Graduate Students: Anthropology Ph.D. Program—Physical Anthropology

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Starletta Brown
Committee: Mark Spencer (Chair)
Undergraduate Institution: State University of New York – Buffalo

Kierstin Catlett
Committee: Gary Schwartz (Chair), Mark Spencer, Kaye Reed, C. Michael Barton
Undergraduate/Other Graduate Institution: University of Wyoming; Northern Illinois University

 

Jason Crosby
Committee: Curtis Marean (Chair)
Undergraduate Institution: University of California – Berkeley
Hometown: San Jose, California

 

Elizabeth Susanne Daly
Research Interests: Paleoanthropology, Dental Morphology and Variation, Taphonomy
Committee: Gary Schwartz (Chair)
Undergraduate/Other Graduate Institution: Franklin and Marshall College; Mercyhurst College
Hometown: York, Pennsylvania
 

 

 

 

  

Hallie Edmonds
AAGS Co-Treasurer
Research Interests: Post-Cranial Biomechanics, Functional Morphology, Primate Locomotor Ability
Committee: Mark Spencer (Chair)
Undergraduate Institution: University of Arizona
Hometown: Tucson, Arizona 

 

 

 

 

Halszka Glowacka
Research Interests: Paleoanthropology, Life History Evolution, Primate Dentognathic Development
Committee: Gary Schwartz (Chair)
Undergraduate/Other Graduate Institution: University of Toronto
Hometown: Toronto, Canada

 

  

 
 

 

Emily Hallett
Research Interests: Zooarchaeology and Paleoecology of North African (Modern Human) and Middle
    Eastern (Neanderthal) Middle Paleolithic Sites
Committee: Curtis Marean (Co-Chair), Kaye Reed (Co-Chair), Harold Dibble (University of Pennsylvania), 
     William Kimbel
Undergraduate Institution: University of Washington
Institute of Human Origins Fellowship, Doctoral Recruitment Fellowship

 

  

 

Jamie Hodgkins
Research Interests: Paleoecology and Zooarchaeology of European Middle Paleolithic Neanderthal Sites
Committee: Curtis Marean (Co-Chair), Kaye Reed (Co-Chair), Lillian Spencer, Kelly Knudson
Undergraduate Institution: University of Colorado – Boulder
Institute of Human Origins Student Profile 

 

 

 

Sharon Kessler
Committee: Leanne Nash (Chair), Kaye Reed, Elke Zimmermann and Ute Radespiel (University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover)
Undergraduate Institution: Vassar College

Sarah Lansing
Research Interests: Taphonomy, Zooarchaeology, Carnivore Behavior & Conservation in Africa, Hyenas
Committee: Curtis Marean (Chair), Kaye Reed, Ingrid Wiesel (Namibian Brown Hyena Project)
Undergraduate Institution: Michigan State University
Hometown: Portland, Maine

 

Lynn Lucas
Research Interests: Functional Morphology, Mastication, Hominin Evolution
Committee: Mark Spencer (Chair), William Kimbel, Gary Schwartz
Undergraduate Institution: Texas Tech University
Institute of Human Origins Student Profile

 

 

 

 

Chalachew Mesfin Seyoum
Research Interests: Hominin Evolution and their Environment
Committee: William Kimbel (Chair)
Undergraduate Institution: Addis Ababa University

 

 

 

 

 

Thierra Nalley
Research Interests: Fossil Hominids, Functional Morphology of Basicranium and Cervical Spine, Origins of
    Bipedalism
Committee: William Kimbel (Chair), Mark Spencer, Kaye Reed
Undergraduate Institution: University of Missouri – Columbia 

 

 

 

 

Maria Nieves Colón
Research Interests: Molecular Anthropology, Ancient DNA, the Caribbean Region
Committee: Anne Stone (Chair)
Undergraduate Institution: University of Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras
Hometown: Bayamon, Puerto Rico

 

 

  

 

Teague O'Mara
Research Interests: Primate Growth and Development, Sex Differences in Feeding Ecology, Ecophysiology, Life History
Committee: Leanne Nash (Chair), Kaye Reed, Gary Schwartz, Michelle Sauther (University of Colorado)
Undergraduate Institution: Grand Valley State University
Hometown: Hastings, Michigan
Personal Web Page
Dean's Advanced Scholarship, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Fulbright Foundation Fellowship

 

 

Luz-Andrea (Lucha) Pfister
Research Interests: Origins and Evolution of Human Disease, Host-Pathogen Co-Evolution, Anthropological Genetics, Human and
     Non-Human Primate Evolution, Genetic Contributions to the Evolution of Primate Social Behavior
Committee: Anne Stone (Chair), Michael Rosenberg, Josephine Clark-Curtiss, Jane Buikstra
Undergraduate/Graduate Institutions: Universidad de Chile (Undergraduate); University of Nevada – Las Vegas (Master's); University of
    Bern (Doctorate)
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Terry Ritzman
Research Interests: Paleoanthropology, Craniofacial Growth and Development, Modern Human Origins 
Committee: Gary Schwartz (Chair), Mark Spencer, William Kimbel
Undergraduate Institution: University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign
Hometown: Rockford, Illinois
Institute of Human Origins Student Profile 
Personal Web Page

 

 

 

Samantha Russak
Research Interests: Primate Behavioral Ecology, Faunal Communities
Committee: Kaye Reed (Chair), Leanne Nash, Gary Schwartz
Undergraduate Institution: Miami University, Ohio
Hometown: Flemington, New Jersey
Personal Web Page
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship    
Institute of Human Origins: Notes from the Field blog 

  

 

Caitlin Schrein
Research Interests: Craniofacial Adaptation in Anthropoid Primates, Skull Form & Function in Miocene
    Hominoidea, Finite Element Modeling, Anthropology Education Research: Teaching Human Evolution
Committee: Don Johanson (Co-Chair), Richard Toon (Co-Chair), Debi Molina-Walters, Ed Hackett
Undergraduate Institution: Columbia University
Hometown: River Vale, New Jersey
2010-11 Graduate and Professional Student Association Continuing Excellence in Teaching Award

 

  

 

Amy Shapiro
AAGS Physical Anthropology Approach Representative
Research Interests: Paleoecology of Africa, Primate Evolution, Mammal Communities,
     Paleoanthropology
Committee: Kaye Reed (Chair), Curtis Marean, Gary Schwartz
Undergraduate Institution: Yale University
Hometown: New Haven, Connecticut
Doctoral Recruitment Fellowship
Institute of Human Origins: Notes from the Field blog 

 

Laura Stroik
Research Interests: Early Primate Paleobiology, Paleogene Mammalian Communities, Sexual Dimorphism, Phylogenetics
Committee: Gary Schwartz (Chair), Kaye Reed, Mark Spencer, Gregg Gunnell 
Undergraduate Institution: University of San Diego