Dr. Erin Waxenbaum

Biography

Erin Waxenbaum is a biological anthropologist and board-certified forensic anthropologist whose research focuses on human skeletal variation. Her background includes forensic applications of anthropology stemming from graduate training at the C. Pound Human Identification Lab at the University of Florida and post-doctoral experience as a Visiting Scientist in Forensic Anthropology at the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office. She serves as a Forensic Anthropologist for the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office and numerous Coroner’s offices in Illinois. A substantial portion of her data collection and analysis funding has come from the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, where she has conducted research since 2001. Her projects include dissertation data collection on variation in Native North American growth and development and methodological analysis of lower limb functional dismemberment. She collaborates with undergraduate and graduate students on repatriation projects involving the analysis and cataloging of Native American human remains in accordance with NAGPRA guidelines.

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