Susan Frankenberg

Susan Frankenberg is a Research Affiliate and Graduate Faculty member in Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with a PhD and MA in Anthropology from Northwestern University and a BA in Anthropology from Indiana University. She also serves as Coordinator of the Museum Studies Program, focusing on interdisciplinary collaborations between museums and academic research.

• Education: PhD, MA, and BA in Anthropology.

Research Interests span museum organizational behavior, stakeholder engagement, and cultural policy development, alongside quantitative methods in biological anthropology. Her work integrates museum informatics and collections data systems with Bayesian modeling, addressing questions in demography, health, and migration patterns of past and present human populations.

Recent Publications highlight her expertise in paleodemographic reconstruction, skeletal analysis, and statistical methodologies, including stature estimation from long bones, dental age thresholds, and computational approaches like Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods. Despite no explicitly listed scientific awards, her contributions to museum studies and anthropological demography underscore her academic impact.

Professional Roles include mentoring graduate students in Anthropology, though specific advisees are not named, and advancing museum data federation protocols through the Museum Studies Program.