Faculty Profiles

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.

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

Spradley, M. K. (2024). Perpetrators from Treblinka: interdisciplinary investigations of seven single graves with “Trawniki Men.”

Stull, K. E., New, B. T., Corron, L., Auchter, L. E., Spradley, M. K., Wolfe, C. A., … Hefner, J. T. (2024). Exploring Mutual and Exclusive Biological Information in Cranial Metric and Morphological Variables. Forensic Anthropology, 7(2–1), 141–163.

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

Spradley, M. K. (2023). Alternative workflows for identifying transnational missing persons. Forensic Science International Synergy, 7.

Drath, J., Jarzęcka-Stąporek, J., Lisman, D., Szargut, M., Jasinski, M. E., Spradley, K. K., … Ossowski, A. (2023). Slaughtered like animals. Revealing the atrocities committed by the Nazis on captives at Treblinka I by skeletal trauma analysis. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 10(1), 1–13. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-02002-4

Spradley, M. K., Jasinski, M. E., & Ossowski, A. (2023). Uncovering war crimes: Hidden graves of the Falstad forest. Heritage, Memory and Conflict, 3, 19–24. https://doi.org/doi: 10.3897/hmc.3.94923

Drath, J., Machalski, G., Holicki, M., Dowejko, J., Szargut, M., Spradley, M. K., … Ossowski, A. (2023). Skeletal evidence of the ethnic cleansing actions in the Free City of Danzig (1939-1942) based on the KL Stutthof victims analysis. Science and Justice, 313–326. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1355030623000187?via%3Dihub

Erhart, E., & Spradley, M. K. (2022). Evaluating graduate student diversity in forensic anthropology through academic enrollment. Forensic Anthropology. https://doi.org/https://doi-org.libproxy.txstate.edu/10.5744/fa.2020.0025

Kaplan, M., & Spradley, K. (2022). Lost in Plain Sight: How Current Burial Practices Impact Migrant Death Investigation in South Texas. Annals of Anthropological Practice, 46(2), 122–139. Retrieved from 601 University Drive

Corron, L., Broehl, K., Chu, E., Velmincq-Mendieta, T., Wolfe, C., Pilloud, M., … Stull, K. (2022). Agreement and error rates associated with standardized data collection protocols for skeletal and dental data on 3D virtual subadult crania. Forensic Science International. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2022.111272

Kaplan, Mo., Siegert, C. C., Moe, M. E., McDaneld, C. P., & Spradley, M. K. (2022). Forgotten Spaces: The Structural Disappearance of Migrants in South Texas. In The Marginalized in Death: A Forensic Anthropology of Intersectional Identity in the Modern Era. Rowman & Littlefield.

Pilloud, M. A., Broehl, K. A., Chu, E. Y.-N., Stull, K. E., Vlemincq-Mendieta, T., Wolfe, C. A., … Corron, L. K. (2022). Subadult Virtual Anthropology Database (SVAD) Data Collection Protocol: Odontometrics. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5768570

Scott, G. R., Vlemincq-Mendieta, T., Stull, K. E., Chu, E. Y.-N., Broehl, K. A., Wolfe, C. A., … Corron, L. K. (2022). Subadult Virtual Anthropology Database (SVAD) Data Collection Protocol: Dental Morphological Traits. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5768557

Stull, K. E., Chu, E. Y.-N., Wolfe, C. A., Broehl, K. A., Vlemincq-Mendieta, T., Pilloud, M. A., … Corron, L. K. (2022). Subadult Virtual Anthropology Database (SVAD) Data Collection Protocol: Cranial Macromorphoscopics. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6784514

Spradley, M. K., Wolfe, C. A., Stull, K. E., Chu, E. Y.-N., Broehl, K. A., Vlemincq-Mendieta, T., … Corron, L. K. (2022). Subadult Virtual Anthropology Database (SVAD) Data Collection Protocol: Cranial Landmarks and Craniometrics. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6625998

Corron, L. K., Broehl, K. A., Chu, E. Y.-N., Vlemincq-Mendieta, T., Wolfe, C. A., Pilloud, M. A., … Stull, K. E. (2022). Agreement and error rates associated with standardized data collection protocols for skeletal and dental data on 3D virtual subadult crania. Forensic Science International, 334. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2022.111272

Spradley, M. K., & Jantz, R. L. (2022). What Are We Really Estimating in Forensic Anthropological Practice, Population Affinity Or Ancestry. Forensic Anthropology.

