Professor Edward Robinson
Department: Forensic Science
The Project
Our text for our ‘Photography in the Forensic Sciences’ course will be updated during the next year for its 3rd Edition. Since it is a book on photography, it naturally has many images showing examples of the photography done at crime scenes: 600 of them! I’m hoping to have most of them updated with new images for the 3rd Edition.
The Research Assistant will strive to freshen the existing images, or improve on them.
Also essential to this project will be the need to research current case law citations to provide the reader with common court challenges to the admission of digital images into court as evidence. This will be done in the Law Library.
Applicants must already be experienced with 35mm SLR cameras, various lenses and external flash units.
Research Assistant Tasks
1) Research case law citations.
2) Update the images currently in the textbook, or at least make a very large dent in them. The student will, of course, receive credit for every image selected to be used in the 3rd Edition.
3. Unofficially proofread new chapters as they are written, to get an idea if the ‘normal reader’ can understand the photographic theories and concepts easily.
Time Commitment: 7-9 hours per week
Contact Email: erobinso@gwu.edu
Further Application Instructions: Most important is any photography experience the student already possesses. High school yearbook photos? Photography courses already completed? Part-time jobs related to photography?
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