Clea Koff

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Clea Koff (* 1972 in London ) is an American forensic anthropologist and author. Koff was involved in investigations into the genocide in Rwanda , the investigation into war crimes during the Yugoslav wars and in Kosovo.

Life

Clea Koff was born to documentary filmmaker David Koff and his Tanzanian wife Msindo. She grew up mainly in Somalia and the USA . She spent her elementary school in the United Kingdom. Further schooling in Washington DC and later California. She studied at Stanford , where she graduated with a bachelor's degree . She then studied forensic anthropology at the University of Arizona and the University of Nebraska . In 1999 she completed her studies with a master's degree in Nebraska. In Arizona she had been trained by Walt Birkby .

While still a Masters student, she worked for the Criminal Tribunal for the Genocide in Rwanda and was sent on two missions to Kibuye and Kigali . From 2000 she worked as a forensic anthropologist for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo. Among other things, she was deputy chief anthropologist. In 2006, she worked in Cyprus for the United Nations in the identification of dead from the Cyprus War . Until 2012, she headed the Missing Persons Identification Resource Center foundation in Los Angeles, which she established .

Works

She wrote the book The Bone Woman (AKA: The Bone Woman , 2004) was translated into eleven languages. The book deals with her experiences in Rwanda , the former Yugoslavia and Kosovo . In addition, she published the crime novel Freezing in 2011 .

Andrea Seibel wrote in Der Welt that Koff in The Bone Woman hovers over the graves like an angel and that her book is never obscene or repulsive. Rainer Kurlemann wrote for the Rheinische Post that he was impressed " by the clarity with which the young scientist describes her work in Rwanda, Kosovo and Srebrenica (Bosnia). " In the Guardian , Phil Whitaker named Kloff's book a humane, hopeful and involved book, despite the disturbing crimes described in it. For the New York Times , Jane Perlez judged that Koff wrote with the passion of a woman born to forensic anthropology.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jane Perlez, The Saturday Profile; A 'Bone Woman' Chronicles the World's Massacres , New York Times, April 24, 2004.
  2. ↑ Making Bones Speak , Die Welt, April 3, 2004.
  3. ↑ RP tip: New publications: Clea Koff: The Bone Woman , RP Online from October 11, 2004.
  4. ^ Books: Clues and corpses , The Guardian, May 21, 2004.
personal data
SURNAME Koff, Clea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American forensic anthropologist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH London