Alumni
Julia Arenson
Postdoc, Department of Anthropology
Yale University
Research interests: Primate cranial morphology, cercopithecid evolution, geographic variation
Sylvia Atsalis
Coordinator of the Student Center for Science Engagement
Northeastern Illinois University
Research interests: primate behavior, conservation education
Karen Baab
Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy
Midwestern University - Glendale, AZ
Research interests: hominin taxonomy and phylogeny, cranial morphology, geometric morphometrics
Ashley Bales
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Math and Science, Pratt Institute
Research interests: Catarrhine and hominoid evolution, systematics, geometric morphometrics
Carly Batist
Science Outreach Lead
Rainforest Connection (RFCx)
Research interests: primate behavior, communication, evolution of sociality, fission-fusion dynamics (particularly in lemurs, Varecia spp.)
Christina Bergey
Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics
Rutgers University
Research interests: Primate population genetics and genomics, hybridization, bioinformatics
Richard Bergl
Director of Conservation, Education & Science
North Carolina Zoo
Research interests: primate behavior, population genetics, protected area management
Mary Blair
Director, Biodiversity Informatics Research, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
American Museum of Natural History
Research interests: Conservation biology and genetics; evolutionary ecology; ecological niche modeling; molecular phylogenetics; landscape genetics and ecology; biogeography
Maryjka Blaszczyk
Pathology Resident
Rutgers
Research interests: Behavioral ecology of primate personality, social foraging, social networks
Scott Blumenthal
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
University of Oregon
Research interests: Paleoanthropology, Stable isotope (paleo)ecology, East Africa
Jessica Brinkworth
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Research interests: Evolution of the primate immune system, human immune function variation, socioecology of immunity, innate immunity, severe bacterial infections, host-pathogen interactions, immunogenomics, evolutionary medicine
Douglas Broadfield
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Florida Atlantic University
Research interests: evolution of the human brain, comparative neuroanatomy, chimpanzee cognition
Michelle Brown
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
University of Minnesota
Research interests: Primate behavioral ecology, between-group competition, evolution of within-group social relationships
Margaret Bryer
Postdoc
University of Michigan
Research interests: primate nutritional ecology, redtail monkey (Cercopithecus ascanius) behavioral ecology, primate insectivory
Andrew Burrell
Research interests: population genetics, biogeography, papionin evolution
Paul Buzzard
Freelance Consultant
China Exploration and Research Society
Research interests: animal behavior and ecology, conservation biology
Zachary Calamari
Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Sciences
CUNY Baruch College
Research interests: Ontogeny of shape, evolution of disparity, geometric morphometrics, transcriptomics
Joe Califf
Clinical Associate Professor, Expository Writing Program
New York University
Research interests: Behavior; socioendocrinology; cognitive evolution; human evolution; science education and pedagogy
Michael Campbell
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
University of Southern California
Research interests: human population genetics, adaptation, complex traits/disease
Emma Cancelliere
Research interests: Primate nutritional ecology, maternal behaviour, infant development
Terence Capellini
Richard B. Wolf Associate Professor, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University
Research interests: Evolutionary developmental biology; physical anthropology including primate evolutionary morphology with a focus on limb and axial skeletal biology, growth, and development
Santiago Cassalett
Department of Anthropology
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Research interests: Primate nutritional ecology, conservation biology, Malagasy primate ecology
Paola Cerrito
Department of Anthropology
New York University
Research interests: Biological Anthropology, Paleoanthropology, Upper Paleolithic, Dental Anthropology, Life History Evolution, The Evolution of Childhood
Paulo Chaves
Perito Criminal
Governo de Goiás
Research interests: Phylogeography, conservation genetics, non-invasive genetic sampling, evolution of behavior, Neotropical primates, Brachyteles
Shahrina Chowdhury
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Research interests: primate behavior and ecology
Siobhán Cooke
Associate Professor, Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Research interests: Dental functional morphology; Masticatory biomechanics; Three dimensional geometric morphometric methods; Platyrrhine evolution; Caribbean and Neotropical mammalian evolution and biogeography; Caribbean extinction
Elena Cunningham
Clinical Associate Professor, Molecular Pathobiology
New York University College of Dentistry
Research interests: Primate cognition, Ranging and foraging behaviors, Primate ecology
Alexandra DeCasien
Postdoctoral Fellow
Section on Developmental Neurogenomics, National Institute of Mental Health
Research interests: How sexual selection has shaped primate brain evolution
Kate Detwiler
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Florida Atlantic University
Research interests: primate behavior and ecology, primate genetics
Wendy Dirks
Honorary Fellow, Department of Anthropology
Durham University
Research interests: Dental hard tissue histology, life history evolution, vertebrate palaeontology.
