Dr. Marian Dagosto

• 1986-1987
• Associate Professor, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology
  Northwestern University
  303 E. Chicago Avenue
  Chicago, IL 60611
• E-mail: m-dagosto(at)nwu.edu

Dr. Daniel Gebo

• 1986-1987
• Presidential Research Professor, Department of Anthropology
  Norther Illinois University
  DeKalb, IL 60115
• E-mail: dgebo(at)niu.edu

Dr. David Begun

• 1988-1989
• Professor, Department of Anthropology
  University of Toronto
  Toronto, Canada ON M5S 3G3
• E-mail: begun(at)chass.utoronto.ca

Dr. M. Elizabeth Strasser

• 1989-1990
• Professor, Department of Anthropology
  California State University
  6000 J Street
  Sacramento, Ca 95819
• E-mail: strasser(at)saclink.csus.edu

Dr. Brian Corner

• 1989-1991
• Research Anthropologist, U.S. Army Soldier Center
  AMSSB-RSS-E(N)
  Natic, MA 01760
• E-mail: brian.crner(at)natick.army.mil

Dr. Barbara Brown

• 1990-1992
• Assistant Professor of Anatomy in Orthopaedic Surgery
  Northeast Ohio Universities College of Medicine
  4209 St. Rt. 44, P.O. Box 95
  Rootstown, OH 44272-0095
• E-mail: bxb(at)neoucom.edu

Dr. Hannah Grausz

• 1991-1992
• Associate Director, MetroHealth/Cleveland Clinic Foundation Emergency Medicine Residency and Associate Staff Physician
  Cleveland Clinic Foundation
  Cleveland, OH 44195
• E-mail: grauszh(at)ccf.org

Dr. Peter Ungar

• 1992-1993
• Distinguished Professor and Chairman, Department of Anthropology
  University of Arkansas
  Old Main 330
  Fayetteville, AR 72701
• E-mail: pungar(at)uark.edu

Dr. Theodore M. Cole, III

• 1994-1998
• Assistant Professor, Department of Basic Medical Science
  School of Medicine
  University of Missouri at Kansas City
  Kansas City, MO 64108
• E-mail: tcole(at)cctr.umkc.edu

Dr. Nayuta Yamashita

• 1997-1998
• Assistant Professor, Cell and Neurobiology
  University of Southern California
  Los Angeles, CA
• E-mail: nayutaya(at)usc.edu

Dr. Michael Zumpano

• 1997-1999
• Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy
  N.Y. Chiropractic College
  2360 State Route 89
  Seneca Falls, NY 13148
• E-mail: mzumpano(at)nycc.edu

Dr. Samantha Hens

• 1998-2000
• Professor, Department of Anthropology
  California State University
  6000 J Street
  Sacramento, CA 95819
• E-mail: shens(at)csus.edu

Dr. Donald Henderson

• 1999-2001
• Department of Biological Sciences
  University of Calgary
  Calgary, Canada, AB
• E-mail: donhender(at)ucalgary.ca

Dr. Myriam Zylstra

• 2000-2002
• Assistant Professor of Anatomy
  Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine
  Midwestern University
  19555 N. 59th Avenue
  Glendale, AZ 85308
• E-mail: mzylst(at)arizona.midwestern.edu

Dr. Rebecca Fisher

• 2002-2004
• Dual appointment:
  Assistant Professor of Anatomy
  Department of Basic Medicial Sciences
  University of Arizona, College of Medicine Phoenix
  4001 N. 3rd Street, Suite 415
  Phoenix, AZ 85012School of Life Sciences
  Arizona State University
  ISTB1, Room 422 Tempe, AZ 85287
• E-mail:

Dr. Kristin Wright

• 2004-2006
• Assistant Professor of Anatomy
  Department of Anatomy, College of Osteopathic Medicine
  Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences
  Kansas City, MO
• E-mail: kwright(at)kcumb.edu

Dr. Adam D. Sylvester

• 2007-2009
• Assistant Professor, Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution
  Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
  1830 E. Monument Street, Room 307A
  Baltimore, MD 21202
• E-mail: asylves4(at)jhmi.edu

