Mehmet Yasar Iscan

Background

Iscan, Mehmet Yasar was born on February 17, 1943 in Maras, Turkey. Son of Mustafa and Ayse (Yürürdurmaz) Iscan.

Education

Ayse. Bachelor, U. Ankara (Turkey), 1968. Master of Arts, Cornell Univercity, 1973, Doctor of Philosophy, 1976. Diplomate American Board Forensic Anthropology.

Career

Assistant professor anthropology Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, 1977-1984, associate professor, 1984-1986, professor, 1986, department chairman anthropology, 1989. Consultant Broward County Medical Examiner" General’ General’ s Office, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1981. Chairman anthropological science Florida Academy Science, 1981-1982.

Ales Hrdlicka fellow, 1968-1969.

National Science Foundation grantee Cornell Energy Project, 1973-1975, 68-69, 86, Smithsonian Institute grantee, Florida Atlantic University, 1978, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 1988.

Achievements

• Mehmet Yasar Iscan has been listed as a noteworthy anthropologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member American Association Physical Anthropologists, American Anthropological Association (program chairman biological anthropological unit 1988-1989), European Anthropological Association, International Congress Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, American Academy Forensic Sciences, Florida Academy Sciences, Human Biology Council, Sigma Xi, (president Florida Atlantic.

Connections

Married Walda Mae Engelbrecht, February 14, 1976.

Father:

Mustafa Iscan

Mother:

Ayse (Yürürdurmaz) Iscan

Spouse:

Walda Mae Engelbrecht