Rachel Dvoskin
Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor
Research interests: primate genetics
Katarina Evans
Department of Anthropology
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Research interests: primate behavioral ecology, nutritional ecology, sociality
Jennifer Eyre
Visiting Assistant Professor
Dartmouth College
Research interests: postcranial functional morphology, hominin evolution, locomotion, obstetrics
Peter Fashing
Professor, Department of Anthropology
California State University, Fullerton
Research interests: evolutionary anthropology, behavioral ecology, conservation biology, GIS, tropical forest and afroalpine grassland ecology
Connie Fellmann
Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Anthropology and Geography
Colorado State University
Research interests: Physical anthropology, limb ontogeny, heterochrony, growth and development, evolution of genus Homo (especially origin, dispersal and variation of Homo erectus), functional morphology/biomechanics, evolution and trends in hominin body size and shape
Elizabeth Fillion
Postdoctoral Associate, Staver Lab
Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Research interests: Hominin evolution, East African Plio-Pleistocene, paleoecology, paleoenvironment reconstruction
Emma Finestone
Assistant Curator of Human Origins
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Research interests: Plio-Pleistocene hominin evolution; reconstructing hominin behavior and diet; Oldowan tool use and transport patterns; primate tool use
Steffen Foerster
Data Unit Director, Division Management and Systems Coordination
NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Research interests: biology, public health, statistics, and data science
Frances Forrest
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Fairfield University
Research interests: Taphonomy, Zooarchaeology, Paleoecology, Ecomorphology, Dental microwear, Early Stone Age, Hominin dietary variation
Sarah Freidline
Assistant Professor, Department of Human Evolution
University of Central Florida
Research interests: geometric morphometrics, hominin evolution
Stephen Frost
Professor, Department of Anthropology
University of Oregon
Research interests: geometric morphometrics, primate paleontology
James Fuller
Adjunct Lecturer
Columbia University
Research interests: Behavioral ecology, vocal communication, determinants of social structure
Holly Fuong
Data Editor
FiveThirtyEight
Research interests: developing new ideas and playing with data to gain insight on the world
Eva Garrett
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Boston University
Research interests: Primate evolution, evolutionary morphology, sexual dimorphism, olfaction, sexual selection, sensory ecology, life history, vomeronasal organ, nasal anatomy
Haviva Goldman
Professor, Neurobiology and Anatomy
Drexel University College of Medicine
Research interests: Human Variability and Skeletal Adaptation, Bone Quality and Skeletal Fragility, Hierarchical Structure-Property Relationships in Bone
Katy Gonder
Professor, Department of Biology
Drexel University
Research interests: Comparative human and non-human primate evolutionary and population genetics, Primate biogeography, behavior and ecology, African biodiversity and conservation
Lauren Halenar-Price
Associate Professor, Department of Biology
Farmingdale State College, SUNY
Research interests: Platyrrhine paleontology and biogeography, evolutionary history of atelid primates, howler monkey cranial morphology, geometric morphometrics
Rebecca Ham
Freelance Science & Health Writer
Phoenix, Arizona
Research interests: science policy,environmental science writing, science writing for children, museum exhibit design
Katerina Harvati
Professor, Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironments
University of Tübingen
Research interests: hominin evolution, Neanderthals, cranial morphology, geometric morphometrics
A. Yasmeen Hinedi
Research interests: forensic anthropology, Central Asia
Jason Hodgson
Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics and Big Data
Anglia Ruskin University
Research interests: Anthropological genetics; molecular genetics; population genetics; human population history; the peopling of Island Melanesia; bioinformatic approaches to the study of primate and human evolution.
Russell Hogg
Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences
Florida Gulf Coast University
Research interests: The evolution of ontogeny and life history as reflected in hard tissue microstructure; mammalian and early primate evolution.
