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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Stephanie Canington

• Postdoc in the Laird Lab, Department of Basic and Translational Sciences, Dental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 
• Ph.D., 2023 - The natural history and feeding ecologies of lemurs (lnfraorder Lemuriformes) in wild and human-maintained habitats
• E-mail: steph.canington@gmail.com

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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

Ms. Rachel Frigot

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

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Anthony Harper

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

Dr. Christine M. Harper

• Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences
• Ph.D., 2020 - "External Morphological Variation of Extant and Fossil Hominid Calcanei"
• E-mail: harperc(at)rowan.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. 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

Mr. Ryan W. Higgins

 

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. 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. Heather Kristjanson

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

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. 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. 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

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Nicole S. Squyres

• Associate Teaching Professor, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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

Back to Students

Back to Alumni

Back to Past FAE