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Dr. Nicholas Paul Herrmann

  • Professor - Anthropology
  • 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, 2026). Grant.
  • Mavroudas, Sophia (Principal), Percent Contribution: %50, Herrmann, Nicholas Paul (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %20, Hamilton, Michelle D (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %10, Wescott, Daniel J (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %10, Falleur, David M (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %5, Jacobson, Jodi Arlene (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %5. Acquiring a Microscopy Suite for Forensic Anthropology, Archaeology, and Biology, NSF, Federal, $255000. (Submitted: 2019, Funded: September 1, 2019 - September 2021). Grant.
  • Ahlman, Todd Michael, Percent Contribution: %34, McKeown, Ashley Hyatt, Percent Contribution: %33, Herrmann, Nicholas Paul, Percent Contribution: %33. REU Site: Exploring globalization through archaeology, National Science Foundation, Federal, $408620. (Submitted: August 2017, Funded: April 15, 2018 - April 14, 2022). Grant.
  • Herrmann, Nicholas Paul (Principal). Confronting challenges of commingled human remains from Hellenistic to Roman period tombs from Nicosia, Cyprus, Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program 2014-2015 Research Abroad Core Award entitled The Ayioi Omoloyites Bioarchaeological Project, Federal, $33310. (Funded: March 2014). Grant.
  • Warner, M (Co-Principal), Plemons, A, Herrmann, Nicholas Paul (Co-Principal). Refining Hydrogen and Oxygen Isoscapes and Trace Elements for the Identification of Human Remains in Mississippi, Forensic Science Foundation, Inc. of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, $3000. (Funded: 2013). Grant.
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  • Lis, B., Batziou, A., Zeman, P., Agnousiotis, D., Kofel-Lubczyńska, D., Tzevelekidi, V., … Warecka, K. (2025). Mycenaean Pefkakia Excavation Project: report on archaeological research conducted in 2024. Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 34(1), 9–34. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.37343/uw.2083-537X. pam34.1.34
  • Ahlman, T. M., McKeown, A. H., & Herrmann, N. P. (2025). Search and Recovery Report CS25-0241, an Aircraft Crash Site (FR-10029) Associated with MACR 3984, Clayes, Ille-et-Villaine Department, Brittany, France, Excavated from 17 May through 14 June 2025, during 25-5FR-B RT-P. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
  • 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
  • Vitale, S., Hale, C. M., Van de Moortel, A., & Herrmann, N. P. (2024). It’s Absolutely Relative. The Late Helladic I Stratigraphic and Ceramic Sequences from Mitrou and their 14C Anchor Points. AEGIS, 26(1), 292–314.
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  • Award / Honor Recipient: Fulbright Specialist, Fulbright Specialist Program. September 2, 2024 - September 2, 2027
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Honorary Professor Award, Center for International Studies. March 1, 2025 - September 30, 2025
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Honorary Professor Award, Center for International Studies. March 1, 2024 - September 30, 2024
  • Award / Honor Recipient: 2023 Outstanding Mentor Award, American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Anthropology Section. February 15, 2023 - February 2024
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Honorary Professor Award, Center for International Studies. March 2023 - December 2023
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  1. Member

    Doctoral Equipment Procurment

  2. Member

    Classroom Renovation Committee

  3. Member

    Promotion Committee

  4. Member

    Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State Committee

  5. Reviewer / Referee

    American Journal of Physical Anthropology

  6. Member

    Research Enhancement Program

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