Ken Andrews
BA (SFU), MA (UWO)
Ken is a forensic and medical anthropologist whose work focuses on human skeletal remains, pathology, trauma, and post-mortem and taphonomic processes relevant to modern and historic medico-legal death investigations. He investigates patterns of trauma, violence, disease, and distress through the analysis of human remains, medical and historical records, archival sources, and artifacts.
Courses taught
- ANTH 1200: Biological Anthropology
- ANTH 1217: Forensic Anthropology
- ANTH 2163: Medical Anthropology
- ANTH 2217: Forensic Methods & Analysis
- ANTH 3220: Human Osteology
- ANTH 3502: Special Topics in Biological Anthropology - Sport and Fitness; Human Growth and Development; Human Biological Variation
- Courses in Development: Principles of Medico-legal Death Investigation; Human Paleopathology
Areas of Interest
Ken’s primary areas of research interest include forensic biology, decomposition and taphonomic studies, social determinants of health, and epidemiological studies of marginalized and institutionalized populations. Ken has direct medico-legal death investigation experience through the British Columbia Coroner’s Service in addition to providing medical, legal, and historical research services for government and private sector clients.
Ken serves as Lab Coordinator for the KPU Bioarchaeology Lab, where he leads laboratory operations, research activities, collections management, and student training. He is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Canadian Research Institute of Pacific Taphonomy (CRIPT), an organization dedicated to advancing research, training, and education in human remains recovery and forensic taphonomy.