Dr. Rachel Dunn

• 2009-2011
• Lectuer in Anatomy
  Department of Pathology and Anatomical Science
  University of Missouri
  M263 Medical Science Building
  1 Hospital Drive
  Columbia, MO 65212
• E-mail: dunnrh(at)missouri.edu

Dr. Terence R. Mitchell

• 2011-2013
• Assistant Professor of Anatomy
  Campbell University School of Osteopathic Medicine
  4350 U.S. 421 South
  Lillington, NC 27546
• E-mail: tmitchell(at)campbell.edu

Dr. Janine Chalk

• 2013-2015
• Assistant Professor, Department of Basic Medical Science
  Mercer University School of Medicine
  1550 College Street, Macon, GA 31207
• E-mail: chalk_jm(at)mercer.edu

Dr. Elizabeth M. St. Clair

• 2015-2016
• Instructor, Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution
  Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
  1830 E. Monument Street, Room 305
  Baltimore, MD 21202
• E-mail: estclai(at)jhmi.edu

Mr. Maxx C. Toler

• 2015-2016
• Instructor of Anatomy
  School of Medicine, Campbell University
• mctoler0818(at)campbell.edu

Dr. Zachary S. Klukkert

• 2019-2020
• Assistant Professor
  Central Michigan University College of Medicine
• z.klukkert@gmail.com

Dr. Christine M. Harper

• 2020-2021
• charpe18@jhmi.edu
• Research Focuses: Functional morphology of the postcranial skeleton
  Human, nonhuman primate, and early hominin locomotor behavior
  Quantitative approaches to morphological variation

Dr. Christine M. Harper

• 2020-2021
• charpe18@jhmi.edu
• Research Focuses: Functional morphology of the postcranial skeleton
  Human, nonhuman primate, and early hominin locomotor behavior
  Quantitative approaches to morphological variation

Dr. Lauren Meckel

• 2021-2022
• lauren.meckel@gmail.com
• Research focuses: the effects of diet, lifestyle, and structural violence on human bone microstructural properties. 

 

Dr. Christopher Beard

• Foundation Distinguished Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, and Senior Curator in the Biodiversity Institute, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
• Ph.D., 1989 - Postcranial anatomy, locomotor adaptations, and paleoecology of early Cenozoic Plesiadapidae, Paromomyidae, and Micromomyidae (Eutheria, Dermoptera)
• Associate Editor, Journal of Human Evolution (Academic Press)
• MacArthur Fellow, 2000
• E-mail: chris.beard(at)ku.edu
• Homepage: http://eeb.ku.edu/k-christopher-beard-named

 

Dr. Audrone Biknevicius

• Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Department of Biomedical Sciences,College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, OH
• Ph.D., 1990 - Biomechanical scaling of the mandibular corpus in carnivores
• E-mail: biknevic(at)ohiou.edu

 

Dr. Carol Ward

• Curator's Distinguished Professor and Director of Anatomical Sciences, Department of Anthropology and Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
• Ph.D., 1991 - Functional anatomy of the lower back and pelvis of the Miocene hominoid Proconsul nyanzae from Mfangano Island, Kenya
• E-mail: WardCV(at)missouri.edu
• Homepage: https://www.wardlab.net

 

Dr. Hannah Grausz

• Associate Director, MetroHealth/Cleveland Clinic Foundation Emergency Medicine Residency and Associate Staff Physician, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
• Ph.D., 1992 - Growth of the human perinatal craniofacial skeleton characterized in three dimensions
• M.D., 1996
• E-mail: grauszh(at)ccf.org

 

Dr. Lawrence M. Witmer

• Professor of Anatomy, Chang Ying-Chien Professor of Paleontology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, OH
• Ph.D., 1992 - Ontogeny, phylogeny, and air sacs: The importance of soft-tissue inferences in the interpretation of facial evolution in Archosauria
• E-mail: witmer1(at)ohiou.edu
• Homepage: http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/dbms-witmer/

 

