Michael J. Hochrein

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:

• Adjunct Professor, La Roche University, Department of Justice, Law, and Security
• Consultant and Instructor, HD Forensics, LLC, Erie, Pennsylvania
• Guest Instructor, Pennsylvania State Police Camp Cadet Program, 2003-present
• Instructor: Annual Short Course into Field and Laboratory Methods, Location, Recovery and Interpretation of Human Remains from Outdoor Context, Mercyhurst University, 1994-present

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATION:

• Bachelor of Arts, Anthropology, Cum Laude, University of Pittsburgh, 1982
• Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, 1983-1985
• Teaching Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, 1985-1986
• Teaching Assistant, Administration of Justice Department, University of Pittsburgh, 1986-1988
• Intern, Allegheny County Police Department, University of Pittsburgh, Master of Arts Program, Administration of Justice Department, 1987
• Numerous Forensic Science Training Courses, 1988-present

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY:

• September 12, 1988 – December 31, 2017, Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Federal Bureau of Investigation Evidence Response Team Member, 1993-2017
• Federal Bureau of Investigation Adjunct Faculty, 1994-2017
• Federal Bureau of Investigation International Trainer, 1999-2017
• Federal Bureau of Investigation Deployments to Turkey, Yemen, Bahrain, Iraq, Afghanistan, Jordan, Tunisia, Cuba, Thailand, Philippines, Botswana, Kenya, Macedonia, and Hungary

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

• Member, American Academy of Forensic Sciences
• Member, International Association of Identification
• Member, International Homicide Investigator’s Association
• Past Member, Society for Archaeological Sciences
• Past Member, Society for American Archaeology

PUBLICATIONS:

• Peer reviewed and published research in the following:
• Journal of Forensic Identification
• 2019, Moran and Gold, editors, Forensic Archaeology: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Springer Nature
• 2014, Adams and Byrd, editors, Commingled Human Remains: Methods, Recovery, Analysis and Identification, Academic Press/Elsevier
• 2012, Dirkmaat, editor, A Companion to Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology, Wiley-Blackwell
• 2012, Doran, editor, Federal Bureau of Investigation Evidence Response Team Reference Guide, Federal Bureau of Investigation
• 2009, Blau and Ubelaker, editors, Handbook of Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology, Left Coast Press
• 2002, Haglund and Sorg, editors, Modern Methods in Forensic Taphonomy. CRC Press
• 1997, Stimson and Mertz, editors, Forensic Dentistry, CRC Press

COURSES TAUGHT:

• CRIM3040 Crime Scene Investigation & Forensics
• CRIM3041 Criminalistics

JOINED LA ROCHE:

January 08, 2018