Salwa Tareen has successfully defended her dissertation
Dr. Salwa Tareen has successfully defended her dissertation, Of the City and the Soul: Urban Disaster and an Islamic Ethics of Care in Karachi.
Hannah Grace Howard has successfully defended her dissertation
Hannah Grace Howard has successfully defended her dissertation, Liturgical Care: Theological and Political Belonging in Athenian Greek Orthodox Charity.
Laura Brubaker-Wittman has successfully defended her dissertation
Dr. Laura Brubaker-Wittman has successfully defended her dissertation, A Mixed Methods Study of the Habituation Process in Wild Bornean Orangutans.
Samantha Vee, Jessica Martin, Brooke Rothamer, & Bhavya Vadavalli pass their comprehensive exams
Congratulations to our students who passed their comprehensive exams: Samantha Vee, Jessica Martin, Brooke Rothamer, & Bhavya Vadavalli
Melissa Zarate wins the “Outstanding presentation award for exemplary student research” for her presentation at the AABA
Melissa Zarate won the “Outstanding presentation award for exemplary student research” for her presentation “A new reference mitochondrial genome for the yellow-tailed woolly monkey and implications for altitude adaptation” at the American Association of Biological Anthropology meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. Read a blog post about the award and Melissa’s research here.
Gabriel Vicencio wins the Alfonso Caso Award
Gabriel Vicencio was awarded the prestigious Alfonso Caso Award for his MA thesis from the Mexican National Autonomous University (UNAM).
Samantha Vee presents at the American Association of Biological Anthropologists
Samantha Vee presented a poster entitled “Social network analysis in wild Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii): a comparison of network centrality between age-sex classes” at the American Association of Biological Anthropologists conference in Baltimore, Maryland.
Brooke Rothamer presents at the Human Biology Association and the Society for Research in Child Development’s conferences
Brooke Rothamer presented a poster at the Human Biology Association and the Society for Research in Child Development’s conferences. She gave a talk at the meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES) entitled, “Age and sex patterns in the size and kin-makeup of children’s playmate networks.”
READ: the first article of Samantha Nadel’s dissertation
Samantha Nadel’s dissertation, A Reconstructed Chaîne Opératoire for Mesoamerican Cochineal: Implications for the Archaeological Analysis of Insect Dye Production, is now available for download through Open Access.
Nicole Merullo presents at two conferences
Nicole Merullo gave two conference presentations in March, Both in Baltimore, MD. The first, “Life history syndromes predict blood pressure across primates,” took place at the 92nd annual meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists. The second, “What explains variation in childhood blood pressure? An exploration of life history variables affecting blood pressure in […]