Dr. Bruce Anderson
Forensic Anthropologist
Bruce Anderson works at the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner, in Tucson, Arizona. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. He is certified as a Diplomat by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology (ABFA), was a founding member of the Scientific Working Group in Forensic Anthropology (SWGANTH), and served as a Forensic Anthropologist for the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) project.
Dr. Gary Christopherson
Geographer
Gary Christopherson is an associate professor of practice in the School of Geography and Director of the Center for Applied Spatial Analysis (CASA) both at the University of Arizona. He supports and develops research projects and encourages the wider use of GIS and related techniques in the social sciences through collaboration on grants, demonstration, training, teaching, and internships. He specializes in GIS, cartography, spatial analysis, human dimensions modeling, fire modeling, and social science spatial data.
Dr. Daniel Martinez
Sociologist
Daniel E. Martínez's is an associate professor in the School of Sociology and a co-director of the Binational Migration Institute at the University of Arizona. Dr. Martínez is an affiliate of the Mexican American Studies Department, the School of Geography & Development, the Center for Latin American Studies, and the SBS Human Rights Practice Program. His research and teaching interests include race and ethnicity, undocumented immigration, and criminology. He is particularly interested in the social and legal criminalization of undocumented migration. Dr. Martínez has also conducted extensive research on deportations and undocumented border crosser deaths along the US-Mexico border. He is a principal investigator of the Migrant Border Crossing Study, a Ford Foundation-funded research project that examines recently deported unauthorized migrants' experiences crossing the US-Mexico border and residing in the United States.
Dr. Robin Reineke
Anthropologist
Dr. Reineke is Assistant Research Social Scientist at the University of Arizona’s Southwest Center and Affiliated Faculty in the School of Anthropology and the Latin American Studies Department. She is a 2021 Confluence Center Faculty Fellow. She was awarded the Institute for Policy Studies’ Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award and Echoing Green’s Global Fellowship both in 2014.
Dr. Angela Soler
Forensic Anthropologist
Dr. Angela Soler is a Board Certified Forensic Anthropologist at the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner (NYC OCME). Prior to joining NYC OCME in 2015, Dr. Soler completed postdoctoral appointments at the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner in Tucson, Arizona, and the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. At the NYC OCME, Dr. Soler assists with scene recoveries, the identification of unknown decedents, and the interpretation of bone trauma and pathology. In addition, she manages over 1,000 long-term unidentified persons from NYC in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs). Dr. Soler’s research focuses on the identification of human remains and specifically the resolution of cases of long-term unidentified individuals, who are often the most vulnerable within our society. Along with Drs. Jared Beatrice, Robin Reineke, and Daniel Martinez, her previous research has investigated the biological consequences of structural violence in undocumented migrants who die while attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
Dr. Kate Spradley
Forensic Anthropologist
Kate Spradley is a Professor of Anthropology at Texas State University. She is a biological anthropologist with focus on documenting the invisible graves of undocumented migrants in small cemeteries within the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She specializes in the identification of migrant remains and sex and population affinity estimation. Her work falls within the framework of humanitarian forensic action and scholarship of engagement.
Dr. Caitlin Vogelsberg
Forensic Anthropologist
Caitlin Vogelsberg is a Board Certified Forensic Anthropologist and also the Emergency Preparedness Coordinator at the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner, in Tucson, Arizona. She earned her MS in Human Biology from the University of Indianapolis and her PhD in Anthropology from Michigan State University. She was hired on full time at the PCOME after a 1.5 year fellowship assisting with the backlog of unidentified cases of both recent and legacy unidentified individuals.
Dr. Jennifer Vollner
Forensic Anthropologist
Jennifer Vollner is a Forensic Anthropologist at the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner, in Tucson, Arizona. She graduated from the College of Mt St Joseph and went on to Mercyhurst College to earn an MS in Anthropology. She then graduated from Michigan State University with a PhD in Anthropology and started as a Post Doc Fellow at the PCOME in the summer of 2016. She was hired full time at the PCOME in the summer of 2017 and in addition to casework, she coordinates the undergraduate internship program in conjunction with the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. She was certified as a Diplomat by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology (ABFA) in 2020.
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