Dr. Jacqueline Runestad-Connour

• Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University of Findlay, Findlay, OH
• Ph.D., 1994 - Humeral and femoral diaphyseal cross-sectional geometry and articular dimensions in Prosimii and Platyrrhini (Primates) with application for reconstruction of body mass and locomotor behavior in Adapidae (Primates: Eocene)
• E-mail: jackie_runestad(at)ccmail.wiu.edu

 

Dr. Ronald E. Heinrich

• Most recent academic address: Instructor, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
• Ph.D., 1996 - Functional morphology and body size of Early Tertiary Miacoidea (Mammalia, Carnivora)
• E-mail: reheinrich(at)gmail.com

 

Dr. Maureen O'Leary

• Professor, Department of Anatomical Sciences, S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook, NY
• Ph.D., 1996 - Dental evolution in the Early Eocene Notharctinae (Primates, Adapiformes) from the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming: documentation of gradual evolution in the oldest true primates
• E-mail: moleary(at)mail.som.sunysb.edu
• Homepage: http://www.anat.stonybrook.edu/people/facultypage/oleary

 

Dr. Katherine Rafferty

• Senior Lecturer, Department of Orthodontics, University of Washington School of Dentistry
• Ph.D., 1996 - Joint design in primates: external and subarticular properties in relation to body size and locomotor behavior
• E-mail: kraff(at)u.washington.edu

 

Dr. Katherine Coffing

• Most recent academic address: Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
• Ph.D., 1998 - The metacarpals of Australopithecus afarensis: locomotor and behavioral implications of cross-sectional geometry
• E-mail: kcoffing(at)anthro.ucla.edu

 

Dr. Naoko Egi

• Assistant Professor of Phylogeny and Systematics Section, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
• Ph.D., 1999 - Functional morphology of the limb bones in recent carnivores and its application to North American Hyaenodontid Creodonta
• E-mail: egi(at)pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp
• Homepage: http://www.pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/shinka/keitou/egi-HP/Egi-top.html [English]

 

Dr. Mason Meers

• Professor and Chair of Biology, Department of Biology, The University of Tampa, FL
• Ph.D., 2000 - Evolution of the crocodylian forelimb: anatomy, biomechanics and functional morphology
• E-mail: mmeers(at)ut.edu

 

Dr. Gail Krovitz

• Adjunct Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Denver, CO
• Ph.D., 2001 - Three-dimensional comparisons of craniofacial morphologyand growth patterns in Neandertals and modern humans
• E-mail: gail.krovitz(at)ucdenver.edu

 

Dr. Mary Silcox

• Professor, Department of Anthropology, Vice Dean of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto Scarbrough, Canada
• Ph.D., 2001 - A phylogenetic analysis of the Plesiadapiformes and their relationship to Euprimates and other Archontans
• E-mail: msilcox(at)utsc.utoronto.ca

 

Dr. Brenda Chinnery

• Most recent academic address: Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
• Ph.D., 2002 - Morphometric analysis of evolution and growth in the Ceratopsian postcranial skeleton
• E-mail: brendachinnery(at)hotmail.com

 

Dr. Yizheng Li

• Staff Scientist, Wyeth Research, Cambridge, MA
• Ph.D., 2002 - Postnatal development of pelvic sexual dimorphism in four anthropoid primates
• E-mail: yli(at)wyeth.com

 

Dr. Kristina Aldridge

• Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology & Anatomical Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO
• Ph.D., 2003 - Organization of the human brain: development, variability, and evolution
• E-mail: aldridgek(at)health.missouri.edu

 

Dr. Anita Hettena

• Biology Co-Chair and Assistant Professor of Biology, San Diego City College, San Diego, CA
• Ph.D., 2003 - A three-dimensional analysis of age-related change in the adult craniofacial skeleton
• E-mail: anitahettena(at)yahoo.com

 

Dr. Valerie Burke DeLeon

• Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Florida. Adjunct Professor, Center for Functional Anatomy & Evolution, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
• Ph.D., 2004 - Fluctuating asymmetry in the human craniofacial skeleton: effects of sexual dimorphism, stress, and developmental anomalies
• E-mail: vdeleon(at)jhmi.edu

