Sarajane Smith

Sarajane Smith-Escudero received her bachelor’s degree in Honors Anthropology and Latino Studies from the University of Notre Dame in 2023. Sarajane is currently a Graduate Fellow of the National Science Foundation, completing research on missing persons of Mississippi utilizing perspectives of structural violence, necropolitics, and intersectionality. She has done bioarchaeological work on commingled remains from sites in present-day U.A.E., Hungary, Jordan, and Israel, and forensic work in Texas, Mississippi, and in Oklahoma on the Tulsa Race Massacre. Research interests include structural violence and marginalization, geospatial forensic analysis, bone biology, and entheseal changes.