Canceled: Special Event: Forensics and Medicolegal Death Investigations with Visiting Scholar Joseph Scott Morgan

Due to the COVID-19/Coronavirus, the University has recommended that any nonessential gathering or event with more than 25 participants scheduled through April 17, 2020 should be canceled, postponed or moved to a virtual event. In compliance with this recommendation, this special event has been canceled.

Join one of the country's leading experts on the Coroner System in the United States for a discussion of his most famous-and-infamous-headline-grabbing cases.

Presented by the College of General Studies Administration of Justice and Legal Studies Programs, and the Dietrich School's Urban Studies Program 

Joseph Scott Morgan is the Distinguished Scholar of Applied Forensics at Jacksonville State University where he holds the faculty rank of Associate Professor of Applied Forensics. Morgan holds a Master of Forensic Sciences degree and is a Board-Certified Fellow of the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators.

Professor Morgan previously worked as the Senior Investigator for the Fulton County Medical Examiner in Atlanta, Georgia. He helped to establish the national training guidelines for Medicolegal Death Investigators. To this day, Professor Morgan remains one of less than 200 people nationwide to attain “Fellow” status through the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators.

Professor Morgan is considered one of the leading experts on the Coroner System in the United States. He has a particular research interest in the areas of:

• Estimation of time since death
• Injury assessment on the scenes of deaths
• Mass fatality investigations
• Training curricula and development for state coroner systems
• Notification of next of kin methodologies
• Impact of notification of next of kin on practitioners
• Forensic practice in rural settings

Professor Morgan has appeared, for the past two years, on both Headline News and CNN as the on-air forensics expert.  In 2013 Morgan was named “Georgia Author of the Year” for his memoir entitled “Blood Beneath My Feet: The Journey of a Southern Death Investigator”.

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