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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.
- James
Boyle
MA
thesis - Constructing
a research framework for geophysical investigations of archaeological
sites in the American Midwest
Interests - Early Medieval Ireland, craft production
and social complexity, dress ornamentation, agricultural
systems, bone and antler artifacts.
E-mail -
jwb217@nyu.edu
- Joe Califf
MA thesis - Can the mandible
speak? A comparison of mandibular variation in
Homo erectus and Homo sapiens
Interests - Behavior, socioendocrinology, cognitive
evolution, human evolution,
E-mail - jrc274@nyu.edu
- Anand
Dacier
- 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
- 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
- Patricia Hamrick
- 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
- Jenny Listman
MA
thesis - Reconstructing human historical biogeography
of Asia using
genetic evidence
Interests - Human genetic variation, genetic population
differentiation, genetic marker ascertainment bias, current research
focus: South East Asian human populations
E-mail - jenny.listman@nyu.edu
- Luke Matthews
MA thesis - A comparative
survey of culture in non-human primates and other animals
Interests - field experimental studies of capuchin
social learning abilities and cultural traditions,
social learning and evolution of culture, evolution of altruism/levels
of selection
primate ecological genetics, phylogeny of behavior
- 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
- 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
- Jennifer
Piro
Interests-
Zooarchaeology, pastoralism, emergence of complex
societies, Near Eastern prehistory, the archaeology of Transcaucasia
(Armenia, Georgia, E. Turkey) in the Late Chalcolithic/Early
Bronze
Age, regional interactions
PhD
topic - Pastoral economies in early Bronze Age Transcaucasia
E-mail -
jjp249@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
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Suzanne
Price
MA
thesis - A radiographic study of the impact of race
and sex on 1st and 2nd molar development (Louisiana State University)
Interests - dental anthropology, peopling of Europe,
origin and spread of agriculture in Europe, Upper Paleolithic
to Neolithic Europe, modern human variation, modern human origins
PhD
topic: Dental evidence for the expansion of modern
humans into Europe
E-mail - stp230@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
- 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
- Suanna Selby
MA
thesis -
Nomad and city: Textual and anthropological considerations
of
Amorite populations in the second Millennium B.C.
Interests - geoarchaeology of alluvial systems, site
formation processes, historical geoarchaeology,
prehistoric North America, Bronze Age Ancient
Near East
- Maja Seselj
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
- Mark Smith
Interests - South Asia, settlement
patterns, and GIS applications in archaeology
- Matthew Spigelman
Interests - settlement
archaeology, urbanization, intra-regional trade,
ceramic analysis, the archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean,
specifically Cyprus, in the Late Bronze Age.
- Kirstin
Sterner
MA thesis - Colobine molecular
phylogeny
PhD topic - Primate innate immune defense and adaptation
to viral infection
Interests - the evolution of infectious diseases
in primate hosts, simian and human
immunodeficiency viruses,
Toll-like receptors, molecular evolution, colobine systematics
E-mail - kns210@nyu.edu
- Catherine
White Flattman
Interests -
Colobine cranial development and phylogenetic relationships
- 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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