Kyra E. Stull

Kyra E. Stull is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno and a Faculty Member at Idaho State University. Her research bridges biological anthropology, forensic anthropology, and quantitative methods, with a focus on subadult age and sex estimation, modern human variation, and skeletal trauma analysis.

She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, in 2014, under the supervision of Dr. Ericka L'Abbé and Dr. Stephen Ousley. Her work is supported by federal grants from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and National Science Foundation (NSF).

• Key Research Areas
  • Forensic identification of subadults
  • Craniofacial and postcranial sexual dimorphism
  • Impact of population history on skeletal variation
  • Development of virtual anthropology databases
  • Blunt force trauma analysis
  • 3D imaging for forensic reference data

Stull leads the Stull Lab @ UNR, which created the Subadult Virtual Anthropology Database (SVAD) and tools like KidStats and KSCollect for age/sex estimation. She consults on forensic anthropological cases and is a member of the American Association of Forensic Sciences, American Association of Physical Anthropologists, and Anatomical Society of Southern Africa.