Karen R. Burns, Ph.D.
Kar Raney Burns was a forensic anthropologist presently living in Colombia where she works with a organization dedicated to helping families of persons disappeared due to the internal conflict. Kar usually taught at the University of Georgia, but was also a Fulbright Scholar at the University of the Andes in Bogota. She taught human osteology as well as recovery and identification of human remains in criminal and human rights investigations. She authored the Forensic Anthropology Training Manual (1999, 2007), and she cp-authored Amelia Earhart’s Shoes, Is the Mystery Solved? (2001). In the Niku project, Kar’s main interest was in the scientific aspects of human decomposition and recovery in the Pacific atoll environment.
Dr. Burns died on 7 January 2012.
- Member of several expeditions: