Matthew Rossi is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology. His work interrogates the intersection of scientific and legal knowledge practices in United States forensic projects, contemporary and historical. His dissertation research, Decomposing Forensics, is a multimodal ethnography of evidential and investigative practices around suspicious deaths involving bodies decomposed past the threshold of autopsy, built on long-term engagement with police, death investigators, and forensic anthropologists across multiple U.S. jurisdictions.

Additionally, Rossi is a trained osteologist working on the documentation of the University of Chicago’s legacy skeletal collections, with interests in bridging osteological insights with intellectual history, bioethics, and social/critical theory.