Faculty Profile for Dr. Kate Spradley

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Dr. Kate Spradley
Professor — Anthropology
ELA 234
phone: (512) 245-6539
Scholarly/Creative Work
Awards
Grants
Service

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Spradley, M. K. (2023). Alternative workflows for identifying transnational missing persons. Forensic Science International Synergy, 7.
  • Drath, J., Jarzęcka-Stąporek, J., Lisman, D., Szargut, M., Jasinski, M. E., Spradley, K. K., … Ossowski, A. (2023). Slaughtered like animals. Revealing the atrocities committed by the Nazis on captives at Treblinka I by skeletal trauma analysis. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 10(1), 1–13. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-02002-4
  • Spradley, M. K., Jasinski, M. E., & Ossowski, A. (2023). Uncovering war crimes: Hidden graves of the Falstad forest. Heritage, Memory and Conflict, 3, 19–24. https://doi.org/doi: 10.3897/hmc.3.94923
  • Drath, J., Machalski, G., Holicki, M., Dowejko, J., Szargut, M., Spradley, M. K., … Ossowski, A. (2023). Skeletal evidence of the ethnic cleansing actions in the Free City of Danzig (1939-1942) based on the KL Stutthof victims analysis. Science and Justice, 313–326. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1355030623000187?via%3Dihub
  • Erhart, E., & Spradley, M. K. (2022). Evaluating graduate student diversity in forensic anthropology through academic enrollment. Forensic Anthropology. https://doi.org/https://doi-org.libproxy.txstate.edu/10.5744/fa.2020.0025

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Service Award - Anthropology Section, American Academy of Forensic Sciences. February 2019
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Samuel Lawrence Foundation Award for Righteousness, Samuel Lawrence Foundation. January 2019
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Commander's Community Award, United States Customs and Border Patrol. April 2018
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Diversity Award. 2015
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Foundations of Excellence Award 2015. 2015

Selected Grants

  • Giordano, Alberto (Principal), Herrmann, Nicholas Paul (Co-Principal), Spradley, Martha K (Supporting). HNDS-I: Migrant Mortality Mapping Portal Project (M3P2), National Science Foundation, Federal, $1001109. (Funded: September 1, 2022 - August 31, 2025). Grant.
  • Spradley, Martha K (Principal), Taylor, Nicole (Co-Principal). Migrant Death Practices: Understanding Institutional Decision-making in the Treatment of Unidentified Human Remains, Texas State University, Texas State University, $16000. (Funded: 2020 - Present). Grant.
  • Spradley, Martha K (Principal). Mapping Migrant Burials in South Texas, REP grant, $8000. (Funded: 2014). Grant.
  • Wescott, D J (Principal), Spradley, Martha K (Co-Principal), Upchurch, G (Co-Principal). Acquisition of a High-Resolution X-Ray Computed Tomography (CT) Scanner for Non-Destructive Imaging of Anthropological and Paleontological Specimens for Research, Education, and Preservation Purposes, National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation Program 2012, $705383. (Funded: 2012). Grant.
  • Spradley, Martha K (Principal), Hamilton, M D (Co-Principal). Isotopic and Elemental Analysis of the William Bass Donated Skeletal Collection and Other Modern Donated Collections, Mississippi State University, $19312.48. (Funded: 2008). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Member
NIST Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science - Forensic Anthropology Committee
January 2021-Present
Officer
American Association of Forensic Sciences Diversity Outreach Committee (officer)
October 2020-Present
Editorial Review Board Member
Estudio de Antropologia Biologica
2017-Present
Editorial Review Board Member
Forensic Anthropology
January 2017-Present
Principle Investigator
Operation Identification
2013-Present