Core Faculty
Sergio Almécija
Senior Research Scientist, Division of Anthropology
American Museum of Natural History
Research interests: ape evolution, human evolution, morphometrics, evolutionary biology
Susan Antón
Professor, Department of Anthropology
New York University
Research interests: Human evolution
Andrea Baden
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Research interests: molecular ecology, conservation genetics, social behavior, lemurs, Madagascar
Shara Bailey
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
New York University
Research interests: Paleoanthropology, Modern human origins, Dental anthropology
Stephen Chester
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Research interests: evolutionary morphology; primate origins; mammalian evolution and response to climate change
Shahrina Chowdhury
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Research interests: primate behavior and ecology
Marina Cords
Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology & Anthropology
Columbia University
Research interests: social behavior, behavioral ecology, primatology, cercopithecines, African forests
Victoria Dominguez
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Lehman College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Research interests: Skeletal Biology, Bone Histology and Microarchitecture, Bone Quality, Biomechanics, and Forensic Anthropology
John Flynn
Frick Curator, Fossil Mammals
American Museum of Natural History
Research interests: Evolution of mammals and Mesozoic vertebrates, Geological dating, Plate tectonics, Biogeography
Christopher Gilbert
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Research interests: Primate paleontology, Geometric morphometrics, Ecomorphology, Systematics, Phylogenetics
Ashley Hammond
Assistant Curator of Biological Anthropology, Division of Anthropology
American Museum of Natural History
Research interests: Paleoanthropology, Human Evolution, Functional Morphology, East Africa, primate locomotion
William Harcourt-Smith
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Lehman College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Research interests: Paleoanthropology, Human Evolution, Hominin postcranial morphology, Functional Anatomy, Primate locomotion, Hominoid paleoecology, Geometric morphometrics, Skeletal variation
James Higham
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
New York University
Research interests: Sexual selection, reproduction and life history, communication and sensory ecology, and cognition and the brain
Radu Iovita
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, New York University
Leader, ERC Group "PALAEOSILKROAD", University of Tübingen
Research interests: Paleolithic archaeology; Central Asia; Archaeological survey methods; Lithics; use-wear analysis; controlled experiments; Geometric Morphometrics
Jeffrey Laitman
Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Anatomy and Functional Morphology
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Research interests: Comparative anatomy, development and evolution of the mammalian aerodigestive tract (upper respiratory, upper digestive, vocal) and contiguous areas of the cranial base.
Stephanie Levy
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Research interests: Energetics, developmental origins of health and disease, life history theory, climate change, cardio-metabolic health, brown adipose tissue
Felicia Madimenos
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Research interests: female reproductive ecology, energetics, life history theory, skeletal health , modern human biology, market integration and health
Justin Pargeter
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
New York University
Research interests: Pleistocene archaeology, hominin bio-cultural evolution, stone tool technology, experimental archaeology, field archaeology, sub-Saharan Africa, science communication, public engagement
Kate Pechenkina
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Research interests: Paleopathology, human diet and health in early China, stable isotopes, oral health
Thomas Plummer
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Research interests: Pliocene and Pleistocene hominin behavior and paleoecology, the adaptive significance of Early Stone Age lithic technology, hominin and mammalian paleontology, ecomorphology, human osteology
Ryan Raaum
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Lehman College & CUNY Graduate Center
Research interests: Population genetics, Bioinformatics, Human evolution, Statistical genetics
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
Jessica Rothman
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Research interests: Primate ecology and behavior, nutrition, evolutionary ecology, Old World Monkeys, Apes, Africa
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
Scott Williams
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
New York University
Research interests: Bipedalism, Evolutionary morphology, Postcranial skeleton, Vertebral column, Hominin evolution
Resource Faculty and Postdocs
George Amato
Director Emeritus, Institute for Comparative Genomics
American Museum of Natural History
Research interests: Conservation Genomics, Phylogenomics, Wildlife Trade and Forensics
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
Tim Bromage
Professor, Division of Biomaterials
New York University College of Dentistry
Research interests: Hard tissue biology, organismal life history, chronobiology, human evolution, metabolic ecology
John Bunce
