Ashley E Kendell
Title
Faculty
Department
Office
BSS 346B
Campus Zip
0400
Phone
Email
Education
Ph.D. Michigan State University 2016
M.A. Michigan State University 2012
M.A. California State University, Chico 2010
B.S. The University of Michigan 2006
Certifications
Diplomate. American Board of Forensic Anthropology
POST Instructor. Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training.
I am a Board-Certified Forensic Anthropologist and the current Director of Chico State’s Human Identification Lab. I am also a POST-certified instructor who teaches forensic anthropology and archaeology through the Institute of Criminal Investigation. My current research focuses on developing standards for sample collection to be used for identification of wildfire victims using Rapid DNA technology.
Finally, as a forensic anthropologist, I am deeply embedded in the medico-legal system and have taken strides to increase my understanding and perspective of medico-legal death investigation. Working as a medico-legal death investigator for five years in Lansing, Michigan, I had the opportunity to investigate over 200 unexpected deaths throughout Ingham County. In 2014, I sat for my registry certification and became a Registry Diplomate of the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators.