Sean D. Tallman is presently a 2023-2024 Fulbright U.S. Scholar in Public Health at the University
of Cape Town and Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He is an Assistant
Professor in the Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology at the Boston
University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. He has secondary
appointments in the Department of Anthropology and Program in Archaeology at
Boston University and teaches at BU’s Kilachand Honors College. He heads the
Forensic and Bioanthropology Laboratory (FAB Lab) Group, teaches, and advises
students the M.S. Program in Forensic Anthropology at the Chobanian and
Avedisian School of Medicine. He received his Ph.D. from the University of
Tennessee, Knoxville; M.A. from the State University of New York, Binghamton;
B.A. from the University of Washington; and A.A. from Shoreline Community
College. His research interests include issues related to diversity, equity,
and inclusion in anthropology; human skeletal variation; forensic anthropology method improvement; and issues of human identification.