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
Colleen McCann
Curator, Department of Mammals
Wildlife Conservation Society
Research interests: Primate socioendocrinology; Primate behavior, reproduction and evolutionary history; Conservation biology
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
Michael Steiper
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Research interests: Genetics, DNA, Phylogenetics, Population genetics, Primates, Hominoids, Malaria, Molecular clocks
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: Functional morphology, Postcranial skeleton, Vertebral column, Morphological integration, Hominin evolution, Mammalian phylogeny, Life history, Longevity.
Resource Faculty and Postdocs
Leslie Aiello
President, American Association of Physical Anthropologists
Professor Emerita, University College London
Research interests: evolution of human adaptation, life history and the evolution of the brain, diet, language and cognition
George Amato
Director, Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics
American Museum of Natural History
Research interests: Conservation genetics and genomics, molecular ecology, cryptic biodiversity, wildlife forensics, conservation biology
Elizabeth Bennett
Vice President for Species Conservation
Wildlife Conservation Society
Research interests: primate conservation, South East Asia, effects of hunting and logging on wildlife
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, Department of Biomaterials
New York University College of Dentistry
Research interests: Hard tissue biology, organismal life history, chronobiology, human evolution, metabolic ecology
Andrew Burrell
Research Scientist
Department of Anthropology, New York University
Research interests: population genetics, biogeography, papionin evolution
Zachary Calamari
Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Sciences
CUNY Baruch College
Research interests: Ontogeny of shape, evolution of disparity, geometric morphometrics, transcriptomics
Joe Califf
Language Lecturer, Expository Writing Program
New York University
Research interests: Behavior; socioendocrinology; cognitive evolution; human evolution
Marine Cazenave
Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Anthropology and RGGS
American Museum of Natural History
Research interests: paleoanthropology, internal structure, cortical bone, trabeculae, postcrania, CT-scanning
Eric Delson
Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology
Lehman College & CUNY Graduate Center
Research interests: Paleoanthropology, Primate Paleontology, Primatology, Evolutionary Biology
Peter DeMenocal
Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
Research interests: African climate change and early human evolution, deep-sea sediment cores, tephrostratigraphy, oxygen isotope composition of planktonic foraminifera
Rob DeSalle
Curator of Entomology, Division of Invertebrate Zoology
American Museum of Natural History
Research interests: molecular systematics, molecular evolution, population and conservation genetics, and evolutionary genomics
Todd Disotell
Professor Emeritus, Anthropology, New York University
Professor, Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Research interests: Primate evolution, Molecular evolution, Molecular systematics, Phylogenetic analysis, Population genetics, Phylogeography, Computer modeling, Human evolution, Human variation
Frances Forrest
Director, Sackler Educational Laboratory for Comparative Genomics and Human Origins
American Museum of Natural History
Research interests: Taphonomy, Zooarchaeology, Paleoecology, Ecomorphology, Dental microwear, Early Stone Age, Hominin dietary variation
Patrick Gannon
Executive Dean and Chief Academic Officer, Colleges of Medicine and Arts and Sciences
International American University (St. Lucia)
Research interests: otolaryngology, evolution of the primate brain and the origins and neurobiology of language
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
Katerina Harvati
Professor and Director of Paleoanthropology
University of Tübingen
Research interests: hominin evolution, Neanderthals, cranial morphology, geometric morphometrics
Sidney Hemming
Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Columbia University
Research interests: geochronology, paleoclimate, isotope geochemistry
Michael Hickerson
Associate Professor, Department of Biology
City College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Research interests: Comparative Phylogeography, Approximate Bayesian Computation, Population Genetics
Patrick Hof
Regenstreif Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of Neuroscience
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Research interests: Brain evolution, marine mammals, neocortex, neuromorphometry, neuropathology
Ralph Holloway
Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology
Columbia University
Research interests: Evolution of the brain and behavior, comparative primate psychology and aggression, ethology, evolutionary biology, paleoneurology, hominid paleontology, neural biological variability, sexual dimorphism, and allometry
Clifford Jolly
Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology
New York University
Research interests: Physical anthropology; primatology; serology; population genetics and speciation; East Africa and Asia.
