Dr. Harrell Gill-King, Ph.D., DABFA

Dr. Gill-King is Director of the Laboratory of Forensic Anthropology at the University of North Texas and Co-Director of the Center for Human Identification, (UNT/UNTHSC). He received a doctorate in physical anthropology from the Institute for the Study of Earth and Man at Southern Methodist University followed by postdoctoral work at the Delta Regional Federal Primate Center, (comparative primate biochemistry), and U.T. Southwestern Medical Center, (hard tissue pathology).

He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and a Diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Anthropology. In addition to practicing forensic anthropology, he teaches human anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology. His research interests span many topics and currently focus upon chemical and ultrastructural aspects of decomposition, thermobaric effects on humans, and effects of chronic intranasal and intraoral use of cocaine and methamphetamine on the cranium, face, and dentition. A charter member of the Region VI Federal Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team, he was a responder in the Oklahoma Federal Building Bombing, the World Trade Event, the Columbia Shuttle Disaster, as well as numerous transportation mass fatalities. He is a native Texan.