Faculty Profile for Dr. Nicholas Paul Herrmann

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Dr. Nicholas Paul Herrmann
Professor — Anthropology
ELA 266
phone: (512) 245-8272
Scholarly/Creative Work
Awards
Grants
Service

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Vitale, S., Hale, C. M., Van de Moortel, A., & Herrmann, N. P. (n.d.). It’s Absolutely Relative. The Late Helladic I Stratigraphic and Ceramic Sequences from Mitrou and their 14C Anchor Points. AEGIS, 26(1), 292–314.
  • Wolfe, C., & Herrmann, N. P. (2022). Interpreting error in the estimation of skeletal growth profiles from past populations: An example demonstrating skeletal growth in historic African American communities. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 177(1), 83–99. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24415
  • Herrmann, N. P., Cruz, K. A., Wolfe, C. A., Pilides, D., & Violaris, Y. (2021). Bioarchaeological Investigations of three Hellenistic to Early Christian tombs from the Ayioi Omoloyites neighborhood in Lefkosia. In M. Gamble (Ed.), Overcoming Past Preservation Issues: Current Research in Cyprus Bioarchaeology (pp. 39–52). Wien, Austria: Verlag Holzhausen.
  • Siegert, C. C., Mavroudas, S. R., Gleiber, D. S., Herrmann, N. P., & Spradley, M. K. (2020). The application of GIS to the migrant crisis in South Texas: modeling migration in Brooks County, Texas.
  • Burke, B., Burns, B., Charami, A., Herrmann, N. P., Lis, B., & Van Damme, T. (2020). Fieldwork at Ancient Eleon in Boeotia, 2011-2018. American Journal of Archaeology, 124(3), 441–476. https://doi.org/10.3764/aja.124.3.0441

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: 2023 Outstanding Mentor Award, American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Anthropology Section. February 15, 2023 - Present
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Honorary Professor of International Studies, Center for International Studies. January 20, 2023 - Present
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Honorary Professor Award, Center for International Studies. March 2023 - December 2023
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Supplemental Awards Associated with Faculty Development Leave, Texas State University. August 2022 - May 2023
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Excellence in Funded Research, College of Liberal Arts, Texas State University. August 20, 2019

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.
  • Roundtree, Aimee Kendall (Principal), Goldstone, Dwonna Naomi (Supporting), Herrmann, Nicholas Paul (Supporting), Eger, Elizabeth Kamman (Supporting), Blue, Sarah A (Supporting), Devine, Jennifer Ann (Supporting), Ashford-Hanserd, Shetay Nicole (Supporting), Martinez, Gloria P (Supporting), Mckiernan, John Raymond (Supporting). Engaged Humanities Research Accelerator, ACLS, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $157000. (Funded: June 2022 - June 2023). Grant.
  • Mavroudas, Sophia (Principal), Herrmann, Nicholas Paul (Co-Principal), Hamilton, Michelle D (Co-Principal), Wescott, Daniel J (Co-Principal), Falleur, David M (Co-Principal), Jacobson, Jodi Arlene (Co-Principal). Acquiring a Microscopy Suite for Forensic Anthropology, Archaeology, and Biology, NSF, Federal, $255000. (Funded: September 1, 2019 - September 2021). Grant.
  • Herrmann, Nicholas Paul (Principal). Confronting challenges of commingled human remains from Hellenistic to Roman period tombs from Nicosia, Cyprus, Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program 2014-2015 Research Abroad Core Award entitled The Ayioi Omoloyites Bioarchaeological Project, Federal, $33310. (Funded: March 2014). Grant.
  • Warner, M (Co-Principal), Plemons, A, Herrmann, Nicholas Paul (Co-Principal). Refining Hydrogen and Oxygen Isoscapes and Trace Elements for the Identification of Human Remains in Mississippi, Forensic Science Foundation, Inc. of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, $3000. (Funded: 2013). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Member
Classroom Renovation Committee
January 2019-Present
Member
Promotion Committee
January 2016-Present
Member
Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State Committee
January 2016-Present
Reviewer / Referee
American Journal of Physical Anthropology
2013-Present
Reviewer / Referee
Judge, J. Lawrence Angel Student Award, American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Physical Anthropology Section
February 2011-Present