Faculty Profile for Dr. Kate Spradley

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Dr. Kate Spradley
Professor — Anthropology
ELA 234
phone: (512) 245-6539
Scholarly/Creative Work
Awards
Grants
Service

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Edgar, H. J. H., Spradley, M. K., Kamnikar, K. R., & McKeown, A. H. (2024). Roadmap to the Future: Calipers to Digitizing to Virtual Osteology. Forensic Anthropology, 7(2–3). https://doi.org/https://doi-org.libproxy.txstate.edu/10.5744/fa.2023.0043
  • Siegert, C. C., Kaplan, M. A., Herrmann, N. P., & Spradley, M. K. (2024). The Texas Landscape: Accounting for Migrant Mortality and the Challenges of a Justice of the Peace Medicolegal System. Journal on Migration and Human Security, 12(3), 257–276. https://doi.org/10.1177/23315024241277528
  • Miranker, M., Daniell, R., Kaplan, M. A., Flores-Guillen, V., Hernandez, J., Edgar, H., … Giordano, A. (2024). What is a migrant death? An operational definition for a more accurate enumeration of migrant mortality along the US-Mexico border. Forensic Science International, 363(October), 112156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2024.112156
  • Stull, K. E., New, B. T., Corron, L., Auchter, L. E., Spradley, M. K., Wolfe, C. A., … Hefner, J. T. (n.d.). Exploring Mutual and Exclusive Biological Information in Cranial Metric and Morphological Variables. Forensic Anthropology.
  • Spradley, M. K. (2023). Alternative workflows for identifying transnational missing persons. Forensic Science International Synergy, 7.

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Service Award - Anthropology Section, American Academy of Forensic Sciences. February 2019
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Samuel Lawrence Foundation Award for Righteousness, Samuel Lawrence Foundation. January 2019
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Commander's Community Award, United States Customs and Border Patrol. April 2018
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Diversity Award. 2015
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Foundations of Excellence Award 2015. 2015

Selected Grants

  • Giordano, Alberto (Principal), Herrmann, Nicholas Paul (Co-Principal), Spradley, Martha K (Supporting). HNDS-I: Migrant Mortality Mapping Portal Project (M3P2), National Science Foundation, Federal, $1001109. (Funded: September 1, 2022 - August 31, 2025). Grant.
  • Spradley, Martha K (Principal), Taylor, Nicole (Co-Principal). Migrant Death Practices: Understanding Institutional Decision-making in the Treatment of Unidentified Human Remains, Texas State University, Texas State University, $16000. (Funded: 2020 - Present). Grant.
  • Spradley, Martha K (Principal). Mapping Migrant Burials in South Texas, REP grant, $8000. (Funded: 2014). Grant.
  • Wescott, D J (Principal), Spradley, Martha K (Co-Principal), Upchurch, G (Co-Principal). Acquisition of a High-Resolution X-Ray Computed Tomography (CT) Scanner for Non-Destructive Imaging of Anthropological and Paleontological Specimens for Research, Education, and Preservation Purposes, National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation Program 2012, $705383. (Funded: 2012). Grant.
  • Spradley, Martha K (Principal), Hamilton, M D (Co-Principal). Isotopic and Elemental Analysis of the William Bass Donated Skeletal Collection and Other Modern Donated Collections, Mississippi State University, $19312.48. (Funded: 2008). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Member
NIST Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science - Forensic Anthropology Committee
January 2021-Present
Officer
American Association of Forensic Sciences Diversity Outreach Committee (officer)
October 2020-Present
Editorial Review Board Member
Estudio de Antropologia Biologica
2017-Present
Editorial Review Board Member
Forensic Anthropology
January 2017-Present
Principle Investigator
Operation Identification
2013-Present