ABOUT ME
I’m a biological anthropologist (/evolutionary biologist) with a primary research interest in skeletal variation and evolution. I’m particularly interested in how variation is patterned, and how it’s parsed and interpreted in the fossil record. I’ve explored this mostly in primates, including cercopithecid monkeys and modern humans.
I’m an Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department at Western Washington University. My lab works on human and monkey skeletal variation and evolution, in both modern and fossil groups. I teach courses on Human Osteology and Forensic Anthropology, Introduction to Biological Anthropology, and Human Physiology and Reproduction. Please reach out if you’d like to get involved in my lab or learn more about our work!
Before starting at Western, I was a postdoctoral Scholar at the Human Evolution Research Center at UC Berkeley (2023) and the Berkeley Geochronology Center (2020-2022). I completed my PhD work in the Department of Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley in 2020, under the advisement of Prof. Leslea Hlusko. I began my graduate studies in the fall of 2014 after completing my undergraduate work at UC Berkeley, graduating in May 2014 with a B.A. in Integrative Biology (w/honors) and a B.A. in Anthropology.
I’m an affiliated researcher at the Human Evolution Research Center and a member of the Middle Awash Research Project.
When I’m not in the lab, classroom, field, or museum, I’m likely to be running on trail somewhere or hanging out with my pup.