 

Dr. François Therrien

• Curator of Dinosaur Palaeoecology, Royal Tyrrell Museum and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Geoscience, University of Calgary, Canada
• Ph.D., 2004 - Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) dinosaur-bearing formations of Romania
• E-mail: Francois.Therrien(at)gov.ab.ca

 

Dr. Jay Mussell

• Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans, LA.
• Ph.D., 2004 - A reexamination of Lipotyphla and Afrotheria using both molecular and morphological analyses
• E-mail: jmusse(at)lsuhsc.edu

 

Dr. Ann C. Zumwalt

• Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
• Ph.D., 2004 - The effect of endurance exercise on the morphology of muscle attachment sites: An experimental study in sheep (Ovis aries)
• E-mail: azumwalt(at)bu.edu

 

Dr. Amy E. Chew

• Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University
• Ph.D., 2005 - Biostratigraphy, Paleoecology and synchronized evolution in the Early Eocene mammalian fauna of the Central Bighorn Basin, Wyoming
• E-mail: achew(at)jhmi.edu

 

Dr. Benjamin M. Auerbach

• Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
• Ph.D., 2007 - Skeletal variation in the New World during the Holocene: effects of climate and subsistence across geography and time
• E-mail: auerbach(at)utk.edu

 

Dr. Jason M. Organ

• Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
• Ph.D., 2007 - The functional anatomy of prehensile and nonprehensile tails of the Platyrrhini (Primates) and Procyonidae (Carnivora)
• E-mail: jorgan(at)iupui.edu

 

Dr. Matthew O'Neill

• Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Midwestern University
• Ph.D., 2008 - The Structural Basis of Locomotor Cost: Gait, Mechanics and Limb Design in Ringtailed Lemurs (Lemur catta)
• E-mail: mneill(at)midwestern.edu

 

Dr. Shawn P. Zack

• Assistant Professor of Anatomy, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix
• Ph.D., 2009 - The phylogeny ofeutherian mammals: a new analysis emphasizing dental and postcranial morphology of Paleogene taxa
• E-mail: spzack(at)gmail.com

 

Dr. Tonya A. Penkrot

• Instructor in Anatomy & Physiology, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ
• Ph.D., 2010 - Molar morphometrics and diet in North American condylarths
• E-mail: tapenkrot(at)gmail.com

 

Dr. Kirsten Brown

• Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Regenerative Biology, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC
• Ph.D., 2011 - Obstetrical Adaptation in the Human Bony Pelvis: A Three-Dimensional Morphometric Approach
• E-mail: brown.kirsten(at)gmail.com

 

Dr. Madeleine Chollet

• Resident, Internal Medicine, Stanford Medicine
• Ph.D., 2011 - The Brain Morphology of Children with Cleft Lip and/or Palate
• E-mail: cholletm(at)wusm.wustl.edu

 

Dr. Michael Habib

• Assistant Professor of Cell and Neurobiology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
• Ph.D., 2011 - Structural Analysis of Locomotor Loads and Launch Mechanics in Pterosaurs and Birds
• E-mail: mhabib(at)chatham.edu
• Homepage: www.chatham.edu/academics/programs/undergraduate/biology/faculty_get.cfm?FacultyID=196

 

Dr. Frank Varriale

• Assistant Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, King's College, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711
• Ph.D., 2011 - Dental Microwear and the Evolution of Mastication in Ceratopsian Dinosaurs
• Email: frankvarriale(at)kings.edu

 

Dr. Heather Garvin

• Associate Professor of Anatomy, Des Moines University, Des Moines, IA
• Ph.D., 2012 - The Effects of Living Conditions on Human Cranial and Postcranial Sexual Dimorphism
• E-mail: Heather.Garvin-Elling(at)dmu.edu

 

Dr. François D. H. Gould

• Assistant Professor, Anatomy and Neurobiology, Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, OH
• Ph.D., 2012 - The Morphology of the Distal Femoral Articular Surface and the Evolution of Cursoriality in Ungulates
• E-mail: fgould(at)neomed.edu

 

