Norman J. Sauer is an American forensic anthropologist and professor emeritus of anthropology at Michigan State University (MSU).
Norman Jay Sauer | |
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Education | State University of New York at Geneseo, Michigan State University |
Awards | Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences,[1] received their T. Dale Stewart Award in 2007[2] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Forensic anthropology |
Institutions | Michigan State University |
Thesis | An analysis of the human skeletal material from the Fletcher site (20by28), Bay City, Michigan (1974) |
Education
Sauer received his undergraduate degree from the State University of New York at Geneseo and his Ph.D. from Michigan State University.[3]
Career
Sauer taught in the department of anthropology at MSU from 1974 to 2012.[3] While at MSU, he co-directed their forensic anthropology track of the Forensic Science Program, and directed their Forensic Anthropology Laboratory. He retired from MSU in 2013.[1] In 2015, he was named vice president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.[4]
Work and views
In the 2000s, Sauer identified a 200-year-old mummy that had previously been posted for sale on eBay as belonging to the University of Maryland School of Medicine. It was returned there in 2011.[5] He has also analyzed the famous photograph V-J Day in Times Square and has concluded that the sailor depicted therein is George Mendonsa (who has claimed to be this sailor).[6] He has argued that race is an invalid method of classifying humans.[7]