Forensic Anthropology Vol. 9, No. 2: 49

DOI: 10.5744/fa.2026.a25

2025 FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY AWARDS

2025 Forensic Anthropology Award Winners

ABSTRACT: The Forensic Anthropology editors and the University of Florida Press are proud to announce the winners of the 2025 Forensic Anthropology Awards. Winners in each category receive a complimentary one-year subscription to Forensic Anthropology.

Favorite Paper

“Informative Priors Produce Precision–Accuracy Trade-off in Dental Developmental Age Estimation”

https://doi.org/10.5744/fa.2024.0005

Valerie Sgheiza, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA

Most Viewed Paper

“Infracranial Epigenetic Variation and the Identification of Unknown Human Skeletal Remains”

https://doi.org/10.5744/fa.2024.0030

Shelby Scott, Department of Anthropology, Forensic Science Program, University of Toronto, Canada

Tracy L. Rogers, Department of Anthropology, Forensic Science Program, University of Toronto, Canada

Outstanding Research Article

“Development and Validation of a Subadult Sex Estimation Method Using Pelvic Metrics”

https://doi.org/10.5744/fa.2023.0041

Leah E. Auchter, Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada Reno, USA

Kyra Stull, Department of Anatomy, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Best Case Report

“The Wounds Time Does Not Heal: A Case of Historical Pitfalls and the Present-Day Identification of a U.S. Marine from World War II”

https://doi.org/10.5744/fa.2024.0011

Ryan Tegtmeyer Hawke, SNA International, Supporting the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Offutt AFB, NE, USA

Cullen J. Black, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, HI, USA

Best Paper with a Current or Recent Student as First Author

“Comparison of Visual and Statistical Pair Matching of the Humerus in a Large Assemblage”

https://doi.org/10.5744/fa.2024.0027

Carrie B. LeGarde, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Offutt, AFB, NE, USA; University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA

Outstanding Editorial Board Member

James Pokines, Forensic Anthropology Program, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA; Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Boston, MA, USA

Special Recognition

Angi Christensen, Retired, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Laboratory Division, Quantico, VA, USA