PhD Graduate Students

PhD Graduate Student
Kailie Batsche
- MS in Human Paleobiology, Center for the Study of Human Paleobiology (CASHP), The George Washington University, 2021
- BA in Anthropology, Peace College, 2014
Research Focuses
- Bone microstructure
- Collagen fiber orientation (CFO)
- Locomotor behavior in human and non-human primates
- Primate life history and bone microscopy
- Fossil hominins

PhD Graduate Student
Savanah Cobb
Education
- B.S. Geology, College of Charleston, 2016
- MRes Palaeontology, University of Manchester, 2019
About Savannah
Publications
Cobb, S.E. and Sellers, W.I., 2020. Inferring lifestyle for Aves and Theropoda: A model based on curvatures of extant avian ungual bones. Plos one, 15(2), e0211173.
- Ecological and functional morphology
- Paleogene tetrapods
- Analyzing incomplete fossil remains
Advisor: Dr. Siobhán Cooke

PhD Graduate Student
- BSc Geology, University of Hull, UK
- MRes Palaeontology with Geobiology, University of Edinburgh, UK
About William
Publications
J. 2022. The cranial anatomy of the long-snouted tyrannosaurid dinosaur Qianzhousaurus sinensis from the Upper Cretaceous of China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2021.1999251
- Theropod dinosaur anatomy and ontogeny
- Archosaur evolution
Advisor: Dr. Gabriel S. Bever

PhD Graduate Student
Research Focuses
- Carnivoran and aquatic tetrapod paleoecology and paleobiology
- Mammalian evolution
- Feeding ecology
Advisor: Dr. Siobhán Cooke

PhD Graduate Student
- B.S. Ecology, Evolution & Biodiversity, University of Michigan, 2018
About EJ
Grants and Awards
- 2018 James B. Angell Scholar
- 2017 Sophomore Honors Award
- 2016 William J. Branstrom Freshman Prize
- 2015-2018 University Honors Program
- 2015 M.S. Keeler Department of Mathematics Merit Scholarships
- Phylogenetic Theory and Methods
- Evolution models
- Integration of Molecular & Morphological data
- Mammal Evolution
Advisor: Dr. Gabriel S. Bever

PhD Graduate Student
Aneila V.C. Hogan
Education
- B.A. Biological Anthropology, University of Washington, 2007
- Evolution and comparative anatomy of sensory mechanics
- Large scale radiation events of tetrapods
- Paleontological approaches to evolutionary development
- Craniomandibular morphology
Advisor: Dr. Gabriel Bever

PhD Graduate Student
- MSClEn, University of Bristol, Bristol, England, UK
- Phylogenetics and Phylogenomics
- Evolutionary process and trends
- Testudines evolution and diversification
- Avian evolution
- Biomechanics and Morphometrics
Advisor: Dr. Gabriel S. Bever

PhD Graduate Student
C. Kinley Russell
Education
- M.A. Anthropology (Human Skeletal Biology), New York University, 2015
- Advanced Certificate, Museum Studies, New York University, 2015
- A.B. Anthropology (Biological Anthropology), Harvard University, 2008
About Kinley
Grants and Awards
2008 New York University Tuition Scholarship, Department of Anthropology
Publications
C.K. Russell. Size-Related and Demographic Effects on the Morphology of the Lateral Meniscal Notch of the Proximal Tibia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology [Manuscript in Preparation]
Abstracts
C.K. Russell. 2016. Size-related and Demographic Effects on the Morphology of the Lateral Meniscal Notch of the Proximal Tibia. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 159(S62):276 (poster presentation).
- Postcranial Functional Anatomy
- Hominin Evolution
- Bipedalism and Locomotor Kinematics
- Intraspecific Variation
- Knee Morphology
- Science Education
Advisor: Dr. Adam Sylvester

PhD Graduate Student
Zana Sims
Education
- B.A. Anthropology, The University of Minnesota, 2017
About Zana
Grants and Awards
2018 William and Mary Drescher Endowment Fund for Graduate Medical Research Award
- Influence of diet on the formation and remodeling of bone
- Primate evolution during the Miocene
- Paleoecological reconstruction and climate change
Advisor: Dr. Siobhán Cooke

PhD Graduate Student
Jacob Wilson
Education
- B.S. Biochemistry, Colorado School of Mines
- M.S. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Denver
Alumni of the PhD Program
Sorted Chronologically
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
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences
- Ph.D., 2020 - "External Morphological Variation of Extant and Fossil Hominid Calcanei"
- E-mail: harperc(at)rowan.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
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
Sorted Alphabetically
The natural history and feeding ecologies of lemurs (lnfraorder Lemuriformes) in wild and human-maintained habitats
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
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