Dr. Evan Garofalo

• Assistant Professor, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, AZ
• Ph.D., 2012 - Environmental and Genetic Effects on Growth of the Human Skeleton - A Bioarchaeological Investigation
• E-mail: emgarofalo(at)email.arizona.edu

 

Dr. Ali Nabavizadeh

• Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
• Ph.D., 2014 - Diversity, functional morphology, and evolution of jaw mechanisms in ornithischian dinosaurs
• E-mail: alinabav(at)uchicago.edu

 

Dr. Georgina M Voegele

• Instructor in Anatomy in the Department of Anatomy, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth University,
• Ph.D., 2014 - Forelimb myology and the evolutionary relationships of the aardvark, Orycteropus afer, and other small afrotheres.
• E-mail: Georgina.M.Voegele(at)Dartmouth.edu
• Homepage: http://geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/faculty/facultydb/view.php?uid=4669

 

Dr. Katrina Jones

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
• Ph.D., 2014 - Allometry of the thoracolumbar region in running mammals
• E-mail: katrina.jones30(at)gmail.com
• Homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/katrinajonesevolution/

 

Dr. Megan A. Holmes

• Instructor, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University
• Ph.D., 2015 - "Developmental and functional influences on covariance in the mandible"
• E-mail: megan.holmes(at)duke.edu

 

Dr. Nicole S. Squyres

• Lecturer, The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Biology
• Ph.D., 2016 - Shape variation in the distal femur of modern humans and fossil hominins
• E-mail: nss28(at)psu.edu

 

Dr. Heather Ahrens

• Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, High Point University, High Point, NC
• Ph.D., 2017 - Phylogeny and Locomotor Ecomorphology of Oxyaenidae and Macroevolutionary Patterns in North American “Creodonta” (Mammalia, Placentalia)
• E-mail: hahrens(at)highpoint.edu

 

Dr. M. Loring Burgess

• Associate Osteologist, Peabody Museum, Harvard Univeristy
• Ph.D., 2018 - Ontogenetic Changes in Limb Bone Structural Properties and Locomotor Behavior in Pan

 

Dr. Ellen Fricano

• Assistant Professor of Anatomy, Medical Anatomical Sciences, Western University Collge of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Pomona, CA
• Ph.D., 2018 - The primate ectotympanic tube: correlates of structure, function and development
• E-mail: efricano@westernu.edu

 

Dr. Kaya Zelazny

• Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, The College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, MN
• Ph.D., 2018 - Morphological variation in the distal humerus of extant hominids and fossil hominins
• E-mail: kzelazny(at)css.edu
• Homepage: http://sites.google.com/css.edu/zelazny/home

 

Dr. Heather Kristjanson

• Ph.D., 2019 - Tupaiid masticatory anatomy and the application of extant analogs to reconstructing Plesiadapiform jaw adductors

 

Ms. Rachel Frigot

• Associate Teaching Fellow in Anatomy, Department of Medicine, Keele University
• M.S., 2019 - Morphological variation in the avian pelvis

 

Dr. Anthony Harper

• Ph.D., 2019 - Craniodental adaptation and homoplasy in early mammals

 

Dr. Kristen A. Prufrock

• Lecturer, Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, Integrative Anatomy, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
• Ph.D., 2020 - Ontogeny of the masticatory system in Strepsirrhines
• E-mail: kristen.prufrock@health.missouri.edu

 

Dr. Christine M. Harper

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
• Ph.D., 2020 - "External Morphological Variation of Extant and Fossil Hominid Calcanei"
• E-mail: charpe18@jhmi.edu

 

Dr. Deanna M. Goldstein

• Research Instructor, Department of Anatomical Sciences at the Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, NYNY
• Ph.D., 2022 - "External & Internal Carpal Morphology of Knuckle-Walking Apes Among Mammals"
• E-mail: deanna.goldstein@stonybrook.edu

Dr. Catherine J. Llera

• Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Anatomical Sciences, Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, CA
• Ph.D., 2023 - Age and Additive Genetic Effects on Cross-Sectional Morphology in Primates
• E-mail: cllera1@jhmi.edu