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STUDENTS
- Julie Anidjar
MA thesis - The Archaeology
of New York City's First Municipal Almshouse:
Analysis of faunal remains and artifacts from Feature 91 at
the site of New York City Hall Park.
Interests - Zooarchaeology, historic and prehistoric
North American archaeology, seasonal
adaptations of
prehistoric groups in coastal South Carolina.
E-mail - ja1492@nyu.edu
- Ashley Bales
Interests - Human evolution.
E-mail - adb353@nyu.edu
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Christina Bergey
Interests - Primate disease/demography.
E-mail - cmb433@nyu.edu
- Maryjka Blaszczyk
Interests - Molecular evolution of primate behavior, evolution of disease.
E-mail - mbb348@nyu.edu
- Joe Califf
MA thesis - Can the mandible
speak? A comparison of mandibular variation in Homo erectus and Homo sapiens.
PhD topic - Factors influencing steroid hormone variation in male baboons.
Interests - Behavior, socioendocrinology, cognitive
evolution, human evolution.
E-mail - jrc274@nyu.edu
- Paulo B. Chaves
Interests - Phylogeography, conservation genetics, noninvasive genetic sampling, evolution of behavior, neotropical primates, Brachyteles.
E-mail - pbc227@nyu.edu
- Anand
Dacier
MA thesis - Primate census techniques: theoretical review and a case study using playback calls.
Interests - Behavioural ecology, cognitive ecology, animal acoustic communication, evolution of sociality, evolutionary neurobiology, mammalian evolution, biogeography, systematics, phylogenetic comparative methods, agent-based simulation modelling.
E-mail - adl307@nyu.edu
- Kate
Detwiler
MA
thesis -
Hybridization between red-tailed guenons (Cercopithecus ascanius)
and blue monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis) in East African
forests.
Interests - Guenon hybridization and biogeography, primate
ecology, behavior and conservation, and tropical forest ecology
and conservation.
E-mail - kmd231@nyu.edu
- Yasmine El Gabbani
E-mail - yeg204@nyu.edu
- Connie D.
Fellmann
MA thesis - Estimation of
stature in hominins: A test of methods.
Interests - Postcranial variation in early and middle
Pleistocene hominins, evolution of genus Homo (esp.
origin, dispersal and variation of Homo erectus), functional
morphology/biomechanics, evolution and trends in hominin
body size and shape, influence of environment on morphology
and behavior, hominin taphonomy.
E-mail - cf557@nyu.edu
- Zenobie Garrett
Interests - Iron Age Europe and Ireland, Early Saxon England, landscape archaeology, theory.
E-mail - zsg202@nyu.edu
- Adam Green
Interests - State-level archaeology, style, social structure, Indus Civilization, theory.
E-mail - adam.green@nyu.edu
- Patricia Hamrick
MA thesis - Ornaments and Value: Bangles in the Indus.
Interests - The Indus Civilization of South Asia, archaeological
approaches to social identity, materials technology, urbanism,
political economy, and ornaments.
E-mail - pmh255@nyu.edu
- Claire Heckel
Interests - Upper Paleolithic symbolic representation.
E-mail - ceh333@nyu.edu
- Jason A.
Hodgson
Interests -
Anthropological genetics, molecular evolution, parasite/host
coevolution, sexual selection, mtDNA, the peopling of Oceania.
E-mail - jah485@nyu.edu
- Andres Link
MA thesis - Seed dispersal
by white-bellied spider monkeys (Ateles
belzebuth) at Yasuni National Park, Ecuador.
Interests - Primate socioecology, tropical forest
ecology, conservation
biology.
E-mail - al898@nyu.edu
- Katherine McCullough
Interests - Anglo-Saxon zooarchaeology.
E-mail - kcm317@nyu.edu
- Emily
Middleton
Interests - Plio-Pleistocene hominin evolution, human osteology,
functional morphology, human reproductive ecology.
E-mail - erm293@nyu.edu
- Mike Montague
MA thesis - Historical relationships
among neotropical lowland areas: Biogeographic
analysis using distributions and phylogenetic hypotheses of platyrrhine
taxa.
Interests - Implications of variation in color vision among
female New World primates, primate behavior, evolution of sensory systems,
neurogenomics.
E-mail - mjm394@nyu.edu
- Alba Lucia
Morales Jimenez
MSc thesis - Modelling distributions
for Colombian spider monkeys (Ateles spp.) to find priority
areas for conservation.
Interests - Primate conservation, systematics, morphology,
population genetics.
E-mail - amj285@nyu.edu
- Alejandra Ortiz
Interests - Human variation, dental anthropology, human osteology, dispersal and cultural adaptations of modern humans, peopling of the New World, Andean archaeology.
E-mail - ao706@nyu.edu
- Sneh Patel
E-mail - sp1700@nyu.edu
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Luca
Pozzi
MA thesis - A multidisciplinary approach in studying the
phylogeny of Malagasy lemurs.
Interests - Primate evolution, biogeography and systematics; strepsirhines; molecular evolution and phylogenetics;
conservation and population genetics; vocal communication
and behavior; mathematical modeling.
E-mail -
luca.pozzi@nyu.edu
-
Christopher Rainwater
E-mail - cwr223@nyu.edu
- Tom Rein
MA thesis - Functional
significance of the angle of orientation of the metatarsophalangeal
joint surface of proximal
phalanges in extant primates.
Interests - Early hominin evolution and paleontology,
functional morphology, biomechanics of primate locomotion,
rise of bipedalism in early hominin taxa.
E-mail - trr234@nyu.edu
- Christopher
Schmitt
MA
thesis - Juvenile
development in non-human primates: life history and behavioral
perspectives.
Interests - Socioecology of juvenile development
in atelines, life history and socioecology of
New World
primates, juvenile social development and social learning,
interface between morphology,
behavior, and life
history, parental care and mating systems, population genetics,
affiliative social traditions
(esp. in Cebus).
E-mail -
cas486@nyu.edu
- Maja Šešelj
MA
thesis -
Orbital shape variation in modern human populations: a 3D
geometric morphometric approach.
Interests -
Comparative morphology and patterns of growth and
development in middle and late Pleistocene hominins, Paleolithic
archaeology.
E-mail - ms1531@nyu.edu
- Matthew Spigelman
Interests - Settlement
archaeology, urbanization, intra-regional trade,
ceramic analysis, the archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean,
specifically Cyprus, in the Late Bronze Age.
E-mail - mds422@nyu.edu
- Steve Worthington
MSc thesis -The extent of
homoplasy in the trunk and forelimb of the Hominoidea.
PhD topic - Systematics of Late Miocene Eurasian
hominoids and an
assessment of the utility of morphometric methods for phylogeny
reconstruction.
Interests - Morphology and evolution of catarrhine
primates, pattern
and process of homoplasy within Mammalia, theory and method
of
phylogenetic inference.
E-mail - steven.worthington@nyu.edu
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