Alison Galloway

Alison Galloway
Nationality	United States
Fields	Anthropology

Alison Galloway is a forensic anthropologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is best known for her work in identifying the physical remains of Laci Peterson in the Scott Peterson Trial. She co-edited a book called The Evolving Female: A Life History Perspective with Mary Morbeck and Adrienne Zihlmann. (Politics and the Life Sciences Mar2000, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p119, 2p)

Galloway was appointed to the executive vice chancellor position at UCSC on September 16, 2010. She replaced David Kliger who retired on July 1.

She earned her BA with honors in anthropology, with an emphasis in archaeology, in 1975 from the University of California, Berkeley. Her master's thesis, entitled “Racial Variation in the Basioccipital”, earned Galloway an MA in anthropology, emphasis in physical anthropology, with a specialization in forensic anthropology in 1985 at the University of Arizona. Galloway continued her education at the University of Arizona with a Ph.D. in anthropology, emphasis in physical anthropology with two minors, anatomy and physiology. She completed her doctorate in 1988 with her paper entitled, “Long Term Effects of Reproductive History on Bone Mineral Content in Women”.

Galloway began her professional career in 1988 as an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She accepted a position as an associate professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1990 and by 2001 was promoted to professor. Meanwhile, in 1996 she became a member of the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team, USDHS acting as a forensic anthropologist.

She became vice-chair of the UCSC Division of the Academic Senate in 2001, and was appointed to chair in 2003, stepping down two years later when she accepted an interim position as vice provost of academic affairs. After being named to the position one year later, she remained until 2009, when she was appointed to the position of vice provost and dean of academic affairs/university extension.

Galloway has been an active member of many professional societies during her career, such as the American Board of Forensic Anthropology, serving as a board officer, and the American Association of Physical Anthropology. Galloway is a fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and held various executive positions between 1994 and 1997. She served on the editorial board of the Journal of Forensic Sciences from 2008 to 2013.

Galloway will be stepping down from her position as campus provost and executive vice chancellor (CP/EVC) at UC Santa Cruz in December 2016. She will return to teaching after taking a yearlong break.

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