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Dr. Nicholas Herrmann

  • Professor - Anthropology

Education

Doctorate Degree

PhD in Anthropology

University of Tennessee Knoxville, 2002

Master's Degree

AM in Anthropology

Washington Univ in St. Louis, 1990

Bachelor's Degree

AB in Anthropology

Washington Univ in St. Louis, 1988

  • 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.
  • 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/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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