Instructor: Dr. Teresa 'Lilly' White

Dr. Teresa ‘Lilly’ White is a native Montanan. She received her BSLS in 2005 from MSU-B, her BA in Forensic Anthropology in 2011, her MA in Forensic Anthropology in 2013, and her PhD in Anthropology in 2019, from the University of Montana.

Lilly and her husband Stocky (also a PhD in Anthropology), are the owners of Bone & Stone Anthrosciences, L.L.C. where they provide Anthropological & Archaeological Consulting Services and Educational Workshops to Federal, State, County, Tribal, and City Law Enforcement Personnel, Coroners/Death Investigators, Chaplains, Public Safety Officers, Forensic Specialists, Crime Scene Investigators, Physicians and Nurses, Mental Health Practitioners, Funeral Personnel and Death Doulas, International Emergency Services companies, and others.

From 2015-2018, Lilly created and facilitated a Medicolegal Death Investigation Conference at the University of Montana, where she provided continuing education to hundreds of attendees. She is a Medical Investigator and DMORT Region VIII Team Member with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and National Disaster Medical System (NDMS). She has worked as an Adjunct Instructor at UM, teaching Fundamentals of Forensic Science. She is also an instructor for Tri-tech Forensics Training, as well as working with Kenyon International Emergency Services as a FAC/SAT member and online course facilitator.
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Lilly teaches courses on: Cultural and forensic anthropology; human osteology; death notification interactions including compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma; human decomposition; forensic entomology theory and methods including collection techniques and postmortem interval estimations; thermal and explosives trauma on bodies and other taphonomic changes; bone pathology; forensic discovery, documentation, and recovery of scattered human remains and burials; differentiating peri-mortem gunshot  trauma from blunt force after a car fire; ethnographic methods including observation and interviewing techniques for investigators or researchers; cold and current death investigations and case reviews; grief facilitation; autoerotic asphyxia (AeA); equivocal deaths; social determinants of health for sexual abuse victims; dark tourism and other fascinating topics.