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Books/Book Chapters

In preparation Dawnie Steadman, Ann Bunch, and Jane Buikstra.. Forensic Anthropology

Today: An Introduction. Oxford University Press: Oxford.

2009 Ann W. Bunch and Colleen C. Shine. “Science Contextualized:

The Identification of a U.S. MIA of the Vietnam War from Two

Perspectives” in Hard Evidence: Case Studies in Forensic Anthropology.

Second Edition. Steadman, D. W. (editor). Prentice-Hall Publishers: NJ.

2003 Ann D. Webster and John W. Janusek. “Tiwanaku Camelids: Subsistence,

Sacrifice, and Social Reproduction” in Tiwanaku and Its Hinterland:

Archaeology and Paleoecology of an Andean Civilization (2) Urban and

Rural Archaeology. Alan L. Kolata (editor), Smithsonian Institution Press:

Washington, D.C.

1990 Geoffrey Conrad, Peter Burgi, Peter Griffiths, Catherine Jacobus, and Ann

Webster. “Resumen de Las Excavaciones en San Antonio, Departmento de

Moquegua,” in Trabajos Arqueologicos en Moquegua, Peru. L. Watanabe,

M. Moseley, and F. Cabieses (eds.) Programa Contisuyu del Museu

Peruano de Ciencias de la Salud, Southern Peru Copper Corporation.

1989 Geoffrey Conrad and Ann Webster. “Household Unit Patterning at San

Antonio,” in Ecology, Settlement, and History in the Osmore Drainage,

Southern Peru. Don S. Rice and Charles Stanish (eds.) British

Archaeological Reports. International Series No. 545.

Technical Reports

2006 Ann W. Bunch. “The Impact of Cold Climate on the Decomposition

Process,” Report submitted to Rice Creek Field Station, April 2005.

1995 Steve McBride, Kim McBride, Margaret Scarry, and Ann D. Webster.

“Report on the Henderson Site, Henderson County, Kentucky.”

Archaeological Report 321. Program for Cultural Resource Assessment,

University of Kentucky.

1994 Tom Sussenbach, William D. Updike, and Ann D. Webster.

“Phase II Archaeological Excavation at the Shop Hollow Dump Site

(15LR40) in Letcher County, Kentucky.” Archaeological Report 342.

Program for Cultural Resource Assessment, University of Kentucky.

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PAPERS AND TALKS PRESENTED 2012 Forensic Anthropology – Introduction to Biological Profile -- Presentation

and Workshop for the Syracuse University Project Advance Summer Course

2011 Introduction to Forensic Anthropology- Presentation and Workshop for the

Syracuse University Project Advance Summer Course

2010 Forensic Anthropology Basics -- Presentation and Workshop for the

Syracuse University Project Advance Summer Course

2009 Forensic Anthropological Problems and Solutions. Presentation and

Workshop for the Syracuse University Project Advance Summer Course.

2009 A Multidisciplinary Test of the Lamendin Age Estimation Method.

Presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic

Sciences.

2008 Forensic Anthropology Today/ Estimation of Age at Death. Presentation

and Workshop for the Syracuse University Project Advance Summer

Course.

2007 Forensic Anthropology: Trauma Basics: Presentation and Workshop for

the Syracuse University Project Advance Summer Course.

2006 Forensic Anthropology: Methods and New Technologies. Presentation and

Workshop for the Syracuse University Project Advance Summer Course.

2006 Forensic Anthropology Reports: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

Presentations and Workshop for the Minnowbrook Conference, Syracuse

University Project Advance.

2006 A Preliminary Study of Decomposition in Cold Climate. Presented at the

American Academy of Forensic Sciences annual meeting, February 2006.

2006 Darwin and the Science of Man: Discovery the Missing Links of Past and

Present. SUNY Oswego IPAC Series for Darwin Day, February 2006.

2005 Forensic Anthropology and Recovery: Traditional Methods and New

Innovations. Project Advance, Syracuse University.

