Norman J. Sauer is an American forensic anthropologist and professor emeritus of anthropology at

Michigan State University Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the first of its kind in the United States. It ...

(MSU).

Education

Sauer received his undergraduate degree from the

State University of New York at Geneseo The State University of New York College at Geneseo (SUNY Geneseo, Geneseo State College or, colloquially, "Geneseo") is a public liberal arts college in Geneseo, New York. It is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system. The colle ...

and his Ph.D. from Michigan State University.

Career

Sauer taught in the department of anthropology at MSU from 1974 to 2012. While at MSU, he co-directed their forensic anthropology track of the Forensic Science Program, and directed their Forensic Anthropology Laboratory. He retired from MSU in 2013. In 2015, he was named vice president of the

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Work and views

In the 2000s, Sauer identified a 200-year-old mummy that had previously been posted for sale on

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as belonging to the University of Maryland School of Medicine. It was returned there in 2011. He has also analyzed the famous photograph V-J Day in Times Square and has concluded that the sailor depicted therein is George Mendonsa (who has claimed to be this sailor). He has argued that

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is an invalid method of classifying humans.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sauer, Norman J. American forensic scientists American anthropologists Michigan State University faculty Living people Michigan State University alumni Forensic anthropologists State University of New York at Geneseo alumni People from Williamston, Michigan Year of birth missing (living people)