Rose is a physical anthropologist with a focus on human skeletal material, and has worked as a ‘dirt’ archaeologist since 1995 and is currently the Field Director for the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe in MN, USA. Rose is a certified Forensic Anthropologist (cert FA-III) and Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Rose has excavated and worked in labs in the Caribbean, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Oslo, Cyprus, Orkney, and England, studying indigenous Americans, Vikings, Romans, moderns and folks who lived in medieval times. Rose analyzed the Mary Rose remains for a few years, often giving lectures to visiting VIPs, and in one article discusses possible cerebral palsy in two crewmen! Rose is also a performance poet, with a TEDx talk on performance poetry, and co-hosted a monthly ‘open mic’ in York from January 2006 onward. Rose loves to present lectures to historical societies as well as conferences, and has taught Native American topics, archaeological theory and bio-archaeology. She’s made several TV appearances and is most pleased with solving the Cause of Death of Joseph Merrick, a/k/a The Elephant Man.