Garza, S. L., kaplan, molly, Barron, J. A., Hamilton, M. D., & Spradley, M. K. (2021). Case No: OpID 0675. Analysis of unidentified human remains from Starr County, TX.

Garza, S. L., Molly Kaplan, Barron, J. A., Hamilton, M. D., & Spradley, M. K. (2021). Case No: OpID 0670. Analysis of unidentified human remains from Starr County, TX.

Kaplan, M., Garza, S. L., Barron, J. A., Hamilton, M. D., & Spradley, M. K. (2021). Case No: OpID 0666. Analysis of unidentified human remains from Starr County, TX.

Molly Kaplan, Garza, S. L., Barron, J. A., Hamilton, M. D., & Spradley, M. K. (2021). Case No: OpID 0663. Analysis of unidentified human remains from Starr County, TX.

Garza, S. L., Kaplan, M., Barron, J. A., Hamilton, M. D., & Spradley, M. K. (2021). Case No: OpID 0661. Analysis of unidentified human remains from Starr County, TX.

Garza, S. L., Kaplan, M., Barron, J. A., Hamilton, M. D., & Spradley, M. K. (2021). Case No: OpID 0660. Analysis of unidentified human remains from Starr County, TX.

Kaplan, M., Garza, S. L., Barron, J. A., Hamilton, M. D., & Spradley, M. K. (2021). Case No: OpID 0657. Analysis of unidentified human remains from Cameron County, TX.

Kaplan, M., Garza, S. L., Barron, J. A., Hamilton, M. D., & Spradley, M. K. (2021). Case No: OpID 0641. Analysis of unidentified human remains from Starr County, TX.

New, B. T., Algee-Hewitt, B. F., Spradley, M. K., Fehren-Schmitz, L., Hughes, C. C., Anderson, B., … Ossowski, A. (2021). Comparing Genetic Variation among Latin American Immigrants: Implications for Forensic Casework in the Arizona- and Texas-Mexico Borderlands. Human Biology, 93(1), 47–64.

Katsanas, S., Madden, D., Siegert, C. C., Canales, E., & Spradley, M. K. (2021). Tackling DNA data-sharing challenges. Forced Migration Review, (66), 61–63.

Spradley, M. K. (2021). Use of craniometric data in the facilitating migrant identifications at the United States/Mexico border. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 175(2).

Siegert, C. C., Mavroudas, S. R., Gleiber, D. S., Herrmann, N. P., & Spradley, M. K. (2020). The application of GIS to the migrant crisis in South Texas: modeling migration in Brooks County, Texas.

Katsanis, S., & Spradley, M. K. (2020). Preventing a Third Death: Identification of Missing Migrants at the US-Mexico Border. In Silent Witness: Applying Forensic DNA Evidence in Criminal Investigations and Humanitarian Disasters. Oxford University Press.

Spradley, M. K. (2020). Mexican, Guatemalan, and Migrant Craniometric Dataset. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4011199

Miranker, M., Giordano, A., & Spradley, M. K. (2020). Phase II spatial patterning of vulture scavenged human remains. Forensic Science International. https://doi.org/0.1016/j.forsciint.2020.110392

Kramer, R. T., Bartelink, E., Herrmann, N. P., Bataille, C. P., & Spradley, M. K. (2020). Application of Stable Isotopes and Geostatistics to Infer Region of Geographic Origin for Deceased Undocumented Latin American Migrants. In R. C. Parra, S. C. Zapico, & D. H. Ubelaker (Eds.), Humanitarian Forensic Science: Interacting with dead and the living (pp. 425–440). New York, NY, USA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Spradley, M. K., Veltri, M. F., Hamilton, M. D., & Fancher, J. P. (2020). Archeological Monitoring and Exhumations for the City of Austin’s Oakwood Cemetery Chapel Restoration Project, Travis County, Texas.  Volume II: Bioarcheology. Austin, Texas: City of Austin.

