Email: dcongram@sfu.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Mark Skinner
B.A. Honours (Criminology) University of Windsor
M.Sc.(Forensic Archaeology) Bournemouth University, UK
M.A. (International Politics) Université Libre de Bruxelles
I have worked as a field archaeologist for the Cambridge University Archaeological Unit in the United Kingdom and as a forensic archaeologist for the United Nations in the former Yugoslavia, for the Regime Crimes Liaison Office in Iraq, for the Public Prosecutor in Costa Rica, and as a lecturer in the MSc Forensic Archaeology program at Bournemouth University in the UK.
Research Interests: Forensic archaeology and anthropology, grave prospection, the application of archaeology to forensic and mass disaster/fatality scenes, ethics in forensics, Human Rights, excavation of mass graves including 'robbed' graves, and Spanish civil war era graves, predictive modelling.
M.Sc. Thesis: Ethics in Forensic Archaeology
Publications:
in press (Congram, D. and J. Sterenberg) Iraq. Chapter 24.3 in: Handbook of Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology, S. Blau and D. Ubelaker eds. Walnut Creek, CA. Left Coast Press.
in press (Congram, D. and D.W. Steadman) Distinguished guests or agents of ingérence; foreign participation in Spanish Civil War grave excavations. Complutum, 19(2).
2008 (Congram, D.) A clandestine burial in Costa Rica: Prospection and excavation. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 53(4):793:796
2007 (Congram, D. and D. Bruno). [Don't] smile for the camera: Addressing perception gaps in forensic archaeology. Archaeological Review from Cambridge, 22(2):37-52.
2006 (Congram, D. and A. Fernández-Muñoz). Introducción a la Antropología y Arqueología Forense [Introduction to Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology]. Cuadernos del Laboratorio de Etnología [Journal of the Laboratory of Ethnology] No.16:47-57, University of Costa Rica.