Alison Galloway
| Alison Galloway | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Anthropology |
Alison Galloway is a forensic anthropologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.[1] She is best known for her work in identifying the physical remains of Laci Peterson in the Scott Peterson Trial. She co-edited a book called The Evolving Female: A Life History Perspective with Mary Morbeck and Adrienne Zihlmann. (Politics and the Life Sciences Mar2000, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p119, 2p)
Galloway was appointed to the executive vice chancellor position at UCSC on September 16, 2010.[2] She replaced David Kliger who retired on July 1.
Education
She earned her BA with honors in Anthropology, with an emphasis in Archaeology, in 1975 from the University of California, Berkeley. Her masters thesis, entitled “Racial Variation in the Basioccipital”, earned Galloway an MA in Anthropology, emphasis in Physical Anthropology, with a specialization in Forensic Anthropology in 1985 at the University of Arizona. Galloway continued her education at the University of Arizona with a Ph. D in Anthropology, emphasis in Physical Anthropology with two minors, Anatomy and Physiology. She completed her doctorate in 1988 with her paper entitled, “Long Term Effects of Reproductive History on Bone Mineral Content in Women.”
Professional History
Galloway began her professional career in 1988 as an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She accepted a position as an Associate Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1990 and by 2001 was promoted to Professor. Meanwhile, in 1996 she became a member of the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team, USDHS acting as a Forensic Anthropologist.
She became Vice-Chair of the UCSC Division of the Academic Senate in 2001, and was appointed to Chair in 2003, stepping down two years later when she accepted an interim position as Vice Provost, Academic Affairs. After being named to the position one year later, she remained until 2009 when she was appointed to the position of Vice Provost and Dean, Academic Affairs/University Extension.
Galloway has been an active member of many professional societies during her career, such as the American Board of Forensic Anthropology, serving as a Board Officer, and the American Association of Physical Anthropology. Galloway is a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and held various executive positions between 1994-1997. She served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Forensic Sciences from 2008-2013.[3]
Galloway will be stepping down from her position as Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor (CP/EVC) at UC Santa Cruz in December 2016. She will return to teaching after taking a yearlong break.[4]
Forensic Cases
Galloway credits her inability to smell offensive odors for more than a few seconds for her capacity to deal with some of the difficult aspects of forensic work. She is one of 50 highly skilled forensic anthropologists in the United States, and is regularly called upon by the authorities to provide her expertise. She has identified victims in many high-profile cases, such as the Oaklahoma City bombing, the crash of TWA flight 800 off the coast of Long Island, and victims of suicide bombers in Jerusalem.[5]
Awards
Dr. Galloway has earned several awards throughout her career. The San Jose Business Journal named her Silicon Valley’s Women of Influence, 2009. She earned the Excellence in Teaching Award, 1993-4, from the UCSC Academic Senate Committee on Teaching and the Mildred Trotter Student Paper Award, April 1987, from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists for her paper entitled "Reproductive History and Bone Mineralization". She was awarded the J. Lawrence Angel Forensic Anthropology Student Paper Award, in February 1987, American Academy of Forensic Sciences. Her paper was entitled "Estimating Actual Height in the Elderly".
Contributions
Galloway has contributed significantly to academic literature in her field. She has worked with others in the discipline to author many books and papers. Her work on blunt force trauma outlines a theoretical framework for dealing with the many causes of death due to blunt force trauma including falls, strangulation, abuse, accidents and other causes. [6] In addition, Galloway has authored work outlining decay rates in the dry Arizona climate.[7] She has also argued that variances in formulas used to estimate height in adults needs to be consistent, and that the maximum height along with age altered heights be specified in forensic science reports in order to facilitate matching in missing person reports. [8]
PUBLICATIONS
in press/in preparation
The Cooperative Foraging Hypothesis: Food sharing and provisioning in hominid evolution. By A. Galloway and M.E. Morbeck.
Forensic Anthropology. In R. Sgaglio and M. Karagiozis, eds. Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences. CC Thomas: Springfield, IL. In press.
