Christiane Baigent, PhD is the Director of the Forensic Investigation Research Station and an Assistant Professor of Anthropology .Her academic background is in Biological Anthropology with an emphasis in Forensic Anthropology. Her research focus is human decomposition and skeletal taphonomy in the high-altitude Rocky Mountain region and high-elevation desert regions of Colorado. Her research and teaching interests extend more broadly into skeletal trauma and pathology, patterns of secular change in the skeleton, and cultural constructions of “race” and sex/gender in anthropological perspective.
In addition to research and teaching, she has served as a medicolegal death investigator and is certified by the Colorado Coroner’s Association. She is a fellow of the Anthropology Section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, a member of the Society of Forensic Anthropologists (SOFA) and provides forensic anthropology consult services to Colorado coroners and local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies.
