Brief Description of Education & Experience
In 2008 Ashley begain her current, and most rewarding, career path, enrolling at the University of Memphis. She graduated cum laude in 2010 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology with a minor in English (Literature), and moved to Boston, MA. In 2012, Ashley earned my Master of Science degree in Forensic Anthropology from the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at the School of Medicine at Boston University. Her master's thesis was on The Effects of Sharp-Force Penetrative Thoracic Trauma on the Rate and Pattern of Decomposition in New England, and was subsequently published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences in 2014. In 2014, Ashley also began her doctoral program at The University of Toronto in Anthropology with a specialization in Evolutionary Anthropology (Forensics) under the supervision of Tracy Rogers, Ph.D. Ashley earned her doctorate in 2025 with a dissertation on the Examination of Histotaphonomic and Histochemical Methods in Establishing the Early Postmortem Interval.
Ashley has published on a wide variety of topics related to the field, from taphonomy to osteometrics, gender to activism, and is now engaged in developing an ethical paradigm related to the use of data with artifical intelligence.
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