EDUCATION AND TRAINING

• Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, New York University - January 2006 to present

• Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, New York University - January 2000 to 2005

• NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Institution (Molecular Genetics Laboratory - National Zoological Park) and University of Maryland (Department of Biology) - January 1998 to December 1999

• Ph.D. University of California, Davis (Biological Anthropology) - December 1997

  Dissertation: Ecology and Behavior of Lowland Woolly Monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha poeppigii, Atelinae) in Eastern Ecuador. 

• M.A. University of California, Davis (Anthropology) - May 1991

• B.S. Cornell University (Biology - Ecology, Systematics, and Evolution) - May 1990

  Honors Thesis:  Activity budgets and nesting behavior of aye-ayes (Daubentonia madagascariensis) at the Duke University Primate Center.