Assistant Curator, Division of Anthropology
American Museum of Natural History
Research interests: Cultural dynamics, growth and nutrition, Amazonian Indigenous Peoples, ecology and genetics of primate color vision
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
Eric Delson
Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology
Lehman College & CUNY Graduate Center
Research interests: Paleoanthropology, Primate Paleontology, Primatology, Evolutionary Biology
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
Deanna Goldstein
Clinical Professor, Medical Education & Academic Affairs
CUNY School of Medicine
Research interests: Functional morphology, primate skeleton, 3D shape analysis, internal bone structure, cross-sectional properties
Kirsty Graham
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Hunter College CUNY
Research interests: Primate communication, evolution of gestures and language, bonobos, chimpanzees, Sulawesi crested macaques
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
Terry Harrison
Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology
New York University
Research interests: Fossil catarrhine primates, Early hominins, Comparative morphology, Functional anatomy, Neogene faunas from Africa and Eurasia, Paleoecology
Evon Hekkala
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Fordham University
Research interests: museum genomics, aDNA, crocodile phylogeny and biogeography, anthropogenic impacts
Emma Kozitzky
Assistant Professor, Department of Foundations of Medicine
New York University
Research interests: Human gross anatomy, medical education, primate dentition, hybridization
David Lahti
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Research interests: Vocal learning, relaxed selection and trait loss, brood parasitism and coevolution, bird egg color, cultural evolution, human social evolution, ethics and philosophy of biology
Ingrid Lundeen
Doctoral Lecturer, Department of Anthropology
Hunter College
Research interests: Primate and Euarchontogliran evolution, Sensory anatomy and evolution, Paleobiogeography, Paleogene mammalian diversity
Samuel Marquez
Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Otolaryngology
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Research interests: comparative anatomy, human and primate evolution
Colleen McCann
Former Curator of Mammals
Wildlife Conservation Society
Research interests: Primate socioendocrinology; Primate behavior, reproduction and evolutionary history; Conservation biology
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
Herman Pontzer
Professor, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology
Duke University
Research interests: human biology, evolutionary physiology, energetics and metabolism
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
Joy Reidenberg
Professor, Center for Anatomy and Functional Morphology
and Department of Medical Education, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Research interests: comparative anatomy, development, and evolution of the mammalian upper respiratory tract
Caissa Revilla-Minaya
Research Scientist, Division of Anthropology, AMNH
Guest Researcher, Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Research interests: Environmental anthropology, ethnobiology, conceptions of non-human beings, Amazonian Indigenous Peoples, local notions of nutrition and wellbeing, food security
Su-Jen Roberts
Director of Educational Research and Evaluation
Wildlife Conservation Society
Research interests: informal science education, environmental identity, conservation biology, STEM career development
F. James Rohlf
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Ecology and Evolution
Research Professor, Department of Anthropology
Research interests: multivariate statistics, geometric morphometrics, numerical taxonomy
Milena Shattuck
Doctoral Lecturer, Department of Anthropology
Hunter College
Research interests: primate evolution, molecular evolution, behavioral genetics and endocrinology, sexual selection, life history
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
Katherine St. John
Professor, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science
Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center
Research interests: Phylogenetics, Analysis and Visualization of Trees, Random Structures and Algorithms
Michael Steiper
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
College of Staten Island, CUNY
Research interests: Genetics, DNA, Phylogenetics, Population genetics, Primates, Hominoids, Malaria, Molecular clocks
Samar Syeda
Kalbfleisch Postdoctoral Fellow, RGGS and Division of Anthropology
American Museum of Natural History
Research interests: Ape and hominin evolution, Functional morphology, Internal bone structure, Postcranial skeleton, Hand morphology
Cassandra Turcotte
Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Anthropology
New York University
Research interests: comparative and functional anatomy, musculoskeletal biology, digital imaging and microscopy, 3D modeling, muscle-bone attachment regions
Darice Westphal
Assistant Professor, Department of Foundations of Medicine
NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine
Research interests: deforestation, remote sensing, ddRADseq
Deming Yang
Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Anthropology and RGGS
American Museum of Natural History
Research interests: paleoanthropology, dental microstructure, stable isotope ecology, paleoclimatology, Bayesian statistics, computer simulations
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