Spradley, M. K., Gocha, T. P., Parra, R. C., Zapico, S. C., & Ubelaker, D. H. (2020). Migrant deaths along the Texas/Mexico border: A collaborative approach to forensic identification of human remains. In Humanitarian Forensic Science: Interacting with dead and the living (pp. 535–548). New York New York, USA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Jasinski, M. E., Ossowski, A., & Spradley, M. K. (2019). Dead Bodies of the Enemy: Hidden Graves in the Falstad Forest. Accessing Campscapes: Inclusive Stratigies for Using European Conflicted Heritage, 3(Autumn 2018).

Gocha, T. P., Spradley, M. K., & Strand, R. (2018). Bodies in Limbo: Issues in Identification and Repatriation of Migrant Remains in South Texas. In Sociopolitics of Migrant Death and Repatriation (pp. 143–156). Springer.

Spradley, M. K., Herrmann, N. P., Siegert, C. C., & McDaneld, C. P. (2018). Identifying Migrant Remains in South Texas: Policy and Practice. Forensic Sciences Research.

Hefner, J., & Spradley, M. K. (2018, October). Ancestry/Forensic Applications. In The International Enyclopedia of Biological Anthropology. Wiley.

Spradley, M. K., & Stull, K. E. (2018, October). The International Encyclopedia of Biological Anthropology. Wiley.

Weisensee, K. E., & Spradley, M. K. (2018). Craniofacial asymmetry as a marker of socioeconomic status among undocumented Mexican immigrants in the United States. Economics and Human Biology, 122–127. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2018.02.007

Capella, A., Mazzarelli, D., Olivieri, L., Gocha, T. P., Spradley, M. K., & Cristina, C. (2017). The relevant role of university in the identification of dead migrants: A comparative study on the experience of University of Milan and Texas State University. La Revue de Médecine Légale, 8(4).

Giordano, A., & Spradley, M. K. (2017). Migrant deaths at the Arizona-Mexico border: Spatial trends of a mass disaster, 13–21.

Spradley, M. K., & Stull, K. E. (2017). Advances in Morphometrics for Sex and Ancestry. In New Perspective in Forensic Human Skeletal Identification. Wiley.

Herrera, B., Peart, D., Hernandez, N., Spradley, M. K., & Hubbe, M. (2017). Morphological variation among Late Holocene Mexicans: Implications for the discussion about the human occupation of the Americas. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23186

Spradley, M. K., Doretti, M. C., Kovic, C., Canales, E., Miranker, M., Daniell, R. J., … Giordano, A. (2017). Searching for the Unidentified in South Texas: The Forensic Border Coalition (FBC) Cemetery Survey Project (pp. 268–269). Retrieved from https://www.aafs.org/sites/default/files/media/documents/2017_Proceedings.pdf

Spradley, M. K., & Jantz, R. L. (2016). Ancestry Estimation in Forensic Anthropology: Geometric morphometric vs traditional and non-traditional inter-landmark distances. Journal of Forensic Sciences.

Spradley, M. K., Stull, K. E., & Hefner, J. T. (2016). Craniofacial Secular Change in Recent Mexican Migrants. Human Biology.

Spradley, M. (2016). Ancestry Estimation: The importance, the history, and the practice. In M. T. Tersigni-Tarrant & N. Shirley (Eds.), Forensic Anthropology: An Introduction, 2nd Edition. CRC Press.

Spradley, M. K. (2016). Metric Methods for the Biological Profile in Forensic Anthropology: Sex, Ancestry, and Stature. Academic Forensic Pathology, 6(3), 391–399.

Spradley, M. k, & Anderson, B. E. (2016). The Role of the Anthropologist in the Identification of Migrant Remains in the American Southwest. American Forensic Pathology, 6(3), 432–438.