2005 Guest Speaker, 19th

Annual Orleans County Academic Excellence Awards

Dinner.

2004 Twenty-first Century Forensic Anthropology. Presented at the Science Today

Lecture Series, SUNY Oswego.

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2004 Forensic Anthropology: An Overview. Presented at the 3rd

Annual Meeting

of Project Advance, Syracuse University.

2003 Forensic Anthropology and Recovery. Presented at the 2nd

Annual Meeting of

Project Advance, Syracuse University.

2003 Be Tenacious in Your Searches for Clandestine Burials: A Lesson from the

Field. Presented at the 54th

Annual Meeting of the American Academy of

Forensic Sciences, Atlanta.

2000 Forensic Anthropology and the Big Island Aircraft Crash. Presented at the 2nd

Annual Meeting of the Maui Memorial Medical Center Forensic Conference.

1999 Human Taphonomy and Its Impact on Forensic Recovery Operations in

Vietnam. Presented at the 51st Annual Meeting of the American Academy of

Forensic Sciences, Orlando.

1998 Forensic Recovery: Politics and Postdepositional History. Presented at the

63rd

Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle.

1990 Recovery of a Vietnam Era Aircraft Crash: The Use of Multiple

Anthropological Methods. Presented at the Mountain, Desert, and Coastal

Forensic Meeting, Boulder City, NV.

1993 Pastoralism and the Development of the Tiwanaku State. Presented at the

University of Kentucky Department of Anthropology Colloquium Series.

1993 The Pastoral Foundation of the Tiwanaku State. Presented at the

Northwestern University Department of Anthropology Colloquium Series.

1993 Shifting Faunal Usage Patterns in the Tiwanaku Valley and at Lukurmata,

Bolivia: Formative through Tiwanaku V. Presented at the 58th

Annual

Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis.

1992 Ongoing Research at Tiwanaku, Bolivia. Presented at the Chicago

Archaeological Society, Chicago Academy of Sciences, Chicago.

1992 Camelids of the Tiwanaku Valley and Lukurmata from Formative to

Tiwanaku V: Size and Age Differences. Presented at the 20th

Annual

Meeting of the Midwest Andean and Amazonian Archaeologists, University

of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

1990 Faunal Use Patterns of Tiwanaku and the Tiwanaku Valley, Bolivia.

Presented at the South American Prehistory Conference, University of Illinois,

Urbana-Champaign.

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1990 Los Camelidos de Tiwanaku. Presented at the Mesa Redonda, Instituto

Nacional de Arquelogia, La Paz, Bolivia.

1990 The Fauna of Tiwanaku, Bolivia. Presented at the Center for Latin American

Studies, University of Chicago.

1988 Preliminary Analysis of the Faunal Remains of Tiwanaku, Bolivia. Presented

at the 17th

Annual Midwest Andean and Amazonian Meetings, Central

Michigan University.

1988 Household Unit Patterning at San Antonio, Moquegua, Peru. Presented at the

Center for Latin American Studies, University of Chicago.

MEDIA APPEARANCES AND CONTRIBUTIONS

2011 “Can Race be Determined by the Mandible?” Contribution to The Slate,

Washington Post Online Magazine.

2007 “Where’s Peggy?” Cold Case Files episode 110, A and E Channel

2003 “Last Flight of Bomber 31” NOVA DVD/VHS on 1944 PV-1 aircraft loss and

subsequent recovery in Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia (2001)

1999 “The Hunt” Discovery Channel Episode on MIA/POW mission

REFERENCES

Jane E. Buikstra, Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change. Arizona State

University. Tempe, AZ. Phone: (480) 965-6213.

Alan L. Kolata, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, Chicago,

Illinois. Phone: (773) 702-7729.

Thomas D. Holland, Director, Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command. Hickam Airforce

Base, Honolulu, Hawaii. Phone: (808) 772-4583

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