A Simulation for Exploring the Effects of the "Trait List" Method's Subjectivity on Consistency and Accuracy of Ancestry Estimations. By Hughes C, C Juarez, T Hughes, A Galloway, G Fowler. Journal of Forensic Sciences
2008
Burials and Human Skeletal Remains of Adrar Bous. By Elizabeth Agrilla, Andrew Smith and Alison Galloway. In Adrar Bous: Archaeology of a Central Saharan Granitic ring complex in Niger. Human Sciences Series Vol. 170. Royal Central African Museum Press, Tervuren. Royal P.I.A.
2007
Ethical Standards and Forensic Anthropologists. Alison Galloway and Tal Simmons. Proceedings of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Vol. _.
2006
Artist Contribution to Facial Reconstruction. Gloria L. Nusse and Alison Galloway. Proceedings of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Vol. _.
2005
Internal Cranial Fractures. A. Galloway and L. Zephro. Proceedings of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Vol. _.
Skeletal trauma analysis of the lower extremity. By Alison Galloway and Lauren Zephro. In Rich J, Dean DE, Powers RH eds. Forensic medicine of the Lower Extremity: Human Identification and Trauma Analysis of the Thigh, Leg and Foot. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press. pp. 249–273.
2004
Skeletal evidence of homicidal compression. A. Galloway and L. Zephro. Proceedings of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Vol. V.
2003
Utility of dorsal pits and pubic tubercle height in parity assessment. By J. Josh Snodgrass and Alison Galloway. Journal of Forensic Sciences
2002
Getting Old at Gombe: Skeletal Aging in Wild-Ranging Chimpanzees. By M.E. Morbeck, Alison Galloway and D. Richman Sumner. Aging in Nonhuman Primates, Joseph Erwin and Patrick Hoff (eds.) Karger Interdisciplinary Topics in Gerontology. pp. 48–62. Galloway Page 3 1/6/2011
2000
Recovery of surface scattered and buried bodies and evidence. By Alison Galloway and Heather Walsh-Heaney for Forensic Entomology edited by J. Byrd. Boca Raton: CRC Press.
[Review of] Gender and Archaeology edited by Rita Wright and Women in Human Evolution edited by Lori Hager. Signs 25(2):606-609
1999
Broken Bones: Anthropological Analysis of Blunt Force Trauma by Alison Galloway with contributors. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Publishers.
The Life Story of “Primate Life History and Evolution” by Mary Ellen Morbeck and Alison Galloway. Prepared for Wenner-Gren Conference, Oct. 1999. Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Commentary on Tomczuk and Buikstra. Journal of Forensic Sciences 44(2):2530.
Anthropometry: Accident reconstruction and civil litigation. Proceedings of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Vol. V.
1998
Biological and chemical hazards of forensic skeletal material. A. Galloway and J. J. Snodgrass. Journal of Forensic Sciences. 43(5):940-948.
1997
Bone mineral density and survival of elements and element portions of the Crow Creek massacre victims. P. Willey, A. Galloway and L. Snyder. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 104(4):513-528.
Determination of parity from the maternal skeleton: an appraisal. Rivista di Anthropologie.
The Evolving Female: A Life History Perspective edited by M.E. Morbeck, A. Galloway and A.L. Zihlman.Princeton University Press.
Calcium loss and the cost of reproduction: the evolution of postmenopausal osteoporosis. The Evolving Female: A Life History Perspective edited by M.E. Morbeck, A. Galloway and A.L. Zihlman. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 132–146.
Education in Forensic Anthropology: an Appraisal. Alison Galloway and Tal Simmons. Journal of Forensic Sciences. 42(5):796‐801.
1996
The process of decomposition: a model from the Arizona-Sonoran desert. Forensic Taphonomy: The Post-Mortem Fate of Human Remains edited by W. Haglund and M. Sorg. Boca Raton: CRC Press. pp. 139–150.
Human aquatic taphonomy in Monterey Bay area. Shelley Boyle, Alison Galloway and Richard T. Mason, MD. Forensic Taphonomy: The Post-Mortem Fate of Human Remains edited by W. Haglund and M. Sorg. Boca Raton: CRC Press. pp. 605–614.