Rebecca Jabbour
Associate Professor, Department of Biology
Saint Mary's College of California
Research interests: human evolution, African ape evolution and diversity, skeletal biology and variation
Clare Kimock
Research Fellow
Psychology, Nottingham Trent University
Research interests: quantitative genetics, evolution of sexual dimorphism, dental morphology and development
Zachary Klukkert
Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences
Research interests: Biomechanics of feeding and the paleobiology and extinction of primate communities in the Caribbean and Madagascar
Emma Kozitzky
Assistant Professor of Anatomy
NYU Long Island School of Medicine
Research interests: Hominin evolution, dental anthropology, European Pleistocene, history of evolutionary theory
Elaine Kozma
Data Scientist
Camino Robotics
Research interests: primate locomotor behavior and adaptations, postcranial functional morphology
John Krigbaum
Professor, Department of Anthropology
University of Florida
Research interests: Paleoanthropology, Bioarchaeology, Human Osteology, Paleopathology, Paleodiet Reconstruction, Southeast Asia
Myra Laird
Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Anatomical Sciences
Keck School of Medicine at University of Southern California
Research interests: Modern human origins, craniodental morphology, hominin environmental and functional variation, geometric morphometrics, early migrations of Homo sapiens
Susan Lappan
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Appalachian State University
Research interests: Primate behavioral ecology and conservation, gibbons, Indonesia
Jenna Lawrence
Instructor, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
Columbia University
Research interests: primate behavior and ecology
D. Susie Lee
Research Scientist
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Research interests: infant and juvenile primates (of course, including human children); primate mother-infant behaviors; attachment theory within evolutionary framework; physiological mechanism of attachment.
Joshua Linder
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
James Madison University
Research interests: Primate ecology and conservation, Hunting in the tropics and the bushmeat trade, Protected area management, Human use and perception of wildlife, Conservation biology
Andrés Link
Associate Professor, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas
Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
Research interests: Primate socio-ecology; atelins (spider monkeys); tropical forest ecology; conservation of Neotropical rainforests.
Jenny Listman
Director of Research
Statespace
Research interests: data wrangling, big data, machine learning, clustering, and data visualizatione
Elissa Ludeman
Research interests: paleoanthropology, dental anthropology, primate sensory system evolution
Amanda Mancini
Data Scientist
Recora
Research interests: landscape genetics, spatial ecology, conservation, lemurs
Samuel Marquez
Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Otolaryngology
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Research interests: comparative anatomy, human and primate evolution
Reiko Matsuda Goodwin
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology
Fordham University
Research interests: Primate distribution & biomass, Frugivory, Feeding Behavior, Old World monkeys, Seasonally dry forest ecology, infectious disease surveillance
Luke Matthews
Senior Behavioral and Social Scientist
RAND Corporation
Research interests: Cultural primatology; social learning; phylogeny and behavior; primate ethology.
Laura Matthews
Adjunct Assistant Professor
CUNY
Research interests: bioinformatics, phylogenetics, tarsiers, slow lorises, speciation, species concepts, molecular adaptation
Eric Mazelis
Department of Anthropology
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Research interests: Cercopithecid dentition, dental functional morphology, Geometric Morphometrics
Colleen McCann
Curator, Department of Mammals
Wildlife Conservation Society
Research interests: Primate socioendocrinology; Primate behavior, reproduction and evolutionary history; Conservation biology
Shannon McFarlin
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
George Washington University
Research interests: skeletal biology, tissue histology, dental development, life history
Kieran McNulty
Professor, Department of Anthropology
University of Minnesota
Research interests: Paleoanthropology, Human and primate evolution, Geometric morphometrics, Cranial evolution and ontogeny, East Africa
Rachel Messinger
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Moorpark College
Research interests: skeletal biology
Emily Middleton
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Research interests: Paleoanthropology, postcranial skeletal morphology, primate locomotor/positional behavior
Michael Montague
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Neuroscience
University of Pennsylvania
Research interests: Implications of variation in color vision among female New World primates, primate behavior, evolution of sensory systems, neurogenomics.
Alba Lucia Morales-Jiménez
Member of the Board
Fundación BioDiversa Columbia
Research interests: Neotropical primate conservation (Ateles hybridus and Saguinus leucopus); taxonomy and systematics (using genetics and morphology), especially of spider monkeys, tamarins and owl monkeys.
