Rate My Professor Heather Walsh-Haney

Heather Walsh-Haney, Ph.D., serves as Associate Professor and Department Chair of Justice Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at Florida Gulf Coast University, where she has been a faculty member since 2005. She earned her Ph.D. in Physical Anthropology and Forensic Anthropology from the University of Florida in 2007, with a dissertation on skeletal evidence of physical activity in hunter-gatherers, agriculturalists, and industrialists. Prior to this, she received an M.A. in Physical Anthropology and Anatomy from the same institution in 1999, focusing her thesis on skeletal evidence of health, disease, and subsistence in Florida Archaic sites Windover and Bay West, and a B.A. in Anthropology with a minor in Zoology in 1996, graduating summa cum laude. Her career includes roles as Program Leader for Forensic Studies B.S. and M.S. programs since 2013, Teaching Associate at the National Forensic Academy since 2013, and Assistant Professor at Florida Gulf Coast University from 2007 to 2012. Walsh-Haney has provided extensive consulting services as a forensic anthropologist to multiple Florida District Medical Examiners' offices since 2005, the Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research since 2012, and international cases including Guatemalan feminicide investigations from 2009 to 2018. She has also contributed to disaster response efforts, such as with the U.S. Public Health Service in New Orleans in 2005 and the Department of Homeland Security in 2001.