Briana New

Assistant Professor

Research Interests

Human variation, virtual and computational anthropology, growth and development, forensic identification, population genetics, mixed data methods.

 

Briana New is a biological anthropologist specializing in forensic anthropology, virtual imaging, and quantitative methods. Her research examines modern human skeletal and genetic variation through a multidisciplinary lens that integrates perspectives from forensic anthropology casework, evolutionary and developmental biology, bioinformatic approaches, and social theory. 

Briana also has national and international experience working in forensic identification, forensic exhumation, and bioarchaeology.

Education

Ph.D. | University of Nevada, Reno | 2026

M.A. | Texas State University | 2018

B.A. | University of California, Santa Cruz | 2014

Additional Campus Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Anthropology

Recent Publications

New, B. T., Stull, K. E., Corron, L. K., & Wolfe, C. A. (2025). Exploring Cranial Growth Patterns from Birth to Adulthood for Forensic Research and Practice. Forensic Sciences, 5(3), Article 32. https://doi.org/10.3390/forensicsci5030032

Stull, K. E., Wolfe, C. A., New, B. T., Corron, L. K., & Spradley, K. (2025). Growth and Development of the Cranial Complex and Its Implications for Sex Estimation. Forensic Sciences, 5(3), Article 43. https://doi.org/10.3390/forensicsci5030043

Stull, K., New, B. T., Corron, L., Auchter, L. E., Spradley, K., Wolfe, C. A., Chu, E. Y., & Hefner, J. T. (2024). Exploring Mutual and Exclusive Biological Information in Cranial Metric and Morphological Variables. Forensic Anthropology, 7(2\u20133), 141-163. https://doi.org/10.5744/fa.2023.0042

Go, M. C., Keyes, V. A., Doman, J. H., Grow, K. M., Hale, A. R., Nagengast‐Stevens, E., New, B. T., Williams, D. N., & Jin, J. J. H. (2023). The Korean War Identification Project: 30 years of expanding scope and complexity in the accounting of American war dead. WIREs Forensic Science, 5(4), Article e1485. https://doi.org/10.1002/wfs2.1485

New, B. T., Acosta, P. D., Finlayson, J. E., Friend, A. N., Go, M. C., Hale, A., Johnson, S. J., Williams, D. N., & Jin, J. (2022). Identification of the Korean War Dead: Family Reference Samples at the Intersection of Race, Class, and Structural Vulnerability. In J. F. Byrnes, & I. Sandoval-Cervantes (Eds.), The Marginalized in Death: A Forensic Anthropology of Intersectional Identity in the Modern Era (pp. 255-279). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978734449.ch-10

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