Kelly Kamnikar
Post Doctoral Fellow
PhD, Michagan State University (2022)
- At UNM since
- 2022
- Email:
- kkamnikar@unm.edu
- Curriculum vitae
Recent Courses:
2021 Topics in Anthropology: Introduction to Forensic Anthropology, Rutgers University
2020 Women and Health: Anthropological and International Perspectives, Michigan State University
Education:
2022 Ph.D. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. Biological Anthropology.
Title: Cranial Metric and Nonmetric Variation in Southeast Mexico and Guatemala: Implications for Population Affinity Assessment in the United States Chair: Joseph T Hefner
2015 M.A. Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS. Applied Anthropology.
Title: Investigating the utility of age-dependent cranial vault thickness as an aging method for juvenile skeletal remains on dry bone, radiographic and computed tomography scans. Chair: Nicholas P Herrmann
2008 B.S. cum laude University of North Dakota, Grand Forks ND. Forensic Science.
Academic adviser: Phoebe R Stubblefield
Research:
Forensic anthropology, biological distance, age estimation, human rights, skeletal biology, bioarchaeology, trauma
Recent Publications:
Journal Articles
Kamnikar KR, Hefner JT, Monsalve T, Bernal Flores L. Craniometric variation in a regional sample from Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia: Implications for forensic work in the Americas. [Variación craneométrica en una muestra regional de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia: Consecuencias para el trabajo forense en las Américas]. Forensic Anthropology 2021; 5(3):199-210.
Dunn RR, Spiros MC, Kamnikar KR, Plemons AM, Hefner JT. Ancestry estimation in forensic anthropology: A review. WIREs Forensic Science 2020.
Zuckerman MK, Kamnikar KR, Herrmann NP, Franklin J. Applying the Index of Care to the Mississippian Period: A case study of treponemal disease, bodily impairment, and probable caregiving from the Holliston Mills Site, TN. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 2019; 29(5):843-853.
Kamnikar KR, Herrmann NP, Plemons AM. New approaches to juvenile age estimation in forensics: Application of transition analysis via the Shackelford et al method to a diverse modern subadult sample. Human Biology 2018; 90(1): 11-30.
Kamnikar KR, Plemons AM, Hefner JT. Intraobserver error in macromorphoscopic traits. Journal of Forensic Sciences 2018; 63:361-370.
Zuckerman MK, Kamnikar KR, Mathena SA. Recovering the Body Politic: Relational ethics in bioarchaeology. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 2014; 24:513-522.
Book Chapter
Kamnikar KR, Plemons AM, Spiros MC, Hefner JT. Estimación de la ancestría utilizando características morfológicas. In: Quinto-Sánchez M, Gómez-Valdés J, eds. Avances en Antropología Forense. Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; 2022.
