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Bioarchaeology, paleopathology, modern human variation of the foot skeleton

Sheela Athreya is an Associate Professor and Chancellor’s Edges Fellow at Texas A&M University. She received her Ph.D. in biological anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis, and her M.A. in Paleolithic archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania.

Her research focuses on Middle and Late Pleistocene hominin evolution and systematics. …

Jonathan Bethard is a biological anthropologist with research interests in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology.

Kimberly received her PhD from the University of Missouri in 2015. Since then, she has been focused on understanding the role of climbing throughout primate evolution. Her research program employs experimental models to explore the functional morphology, biomechanics, and behavioral adaptations related to different forms of climbing and arboreal living. …

Dr. Ellwanger is an anthropologist and ecologist whose work integrates the behavioral ecology of animals, especially behaviorally flexible primates, with the human sociocultural dimensions of the environment. She uses a mixed-methods approach to examine the ecological, biological, and cultural dimensions of conflict and coexistence between people and wildlife.

My primary research objective is the discovery, description, and analysis of new fossil primates —especially human ancestors, or hominins— from eastern Africa. I am an Associate Curator and Chair of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), an Associate Professor in the museum’s Richard Gilder Graduate School, and …

Kevin Hatala is interested in postcranial functional morphology and the evolution of human gait. Specifically, he is interested in combining experimental biomechanical studies with analyses of the fossil record to better understand the evolutionary history of human locomotion.

Genotype:phenotype mapping of the primate dentition and human adaptation.

Human and primate evolution, integrating many different kinds of data across the discipline of anthropology, including information from genetics, anatomy, archaeology and socio-cultural anthropology.

paleoanthropology, nonhuman primates, dental and growth and development, 3D geometric morphometrics, science communication

My general research interests are in infant and juvenile social development.  I study primates because they are characterized by some of the most protracted developmental periods among mammals, and because what we learn about non-human primate development can be used to understand better the evolutionary history of our own. 

Ancient DNA, Population Genetics, Instructor of Biology- Animal systems, Human Subjects Office monitor

My academic background and expertise is in primate behavior and ecology with a focus on chimpanzees. I now work in science communication and public engagement with science.

Dr. Pobiner studies the evolution of human diets in the Paleolithic, as well as the teaching and learning of evolution in formal and informal educational settings. Pronouns: she/her/hers

Her primary research includes reconstructing paleoecological contexts for early human evolution in eastern and southern Africa, as well as identifying and analyzing fossil mammal communities to characterize their biogeographic and ecological affinities through space and time.

Dr. Michael B. C. Rivera is a Filipino-Chinese researcher, writer, public speaker and biological anthropologist. Obtaining his PhD in 2019 from the University of Cambridge, his main research focuses on how humans have evolved and adapted biologically and culturally over the last six million years. His main research methods include …

Human variation, knee anatomy, postcranial morphology, hominin evolution

Paleoanthropology, Anthropology Education, Science Policy

I am a paleoanthropologist interested in the evolution of pelvic morphology and its adaptation to different selective pressures in extant primates and hominins. My PhD research focused on thoraco-pelvic covariation in humans and great apes, developing novel methods to predict missing fossil skeletal elements of the torso. During my first …

Katrina is interested in how the use of large animal food resources, particularly marrow, impacted human biological and behavioral evolution through the application of methods like 3D modeling, differential geometry, and machine learning. She is also a co-founder of the AMAAZE research consortium and Science and Social Studies Adventures, …