Wescott, D. J., Herrmann, N. P., Spradley, M. K., & Mavroudas, S. R. (2016). Anthropological Analysis of partial skeleton found in Guadalupe County.

Spradley, M. K., & Hamilton, M. D. (2016). Case No: 2016-00046. Analysis of unidentified human skeletal remains from Kenedy County, TX.

Hamilton, M. D., & Spradley, M. K. (2016). Case No: 2016-00040. Analysis of unidentified human skeletal remains from Kenedy County, TX.

Weisensee, K. E., & Spradley, M. K. (2016). A Comparison of Fluctuating Asymmetery in the Craniofacial Skeleton of Reidents of Mexico and Immigrants from Mexico to the United States. Forensic Science International.

Spradley, M. K., Suckling, J. K., & Godde, K. (2015). A Longitudinal Study on Human Outdoor Decomposition in Central Texas. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 61(1), 19–25. Retrieved from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1556-4029.12892/full

Spradley, M. K. (2015). Clyde Collins Snow (1928-2014). American Anthropologist, 117(1), 221–223.

Black, S. L., Spradley, M. K., & Hamilton, M. D. (2015). Crevice Interments Deconstructed. Journal of Texas Archaeology and History, 2, 16-Jan.

Spradley, M. K., Anderson, B. E., & Tise, M. L. (2015). Postcranial Sex Estimation for Mexican Hispanics. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 60(s1), s27–s31. https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.12624

Black, S., Spradley, M. K., & Hamilton, M. D. (2015). Crevice interments deconstructed. Journal of Texas Archeology and History, 2, 1–17.

Spradley, M. K. (2015). Biological Distance, Migrants, and Reference Group Selection in Forensic Anthropology. In M. Pilloud & J. T. Hefner (Eds.), Forensic and Bioarchaeolgical Perspectives on Biological Distance. Elsevier.

Tise, M. L., Kimmerle, E. H., & Spradley, M. (2014). Craniometric Variation of Diverse Populations in Florida: Identification Challenges within a Border State. Annals of Anthropological Practice, 38(1), 111–123.

Spradley, M. K. (2014). Towards Estimating Geographic Origin of Migrant Remains along the United State Mexico Border. Annals of Anthropological Practice, 38(1), 101–110.

Jantz, R. L., & Spradley, M. K. (2014). Cranial Morphometric Evidence for Early American Relationships and Population Structure. In D. W. Owsley & R. L. Jantz (Eds.), Kennewick Man: The Scientific Investigation of an Ancient American Skeleton. Texas A&M University Press.

Boyd, D. K., Dase, A. E., Ringstaff, C. W., Spradley, M. K., & Whitley, C. B. (2014). Relocation of the Salvador Camarena Burial: Historical and Bioarchaeologial Investigations of a Mexican Migrant Worker Grave (41MV372) Technical Reports No. 98, Texas Department of Transportation and Report No. 162, Prewitt and Associates.

Spradley, M. K. (2014). Craniometric Variation of the Xoclán Skeletal Collection.

Spradley, M., Weisensee, K. E., & Jantz, R. L. (2014). Two-Dimensional Geometric Morphometrics. In D. O. Owsley & R. L. Jantz (Eds.), Kennewick Man: The Scientific Investigation of an Ancient American Skeleton. Texas A&M University Press.

Boyd, D. K., Dase, A. E., Ringstaff, C. W., Spradley, M. K., & Whitley, C. B. (2014). Relocation of the Salvador Camarena Burial: Historical and Bioarchaeologial Investigations of a Mexican Migrant Worker Grave (41MV372) in Maverick County, Texas. Texas Department of Transportation and Report . 162.

Spradley, M. K. (2014). Ancestry Estimation from the Postcranial Skeleton. In G. Berg & S. Ta’ala (Eds.), Biological Affinity in Forensic Identification of Human Skeletal Remains: Beyond Black and White. CRC Press.