Badrul Munir
Professor, School of Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Research interests: molecular systematics
Alejandra Ortiz
Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Anthropology
New York University
Research interests: Hominin evolution, human skeletal biology, dental anthropology, comparative morphology, dispersal and cultural adaptations of modern humans
Anthony Pagano
Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Sciences
Hackensack-Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University
Research interests: nasopharynx and upper respiratory tract, ontogeny, functional anatomy, soft tissue reconstruction, paleoanthropology, geometric morphometrics
Jennifer Parkinson
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
University of San Diego
Research interests: Paleoanthropology; paleoecology, environmental context of human evolution; early hominid habitat use; taphonomy; zooarchaeology; East Africa; Oldowan
Beatriz Perez-Sweeney
Assistant Professor & STEM Specialist
Baylor College of Medicine
Research interests: Primate Genetics, Pathogens, Curriculum Development.
Megan Petersdorf
Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology
Durham University
Research interests: sexual selection, animal communication, reproductive strategies, evolution of mating systems
Rachel Petersen
Postdoctoral Scholar, Biological Sciences
Vanderbilt University
Research interests: endocrinology, immunology, sexual selection, cryptic female choice
Varsha Pilbrow
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow
Department of Archaeology and History, La Trobe University
Research interests: human and primate evolution, dental variation, skeletal biology
Luca Pozzi
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
University of Texas, San Antonio
Research interests: Primate evolution, biogeography and systematics - Strepsirhines - Molecular evolution and phylogenetics - Conservation and population genetics - Vocal communication and behavior - Mathematical modeling
Thomas Cody Prang
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M
Research interests: Paleoanthropology, evolution of bipedalism, hominid postcranial functional morphology, foot function and evolution
Kelsey Pugh
Doctoral Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Brooklyn College
Research Associate, Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History
Research interests: hominoid evolution, phylogenetics, morphometrics
Ryan Raaum
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Lehman College & CUNY Graduate Center
Research interests: Population genetics, Bioinformatics, Human evolution, Statistical genetics
Anna Ragni
Postdoctoral Researcher
Smithsonian
Research interests: Paleoanthropology, functional morphology, human origins, dental anthropology
Christopher Rainwater
Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office
Research interests: skeletal biology, forensic anthropology
Thomas Rein
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Central Connecticut State University
Research interests: Early hominin evolution and paleontology; primate positional behavior; comparative morphology; skeletal biology.
Su-Jen Roberts
Director of Educational Research and Evaluation
Wildlife Conservation Society
Research interests: conservation biology, museum studies, informal science learning, visitor engagement
Christopher Robinson
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Bronx Community College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Research interests: Plio-Pleistocene hominin evolution, 3D cranial morphometrics of fossil hominins and extant hominoids, giraffid evolution
Sasimar Sangchantr
Research interests: primate behavior and ecology, public health
Eric Sargis
Professor, Departments of Anthropology, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, and Forestry & Environmental Studies
Yale University
Research interests: functional morphology, mammalian phylogenetics
Lisa Schlotterhausen
Owner
Kolibri Comprehensive Business Services
Research interests: primate behavior and ecology
Christopher Schmitt
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Boston University
Research interests: Socioecology of juvenile development in atelines, life history and socioecology of New World primates, juvenile social development and social learning, interface between morphology, behavior, genetics/genomics and life history; functional genomics and anthropological genetics, heritability and genomics of obesity phenotypes during development, modeling longitudinal growth and development.
Amy Schreier
Associate Professor, Department of Biology
Regis University (Denver, CO)
Research interests: Primate Behavior and Ecology; Evolution of Social Structure; Primate Cognitive Ecology; Baboon Socioecology and Evolutionary History; Evolution of Human Behavior;
Maja Šešelj
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Bryn Mawr College
Research interests: Comparative morphology and patterns of growth and development in middle and late Pleistocene hominins, Paleolithic archaeology.
Brian Shearer
Assistant Professor of Anatomy
University of California, San Francisco - School of Medicine
Research interests: geometric morphometrics, hominin evolution
Chet Sherwood
Professor, Department of Anthropology
George Washington University
Research interests: neuroanatomy, brain evolution, allometry
Christopher Smith
Postdoc, Anthropology Division
American Museum of Natural History
Research interests: paleoanthropology, craniofacial morphology, evolution of the hominin cranial base and inner ear, scientific visualization
Lindsey Smith
TWP Lecturing Fellow
Duke University
Research interests: Gestural communication in African apes; primate behavior; language evolution.