Human bone mineral densities and survival of bone elements: a contemporary sample. Alison Galloway, P. Willey and L. Snyder. Forensic Taphonomy: The Post-Mortem Fate of Human Remains edited by W. Haglund and M. Sorg. Boca Raton: CRC Press. pp. 295–317.
Short communication: Sex Differences in the Vertebral Column of Gombe Chimpanzees. Alison Galloway, M. E. Morbeck, A. L. Zihlman. Primates 37:443‐455.
Buried with her boots [poem]. The Connective Tissue 12(4):6.
1995
[Review of] Biological Anthropology and Aging: Perspectives on Human Variation over the Life Span by D. Crew and Garruto. Bioscience 45:644-645.
1994
[Review of] Forensic Analysis of the Skull by M.Y. Iscan. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 95(1):109-111.
Skeletal asymmetry and hand preference during termite fishing by Gombe chimpanzees. M.E. Morbeck, A. Galloway, K. Mowbray, and Adrienne L. Zihlman. Primates 35(1): 99-103. Galloway Page 4 1/6/2011
1993
Bibliography for the Forensic Application of Anthropology compiled by A. Galloway, T. Woltanski and W. Grant. University of Tennessee Press: Knoxville. .
[Review of] The Evolutionary Biology of Aging. by Michael Rose. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.91(2):260-262.
Biographies read in bones: biology and life history of Gombe chimpanzees. M.E. Morbeck, A.L. Zihlman and A. Galloway. Proceedings of the 1992 ChimpanZoo Conference
A prehistoric cotton cache from the Pinaleno Mountains, Arizona: Hair remains. Kiva 59(2):137-139.
1992
[Review of] Patterns of Injury and Illness in Great Apes: A Skeletal Analysis, by Nancy C. Lovell. Quarterly Review of Biology 67(1):65-66.
Gombe chimpanzee sex differences in the pelvis and observations of pubic and preauricular areas. M.E. Morbeck, A. Galloway and A. L. Zihlman. Primates 33(1):129-132.
1991
Poliomyelitis and skeletal asymmetry in Gombe chimpanzees. M. E. Morbeck, A.L. Zihlman, D. R. Sumner, jr and A. Galloway. Primates 32(1):77-91.
1990
Physical anthropology and the law: legal responsibilities of forensic anthropologists. A. Galloway, W.H. Birkby, T. Kahana and L. Fulginiti. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 33:39-57.
Stature loss among and older United States population and its relation to bone mineral status. A. Galloway, R.A. Stini, S.C. Fox and P. Stein. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 83(4):467-476.
All-Women conference: did it discriminate? [Letter to Science]. A. Galloway, V. Vitzthum, and others. Science :1319.
1989
Decay rates of human remains in an arid environment. A. Galloway, Walter H. Birkby, Allen M. Jones, Thomas E. Henry and Bruce O. Parks. Journal of Forensic Sciences. 34: 607-616.
1988
Estimating actual height in the older individual. Journal of Forensic Sciences. 33: 126-136. Report on the human skeletal remains from the 1985 excavations in Room 11, Kourion City. A. Galloway and Walter H. Birkby. Report of the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus.
1986
Report on the human skeletal remains from the 1984 excavations, Kourion City, Grid L9. Report of the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus.[9]
References
- ↑ "About Us". University of Santa Cruz. Retrieved 28 November 2010.
- ↑ "Alison Galloway named to No. 2 post at UC Santa Cruz - San Jose Mercury News". San Jose Mercury News. Retrieved 28 November 2010.
- ↑ "Curriculum Vitae, Alison Galloway" (PDF).
- ↑ "EVC Alison Galloway Announces Resignation". City on a Hill Press. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
- ↑ "Feature Story: Review, Summer '99". review.ucsc.edu. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
- ↑ Wedel, V. L., & Galloway, A. (2013). Broken bones: anthropological analysis of blunt force trauma. Charles C Thomas Publisher.
- ↑ Galloway, Alison (May 1989). "Decay rates of human remains in an arid environment.". Journal of Forensic Sciences. 34: 607-616.
- ↑ Galloway, Alison (May 1987). "Estimating actual height in the older individual.". Journal of Forensic Sciences. 33: 126-136.
- ↑ "Curriculum Vitae, Alison Galloway" (PDF).
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