Core Faculty
Susan Antón
Associate Professor Department of Anthropology New York University
Research interests: Human evolution
Shara Bailey
Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology New York University
Research interests: Paleoanthropology, Modern human origins, Dental anthropology
Marina Cords
Professor Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology & Department of Anthropology Columbia University
Research interests: social behavior, behavioral ecology, primatology, cercopithecines, African forests
Eric Delson
Professor Department of Anthropology Lehman College and The Graduate Center City University of New York
Research interests: Paleoanthropology, Primate Paleontology, Primatology, Evolutionary Biology
Todd Disotell
Professor Department of Anthropology New York University
Research interests: Primate evolution, Molecular evolution, Molecular systematics, Phylogenetic analysis, Population genetics, Phylogeography, Computer modeling, Human evolution, Human variation
John Flynn
Frick Curator Fossil Mammals American Museum of Natural History Dean Richard Gilder Graduate School American Museum of Natural History
Research interests: Evolution of mammals and Mesozoic vertebrates, Geological dating, Plate tectonics, Biogeography
Christopher Gilbert
Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology Hunter College City University of New York
Research interests: Primate paleontology, Geometric morphometrics, Ecomorphology, Systematics, Phylogenetics
William Harcourt-Smith
Assistant 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
Terry Harrison
Professor and Chair Department of Anthropology New York University
Research interests: Fossil catarrhine primates, Early hominins, Comparative morphology, Functional anatomy, Neogene faunas from Africa and Eurasia, Paleoecology
James Higham
Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology New York University
Research interests: Primate socio-ecology; life-history; sexual and social strategies and conflict; behavioral endocrinology; animal communication; conservation of biological diversity.
Jeffrey Laitman
Distinguished Professor Professor and Director, Center for Anatomy and Functional Morphology Professor of Medical Education Professor of Otolaryngology Mount Sinai School of Medicine Professor of Anthropology The Graduate Center City University of New York
Research interests: Comparative anatomy, development and evolution of the mammalian aerodigestive tract (upper respiratory, upper digestive, vocal) and contiguous areas of the cranial base.
Colleen McCann
Curator Department of Mammals Wildlife Conservation Society
Research interests: Primate socioendocrinology; Primate behavior, reproduction and evolutionary history; Conservation biology
Don Melnick
Professor Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology Columbia University
Research interests: Population genetics, Molecular evolution, Conservation
Ekaterina Pechenkina
Associate Professor Department of Anthropology Queens College and The Graduate Center City University of New York
Research interests: Biological anthropology, Bioarchaeology, Disease in prehistory, Bone pathology, Neolithic China, Prehistoric Peru
Thomas Plummer
Associate Professor and Chair Department of Anthropology Queens College and The Graduate Center City University of New York
Research interests: liocene and Pleistocene hominin behavior and paleoecology, the adaptive significance of Early Stone Age lithic technology, hominin and mammalian paleontology, ecomorphology, human osteology
Herman Pontzer
Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology Hunter College City University of New York
Research interests: Human Evolution, Locomotor Biomechanics, Energetics, Experimental Biology, Primate Ecomorphology, Dmanisi
Ryan Raaum
Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology Lehman College and The Graduate Center City University of New York
Research interests: Population genetics, Bioinformatics, Human evolution, Statistical genetics
Alfred Rosenberger
Professor Department of Anthropology and Archaeology Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center City University of New York
Research interests: Primate evolution, Primate origins, Neotropical primates
Jessica Rothman
Assistant 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
Vincent Stefan
Associate Professor and Chair Department of Anthropology Lehman College and The Graduate Center City University of New York
Research interests: Forensic anthropology, Human evolution, Human osteology, Paleoanthropology, Quantitative methods, Polynesian / Easter Island skeletal biology, Oceania
Michael Steiper
Associate 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
Associate 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
Assistant 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
Gail Ashley
Professor Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences Rutgers University
Research interests: sedimentology, paleoenvironments, geoarcheology, East Africa, wetlands, springs
Katerina Harvati
Director, Paleoanthropology University of Tubingen
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
Assistant Professor Department of Biology Queens 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
Jason Munshi-South
Assistant Professor Department of Natural Sciences Baruch College & The Graduate Center City University of New York Visiting Scientist Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics American Museum of Natural History
Research interests: conservation biology, urban ecology, molecular ecology, genomics
Joy Reidenberg
Professor Center for Anatomy and Functional Morphology and Department of Medical Education Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Research interests:
Robert Rockwell
Research Associate Ornithology Department American Museum of Natural History Professor Department of Biology City College and The Graduate Center City University of New York
Research interests: migratory waterfowl, ecology, statistics
Katherine St. John
Professor Department of Mathematics & Computer Science Lehman College and the Graduate Center City University of New York
Research interests: Phylogenetics, Analysis and Visualization of Trees, Random Structures and Algorithms
Eleanor Sterling
Professor Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology Columbia University Director Center for Biodiversity Conservation American Museum of Natural History
Research interests: Conservation Biology, Mammals
Christian Tryon
Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology New York University
Research interests: Archaeology, Behavioral evolution, Middle and Later Pleistocene hominins