Jeff Spear
Department of Anthropology
New York University
Research interests: comparative paleomorphology of primates, primate evolution, evolutionary transitions, functional morphology
Stephanie Spehar
Associate Professor, Religious Studies & Anthropology Department
University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Research interests: primate socioecology, mating systems, group dynamics and social behavior, communication
Kirstin Sterner
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
University of Oregon
Research interests: primate comparative genomics, adaptive evolution, human brain evolution, infectious diseases in primate hosts, HIV/SIV and AIDS, evolutionary medicine, colobines
Denise Su
Associate Professor
Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University
Research interests: paleoecology, hominin evolution
Sandra Suárez
Director of Upward Bound
Ramapo College of New Jersey
Research interests: primate genetics, animal behavior, neotrpoical primates, ecology, field methods, conservation biology
Francys Subiaul
Associate Professor, Speech and Hearing Science
Mind, Brain & Evolution Center, George Washington University
Research interests: social cognition, learning, primate cognition
Wesley Sutton
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Lehman College
Research interests: human population genetics
Larissa Swedell
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Research interests: social behavior, behavioral ecology, reproductive strategies, evolution of social organization, human social evolution, conservation, baboons
Maressa Takahashi
Scientific Officer and Communications Manager
Botnar Research Centre for Child Health
Research interests: enabling research excellence, science outreach and environmental conservation
Lissa Tallman
Executive Vice President
Flashfield
Research interests: Strategic Market Research Executive | Developing and leading creative, data-driven solutions to complex problems
Paul Telfer
Regional Director, Sudano Sahel Region
Wildlife Conservation Society
Research interests: Primate Biogeography and Conservation with special emphasis on West African primate evolutionary relationships
Nicole Thompson González
Manager of Biobehavioral Health Laboratory
UC Santa Barbara
Research interests: adaptive benefits of social bonds, juvenile social behavior, life history theory
Nelson Ting
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon
Research interests: Molecular Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Conservation Biology, Phylogenetics, Population Genetics, Phylogeography
Jen Tinsman
Consultant
Natural Climate Solutions Systematic Review Project
Research interests: Conservation genomics, speciation, climate gradients, adaptation to climate change, lemurs
Anthony Tosi
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Kent State University
Research interests: Molecular forensics, Systematics, Population genetics, Phylogeography of nonhuman primates
Amber Trujillo
Bioinformatics Analyst
Weill Cornell Medicine
Research interests: Forensic Anthropology, Environmental DNA (eDNA), Biodiversity
Monica Uddin
Professor, College of Public Health
University of South Florida
Research interests: Social context and human population health; genetic and epigenetic markers of mental illness; gene X social environment interactions.
Catalina Villamil
Assistant Professor of Anatomy
Universidad Central del Caribe
Research interests: paleoanthropology, morphological variation, functional morphology, morphological integration
James Warfield
Research interests: primate ecology, conservation biology
Johanna Warshaw
Clinical Associate Professor, Molecular Pathobiology
New York University College of Dentistry
Research interests: Primate phylogeny; primate life history; primate functional morphology and biomechanics; bone biology and histology.
Nicole (Coley) Webb
Postdoctoral Researcher
Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution in Tübingen
Research interests: Primate locomotion, Miocene ape evolution, postcranial functional morphology, skeletal allometry, finite element modeling
Darice Westphal
Assistant Professor, Department of Foundations of Medicine
NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine
Research interests: deforestation, remote sensing, ddRADseq
Danielle Whittaker
Managing Director, Center for Oldest Ice Exploration
Oregon State University
Research interests: Avian chemical communication, mate choice, multimodal communication
Derek Wildman
Professor, College of Public Health
University of South Florida
Research interests: The biology of pregnancy, Evolution of genes X environment interactions, Mammalian phylogenetics, Rates of nucleotide sequence evolution, The evolution of the brain, Primate evolutionary genetics
Kimberly Williams-Guillen
Director of Conservation Science
Paso Pacífico
Research interests: Ecology and conservation of terrestrial mammals
Sandra Winters
Postdoc, Ecology & Evolution of Interactions Research Group
University of Helsinki
Research interests: adaptive coloration, visual signals, sensory ecology, sexual selection, primates
Steven Worthington
Director of Data Science Services & Lead Data Scientist, Institute for Quantitative Social Science
Harvard University
Research interests: Morphology and evolution of catarrhine primates, pattern and process of homoplasy within Mammalia, theory and method of phylogenetic inference.
Julia Zichello
Doctoral Lecturer, Department of Anthropology
Hunter College
Research interests: Primate population genetics, cranial evolution, the role of genetic drift in shaping morphological diversity, Hylobatid evolutionary history