Michael Finnegan, Ph.D, D-ABFA
Waters Hall 8
Phone: (785) 532-4982 or 532-6865 (department office)
Fax: (785) 532-6978
e-mail finnegan@ksu.edu
Dr. Michael Finnegan is a Professor of Anthropology at Kansas State University and a consultant in Forensic
Anthropology. He holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Colorado and held a postdoctoral
fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution, studying paleopathology and non-metric variation for population
studies and forensic science application. He is a Fellow and past Vice President of the American Academy
of Forensic Sciences; a Diplomate, and past President, of the American Board of Forensic Anthropology, Inc.;
and is a recipient of the "Kansas Attorney General's Certificate of Merit" in recognition of outstanding service
rendered to law enforcement in and for the State of Kansas by a private citizen. He has published numerous
articles on theory, method and application of osteological analysis in population studies and forensic
applications. He has conducted research in Africa, Australia, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Europe, as
well as various areas of North and South America. Dr. Finnegan is a recipient of the "William L. Stamey Teaching
Award" in undergraduate instruction, the "John C. Hazelet Award" as the outstanding member of the Kansas
Division of the International Association for Identification, the "Bartucz Lajos Award" from Jozsef Attila
University and the "T. Dale Stewart Award" from the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.
Certification
Diplomate of The American Board of Forensic Anthropology, 1978
Major publications
Finnegan, M. (1976) Walnut Creek Massacre: Identification and Analysis. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Vol. 45,
No. 4, 737-742.
Schulter, F.P. and M. Finnegan (1977) Racial Distance: A multivariate analysis of roentgenographic measurements in Eskimos,
Indians, and Whites. Homo, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 227-235.
Finnegan, M. (1978) Non-metric Variation of the Infracranial Skeleton. Journal of Anatomy. Vol. 125, No. 1, pp. 23-37.
Finnegan, M. and K. Cooprider (1978) Empirical Comparison of Distance Equations Using Discrete Traits. American Journal
of Physical Anthropology, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 39-46.
Finnegan, M. and F.P. Schulter-Ellis (1978) The Tympanic Plate in Forensic Discrimination Between American Blacks and
Whites. Journal of Forensic Sciences, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 771-777.
Finnegan, M. and S.A. McGuire (1979) Classification systems for discrete variables in forensic anthropology. American Journal
of Physical Anthropology. Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 547-553.
Finnegan, M. and A. Marcsik (1979) A Non-metric Examination of the Relationships Between Osteological Remains From
Hungary Representing Populations of the Avar Period. Acta Biologica Szeged; Vol. 25, Nos. 1-2, pp. 97-118.
Cooprider, K.B., R.M. Rubison and M. Finnegan (1980) Racial classification based on non-metric skeletal traits. Homo, Vol. 31,
No. 1, pp. 1-21.
Finnegan, M. and A. Marcsik (1980) Anomaly of Pathology: The Stafne defect
as seen in archaeological materials and modern
clinical practice. Journal of Human Evolution, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 19-31.
Finnegan, M. and R.M. Rubison (1984) Multivariate Distances and Multivariate Classification Systems Using Non-metric Traits
in Biological Studies. IN: G.N. Van Vark and W.W. Howells (eds.) Multivariate Statistical Methods in Physical Anthropology,
pp. 69-80. D. Reidel Publishing Company;
Dordrecht, Holland.
Fulton, B.A., C.E. Meloan, and M. Finnegan (1986) Reassembling Scattered and Mixed human bones by Trace Element Analysis.
Journal of Forensic Science, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 1455-1462.
Finnegan, M. and D. L. West (1990) Final Report: Faunal Remains from the Stigenwalt Site. Appendix IV in: The Archaeology of
the Stigenwalt Site, 14LT351. by R. M. Thies, Kansas State Historical Society, Contract Archaeology Series, Publication
Number 7.
McLellan, L. J. and M. Finnegan (1990) Analysis of geographic variation, asymmetry, and sexual dimorphism in Peromyscus
maniculatus using non-metric skeletal Traits. Journal of Mammalogy, Vol. 71, No. 4, pp. 524-533.
Finnegan, M., T. Toth, M. Ferencz, E. Fothi and I. Pap (1993) Biological distance during the Avar period based on non-metric
cranial data. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, Vol. 85, pp. 181-202.
Finnegan, M. (1995) Killed in Action--Body Not Recovered: Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology Applied to the Recovery
of U. S. Military Remains in Vietnam. American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Proceedings, Vol. 1, pp. 175-
Finnegan, M., A. Marcsik and R. Pauditz (1997) Traumatic injuries in osteoarchaeological samples. Acta Biologica Szeged,
Vol. 42, pp. 31-40.
Finnegan, M. and D. A. Kysar (1998) The Third Exhumation of Jesse James: Implications for the Analysis of Historic Figures.
In: Forensic Osteology: advances in the identification of human remains. K. J. Reichs (ed) C. C. Thomas: Springfield. pp. 533-552.
Major publications
Finnegan,
M. and K. Ery (2000) Biological distance among six populations samples in the
environs around Szekesfehervar, Hungary, as derived by non-metric trait
variation. Annales Historico-naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, Vol. 92, pp.
455-476.
Finnegan,
M. and B. Mende (2001) The Effect of Primary Cultural Deformation on the
Frequency of Cranial Non-metric Traits. Anthropologie, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp.
25-31.
Finnegan,
M. (2001) What Should Be in a Forensic Anthropology Report. American Academy of
Forensic Sciences, Proceedings, Vol. 6, pp. 255-256
Marcsik,
A., Szathmary, L., Guba, Zs. and Finnegan, M. (2001) Serious pathological
lesions in a small osteoarchaeological sample from 8th-9th century Hungary.
Anthropologie, 39(1) pp. 39-43.
Recent Papers read at scientific meetings
Marcsik, A., G. Palfi, R. Szentgyorgyi and M. Finnegan (1997) A Classic, Multiple Site Case of Tuberculous Spondylitis and
Other Possibly Associated Conditions in an Avar Age (7th-8th Century) Female from Hungary. Poster presentation at the
International Congress "The Evolution and Palaeoepidemiology of Tuberculosis", 4-7 September 1997, Szeged, Hungary.
Marcsik, A., Szathmary, L., Guba, Zs. and Finnegan, M. (1998) Serious pathological lesions in a small osteoarchaeological
sample from 8th-9th century Hungary. Paper presented at the XIIth European meeting of the Paleopathology Association,
26-29 August, Prague-Pilsen, Czech Republic.
Finnegan, M. and B. Mende (1998) Primary Cranial Deformation and its Affect on the Frequency of Non-metric Traits.
Paper presented at the 11th Congress of the European Anthropological Association September 1998, Jena, Germany
Finnegan,
M., Marcsik, A., and Just, Z. (2002) The development and application of
non-metric traits in Europe. Paper
presented at the 13th Congress of the European Anthropological Association, 30
August-September 2002, Zagreb,
Croatia.
Finnegan, M. (2002) A North American contrast to the last 25 years of European forensic anthropology. Paper presented at the 13th Congress of the European Anthropological Association, 30 August-3 September 2002, Zagreb, Croatia.
Marcsik, A., L. Szathmary and M. Finnegan 2002 Multiple myeloma and metastatic skeletal lesions in osteoarchaeology samples. Paper presented at the 14th biannual meeting of the European Paleopathology Association, 27-31 August, Coimbra, Portugal.
Courts
Qualified 17 District and Federal Courts.