Rodrigo Lacruz
Assistant Professor, Basic Science and Craniofacial Biology Department
NYU College of Dentistry
Research interests: enamel development of early hominins, histology, molecular biology/physiology
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
Christopher J Lepre
Research Staff
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, The Earth Institute of Columbia University
Research interests: Geological context of human evolution; Geoarchaeology; Stratigraphy & sedimentology; Paleomagnetism; Quaternary climate and environments; East African rift valley
Sergi López-Torres
Assistant Professor, Evolutionary Paleobiology, Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences
Research Associate, Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History
Research interests: Primate Origins, Paleogene mammals, Evolutionary morphology, Phylogenetics
Ross MacPhee
Curator & Professor, Mammalogy/Vertebrate Zoology
Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History
Research interests: paleobiogeography, extinction, and cranial developmental morphology
Jin Meng
Curator-in-Charge of Fossil Mammals, Division of Paleontology
American Museum of Natural History
Research interests: morphology, systematics, and evolution of early mammals in Asia, dental morphology, inner ear morphology, biochronology
Xijun Ni
Research Associate, Division of Vertebrate Paleontology
American Museum of Natural History
Research interests: vertebrate paleontology, evolutionary history of early mammals and early primates
Michael Novacek
Senior Vice President and Provost of Science, Curator & Professor, Division of Paleontology
Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History
Research interests: mammalian evolution, vertebrate paleontology in Mongolia
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
Associate Professor, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology
Duke University
Research interests: human biology, evolutionary physiology, energetics and metabolism
Lauren 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
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
John G. Robinson
Chief Conservation Officer & Executive Vice President, Conservation and Science
Wildlife Conservation Society
Research interests: conservation biology; tropical forest conservation; ethnozoology, primate sociobiology and ecology; evolutionary biology; wildlife hunting and trading
Robert Rockwell
Research Associate, Ornithology Department
American Museum of Natural History
Research interests: migratory waterfowl, ecology, statistics
F. James Rohlf
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Ecology and Evolution
Research Professor, Department of Anthropology
Research interests: multivariate statistics, geometric morphometrics, numerical taxonomy
Alfred Rosenberger
Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology
Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Research interests: Primate evolution, Primate origins, Neotropical primates
Eric Sanderson
Senior Conservation Ecologist
Wildlife Conservation Society
Research interests: wildlife conservation biology; human impact on ecology and the environment; The Mannahatta Project
Mitchell Schaffler
CUNY and Wallace Coulter Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering
City College of New York, City University of New York
Research interests: Bone biomechanics, tendon biomechanics, Skeletal fragility and aging, Bone physiology, Osteocyte function, Osteoporosis, Quantitative methods in analysis of skeletal structure
Milena Shattuck
Doctoral Lecturer, Department of Anthropology
Hunter College
Research interests: primate evolution, molecular evolution, behavioral genetics and endocrinology, sexual selection, life history
Brian Shearer
Instructor, Department of Cell Biology
NYU Langone Medical Center
Research interests: geometric morphometrics, hominin evolution
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
Eleanor Sterling
Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology
Columbia University
Research interests: Conservation Biology, Mammals
Ian Tattersall
Curator Emeritus, Divison of Anthropology
American Museum of Natural History
Research interests: Human and nonhuman primate evolution; origin of Homo sapiens; integration of evolutionary and systematic theory with the human fossil record; systematics, behavior, and ecology of the strepsirhine primates
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
Kevin Uno
Lamont Assistant Research Professor, Division of Biology and Paleo Environment
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
Research interests: Paleoecology, stable isotopes, molecular biomarkers
John Van Couvering
Editor in Chief
Micropaleontology Press
Research interests: Principles and practices in stratigraphic geology; age and environments of Cenozoic mammal faunas of Africa and southern Eurasia; the Neogene time scale and chronostratigraphic boundaries
John Wahlert
Professor and Chair, Department of Natural Sciences
Baruch College, City University of New York
Research interests: vertebrate paleontology; cranial morphology of rodents
Ward Wheeler
Curator, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, Computational Sciences
American Museum of Natural History
Research interests: systematics, comparative biology, computational biology, phylogenetics, evolutionary history of metazoa
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