Pollux Variste Kjeld

Karen Ramey Burns Pollux Variste Kjeld

Publisher Marketing: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Karen Ramey Burns is an American forensic anthropologist known for work in international human rights. Her specialty is the recovery and identification of human remains in criminal, historical, archaeological, and disaster-related circumstances. She has worked on a number of high-profile cases, including the Raboteau Massacre and trial in Haiti, the R o Negro massacre in Guatemala, victims of genocide in Iraqi Kurdistan, the Amelia Earhart search in Kiribati, Fiji, and the Northern Mariana Islands, and the identification of the Kazimierz Pu aski remains in Savannah, Georgia, United States. She is also active in international forensic training and teaches human osteology and forensic anthropology at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. She was a 2007-08 Fulbright Scholar at the University of the Andes in Bogot, Colombia, where she also works with EQUITAS, a non-governmental organization dedicated to helping families of disappeared persons due to the ongoing Colombian conflict. Dr. Burns received her graduate education in forensic anthropology under the direction of the late Dr. William R.