Faculty Profiles

Colleges and Departments

Dr. Michelle Hamilton

  • Professor at Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts

Service Activities

Ongoing

  • Member, Curriculum Committee. 2023 - Present.
  • Member, Instructional Faculty Policy Committee. 2023 - Present.

2023

  • Reviewer / Referee, Anonymous reviewer, Humans. 2023.
  • Attendee / Participant, “Dental Morphology: The Informative but Lesser-Known Traits”. 2023.
  • Member, Operation ID Post-Doc Search Committee - Texas State (Dr. Spradley, Chair). 2023.
  • Member, Faculty Search Committee - Biological Anthropology position (Dr. Chu, hire). 2023.

2022

  • Reviewer / Referee, Anonymous reviewer, Forensic Anthropology. 2022.
  • Alternate, College and Outside College Review Group (Liberal Arts) - Alternate representative. 2022.
  • Graduate Advisor, PhD Program Coordinator. 2021 - 2022.

2021

  • Member, Departmental Outstanding Student Award Committee Member. 2014 - 2021.

2020

  • Member, JMK Endowment for Graduate Research in Anthropology. 2017 - 2020.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Peer reviewer for Dr. Jennifer Love (Medical Examiner's Office, Washington, DC). 2016 - 2020.
  • Member, Departmental Merit Committee Member. 2015 - 2020.

2019

  • Member, Graduate Student Scholarship Committee. 2011 - 2019.

2018

  • Member, Associate Director of FACTS Search Committee - Texas State (Dr. Gocha, hire). 2018.
  • Member, NSF Post-Doc Search Committee - Texas State (Dr. Herrmann, Chair). 2018.
  • Member, Operation ID Search Committee - Texas State (Ms. Newberry, hire). 2018.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Anonymous reviewer, National Science Foundation SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Grant. 2018.

2017

  • Member, Operation ID Search Committee - Texas State (unfilled search). 2017.
  • Member, Committee member, Texas State Committee to Select External Reviewers for NEH fellowship. 2017.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Anonymous reviewer, Forensic Anthropology. 2017.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Anonymous reviewer, Journal of Texas Archaeology and History. 2017.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Anonymous reviewer, National Science Foundation (SPRF-FR) SBE Postdoctoral Research Grant. 2017.

2016

  • Member, Texas State Undergraduate Research Journal (TXSTUR). 2016.
  • Member, PhD Proposal Committee (Erhart and Conlee, Chairs). 2016.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Anonymous reviewer, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology manuscript. 2016.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Discovery Grant proposal. 2016.
  • Member, Graduate College Scholarship Committee. 2014 - 2016.
  • Graduate Advisor, MA Graduate Advisor, Department of Anthropology. 2013 - 2016.
  • Member, Departmental Website Committee. 2013 - 2016.

2015

  • Chair, Faculty Search Committee - Texas State University tenure track applied archaeology position (Dr. David Kilby, hire). 2015.
  • Panel Chair, 7th International Research Conference for Graduate Students, Texas State. 2015.
  • Member, Panel Chair, 7th International Research Conference for Graduate Students, Texas State. 2015.
  • Member, Faculty Search Committee - Texas State University tenure track forensic anthropology position (Dr. Nicholas Herrmann, hire). 2014 - 2015.
  • Graduate Advisor, Graduate College Graduate Scholarship Committee. 2014 - 2015.

2014

  • Member, Faculty Search Committee - Texas State University tenure track cultural anthropology position (Dr. Monica Schoch-Spana, hire). 2014.
  • Member, Departmental Promotion Committee. 2014.
  • Mentor for Joshua Roper, College Preparatory School of Science and Technology-Alamo (SST), Science Project (“Rate of Decompositional Soft Tissue Loss in Buried and Surface Environments”) presented at the 2014 Intel International Science & Engineering Fair. May 11, 2014 - May 16, 2014.

2012

  • Participant, Bobcat Days. 2012.

2011

  • Member, Departmental Curriculum Committee. 2011.
  • Reviewer / Referee, University of Central Oklahoma forensic anthropology grant proposal. 2011.

2010

  • Member, Faculty Search Committee - Texas State University tenure track forensic anthropology position (Dr. Daniel Wescott, hire). 2010.
  • developer, Created Program Faculty GOJA for Forensic Anthropology Coordinator. 2010.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Judge, Texas Association of Biological Anthropologists Student Presentation. 2010.
  • Director, Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State. 2008 - 2010.

2009

  • Member, Faculty Search Committee - Texas State University tenure track forensic anthropology position (unfilled search). 2009.
  • Participant, Bobcat Days. 2009.
  • Participant, Discover Texas State. 2009.
  • Undergraduate Advisor, Forensic Anthropological Society. 2008 - 2009.

2008

  • Director, Forensic Anthropology Research Facility at Texas State. 2008.
  • Organizer, Discover Texas State. 2008.

2007

  • Member, Faculty Search Committee - Texas State University tenure track forensic anthropology position (Dr. M. Katherine Spradley, hire). 2007.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Anonymous reviewer, American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 2007.