Jeanelle Uy (CAS '13)
Dr. Jeanelle Uy is a member of the Boston University Class of 2013. She majored in
Anthropology with a minor in Biology. She earned her PhD in Biological Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2019. She was a member of the Santa Monica College faculty for three years (2017-2020). As of Fall 2020, she is an Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology at California State University, Long Beach. Her research interests are in the relationship between gut size and the skeleton and contextualizing that in how we interpret the paleobiology of fossil hominins and the evolution of modern human variation.
During her time as an undergraduate at BU, she was actively involved with research in the
Department of Anthropology under the guidance of Dr. Jeremy DeSilva, where she explored the heritability of the arch of the foot. Her research was funded by the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. Outside of Anthropology, she was an active member of the Global Water Brigades and Operation Smile and held a part-time job as an EMT for the Boston University Emergency Medical Services.