Dr. Kirchhoff is a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she graduated from the Milwaukee Public School system. She then continued her education at the University of Minnesota, where she earned her BA, MA, and PhD from the Department of Anthropology. Her first faculty position was at the University of North Texas Health Science Center, where she was privileged to serve thousands of wonderful students over the course of six years. Dr. Kirchhoff now teaches human gross anatomy at Marquette University and continues to undertake scholarship on primate skeletal analysis. She lives on the south side of Milwaukee with her family.