Research Project
Center for the Recovery and Identification of the Missing (CRIM)
At the end of the mission, after breaking basecamp in the wee hours of the morning, the crew poses where the camp kitchen used to stand before their last descent down Mt. Timay-Ak. The crew includes University of Illinois at Chicago partners National Museum of the Philippines colleagues/officials, mountaineers, and Kalanguya crew members.
- Principal Investigator
- Monaghan, John
- Funding Source
- Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Abstract
CRIM is an interdisciplinary team of professors, staff, postdocs, and graduate and undergraduate students specializing in sociocultural anthropology, archaeology, forensic anthropology, GIS (Geographic Information System), remote sensing, geospatial analysis, history, and electrical and computer engineering. Our efforts focus on our partnership with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (or DPAA) in the research, investigation, recovery, and repatriation of missing U.S. service members from past conflicts. We primarily specialize in World War II sites in the Philippines, but we have also worked with the DPAA and their partners in Vietnam, Cambodia, Italy, Laos, and Palau.