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Cris Hughes is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois. He specializes in forensic anthropology, focusing on ancestry estimations, skeletal variation, reliability measures, and biological profile estimation methods. He has extensive experience in investigating disparities involving missing and unidentified persons and is a board-certified forensic anthropologist. Since 2013, he has been consulting for coroner’s offices in Illinois on cases of unidentified individuals. In 2023, Hughes was appointed as a member of the Illinois Forensic Science Commission. He is also the director of the Investigative Technology Exchange at the Institute of Genomic Biology, where he collaborates with the Illinois State Police to enhance forensic scientific research, with a current focus on forensic investigative genetic genealogy.
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