About Janet
Janet is a retired Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and an expert in anthropology from her prior work as Curator-in-Charge of the Physical Anthropology Section in the Penn Museum. Janet joined Duffy’s Cut in the spring of 2009, when some bones of the 57 Irishmen were discovered. Janet and her team worked tirelessly on identifying the remains and piecing together the mystery that lay buried for so many years. Though the victims were originally thought to have all died from cholera in 1832, Janet and her team found evidence that they were actually executed out of the fear that they would spread the disease.