Madeline Atwell

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice at Clemson University with expertise in biological anthropology, forensic anthropology, and women’s and gender studies. My current collaboration involves a National Institute of Justice-funded project concerned with refining methods for postmortem interval (PMI) estimation, or assessing time since death in medicolegal death investigations. My primary research agenda is focused on women's health in 19th and 20th-century America through the examination of skeletal remains and historical documents, with a particular focus on those who lived and died within state-supported institutional settings.