Professor Megan Moore's research in human skeletal biology ranges from forensic anthropology and biomedical anthropology of modern Americans to bioarchaeology of ancient populations in France and Turkey. She has led EMU students at bioarchaeological field schools in Northern France to analyze skeletons from an early medieval cemetery and in southern Turkey to analyze human cremains from a late Roman/early Byzantine site. Her recent research explores sexual polymorphism and conditions of intersex, which was inspired by her analysis of the remains of the Revolutionary War general, Casimir Pulaski. She contributed ground-breaking work in body mass estimation and the effects of obesity on the skeleton. She has taught several forensic anthropology short courses in Bogota, Colombia working for the International Criminal Investigative Training and Assistance Program (ICITAP) to train Colombian forensic professionals. She previously served as the coordinator of a medical imaging project, which conducted computed tomographic (CT) scans of over 600 modern donated skeletons from Tennessee and New Mexico. Before that, she worked with the Physicians for Human Rights in Cyprus as a forensic anthropologist to identify and repatriate remains from the 1974 war in Cyprus. Additionally, she has worked on archaeological teams in Cyprus, Arizona, and conducted CRM work in Ohio and Tennessee. She currently serves as the Forensic Anthropology Consultant for the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office in Detroit and for Washtenaw and Monroe counties in southeast Michigan. She has just been hired as Associate Professor of Biology at Middle Tennessee State University. 

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Kim, JJ, Winburn, AP, & Moore, MK (2024) Structural vulnerability approaches to forensic anthropology: Beyond evolutionary theory. Forensic Science International. Synergy, 9.

Kim, JJ, Winburn, AP, & Moore, MK and Scott, H (2023) “Adapting forensic case reporting to account for marginalization and vulnerability,” Forensic Science International: Synergy, Special Issue on VSI: Structural Vulnerability Framework 6, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsisyn.2023.100436

Friedlander, H., Moore, M.K. & Mayne Correia, P. (2023) “Techniques for the differentiation of blunt force, sharp force, and gunshot traumas from heat fractures in burnt remains,” In: Burnt Human Remains: Recovery, Analysis, and Interpretation, S. Ellingham, S. Casadao-Zapico, J. Adserias Garriga and D. Ubelaker, Eds., Wiley, Chichester, UK.

Moore, M.K. & Kim, J. (2022) “Marginalization, Death, and Decline: The role of Forensic Anthropology to document the osteology of poverty in Detroit, Michigan in the 21st Century, edited volume tentatively titled: The Marginalized in Death: A Forensic Anthropology of Intersectional Identity in the Modern Era., J. Byrnes and I. Sandoval-Cervantes, Eds., Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, pp. 203-230.

Kim, JJ, and Moore, M (2022) “Recommendations for large-scale exhumations of Potter's Fields: Cases in the US”, Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, Volume 91, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2022.102399.

Adams, DM, Goldstein, JZ, Isa, M, Kim, JJ, Moore, MK, Pilloud, MA, Tallman, SD, and Winburn, AP (2022). “A conversation on redefining ethical considerations in forensic anthropology.” American Anthropologist. 1-16.  https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13753

Moore, M. E DiGangi, F Niño, O Hidalgo, & C Sanabria Medina (2016) “Metric Sex Estimation from the Postcranial Skeleton for the Colombian Population,” Forensic Science International Volume 262, May 2016, Pages 286.e1–286.e8.

DiGangi, EA & MK Moore, Editors (2013), Research Methods in Human Skeletal Biology, Academic Press, San Diego.

Moore, M & E Schaefer (2011) “A comprehensive regression tree to estimate body weight from the skeleton,” Journal of Forensic Sciences 56(5): 1115-1122.

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