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Dr. Kate Spradley

  • Professor - Anthropology

Education

Doctorate Degree

PhD in Anthropology

University of Tennessee Knoxville, 2006

Master's Degree

MA in Anthropology

Univ of Arkansas Main Campus, 2000

Bachelor's Degree

BA in Anthropology

Univ of Arkansas Main Campus, 1998

  • Giordano, Alberto (Principal), Herrmann, Nicholas Paul (Co-Principal), Spradley, Martha K (Supporting). HNDS-I: Migrant Mortality Mapping Portal Project (M3P2), National Science Foundation, Federal. (Funded: September 1, 2022 - August 31, 2026). 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: 2021 - 2022). 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.
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  • 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
  • Nkhoma, T. B., Rakopoulou, G. D., Fortney, S. H., Wescott, D. J., Spradley, M. K., & Dadour, I. R. (2025). A synopsis of three decades (2000-2020) of arthropod related research at the Forensic Anthropology Research Facility (FARF), Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, USA. Insect, 16, 897.
  • Ammer, S., Bartelink, E., Vollner, J., Anderson, B. E., & Spradley, M. K. (2025). Spatial distributions of isotope ratios in tap water, hair, and teeth from Latin America for region-of-origin predictions of unidentified border crossers. Forensic Anthropology, 2(2), 118–130.
  • Stull, K., Wolfe, C., New, B., Corron, L., & Spradley, M. K. (2025). Growth and Development of the Cranial Complex and Its Implications for Sex Estimation. Forensic Sciences, 5(3).
  • Appel, N. S., Kamnikar, K., Rangel, E., Spradley, M. K., & Edgar, H. (2025). A Newly Developed AI‐Assisted Tool for the Collection of Cranial Landmark Data. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 187(4).
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  • 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: Foundations of Excellence Award 2015. 2015
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Diversity Award. 2015
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  1. Other

    Operation Identification (OpID)

  2. Other

    National Missing and Unidentified Persons System for Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State

  3. Other

    Forensic Anthropology Center

  4. Member

    NIST Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science - Forensic Anthropology Committee

  5. Officer

    American Association of Forensic Sciences Diversity Outreach Committee (officer)

  6. Editorial Review Board Member

    Forensic Anthropology

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