Anthropology Expert Witnesses

This expert is a Professor of Anthropology at a major university, specializing in The Afghan Studies. He is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies and is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. He has multiple publications in anthropology focusing on his research in Afghan culture and has multiple book chapters.

This educator is a scholar of human social interaction and American history. At Harvard, he wrote his PhD dissertation on the sexual revolution of the 1960's; he later adapted this scholarly work into a popular book. He has been featured as an expert on a CNN series, a the History Channel program , and a VH1 documentary.

This expert has 26 years of experience with the Oregon State Police and ample experience in teaching, human resources investigation, and public safety training. He received a BS in the administration of justice from Portland State University and a master's in education focusing on adult education from Oregon State University. This expert formerly served as a sergeant first class in the Oregon Army National Guard and as a captain in the United States Army Reserves. Following those roles, he spent 26 years with the Oregon State Police, serving as a trooper, a senior trooper, and then a patrol sergeant. He then took on a communications supervision role at the Portland Regional Dispatch Center and a part-time training position for the Salem Department of Public Safety Standards and Training. Outside of these jobs, he worked as a human resources investigator for the Local Government Personnel Institute and as an adjunct professor at Concordia University and Pacific University. He has extensive experience teaching about multiculturalism and cultural diversity and even designed the first cultural diversity courses and curricula for multiple academic programs. This expert is currently an adjunct professor in fire service administration at a university and in criminal justice at a community college, as well as the owner of a training and human resources consulting firm, all in Oregon.

This highly-qualified archival studies expert has over 10 years of experience in professional historical research and writing. He specializes in American industrial, economic, and popular culture history, as well as the digitization of paper ephemera such as newspapers, periodicals, and books. He earned his BA from the University of Mary Washington and MA from Virginia Commonwealth University. He was formerly an archivist at the Virginia War Memorial, a records management assistant at Old Dominion Electric Cooperative, and an archival digitalization specialist at Ancestry.com. Currently, this expert is a historical consultant at a civil war center in Virginia and an editorial board member for a non-profit digital archive project.