Alison Galloway is a forensic anthropologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
She is best known for her work in identifying the physical remains of Laci Peterson in the Scott Peterson Trial.
She co-edited a book called The Evolving Female: A Life History Perspective with Mary Morbeck and Adrienne Zihlmann.
(Politics and the Life Sciences Mar2000, Vol.
19 Issue 1, p119, 2p) She is also editor of Broken Bones: Anthropological Analysis of Blunt Force Trauma and co-editor of the second edition of that volume.
She is also co-author of Practicing Forensic Anthropology: an eResource with Susan Kuzminsky.
Galloway was appointed to the executive vice chancellor position at UCSC on September 16, 2010.
She replaced David Kliger who retired 2010.
She stepped down from the provostship on December 31, 2016 to return to her faculty position prior to final retirement.