Graduate Student
University of Toronto, Canada
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Ashley Smith attended the Univeristy of Memphis starting in January of 2008 and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropolgy with a minor in English in May of 2010. After graduation she moved to Boston where she began her graduate work in forensic anthropology and osteology at Boston University School of Medicine. While there she completed a thesis on the effects of sharp-force trauma on decomposition. She graduated in in 2012 and then took a couple of years off working and interning at various institutions; gaining knowledge in human anatomy. In 2014 she began her PhD work at the University of Toronto, focusing on evolutionary and forensic anthropology. While there she began her teaching career where she has been engaged as a course instructor, teaching assistant, and lab facilitator in a number of anthropological, forensic, and osteological courses. She is currently working on her dissertation studying the early decompositional processes effecting bone and how to distiguish between peri and early postmortem traumas.