Bƒáez-Molgado, S., Meza Peƒñaloza, A., Spradley, M. K., & Bartelink, E. J. (2013). Analysis of Bone Healing in a Post-Operative Patient: Skeletal Evidence of Medical Neglect and Human Rights Violations. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 58(4), 1050–1054.

Spradley, M. K., & Weisensee, K. E. (2013). Why do forensic anthropologists estimate ancestry and why is it so controversial? In M. A. Tersigni-Tarrant & N. R. Shirley (Eds.), Forensic Anthropology: An Introduction. CRC Press.

Spradley, M. K. (2013). Project Identification: Developing Accurate Identification Criteria for Hispanics.

Spradley, M. K. (2013). Project Identification: Developing Accurate Identification Criteria for Hispanics. US Department of Justice Report . 244194.

Spradley, M., & Bongiovanni, R. (2012). Estimating sex of the human sternum based on metrics of the sternum. Forensic Science International, 219(290), e1–e7.

Owsley, D. W., Bruwelheide, K. S., Cashion Lugo, M., Spradley, M., & Romero Palanco, J. L. (2012). Identification of Ramon Power y Giralt: Puerto Rico€™s Diplomat to the 1812 Spanish Constitutional Court. CENTRO â€" Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, XXVII, 178–207.

Haden-Pinneri, K., Love, J., & Spradley, M. K. (2012). Is Race Determination in the Medicolegal Setting Important? Academic Forensic Pathology, 56(2), 142–149.

Tise, M. L., Spradley, M. K., & Anderson, B. E. (2012). Postcranial Sex Estimation of Individuals Considered Hispanic. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 58(1), s9–s14.

DiMichele, D. L., & Spradley, M. K. (2012). Sex estimation in a modern American osteological sample using a discriminant function analysis from the calcaneus. Forensic Science International, 221(152), e1–e5.

Spradley, M. K., Hamilton, M. D., & Giordano, A. (2012). Spatial patterning of vulture scavenged remains. Forensic Science International, 219, 57–63.

Spradley, M. K., Hamilton, M. D., & Giordano, A. (2012). Spatial patterning of vulture scavenged human remains. Forensic Science International, 219, 57–63.

Hamilton, M. D., & Spradley, M. K. (2012). Center for Archaeological Studies, NAGPRA Bioarchaeological Report on human skeletal remains from the bus loop/ticket booth construction.

Hefner, J. T., Spradley, M. K., & Anderson, B. E. (2011). Ancestry Assessment using Random Forest Modeling. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 59(3), 583–589.

Hamilton, M. D., & Spradley, M. K. (2011). Purported drug cartel use of vultures as a method for body disposal. Journal of Forensic Identification, 61(5), 425–429.

Spradley, M. K., & Jantz, R. L. (2011). Sex estimation in forensic anthropology: Skull vs. postcranial elements. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 56(2), 289–296.

Hamilton, M. D., & Spradley, M. K. (2011). Purported drug cartel use of vultures as a method for body disposal. Journal of Forensic Identification, 6, 425–429.

Hamilton, M. D., & Spradley, M. K. (2009). Texas Department of Transportation, NAGPRA Bioarchaeological Report on human skeletal remains on multiple human skeletal remains from the Texas panhandle.

Spradley, M. K., & Hamilton, M. D. (2009). Bioarchaeological analyses of human remains from 41RB112.

Spradley, M. K., Jantz, R. L., Robinson, A., & Peccerelli, F. (2008). Demographic change and forensic identification: Problems in metric identification of Hispanic skeletons. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 53(1), 21–28.

Herrmann, N. P., Spradley, M., & Wilson, R. J. (2008). Phase III Archaeology at Plash Island, Archaeological Site 1BA134, in Baldwin County, Alabama. (S. E. Price, Ed.). University of South Alabama: Center for Archaeological Studies.

Herrmann, N. P., Spradley, M. K., & Wilson, R. J. (2007). Bioarchaeological excavation and analysis of human burials from the Plash Island site (1Ba134).

Spradley, M. K. (2000). Bioarchaeological analysis of Quapaw human remains recovered from  Lake Dumond (3Ar110).