Students
Alexis Amann
Department of Anthropology The Graduate Center City University of New York
Research interests: primate behavior and ecology, captive animal managment
Claudia Astorino
Department of Anthropology The Graduate Center City University of New York
Research interests: human osteology and skeletal biology, human morphological variation, forensic anthropology, recent human evolution, sexual dimorphism, sex estimation methods, quantitative methods
Ashley Bales
Department of Anthropology New York University
Research interests: Catarrhine and hominoid evolution, systematics, geometric morphometrics
Christina Bergey
Department of Anthropology New York University
Research interests: Bioinformatics, Molecular systematics, Primate disease, demography
Maryjka Blaszczyk
Department of Anthropology New York University
Research interests: Behavioral ecology of temperament/personality traits
Scott Blumenthal
Department of Anthropology The Graduate Center CIty University of New York
Research interests: Paleoanthropology, reconstructing seasonal dietary and environmental variation in modern and fossil animals, stable isotope biogeochemistry, ecomorphology
Margaret Bryer
Department of Anthropology The Graduate Center City University of New York
Research interests: primate nutritional ecology, redtail monkey (Cercopithecus ascanius) behavioral ecology, primate insectivory
Paulo Chaves
Department of Anthropology New York University
Research interests: Phylogeography, conservation genetics, non-invasive genetic sampling, evolution of behavior, Neotropical primates, Brachyteles
Shahrina Chowdhury
Department of Anthropology The Graduate Center City University of New York
Research interests: primate behavior and ecology
Jen Crick
Richard Gilder Graduate School American Museum of Natural History
Research interests: Conservation, social behavior, population-level health and genetic diversity, lemurs
Anand Dacier
Department of Anthropology New York University
Research interests: Behavioral ecology; sensory ecology; cognition; evolutionary neurobiology; primate evolution; mammalian evolution; systematics; phylogeography; population genetics; conservation biology.
Yasmine El Gabbani
Department of Anthropology New York University
Research interests: biological anthropology, dental anthropology, modern human craniodental variation, biodistance analyses, North African archaeology and population history
Jennifer Eyre
Department of Anthropology New York University
Research interests: postcranial functional morphology, hominin evolution, locomotion
Emma Finestone
Department of Anthropology The Graduate Center City University of New York
Research interests: Plio-Pleistocene hominin evolution; reconstructing hominin behavior and diet; Oldowan tool use and transport patterns; primate tool use
Frances Forrest
Department of Anthropology The Graduate Center City University of New York
Research interests: Paleoanthropology; Plio-Pleistocene hominin evolution; evolution of the genus Homo; paleoecology; taphonomy; Africa.
James Fuller
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology Columbia University
Research interests: Behavioral ecology, vocal communication, determinants of social structure
Eva Garrett
Department of Anthropology The Graduate Center City University of New York
Research interests: Primate evolution, evolutionary morphology, sexual dimorphism, olfaction, sexual selection, sensory ecology, life history, vomeronasal organ, nasal anatomy
Justin Gladman
Department of Anthropology The Graduate Center City University of New York
Research interests: Paleontology and the evolution of non-human primates, especially platyrrhines
A. Yasmeen Hinedi
Department of Anthropology The Graduate Center City University of New York
Research interests: forensic anthropology, Central Asia
Caley Johnson
Department of Anthropology The Graduate Center City University of New York
Research interests: primate nutritional ecology, forest baboon ecology (Papio anubis), primate-plant coevolution, conservation biology
Zachary Klukkert
Department of Anthropology The Graduate Center City University of New York
Research interests: Primate and mammalian evolution and dietary adaptations; platyrrhines; functional dental morphology, mastication and feeding behavior; mechanical and nutritional properties of primate foods; GIS and 3D imaging in dental morphology.
Myra Laird
Department of Anthropology New York University
Research interests: Modern human origins, craniodental morphology, hominin environmental and functional variation, geometric morphometrics, early migrations of Homo sapiens
Elissa Ludeman
Department of Anthropology New York University
Research interests: paleoanthropology, dental anthropology, primate sensory system evolution
Eric Mazelis
Department of Anthropology The Graduate Center City University of New York
Research interests: Dentition, dental functional morphology, Geometric Morphometrics
Emily Middleton
Department of Anthropology New York University
Research interests: Paleoanthropology, postcranial skeletal morphology, primate locomotor/positional behavior
Marc Moniz
Department of Anthropology The Graduate Center City University of New York
Research interests: Paleoanthropology; hominin evolution; paleobiogeography of the African Plio-Pleistocene; bovid evolution; phylogenetic methods.
Alejandra Ortiz
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
Department of Anthropology The Graduate Center City University of New York Center for Anatomy and Functional Morphology Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Research interests: nasopharynx and upper respiratory tract, ontogeny, functional anatomy, soft tissue reconstruction, paleoanthropology, geometric morphometrics
Jennifer Parkinson
Department of Anthropology The Graduate Center City University of New York
Research interests: Paleoanthropology; paleoecology, environmental context of human evolution; early hominid habitat use; taphonomy; zooarchaeology; East Africa; Oldowan
Tara Peburn
Lecturer in Anatomy Department of Pathology & Anatomical Sciences University of Missouri
Research interests: Functional morphology, variation, growth & development and homoplasy
Luca Pozzi
Department of Anthropology New York University
Research interests: Primate evolution, biogeography and systematics - Strepsirhines - Molecular evolution and phylogenetics - Conservation and population genetics - Vocal communication and behavior - Mathematical modeling
Kelsey Pugh
Department of Anthropology The Graduate Center City University of New York
Research interests: human evolution, hominin postcranial morphology, hominin locomotor behaviors, phylogenetics
Christopher Rainwater
Department of Anthropology New York University
Research interests: skeletal biology, forensic anthropology
Su-Jen Roberts
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology Columbia University
Research interests: Behavioral ecology, social behavior, reproductive strategies, conservation biology
Brian Shearer
Department of Anthropology The Graduate Center City University of New York
Research interests: geometric morphometrics, hominin evolution
Maressa Takahashi
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology Columbia University
Research interests: animal behavior, conservation, nutritional ecology
Catalina Villamil
Department of Anthropology New York University
Research interests: paleoanthropology, morphological variation, functional morphology
Steven Wang
Department of Anthropology The Graduate Center City University of New York Lecturer School of Anthropology University of Arizona
Research interests: Paleoanthropology, paleobiology and phylogeny of Middle and Late Pleistocene hominins in Asia, modern human origin(s) and dispersal, comparative cranial morphology, 3-D geometric morphometrics
Nicole Webb
Department of Anthropology The Graduate Center City University of New York
Research interests: paleoanthropology, hominin postcranial morphology, human evolution, bipedalism
Darice Westphal
Department of Anthropology The Graduate Center City University of New York
Research interests: population genetics, speciation, adaptive radiations
Sandra Winters
Department of Anthropology New York University
Research interests: social behavior, socioecology, sexual behavior and reproductive strategies, sexual selection, signaling, decision making in a social context, Cercopithecines
Julia Zichello
Department of Anthropology The Graduate Center City University of New York
Research interests: Primate population genetics, cranial evolution, the role of genetic drift in shaping morphological diversity, Hylobatid evolutionary history