By Mehninehn Smith
Kerriann Marden’s office is filled with various types of skulls.
“I have lived in a lot of different places, so I carry a lot of memories with me,” said Marden, an assistant professor of Anthropology at Eastern New Mexico University.
The skulls represent the different places she has traveled and serve as a reminder of where she has been.
Marden has spent time in Southeast Asia and Africa. She has spent one year in Kenya and three years in the West African region along the Ivory Coast, Côte d’Ivoire.
Marden is in the director of ENMU’s Forensic Science Program and teaches classes in Forensic Anthropology and Physical Anthropology, which includes subjects such as Survey of Forensic Science and Osteology.
“It is forensics,” she said. “Everything I teach is interesting about the field.”
In the forensic application of Anthropology, Marden said, every single case is different and new.
She said that her time at ENMU has been good because of her wonderful colleagues and interesting students.
Marden has traveled as a member of the Peace Corps, an organization that sends Americans abroad to help others around the world who are less fortunate. It was created by President John Kennedy in 1961.