Major: Anthropology (Physical)
Current Job Title: Deputy Coroner
Brief description of your job:
Conduct
homicide, suicide, accidental and other unnatural death investigations.
Duties include assisting in autopsies, conducting scene investigations,
taking fluid, toxicology, and tissue samples, testifying as and expert
witness at inquiry and trial hearings, fingerprinting bodies, making
death notifications, collecting and securing evidence, participating as
a member of the violent crime task force.
Other job titles you have held:
Special Agent for the Department of Defense, Forensic Investigator
What advice do you have for current students?
Go
the extra mile while obtaining your degree. If you know what you want
to do with your education, fashion your major and any extra
undergraduate research or honors courses so that you obtain as much
experience and knowledge as possible.
Mentor yourself to one
of the many excellent professors that are experts in your field. They
can offer you advice and opportunity that you might not otherwise have
knowledge of. I would not be where I am today if it weren't for the
guidance and friendship of my professors in the Department of
Anthropology.
You spend most of your waking hours in your chosen
profession...make sure it's something you will enjoy that will keep you
challenged.
