PhD Student, Biological Anthropology
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Brooke Rothamer is a Ph.D. student in biological anthropology. She is interested in the evolution of human social behavior, especially cooperative behaviors in children and adolescents. Her current work investigates the developmental timing of changes in children’s social networks. She also hopes to study how social networks are inherited and what types of information or resources pass along networks formed from different sources. As an undergraduate, she studied the effects of social environment differences on risky behavior in crickets. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology Education and English Education from North Dakota State University in 2022. To learn more about Rothamer’s research and publications, visit her webpage.
In Spring 2025, Brooke received a CISS Summer mini-grant to visit a collaborator’s lab at Washington State University to train in endocrine laboratory methods. She will be assisting in the processing and analysis of dried blood spot samples for biomarker levels. Learn more in our featured article.