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Center for the Study of Human Origins

Department of
Anthropology

 
New York University

25 Waverly Place
New York City
NY 10003

telephone:
212.992.9785
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RECENT GRADUATES


2009

  • James Boyle
    Dissertation title: "The production and use of bone and antler dress pins in early medieval Ireland, c. AD 400–800"

  • Holly Hemmalin
    Dissertation title: "Reproductive success of migrant hamadryas baboons in anubis baboon groups"

  • Jenny Listman
    Dissertation title: "Biases in study design affecting the inference of events and human population structure in closely-related populations"

  • Jennifer Piro
    Dissertation title: "Pastoralism in the early Transcaucasian culture: The faunal remains from Sos Hoyuk"

  • Kirstin Sterner
    Dissertation title: "Primate innate immune defense and adaptation to SIV/HIV infection"

2008

  • Andy Burrell
    Dissertation title: "Phylogenetics and population genetics of central African baboons"

  • Luke Matthews
    Dissertation title: "The comparative socioecology of white-fronted capuchin monkeys (Cebus albifrons) and the ethology of social learning in Cebus"

2007

  • Rachel Dvoskin
    Dissertation title: "Variation at the corticotropin-releasing hormone gene (CRH) locus and individual differences in stress physiology and behavior in captive rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)"

  • Suanna Selby
    Dissertation title: "The geoarchaeology of the Upper Susquehanna River: anthropological approaches to Archaic and Woodland period landscapes and settlement systems in New York state"

  • Mark Smith
    Dissertation title: "Settlement geography of the Punjab during the early historic and medieval periods: A GIS approach"

  • Sandra Suarez
    Dissertation title: "Paternity, relatedness, and socio-reproductive behavior in a population of wild red-bellied tamarins (Saguinus labiatus)"

  • Wesley Sutton
    Dissertation title: "Heritage Genetics of Spanish-Americans in the Southwest United States"


2006

  • Stephanie Spehar
    Dissertation title: "The function of the long call in white-bellied spider monkeys (Ateles belzebuth) in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador"

  • Laurie Tedesco
    Dissertation title: "Redefining Technology in Bronze Age Transcaucasia: Copper-Alloy Metallurgy in Armenia in the 3rd--Mid-2nd Millennium BC"

  • Susan Malin-Boyce
    Dissertation title: "The Frauenberg at Weltenburg: Early La Tene Settlement Along the Bavarian Danube"

  • Chris Kimbrough
    Dissertation title: "From Flock to Frock: Textile Production in Third Millennium BCE Northern Mesopotamia"


2005

  • Barbara Mehrhof
    Dissertation title: "Maternal Investment in rhesus macaques: secondary sex ratios and maternal care"

  • Susan Lappan
    Dissertation title: "Biparental Care and Male Reproductive Strategies in Siamangs (Symphalangus syndactylus) in Southern Sumatra"

  • Jessica Manser
    Dissertation title: "Morphological Analysis of the Human Burial Series at Niah Cave: Implications for Late Pleistocene-Holocene Southeast Asian Human Evolution"

  • Denise Su
    Dissertation title: "The Paleoecology of Laetoli, Tanzania: Evidence from the Mammalian Fauna of the Upper Laetoli Beds"

  • Paul Telfer
    Dissertation title: "Phylogeography and Evolution of Mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx)"


2004

  • Laura J. Miller
    Dissertation title: "Urban Economies in Early States: The Secondary Products Revolution in the Indus Civilization"

  • Ryan Raaum
    Dissertation title: "Ape and Old World Monkey Molecular Evolution: Nucleotide Substitution Rate Variation in the Catarrhini"


2003

  • Thalia Gray
    Dissertation title: "Precious Networks: The Role of Imported Materials at Ostrow Lednicki in Transformations of the Early Medieval Polish State"

  • Varsha C. Pilbrow
    Dissertation title: "Dental Variation in Extant African Apes: Implications for Studying Patterns of Variations in Fossil Species"

  • Chris A. Robinson
    Dissertation title: "Extant Hominoid and Australopith Mandibular Morphology: Assessing Alpha Taxonomy and Phylogeny Using Mandibular Characters"

  • Eva Monica Uddin
    Dissertation title: "Baboon Endogenous Virus (BAEV) Variation in Natural Populations of Cercopithecine Primates"

  • Kimberly Williams-Guillen
    Dissertation title: "The Behavioral Ecology of Mantled Howling Monkeys (Aloatta palliata) Living in a Nicaraguan Shade Coffee Plantation"

2002

  • Kathleen Ehrhardt
    Dissertation title: "European Metals in Native American Contexts: Rethinking Technological Change"

  • Rae Ellen Ostman
    Dissertation title: "The City and Complexity: Pottery Production in Volterra, Italy, from the Hellenistic Etruscan Period to the Late Roman and Late Antique Period"


2001

  • Wendy Dirks
    Dissertation title: "Dental Development and Life History in Catarrhine Primates"

  • Rebecca Dudzik
    Dissertation title: "Mass Estimation for Anthropoid Primates: Examining the Principles and the Protocol"

  • John Krigbaum
    Dissertation title: "Human Paleodiet in Tropical Southeast Asia: Isotopic Evidence from Niah Cave and Gua Cha"

2000

  • Derek Wildman
    Dissertation title: "Mammalian Zoogeography of the Arabian Peninsula and Horn of Africa with a Focus on the Cladistic Phylogeography of Hamadryas Baboons (Primates: Papio hamadryas)"

  • Julie Zimmerman-Holt
    Dissertation title: "Animal Exploitation and the Middle to Late Woodland Transition"

  • Lisa Schlotterhausen
    Dissertation title: "Town monkeys, Country monkeys: A Sociological Comparison of a Human Commensal and Wild Group of Bonnet Macaques"


1999

  • Joan Garey
    Dissertation title: "Mechanisms by which Dietary Acacia may Act as a Proximate Regulator of Breeding Seasonality in the Vervet Monkey"

  • Tamsin Woolley-Barker
    Dissertation title: "Inbreeding, Outbreeding, and Hybridization among Baboon of the Awash National Park, Ethiopia"