Dr Melissa Connor

Melissa Connor is currently the Associate Director for the Forensic Science Program at Nebraska Wesleyan University. She completed her B.A. and M.A. at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She worked for the U.S. National Park Service for 15 years completing and managing projects in national parks throughout the Rocky Mountain and Midwestern states. Her work on battlefield sites included Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield, Big Hole Battlefield, and Little Big Horn Battlefield (Custer’s Last Stand). She has authored 25 publications and 105 technical reports. In 1993, she moved into forensic archaeology, taking the methods used on battlefield sites to investigate work in Croatia working for Physicians for Human Rights with the UN Truth Commission. Since then, she has worked on domestic forensic cases, as well as working in Iraq, throughout the former Yugoslavia, and in Cyprus, Sri Lanka, El Salvador, Rwanda, and Nigeria.