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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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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

  • 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

  • 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